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A thick tray edged with stained wood has on its surface a few
centimeters of silty sand from the Mississippi River delta. A glass
case encloses the sand and half a meter of air above it.
Panels normally hidden in the base of the tray emerge and push
half of the sand to each side of the tray.
Two other panels then
come out of the base and close like a book's covers around one pile
of sand, making a high, thin wall of sand patterned like worn
stones with a little ivy. Before these two book-cover panels
retract, a third mold on an arm crenellates the wall.
At the other side of the tray, sand from the other pile gets packed
into balls and fed into a launcher. The firing can be set to
automatic or manual. After a preset time, the siege ends and the
wall is rebuilt.
Order Desktop Sandcastle Siege in sets of 10 or more and receive a
16-piece set of walling plates so you can siege famous buildings,
corporations, and governments.
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Brilliant idea [+] <linguistic pedant>, but BEsiege when it's a verb.</linguistic pedant><historical pedant>Also, if you smash your way into a place in a relatively short space of time, it's not really a siege, is it? I mean, the word "siege" is a metaphor from "sitting down".</historical pedant> |
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I will buy this under 3 conditions:
1) The launcher must be a trebuchet.
2) The marketing materials must include the phrase 'lay waste'.
3) There's a crab in it. |
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Brilliant idea. ([pertinax] I'm wondering whether it wouldn't be better practice to break your faux HTML tags into atomic chunks and nest them, where appropriate - e.g. <pedant><linguistic> ... </linguistic><historical> ... </historical></pedant>) |
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[hippo] - in this instance, I'd counsel to describe the subtype of pedantry as unique instances of a pedantry superclass.
e.g. <pedant subtype="linguistic">Yeah but...</pedant> <pedant subtype="historical">Ahh well, actually...</pedant> |
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I'm never sure when attributes are better than elements - who does? - and while I do normally tend towards the elemental, I think there's more merit in this case in having non-nesting pedantricles. |
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//The marketing materials must include the phrase 'lay waste'//
Is there such a thing as ordained waste? |
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[zen] Yes, I see your point. That's probably the most elegant solution short of spending time doing something a bit more reusable in CSS. |
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That's all well and good but it won't parse properly
under Pangolin. |
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I doubt it will parse properly under Precisely, either. |
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I could write software to continue this if you like. |
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