3 Word Story

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  1. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    smaller than mouse
     
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  3. Pollux V Ra Bless America Registered Senior Member

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    genitals. But it
     
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  5. Thor "Pfft, Rebel scum!" Valued Senior Member

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    seems Thor hates
     
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  7. Pollux V Ra Bless America Registered Senior Member

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    PREFACE TO THE SECOND AND REVISED EDITION, 1884. BY THE EDITOR

    If my poor Flatland friend retained the vigour of mind which he enjoyed when he began to compose these Memoirs, I should not now need to represent him in this preface, in which he desires, firstly, to return his thanks to his readers and critics in Spaceland, whose appreciation has, with unexpected celerity, required a second edition of his work; secondly, to apologize forcertain errors and misprints (for which, however, he is not entirely responsible); and, thirdly, to explain one or two misconceptions. But he is not the Square he once was. Years of imprisonment, and the still heavier burden of general incredulity and mockery, have combined with the natural decay of old age to erase from his mind many of the thoughts and notions, and much also of the terminology, which he acquired during his short stay in Spaceland. He has, therefore, requested me to reply in his behalf to two special objections, one of an intellectual, the other of a moral nature.

    The first objection is, that a Flatlander, seeing a Line, sees something that must be thick to the eye as well as long to the eye (otherwise it would not be visible, if it had not some thickness); and consequently he ought (it is argued) to acknowledge that his countrymen are not only long and broad, but also (though doubtless in a very slight degree) thick or high. His objection is plausible, and, to Spacelanders, almost irresistible, so that, I confess, when I first heard it, I knew not what to reply. But my poor old friend's answer appears to me completely to meet it.

    "I admit," said he - when I mentioned to him this objection - "I admit the truth of your critic's facts, but I deny his conclusions. It is true that we have really in Flatland a Third unrecognized Dimension called `height,' just as it is also true that you have really in Spaceland a Fourth unrecognized Dimension, called by no name at present, but which I will call `extra-height'. But we can no more take cognizance of our `height' then you can of your `extra-height'. Even I - who have been in Spaceland, and have had the privilege of understanding for twenty-four hours the meaning of `height' - even I cannot now comprehend it, nor realize it by the sense of sight or by any process of reason; I can but apprehend it by faith.
     
  8. monkapotomus tortured brain Registered Senior Member

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    what the hell?
     
  9. Thor "Pfft, Rebel scum!" Valued Senior Member

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    Thor's brain hurts
     
  10. Psycho_Potato Kermit the Communist Registered Senior Member

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    I got a story for you. tell me what you think of when I say this:
    "Then it broke"
     
  11. grazzhoppa yawwn Valued Senior Member

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    pollux-that was-more-than 3-words
     
  12. Pollux V Ra Bless America Registered Senior Member

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    No it wasn't. Well, it was. I meant to write this: PREFACE TO THE and have you guys figure the rest out. But my finger slipped I guess.
     
  13. grazzhoppa yawwn Valued Senior Member

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    now that's funny
     
  14. Halo Full Time Nerd-Bomber Registered Senior Member

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    because Thor's brain
     
  15. Pollux V Ra Bless America Registered Senior Member

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    Estoy divertido caballero


    HAHAHA didn't specify language or capacity for proper grammar... HAHAHA in your face!!!!!
     
  16. Thor "Pfft, Rebel scum!" Valued Senior Member

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    Sie saugen alle
     
  17. grazzhoppa yawwn Valued Senior Member

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    yo no comprehendo?
     
  18. grazzhoppa yawwn Valued Senior Member

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    thread is done......
     
  19. Thor "Pfft, Rebel scum!" Valued Senior Member

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    Wie um nein?
     
  20. monkapotomus tortured brain Registered Senior Member

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    ach tung baby
     
  21. Thor "Pfft, Rebel scum!" Valued Senior Member

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    Sterben Sie nicht
     
  22. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    then she went
     
  23. Pollux V Ra Bless America Registered Senior Member

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    mong shnel byotch.
     
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