[extropy-chat] lette

[Eliezer Yudkowsky]

Damien Broderick wrote:
> At 01:12 PM 10/9/2004 -0700, Spike wrote:
> 
> < Rules schmules.  Wordplay is about bending rules.  If I
> were to be strict about the single-substitution rule,
> I would be stuck with a with one of the four choices:
> rules-sules, -cules, -hules, or -mules. >
> 
> Oh, bugger, I can't leave this alone, can I?
> 
> `Rules schmules' *isn't* bending a rule, for the luvadog, it's *using* a 
> well-known rule or template from Yiddish humor.
> 
> Would that retort have been even mildly witty if Spike had written 
> `Rules schools', or `Rules bananas', or `Rubes chew asphalt', or `84Z*pq'?

Fules!  If you substitute numbers for letters, that is a l3tt3.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence