arundelo comments on Rationality Quotes October 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: arundelo 02 October 2012 01:58:29AM 16 points [-]

My wife and I, since we'd been in lock-down with each other, oh, these past nine years, have developed a bit of shorthand. If one of us says something the other has heard so many times before that tears of boredom flow, the victim has a right to protest. The victim says, "That's on the tape." As in, that's on your tape -- the list of stories and obsessions you've rewound so often I could sing along with them in my sleep.

-- Mark Schone

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 02 October 2012 05:09:23PM 1 point [-]

A customer-facing skills course I went on, many years ago, used the word "tape" to describe pervasive habits of speech.