(June 25, 2017 at 11:31 am)Minimalist Wrote: The first thing you need to learn is what the word "object" means.
Quote:ob·ject
noun
noun: object; plural noun: objects
ˈäbjekt/
1.
a material thing that can be seen and touched.
There's a brick joke in an episode of Yes, Minister along these lines. A particular document is causing trouble, so the Minister's personal secretary, Bernard, suggests marking it with the Civil Service code "CGSM" (Consignment of Geriatric Shoe Menders = A load of old cobblers). Not being a Civil Servant, the Minister uses his own code and writes "Round Objects" on it.
Later, the paper comes back from Sir Humphrey, with a note: "Who is Round; and to what does he object?"
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
