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This is a cafe for people who enjoy making fists and punching their own hands together, or the hands of others.
It allows for a safe, neutral environment, where folks from all races and creeds can punch hands comfortably while enjoying crappy world music, and an overpriced designer beverage with zen
connotations. Band-aids are available for aggressive handpunchers, also overpriced.
[waug]
http://www.halfbake...0creates_20a_20link
Maybe because of this? [PotatoStew, May 23 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]
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Is it me? Did I wake up somehow *wrong* today? First 'bring back barbapapa', now this. I'm starting to feel the need for that anti-psychosis medication that [waugsqueke] recommended. I'm sorry, but I just *don't understand*.| — | angel,
May 23 2001, last modified May 24 2001 |
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waugsqueke: see link. Maybe the [ ] thing is in
anticipation of that idea being implemented, although I
have no reason to think that there are actually any plans
to implement it (jutta?) |
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At one point I had done the [ ] thing, simply because I saw
other people doing it, but then I noticed that not
everyone did it, so it started to seem kind of silly. |
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No, there are no plans to implement this. Thanks for not jumping to conclusions. |
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[Purpose? It's a typographical mannerism that reminds author and reader that the entity being talked about is a username. There's no significance to it.] |
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I didn't think so, since you hadn't even commented on the
idea. So, as one who has used this convention in her
annotations, can you explain its purpose to us? |
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This is a good idea as long as you *add* a special room for people who prefer head butting to hand punching..... the room could have padded walls to butt your head against unless you find someone who agrees to mutually butt their head with yours.... |
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I'm all for strange and bizarre, believe you me. But this is just weird. |
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...and greater approval from globaltourniquet is a sure benchmark of success. |
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Is clapping or slapping of hands allowed? |
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I do the [] thing for the reason that [jutta] mentions - a typographical mannerism - not because I expect (or hope) that it will link. I noticed that some others were doing it and it seemed logical.
As to this actual idea, I'm just giving up. |
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Every once in a while an idea is posted that is so out of bounds I immediately like it but can't explain why. |
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>>Even the name is off-key: is it Govenor rather than Governor for a reason?<< |
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Just checked out this idea. I do not have a clue what this is about. Waugs, was the square brackets thing just a diversion? |
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This seems to me to be an extension of a Bizarre Metaphor. Try to understand it conventionally and you may as well be constantly punching hands. |
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re: the [ ] thing. I adopted this when I arrived because other people were doing it and it seemed logical. A typographical mannerism, yes, which I feel is used to directly and obviously attract the attention of another halfbaker. There is a certain satisfaction in scrolling down the page and seeing your name leap out in this fashion (or, at least, there is for me). |
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Have you noticed that the guy who posted this doesn't seem keen to explain? It's like garnut alboir sicomg. He's sitting there watching us all looking for the sense when, in reality, *there is none*. |
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//certain satisfaction in scrolling down the page and seeing your name leap out in this fashion// |
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... swiftly followed by deflation and a swelling sense of hollowness when you notice that your name has been cruelly parodied ... |
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(looking back on that, I sense some contradiction between 'deflation' and 'swelling sense' ... never mind) |
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i thought that this would be medical condition with which veteran boxers would be afflicted. |
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As I sit here in a quiet computer lab and the conversation turns to mush I start to feel really surreal. Anybody else getting that? |
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Mush in the squee after sense to all? |
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Personally, I think this punching hands thing is great. Sometimes I just really want to punch a hand, but my own are so bruised I usually have to punch my face instead. Big ups, The Govenor.
As for the [] thing, I use them when addressing someone personally at the beginning of an annotation as it can help grab their attention. If I were to mention something to thumbwax, I'd do it as such:
[thumbwax]- do you still have my rocket launcher?
whereas if I were to mention this in a sentence I'd do it like this:
I wonder if thumbwax still has my rocket launcher? |
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I missed this discussion first time round, maybe because it was my birthday.
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The square brackets convention seems a good one, and well worth adopting. I've always capitalised usernames before, and felt slightly uncomfortable about it, but, (to disagree with [ravenswood]), unless one adopts a new convention to replace the traditional one, the meaning can easily become unclear. |
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Incidentally, I've never felt the urge to punch anyone on the fist. I'm all in favour of people doing this in their own cafe. |
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[AfroAssault] 8th of 7 has your rocket launcher - it nearly got crushed when we met at the NBA Slam... |
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Still the finest idea on the halfbakery. |
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Obviously this establishment would need to use over-sized cutlery as most customers will probably find it impossible to grip normal-sized cutlery in their hugely swollen and bleeding hands. |
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I feel the spirit of the idea was somewhat lost in the cryptic [ discussion. I am glad this came up, so I can give it my bun, and punch my hands together, and hum some crappy world music. |
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I thought this idea might be worth resurrecting since
the COVID19 crisis appears to have baked it. |
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There was a dangling left square bracket in bungston]'s
annotation |
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