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By jove, Dr. Fish I do believe you are correct! I do thank you for the correction to my calculations and it is exactly this kind of challenging mental exchanges that keeps me coming back to this august company.
It's probably why of the things he's read, most of it is comic books, since the lower dose of words per pretty picture help his rudimentary brain process it all better. Which would of course keep him out of any Claremont xmen books. Remember also his deep love of Nintendo Power which IIRC also had any potential long word passages broken up by pretty pictures.
It's probably why he actually likes babysitting his niece and nephew - they're all about the same reading level right now.
hehe, you're welcome. I try. His explanation of his "joke" is batshit insane. Why would anyone, unprompted, even THINK to look at some rando guy bob's quoting's twitter feed to properly comprehend a "joke" that doesn't even give you a HINT to do that? There's no reason at all to do that, or even consider it as a possibility to make the "joke" make ANY sense. Bob doesn't give a clue, hell he doesn't even give an inkling, and it takes 30,000 inklings to make 1 clue. He's so stuck inside his own head he can't comprehend that people wouldn't have any way of knowing "Hey to figure out why this is a joke and why it's funny, check this guy's twitter feed", let alone read the damn twitter feed, see what it is, and then connect THAT to Bob's "joke" somehow, which doesn't even fucking work, because there's nothing in the twitter feed to give an indication that this is what Bob is linking to his "Day ending in Y" "punchline". Hell, "Day ending in Y" jokes are generally low-level, easy to grok jokes. Because they're that low-level, most people don't THINK they need to gain higher wisdom to properly process it. Trust Bob to turn a "Day Ending in Y" joke into a catastrophe.
I'm of the mind that Bob is actually practically illiterate. Oh, he THINKS he can read. But he's one of those idiots that learned to read the wrong way, so that he doesn't actually understand that which he reads. He doesn't know he doesn't understand it, because he is "guessing" the words half the time and interpreting the entire fucking sentences wrong, which is why his own sentences are such abominations of stream-of-consciousness run-on bullshit. Plus he's
the Kwisatz Tarderach, and his failure to read properly is significantly contributing to his habitual, inherent
Blue Curtainism.
My fear is that the niece and nephew won't progress all that far in terms of reading levels, especially not with Uncle Bob teaching them whilst they were the spawn of pickled eggs and sperm as their parents go off drinking enormous margaritas/daiquiris/mugs of hipster brew again.
What's great about this is Bob doesn't even realize he told everyone he's either never seen Darmok or didn't understand it. He had to explain the story to Picard because Picard wasn't getting it and Picard responded by telling him the story of Gilgamesh to show he had grasped the message. There were no "iconic movie/TV references" they shared, merely their own cultures stories of people uniting in circumstance. The guy died with no idea who the fuck Gilgamesh was but was pleased Picard understood his message and they had broken through the communication barrier. (The episode also contrasts Picard's patience and favorable assumption with Riker's impatience at understanding and assumption of threats.)
Bob would meet a guy who's lived all his life on a remote island and ask him what he named his volleyball.
I'm thinking he probably saw it - lord knows ST:TNG reruns have been in circulation for years now - but like the blue curtain analyst he is, he didn't comprehend it correctly. The base of Tamarian language is citing example, using
metaphor, not "pop culture" (be it current year stories or ancient ones, although ancient ones would obviously work better).
I'm pretty sure Bob would get the meaning of the following Tamarian style bit:
Bob, with the selfie
Lindsay, with the sixth soft-block
Bob, his balls burst, his heart shattered
so yeah, you could do that with
anything. It would have to be something other people - a LOT of other people - would have to already know about. So in the loosest sense, Bob is clinging to these details as proof that Tamarian is all "pop-culture based". But by insisting that, he's completely missing the underlying goddamn point.
And the volleyball would shout, "My name's VOIT, dumbass."
