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Assuming you were a teenager in perhaps the eighties, you
would at least be aware of Rubik's Cube, and all the derivatives
that followed.
A small fraction of my peers actually spent the time and effort
needed to solve the cube. Not me though.
A shibboleth, both honouring and granting exclusive
access to
those who misspent their teenage years in that particular way.
A mechanical lock, of 3 x 3 x 3 rotatable colour-coded cubic
sections, in place of a standard doorknob, thus requiring
patience, concentration and determination to open.
Not ideal for fire doors.
Similar...
https://xkcd.com/457/
Is there anything Mr Munroe hasn't already covered..? [neutrinos_shadow, Sep 29 2021]
Found your door handle.
https://ar.pinteres...363032419939411255/
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Sep 29 2021]
A more likely door handle
https://www.google....HBF_en-GBGB919GB919
[Skewed, Sep 30 2021]
Rubiks Lock
[xaviergisz, Oct 02 2021]
mountweazel_20dictionary
[hippo, Oct 02 2021]
[link]
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Is this going to be a security feature to exclude stupid
people from entry? |
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Hmm.. this is going to be fun. |
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[Spins Rubik lock to mix it up] |
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[Picks little coloured plastic colour slips off] |
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[Reattaches them in different places] |
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There, that should do it. |
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Ah yes, it would do that. I myself would thusly be excluded. |
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//Not ideal for fire doors// |
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So it's about eugenics then? :) |
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When Rubiks' Cube came out Dad brought us back the
instructions from the US someone had figured out, so we
got a bit of a cheat head start on everyone at school for it. |
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Surprisingly
simple, only something like three or four moves you need to
remember, though you do need to repeat them a lot, so it may
not be the difficult thing you want. |
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[2 fries] Something like the Rubik style Babylon tower <link> is
probably more
appropriate than your link. |
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Shirley that would make a better door bell. |
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Well the problem with your one is you only need to be able to
recognise colours & you can solve it more or less instantly,
wouldn't even keep out the colour blind, trial & error should
get the answer pretty quickly as well, so I thought something
a
bit more 'complex' might be in order.. anyhoo, it's not got a
clapper so it can't be a bell. |
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A bun, for the proper usage of the word "shibboleth". |
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//it's not got a clapper so it can't be a bell// This raises worryingly shibbolethic questions. When considering a bell and its clapper, these are clearly two objects, even if they are interlocked or attached to one another. If the clapper falls out and is eaten by a passing bear, does the bell stop being a bell? (in the same way that a car stops being a car if its wheels are replaced by stacks of bricks?) But many bells don't have an attached internal clapper, being struck externally by a hammer or striker. The hammer can be attached to a frame as with clock bells or doorbells, but can also be hand-held and thus carried around. A set of bells can share a single hammer. Even if you define the word "clapper" to encompass hand-held strikers and mounted hammers, (which I think is a bit louche to be honest) you then have the problem of the hand-held striker being slipped into the pocket of the bell-tinger and taken home and borrowed by their children to use for stirring porridge (thus transforming it into a spurtle). I dispute that the existence of a spurtle in a different building from a clapper-less bell has the power to stop the bell being a bell. And even if it did, at what moment would the bell stop being a bell? Would the transformation of the striker into a spurtle propagate at the speed of light? We should set up long distance experiments to test this phenomenon. |
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//does the bell stop being a bell?// |
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If it's not got a clapper it's really just an odd shaped
tuning fork isn't it, one without tines, hang on, what do you
call a fork
without tines? an odd shaped tuning spoon? |
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You hear people call it a bell (what we have here is
two things with the same name so yes it stops being a
bell & becomes.. a bell, which is confusing & can lead to
misplaced essays on the nature of reality & 'when is a bell
not a bell' employing completely unnecessary words
like shibboleth)
you'll hear
others call that bit the bowl. |
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//shibboleth// clearly this word is part of some conspiracy
to boost
dictionary sales. |
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[Idly wonders how many words bored dictionary authors
just slip in for the hell of it] |
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Thanks [Voice], //proper usage of the word
"shibboleth"// |
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…but can I pronounce it correctly? |
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[Skewed (idly wondering)] see link |
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I'd not heard the phrase mountweasel before, have a bun
for that one :) |
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From Wikipedia "According to the encyclopedia's editor, it is
a
tradition for encyclopedias to put a fake entry to trap
competitors for plagiarism" |
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One now wonders how often that excuse gets used to cover
for
straightforward cockups & if the whole idea might not
have arisen when an editor hastily came up with it having
just been challenged on an egregiously inaccurate entry. |
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