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11 Sep 2024 15:10:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Be very very quiet  
From: Kevin Wampler
Date: 26 Mar 2009 21:06:13
Message: <49cc2685$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:34:20 -0400, Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:47:09 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>>
>>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> I want to say it's something like "suspension of" something (not
>>>> disbelief).
>>> http://orangecow.org/toon-physics.html
>>>
>>> That's fun, but not coining terms.
>> Yeah, that's a great site.  I'm now wondering if I saw the term in a
>> toon- based RPG now.  Or maybe it wasn't Tex Avery, but Chuck Jones who
>> coined the term I'm thinking of.
>>
>> Agh!  This is going to drive me NUTS!
>>
>> Jim
> 
> Aha!  Found it:  The "plausible impossible" is what I'm thinking of, and 
> apparently Walt Disney coined the term.

Yay!  Now I can sleep in peace.  Once it's night time of course.


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