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I'll be looking for that snotgun later. Gee, was it derived from the mucous musket? --[[User:PhineasCrank|Doctor Phineas Crank]] 21:23, 9 Nov 2004 (EST) | I'll be looking for that snotgun later. Gee, was it derived from the mucous musket? --[[User:PhineasCrank|Doctor Phineas Crank]] 21:23, 9 Nov 2004 (EST) | ||
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| + | == Easter eggs == | ||
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| + | * The "depth charge school" refers to psychohistory (not the Asimovian kind), by way of the old expression "depth psychology" for Freudianism. | ||
| + | * The "disgusting but effective snotgun" was invented by Spider Robinson in one of his articles. | ||
| + | * Blue Ice refers to the contents of airplane toilets after it leaks out of the toilet and freezes. | ||
| + | * The Fountain Spray is mentioned in Roger Zelazny's ''Lord of Light'': it sprays DMSO and cyanide. | ||
| + | * Sublimation is an alchemical (and chemical) process. | ||
| + | * "The last word on the subject" alludes to Sherlock Holmes's monograph on the "polyphonic motets of Lassus"; Xhasone Margolhu's Theorem alludes to the binomial theorem, on which Holmes's enemy Professor Moriarty wrote a famous paper. I have scrambled the two references together. | ||
| + | * The invention laboratory is modeled on Thomas Edison's. | ||
| + | * "Brilliant Pebbles" was an idea bandied about by the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") folks. | ||
| + | * "Royal Dulalia" was meant to be a way of referring to the Kingdom (as opposed to the Empire) of Dulalia, but was misinterpreted by the Encyclopedants as a person's name, an error which I have decided to let stand. | ||
| + | * "Gretborn's Last Invention" alludes to Fermat's Last Theorem, and so does the bit about the plans not fitting in the margin; the "(or Two-Part)" bit alludes to Bach's Two-Part Inventions. | ||
| + | --[[User:Jcowan|Jcowan]] 16:35, 11 Nov 2004 (EST) | ||
Revision as of 16:35, 11 November 2004
I'll be looking for that snotgun later. Gee, was it derived from the mucous musket? --Doctor Phineas Crank 21:23, 9 Nov 2004 (EST)
Easter eggs
- The "depth charge school" refers to psychohistory (not the Asimovian kind), by way of the old expression "depth psychology" for Freudianism.
- The "disgusting but effective snotgun" was invented by Spider Robinson in one of his articles.
- Blue Ice refers to the contents of airplane toilets after it leaks out of the toilet and freezes.
- The Fountain Spray is mentioned in Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light: it sprays DMSO and cyanide.
- Sublimation is an alchemical (and chemical) process.
- "The last word on the subject" alludes to Sherlock Holmes's monograph on the "polyphonic motets of Lassus"; Xhasone Margolhu's Theorem alludes to the binomial theorem, on which Holmes's enemy Professor Moriarty wrote a famous paper. I have scrambled the two references together.
- The invention laboratory is modeled on Thomas Edison's.
- "Brilliant Pebbles" was an idea bandied about by the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") folks.
- "Royal Dulalia" was meant to be a way of referring to the Kingdom (as opposed to the Empire) of Dulalia, but was misinterpreted by the Encyclopedants as a person's name, an error which I have decided to let stand.
- "Gretborn's Last Invention" alludes to Fermat's Last Theorem, and so does the bit about the plans not fitting in the margin; the "(or Two-Part)" bit alludes to Bach's Two-Part Inventions.
--Jcowan 16:35, 11 Nov 2004 (EST)
