Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

While Wikipedia assumes that's a Wagnerian reference ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannhauser_Gate ), I vaguely recall stumbling across a reference to a Tannhauser gate as part of a proposed experiment to look for faster-than-light transmission of information, which might make the c-beams just beams of light - c is the traditional symbol for the speed of light in physics.

While that sounds highly intellectual moth, I suspect you may be referring to the folklore behind the successful Activision game "Heavy Gear".

In particular this line, "In A.D. 4318, Professor Markus Tannhauser wrote his masterpiece, "Principia Universalis." His Unified Theory explained time-space discontinuities and their potential as gateways to the stars."

As explained in the glossary here: http://www.dp9.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=94

Unless of course you are part of Markus Tannhauser's team utilising one of those gates to come back in time and let us know about it....?

Jesus-bloody-christ, not this again....

my mate (who worked for ticketmaster at the time) sold crying rain man tickets, it's is Sigourney Weaver isn't it?

that drip on the end of his nose looks like it's going to fall off, but never does.

or does it?

It's like a metaphor for the let's-pretend-we've-never-heard-of-Bladerunner-because-it's-such-a-good-film-that-to-have-not-heard-of-it-is-absurd joke: Will it ever be funny?

No.

Win thread ?
Wisdom thread?

Is there a tired platitudes thread?

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^^ best one yet

Bladerunner's the best fucking film ever made. Best bit: where Arnie's wearing that fat woman suit and it malfunctions.

I like the bit where he chops the mops in half with the axe, except it makes more mops, and he ends up making more mess than in the beginning

Yuo may think this girl is alive...

Surprised he isnt hoverhanding

Think that's his hand?

On that note:

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While that sounds highly intellectual moth, I suspect you may be referring to the folklore behind the successful Activision game "Heavy Gear".

In particular this line, "In A.D. 4318, Professor Markus Tannhauser wrote his masterpiece, "Principia Universalis." His Unified Theory explained time-space discontinuities and their potential as gateways to the stars."

As explained in the glossary here: http://www.dp9.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=94

Unless of course you are part of Markus Tannhauser's team utilising one of those gates to come back in time and let us know about it....?

Rutger Hauer signed a photo of himself for a friend of mine at a conference- with that Tanhauser gate quote, which he got wrong.

When Robin called him on it he said "it was an ad-lib, never in the script, I just made it up- and now I can never remember what I said"

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