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An ad just announced that the Sunday Times is to have the result of the ultimate examination. I hope the students among you are all pleased that there won't be any more.

Can I propose a law that any company advertising the 'ultimate' anything is banned from ever releasing another one afterwards?

(Yes, petty grammatical pedantry, I know...)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 14 November 2002 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Everyone to thread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 November 2002 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

The ultimate thread would either be about something EVERYONE can agree on, or NO ONE can agree on. And given ILM's rep, Britney should figure in some way.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 14 November 2002 18:47 (twenty-three years ago)

ever Thread EVAH isnt the ultimate thread?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 14 November 2002 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I will see your pedantry and raise you one. Due to an ambiguity in the construction of the phrasing, it would seem to be permissable to interpret "ultimate examination" as meaning that the examination had attained its final form, rather than meaning it had been given its final administraton.

― Aimless, Thursday, 14 November 2002 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

The ultimate thread is where we have a thred on vice magazine (oh wait...).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 14 November 2002 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

actually the owrd 'orgy' come to mind.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 14 November 2002 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Can I propose a law that any company advertising the 'ultimate' anything is banned from ever releasing another one afterwards?

So... no more Ultimate Spinach reissues, then?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 14 November 2002 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)

and then we all les it up?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 14 November 2002 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a song called "the penultimate malfunction", it's about a robot that keeps breaking down, and then one day realises that the next shutdown could be its last. It's sort of an SK-1 soundscape. There is a part two, but that's called "the something something", and describes a robot heaven.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 14 November 2002 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

haha 'the something something', i like it.

― donna (donna), Thursday, 14 November 2002 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.imagemagician.com/images/buglebear/ultimate.jpg

(I think my pal came up with the something something, so all cred to him)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 14 November 2002 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.comicbookgalaxy.com/images/ultimates1.gif

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 14 November 2002 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought this was about Ultimate Frisbee.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 14 November 2002 22:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I play ultimate. The name is pretty lame but it's better than "FRisbee Football" I guess..

― g (graysonlane), Thursday, 14 November 2002 22:46 (twenty-three years ago)

A former neighbor of mine majored in Ultimate Frisbee. Yes he went to Hampshire College. Now i think he's a-how-do-i-put-this "florist"

― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 15 November 2002 00:33 (twenty-three years ago)

how the fuck do you major in ultimate frisbee?!?!?

― H (Heruy), Friday, 15 November 2002 07:46 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.ultimate-wurlde.com/games/images/knight.gif http://www.ultimate-wurlde.com/games/images/jetpac.gif

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 15 November 2002 10:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked the Ultimate Warrior, and The Ultimates (written by my 'discovery' Mark Millar) is a terrific comic.

I meant 'The Ultimate Thread' as meaning 'the thread about the word ultimate', obv.

Aimless's extra pedantry is accurate, but if the exam has a final form, everyone will soon know exactly what it is, and it will no longer function as an exam in anything like the traditional meaning of the word.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 16 November 2002 12:08 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

I thought this was about Ultimate Frisbee.
-- DV (dirtyvica...) (webmail), November 14th, 2002 10:29 PM. (dirtyvicar)
I play ultimate. The name is pretty lame but it's better than "FRisbee Football" I guess..

-- g (graysonlaneNOSPA...) (webmail), November 14th, 2002 10:46 PM. (graysonlane)

I call it Extreme Frisbee instead.

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

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