A Battle of Wits

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

not just one of your holiday games then?

[WWWwombat]

Basically, he chills on the ottoman all day long.

 

And what did you mean about sci fi?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

check out the names of the sultans

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

'Ala Hazrat-i-Aqdas-i-Hümayun (اعلی حضرت اقدس همایون, His Sacred and Imperial Majesty) Sultan (سلطان) N.N. Khan (خان),

Padishah (پادشاه), i.e. Emperor,

Hünkar-i Khanedan-i Âl-i Osman (شاه خاندان آل عثمان), i.e. Sovereign of the House of Osman,

Sultan us-Selatin (سلطان السلاطین), i.e. Sultan of Sultans,

Khakan (خاقان), i.e. Khan of Khans,

Amir ül-Mü'minin ve Khalifeh ül-Rasul Rabb al-A’alimin (امیر المؤمنین و خلیفه الرسول رب العالمین), i.e. Commander of the Faithful and Successor of the Prophet of the Lord of the Universe,

Khâdim ül-Haramayn ush-Sharifayn (خادم الحرمین الشریفین), i.e. Custodian of the Two Noble Sanctuaries (i.e. the Holy Cities of Mecca, and Medina),

Kaysar-i-Rûm (قیصر روم), i.e. Emperor of Rome

Padişah-i thalath şehireha-i Qostantiniyye, Edirne ve Hüdavendigâr, ül şehireyn-i Dimaşq ve Qahira, tamam Azerbayjan, Mağrib, Barqah, Kayravan, Haleb, ül-‘Iraq-i ‘Arab vel ‘Ajam, Basra, ül-dulan-i Lahsa, Rakka, Musul, Partiyye, Diyârbekir, Kilikiyye, ül vilâyatun-i Erzurum, Sivas, Adana, Karaman, Van, Barbariyye, Habeş, Tunus, Trablus-i Garb, Şam, Kıbrıs, Rodos, Girit, ül vilâyet-i Mora, ül Bahr-i Sefid vel Bahr-i Siyah ve i-swahil, Anadolu, Rumeli, Bagdâd, Kurdistân, Yunanistan, Türkistan, Tatariyye, Çerkesyye, ül mintaqateyn-i Kabarda, Gürjistan, ül-Deşt-i Qipçaq, tamam ül-mamlikat-i Tatar, Kefe ve tamam ül-etraf, Bosna, ül şehir ve hisar-i Belgrat, ül vilâyet-i Sırbistan bil tamam ül-hisareha ve şehireha, tamam Arnavut, tamam Eflak ve Boğdan, ve tamam ül-mustamlak vel-hududeha, ve muteaddit mamalekat ve şehireha, i.e. Emperor of The Three Cities of Constantinople, Adrianople and Bursa, and of the Cities of Damascus and Cairo, of all Azerbaijan, of the Magreb, of Barka, of Kairouan, of Aleppo, of the Arabic and the Persian Iraq, of Basra, of Al-Hasa strip, of Ar Raqqah, of Mosul, of Diyarbakır, of Cilicia, of the provinces of Erzurum, of Sivas, of Adana, of Karaman, Van, of Barbary, of Abyssinia, of Tunisia, of Tripoli, of Damascus, of Cyprus, of Rhodes, of Crete, of the province of Morea, of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and also their coasts, of Anatolia, Rumelia, Baghdad, Greece, Turkistan, Tartary, Circassia, of the two regions of Kabarda, of Georgia, of the steppe of Kypchaks, of the whole country of the Tatars, of Kefe and of all the neighboring regions, of Bosnia, of the City and Fort of Belgrade, of the province of Serbia, with all the castles and cities, of all Albania, of all Eflak and Bogdania, as well as all the dependencies and borders, and many other countries and cities.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

I format but I'm lazy

[WWWwombat]

Oh. Padishah Emperor. Yeah, Dune has a lot of those references. Lots of Semitic/Arab stuff in particular.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

Khan of Khans

Belgrat

Şam

Rodos

 

 

ok fine it's a stretch lotta words but someone less sleepy and more interested can go figger

[WWWwombat]

I don't see any sci fi in that. If you're trying to tie those to fantasy, it's almost certainly just coincidence.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

prove it.

[WWWwombat]

You made the positive claim. Burden of proof is on you.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

you forget. I don't care.

[WWWwombat]

My indifference on this issue is probably barely less than yours.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

somewhere between a rats behind and spitting in the ocean?

[WWWwombat]

Yep.

[WWWwombat]

I return.

[WWWwombat]

I retreat.

[Ithillian Turambar]

Like the tide.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

or a swing

[Ithillian Turambar]

Up and down and back and forth.

 

You have to make a swing move ... the tide just happens.

 

Which one is more like Wombat I wonder?

[WWWwombat]

The tide wouldn't happen without the pull of the moon.

 

I prefer to think of myself as a collection of de Broglie waves but that's not quite as poetic is it?

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

I was thinking a little more boredom vs disinterest

[Turin Turambar]

Apathy vs. No wanna

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

zakly

[WWWwombat]

Boredom is emotional procrastination. If you're bored, you're probably avoiding emotional distress.

[WWWwombat]

I am quite experienced with the illusion of boredom.