Wow. That is one hell of an obscure reference.The number of people in the world who would get it is probably in the triple digits.
Going by the scale Alicorn was using for geek points, if getting that Babylon 5 reference gets you 20 geek points, getting this reference should probably give you on the order of 200 000 geek points.
Huh. Maybe it wasn’t a reference to what I thought it was. Let’s just say that a while ago I had the rather annoying habit of answering people who asked the time by repeating their question back to them. I assumed that whoever this was drew from the same source, although I now relize I may have been mistaken. (It really is that obscure...)
The thing I was thinking of was this really obscure RPG from more than a decade ago called Continuum (Tvtropes pageWikipedia pageOfficial (semi-abandoned) website) in which time travveler’s identify one another by one asking the other for the time, and then the other repeating the question right back. Thus, time-travellers can identify one another, while at worst confusing normal people with strange demands for the time or weird non-answers to the question of what the time is.
So, the obvious thing for a fan to do in order to try to identify nearby time-travelers is to go around asking a lot of people what the time is or answering such questions with the time-traveller recognized response.
Only 20 geek points? Who do you think you are?
ETA: It was just a joke, but one which anyone who earned the geek points should get.
Where are you going… with this? Do you have anything worth, uh, listening for? ;-)
I hear there’s one that went around continually asking “What time is it?”
Wow. That is one hell of an obscure reference.The number of people in the world who would get it is probably in the triple digits.
Going by the scale Alicorn was using for geek points, if getting that Babylon 5 reference gets you 20 geek points, getting this reference should probably give you on the order of 200 000 geek points.
...to Mr. Boffo? What were you thinking of?
Huh. Maybe it wasn’t a reference to what I thought it was. Let’s just say that a while ago I had the rather annoying habit of answering people who asked the time by repeating their question back to them. I assumed that whoever this was drew from the same source, although I now relize I may have been mistaken. (It really is that obscure...)
The thing I was thinking of was this really obscure RPG from more than a decade ago called Continuum (Tvtropes page Wikipedia page Official (semi-abandoned) website) in which time travveler’s identify one another by one asking the other for the time, and then the other repeating the question right back. Thus, time-travellers can identify one another, while at worst confusing normal people with strange demands for the time or weird non-answers to the question of what the time is.
So, the obvious thing for a fan to do in order to try to identify nearby time-travelers is to go around asking a lot of people what the time is or answering such questions with the time-traveller recognized response.
As I said, very obscure.
Teatime, of course. Aren’t the three Adamsian questions, “How can we eat?”, “Why do we eat?” and then, “Where shall we go for a nice lunch?”