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Inspired by Pedant Signs.
A quick search on Google reveals many "mobile stationery cupboards" but I have yet to find one without a fatal flaw.
If, at any point, the cupboard is stationary, sloppy labellers can use the excuse that their incorrect labelling is perfectly correct.
I therefore propose
a stationery cupboard that never stops moving; ever.
Clearly, it would have to have its own power source as well as AI capabilities to ensure that it can absolutely never be stopped by a cunning but sloppy labeller. But these are of course minor technical hurdles as we strive for ...
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Could we have an orbiting stationery cupboard that fires pencils at you from outer space? |
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[pottedstu] As long as the pencils were pre-sharpened, or they would burn up on re-entry. |
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Hmmm, this has just become tricky. |
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The frame of reference is important here. |
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Strictly speaking a "stationary stationery cupboard" should be: |
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"Stationary, with respect to the frame of reference of the building, stationery cupboard". |
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Since everything is relative then I suppose this means that the word stationary can never be used by itself. |
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(Promptly forgets Physics) |
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My daughter has several mobiles which
have decorated her room at one time or
another, but have fallen out of favour and
been taken down. Could she, perhaps, be
provided with a secure, stable and above
all stationary storage facility for these? |
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She needs a stationary stationary mobile cupboard. |
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Heaven help us if some bright spark starts selling these mobiles as office equipment. |
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Stationary stationary mobile stationery cupboard. |
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I actually have some headed
notepaper depicting such a cupboard,
Denholm, for the purposes of advertising.
I would normally be delighted to send you
a sample of my stationary stationary
mobile stationery cupboard stationery, but
unfortunately I have lost the key to the
stationary stationary mobile stationery
cupboard stationery cupboard. |
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//stationary stationary mobile stationery cupboard stationery cupboard// And then it's turtles all the way down? |
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Imagine my surprise on a recent visit to a stationery shop in Mobile, Alabama. |
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I looked in a corner to see the Mobile stationer's stationary stationary mobile stationery cupboard stationery cupboard. |
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They've lost their key too. |
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