I've had this in my house for years. (Just love these things, obviously.) It's a lighter, in case you haven't seen one. Just realized that I love it because it's meta!
A metaprime example is something that IS an example of itself in a self-referential way. Metaprime examples can be words themselves, or names, or names of things, or things themselves. Metaprime examples can be ideas or objects, abstract or literal, metalanguage or existential. They can be intentional or un. Sometimes they make you laugh, and usually they make you dizzy if you think about them too long!
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Rhetorically speaking...
- "Can I ask a rhetorical question? Well, can I? (Ambrose Bierce)
- Grandma Simpson and Lisa are singing Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind:": "How many roads must a man walk down / Before you call him a man?"
Lisa: "That was a rhetorical question!"
Homer: "Oh. Then, seven!"
Lisa: "Do you even know what rhetorical means?"
Homer: "Do I know what rhetorical means?"