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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Keep elaborating it. For example, ask it to incorporate radiochemistry:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>“Like calling fallout a ‘light dusting,’ meteorological euphemisms cloak radiochemistry in weather's small talk.”<br><br>“When rain carries cesium, forecasts trade science for syntax.”<br><br>Now add in Buck Rodgers:<br><br>“Buck Rogers promised jetpacks—he didn’t warn us the sky would glow green and come with a fallout forecast.”<br><br>Ask it to include some remarks on adenosine.<br><br>“Buck Rogers flew through neutron storms without ever needing coffee—today, we decode euphemisms for fallout while our adenosine receptors beg for sleep.”</span><br><br><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>And so on. It’s clearly universal interpolation.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of Barry MacKichan <barry.mackichan@mackichan.com><br><b>Date: </b>Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM<br><b>To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] George Phillip Tremblay IV<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>My guess is that there must be something in George’s training that is close to exactly the same as this utterance. How would one go about confirming or disproving this hypothesis?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>— Barry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>On 18 Apr 2025, at 22:48, Nicholas Thompson wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #777777 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt'><div id=6D8BB98F-AC1D-4D71-AE24-A28ABEBCC9A5><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'>The last time I checked in with this list it was starting to be not-cool to gush over<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailsignatureprefix><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'>George, but every once in a while he produces an aphorism that makes me laugh out loud, alone in my study: He defined meteorological euphemisms as "terms that describe what something would be if only it were the thing it isn't." </span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'>Nicholas S. Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'>Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'>Clark University<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'><a href="mailto:nthompson@clarku.edu">nthompson@clarku.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #777777 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt'><p><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777'>.- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. <br>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv <br>Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom <a href="https://bit.ly/virtualfriam"><span style='color:#777777'>https://bit.ly/virtualfriam</span></a> <br>to (un)subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com"><span style='color:#777777'>http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</span></a> <br>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#777777'>http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</span></a> <br>archives: 5/2017 thru present <a href="https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/"><span style='color:#777777'>https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/</span></a> <br>1/2003 thru 6/2021 <a href="http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/"><span style='color:#777777'>http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>