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December 18, 2006 11:49 AM

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posted by dmd to Bugs at 11:49 AM (14 comments total)

This is what Gaius Helen Mohiam was going on about, right? Is Matt the Kwisatz Haderach?
posted by cortex at 11:55 AM on December 18, 2006

Again?
posted by Plutor at 11:57 AM on December 18, 2006

No; still. Also occurs here: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/login/
posted by timeistight at 12:04 PM on December 18, 2006

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posted by timeistight at 12:06 PM on December 18, 2006

"Again" and "Still" are the same thing when the last time it came up was two days ago.
posted by mendel at 1:00 PM on December 18, 2006

To me, "again" implies repetition or periodicity: "I stubbed my toe on that rock." "Again?" "Yes, I stubbed last week and I stubbed it again yesterday."

"Still" implies a continuing state: "I have a broken toe." "Again?" "No; still. It's the same broken toe I had yesterday."
posted by timeistight at 1:14 PM on December 18, 2006

"Again" and "still" are never the same thing. The same problem has existed since then, and has not ceased existing; it has therefore existed only once, while "again" implies multiplicity of occurences.

Of course, if by "again," Plutor meant, "you're whinging about this AGAIN then?"... well, his grammar is quite correct.
posted by koeselitz at 2:06 PM on December 18, 2006

Or perhaps we are meant to imagine a young man with a broken toe, who mewls to his uncle: "I have a broken toe!" The uncle nods, very somber: "A broken toe, yes, painful. My condolences."

But the young man just shakes his head and repeats himself. "My toe is broken!" The uncle nods, yes, yes: "I know this. You have told me." He returns to his paper. There is a silence, and then:

"My toe," insists the young man, "I have broken my toe!" The uncle, addressing the outburst itself: "Again?"
posted by cortex at 2:30 PM on December 18, 2006

Yes, exactly. Except that the young man we are meant to imagine will turn out to be gay. His uncle, if he had paid attention, would have seen that he wasn't being a man about the whole toe thing, and would have predicted this.
posted by koeselitz at 3:41 PM on December 18, 2006

He's not gay. His toe just sticks up like that when he drinks tea because it's broken.
posted by smackfu at 5:14 PM on December 18, 2006

How do you know about my gay broken toe?
posted by dmd at 5:51 PM on December 18, 2006

Toe-dar, dmd. Toe-dar.
posted by cgc373 at 8:51 PM on December 18, 2006

Where are you guys finding links to these dead pages? I thought I updated all the references to them, but apparently I missed a few.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:34 PM on December 18, 2006

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posted by timeistight at 10:01 PM on December 18, 2006