My pants just fell off!

Yours too?

OK, who took my arm this time?

Two pairs of pants just appeared on my coffee table. Also part of a comment thread. Seems to be about grammar and Egyptian vases, though one of the comments contains an extraordinary number of obscure equations.

No arms, though.

How can you fit pants into those little raviolis?

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There was a flash of light and sudden sense of vertigo. Checked the news -- damn, he's still prez. I was hoping you'd upgraded us into the sane universe, but looks like we're still stuck in bizzaro world.

Hmmm. I've got a stack of arms here, but no comments. Anybody want to trade an arm for a comment?

Hey! Dolphins are no smarter than dogs, interstellar travel is effectively impossible, there's no cure for cancer, there are no flying cars, people are starving all over the planet, broadcast power doesn't work, and everyone around me says they've never heard of Tesla and it's always been this way!

Change it back! Change it back! You madman, Helen Epsilon Radium and I were going to go in and register for a second offspring today-- and now I can't even find her!

Damn it! WHERE'S THE $#%!?ING SOMA?!

So does that mean that the arms are being held as hostages for comments?

There will be no arms for hostages!

Armless hostages?!

Wouldn't armless hostages be the embodiment of despair?

I think armed hostages would be far more desperate, myself.

Is there any way you could recover the comment that I tried to post that provided a free source of usable energy with no environmental side-effects? It's similar to the Gaudeamus Effect, I think.

Hey -- I pressed F11 twice and my arm came back!

So, what does Movable Type 3.121 do for you that, say, Fixed Font 2.971 doesn't do?

Best feature: a hugely improved MT-Blacklist, thoroughly integrated into the main interface. Would have saved a ton of time dealing with the spam attacks of the last couple of weeks.

I was just preparing to type a comment when an armless statue appeared.

Look! It's the Winged Victory of Samothrace! And it's wearing Avram's pants!

How can you tell that they're Avram's pants? Are there ants?

Well, they could be Yog's; I didn't look for anyone's name sewn in to the waistband. And how that elephant got into my pajamas I'll never know.

What are these 'pants' of which you speak?

And who has removed the key from my keyboard? How am I going to spell Ghi po or Rhiul kee without the key?

The elephant does look positively fetching in that neglige, but the fuzzy cthulhu slippers quite break the mood.

Hola! An Indian-head nickel!

If those pants have four or five cargo pockets per side, full of CPR masks, disposable nitrile gloves, emergency airways, and large folding knives, they aren't Avram's.

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If those pants have four or five cargo pockets per side, full of CPR masks, disposable nitrile gloves, emergency airways, and large folding knives, they aren't Avram's.

Oooh! Those would have been more fun than a pile of arms! Go, go gadget pants!

Go, go gadget arms!

Go, go gadget pants!

Finally! A reference in these threads that I recognize!