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Can you keep it going asking ONLY QUESTIONS?

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  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,576 Member
    nossmf wrote: »
    Are you familiar with Finagle's Law?

    Can you please elaborate, @nossmf ?
  • cmsienk
    cmsienk Posts: 19,382 Member
    srazamora wrote: »
    nossmf wrote: »
    Are you familiar with Finagle's Law?

    Can you please elaborate, @nossmf ?
    May I pipe in? Isn't that very similar to Murphy's law but a little more pessimistic - "Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment."?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,056 Member
    Excellent answer, @cmsienk ... are you also a Larry Niven fan?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 13,461 Member
    @nossmf, would you recommend "Ringworld" to a sci-fi fan who knows the name but has not read any of Niven's work?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,056 Member
    That depends...are you easily offended by "adult-themed" innuendo?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 13,461 Member
    Is it as good or better than "Stranger in a Strange Land"?
    How does it compare to Asimov's "Foundation Trilogy"?
  • shelbyhay819
    shelbyhay819 Posts: 33 Member
    Did you know Stranger in a Strange Land is a song by Iron Maiden?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,794 Member
    Do you think the song was the inspiration for the book?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,576 Member
    Are we talking about a scientist or a filmmaker?
  • Megan_smartiepants1970
    Megan_smartiepants1970 Posts: 44,393 Member
    How is everyone doing today?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,056 Member
    @srazamora may I introduce you to Larry Niven, the sci-fi author who helped popularize the phrase "Finagle's Law" (which was discussed earlier in this thread)?

    @frankwbrown while I am unfamiliar with "Stranger in a Strange Land", shall we say that if you can handle "Foundation" then you should be able to handle "Ringworld"? And from a purely readership perspective, don't I think that "Ringworld" far exceeds the adventure quota of anything Asimov ever wrote?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,794 Member
    How are YOU doing, Megan_smartiepants1970?

    Is Asimov a Russian novelist?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 13,461 Member
    AdahPotatah2024 wrote: »
    How are YOU doing, Megan_smartiepants1970?

    Is Asimov a Russian novelist?

    Doesn't our friend Wikipedia say the American writer Isaac Asimov was born in Russia and came to the United States at 3 years of age?
    AdahPotatah2024 wrote: »
    Do you think the song was the inspiration for the book?
    Wouldn't that song have to have been written prior to 1961 for it to have inspired Robert Heinlein in writing his Hugo award winning novel?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,056 Member
    Why did my last post not actually post?
  • cmsienk
    cmsienk Posts: 19,382 Member
    nossmf wrote: »
    Why did my last post not actually post?

    Do you think MFP has it in for you?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,056 Member
    It's just this thread...all others post my responses immediately and accurately, but this thread stalls and delays and eventually requires clicking "refresh" and then my response may or may not be displayed...it's almost enough to make me stop posting in this thread, KWIM?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 13,461 Member
    Don't I indeed KWYM? ☹️😒
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 13,461 Member
    Is the delay/timeout a consequence of the discussion having a lot of pages?
    Isn't "if you could say 3 words to the person above you..." -- currently at 4,279 pages -- the only other discussion I'm aware of that suffers from this timeout problem?
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1195379/if-you-could-say-3-words-to-the-person-above-you-part-2/#latest
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,056 Member
    Would it be beneficial if we "retired" this thread and started up a replacement questions thread?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,576 Member
    What should we title the replacement questions only thread?

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