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Where I come from, bad workers are
referred to as "cowboys", as in "cowboy
builders." They arrive on the job late,
never have the right tools with them, eat
greasy gunge food, leave a mess, charge
you a fortune for work that has a habit of
falling apart just after the guarantee runs
out....
and once they have your money,
they never answer the phone. Know the
feeling?
What is required are a set of tools
appropriate to the needs of the cowboy
builder, so I have designed a short range
of simple equipment that they might be
expected to bring with them on their
next job.
The most basic of these is the Smith and
Tenon Saw, which I have illustrated for
your pleasure and edification on my new
Mac trial website called perrycombover.
More images of future ideas will follow,
one way or another.....
Smith & Tenon
http://web.mac.com/.../perrycombover.html
from the land of perrycombover [xenzag, May 31 2006, last modified Jun 01 2006]
Gunblade
http://www.ffplanet...8/gunblade-vero.jpg
Final Fantasy 'Tool of the trade' [kuupuuluu, Jun 01 2006]
Gödel
http://www.miskatonic.org/godel.html
incompleteness theorem [xenzag, Jun 07 2006]
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What website? All I see is the one drawing. |
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"With the Smith & Tenon you can cut it twice and it's still too short!" |
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+ I don't like guns, but I do like saws, so if the cowboy must have this to work, it's OK. |
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What's with this guy [phlish] calling the *shots*? |
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It may not be an advert for a website, but it is a play on words, not an idea. I'm fishboning. |
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Very nice illustration! Less good wordplay, though. |
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It's fuck all to do with a play on words -
apart from fact that all ideas are a "play on
words", but that's why it's explained via an
illustration - God this is tiresome - sighs,
but waits in long grass. |
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/offers [xenzag] $19.95 after being suckered into blatantly commercial single page website blatantly advertising blatant guntool thing./ |
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/wonders if [xenzag] will say "Wait, there's more!", because [bungston] likes more/ |
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/gently points out that the long grass is full of ticks, and now, so is [xenzag]/ |
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+ From me. It's not an advertisment, and it's not a play on words - it's an idea for a novelty sarcastic saw that couldn't be properly explained without an (very well crafted, by the way) illustration. |
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(The pedant in me is wondering if the "an" in the above sentence should be "a". Damned brackets - always muddying the waters of punctuation...) |
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yes, and what [lostdog] said....but leave me out of the pedant stuff. |
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//It's fuck all to do with a play on words // |
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Oh, sorry. When you made up cowboyish tools for "cowboy" workers I got confused. Then I thought that the "Smith & Tenon" gun/saw name was a reference to _Smith_and_Wesson_ guns, mixed with "tenon", which is something a carpenter could make with a saw. Plus, the title is kind of like "Shoot First & Ask Questions Later", at least to me. Maybe it's my malaria again. |
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My girlfriend's daughter likes the illustration, too. |
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I'm taking off my fishbone in hopes we can get some more explanation of //all ideas are a "play on words"// |
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Lostdog, the rule I follow is:
If the following word *sounds* like it begins with a vowel, then I use "an". So "an illustration" is OK, but "an (very well crafted, by the way) illustration" sounds rank, since you might have just also written something like "an large illustration". |
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By the way, "an hotel" really grates my ears, unless it is spoken by a Cockney, who would say "an'otel". |
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No more saw points...give the cowboy his bun. |
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baconbrain. I refer you to this useful
and concise Wikepedia definition of
Inferential Role Semantics : |
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"Inferential role semantics is an
approach to the theory of meaning
heavily influenced by Ludwig
Wittgenstein's later philosophy in that it
identifies meaning with use. Some
versions focus on the representation's
role in the mind of the agent while
others acknowledge external
factors." |
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If you wish to enquire further into the
relationship between words/meaning/
language/symbols then I suggest you
read both
Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein. |
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For different reasons I also recommend
Gödel on the topic of uncertainty. |
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Very final fantasy (see link). If you were indeed one of those cowboy builders (and proud of it), that Smith & Tenon pic would be a great logo. |
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I'll change my vote if you substitute half-ass for cowboy. |
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Cockney? I had a hell of a time w/ that.
um.. right (I understood about 1 of 3 words & we speak the same frickin' language!!!) |
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Guess what? Don't learn to understand Cockney. Every person you'll ever meet for the rest of your life (discluding your own family) will think it's a great game to guess where you're from. I think the accent's viral. |
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