Improbable Phrases Revealed!

[urbeatle]

Here are the answers for the rest of the Improbable Phrases meme from a few days ago, plus some discussion.

1. subjunctive instant replay, crab canon, strange loops
   (Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter. Guessed by doctroid)
   I figured this one would be easy for anyone who's read it, because of "strange loops". But damn, had to

Comments

[majorzed]

Hitler wrote science fiction?

[urbeatle]

Sort of.

(I haven't read Iron Dream. I have to confess, I heard about it years ago and thought all along, until I looked it up, that it was an actual novel by Adolf Hitler that someone had found.

The Hitler reference above, though, is to the fact that mentioning Robert Heinlein usually results in a flamewar.

[urbeatle]

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[tomscud]

In retrospect, "marvellous sunset city" is kind of a giveaway for #6, isn't it?

Other than that, I've read and guessed 1 and 2, but not first; have read and didn't guess 4 7 ("beautiful soup" should have been a giveaway) and maybe 10 (I read the first 3 or 4 Myth books, barely remember them. Used to know Aspirin's son slightly), and haven't read the rest of them.