Me to my boss today [deadpan]: I have a very serious, pressing question: How did it get to be 11:45 already?<\/p>\n
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Her [deadpan]: We’re in a time warp. We went through the wormhole and came out the other end.<\/p>\n
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Me: Like in Wayne’s World. <\/em>[makes appropriate sound effects]<\/a><\/p>\n Of course, since I often have meta-thoughts, especially about language, I got to wondering what exactly a time warp is, what it sounds like, and the history of its development as a pop cultural shorthand for a perception that time is moving more quickly or more slowly than usual. I have no definite answers, but I think the signature sound of the TARDIS<\/a> on Doctor Who,<\/em> as well as the show’s theme song<\/a> [2003 version linked], not to mention the RHPS song Time Warp,<\/a><\/em> will inflect the results. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Me to my boss today [deadpan]: I have a very serious, pressing question: How did it get to be 11:45 already? Her [deadpan]: We’re in a time warp. We went through the wormhole and came out the other end. Me: Like in Wayne’s World. [makes appropriate sound effects] Of course, since I often… Continue reading Localized temporal distortion??<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[729,653,639],"class_list":["post-6595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-funny","tag-music","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6598,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions\/6598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}