There are some seriously obsessive people in this world

[liv]

So, imagine that Tefillin Barbie has children one day. (She'd have some anatomical problems, but hey, I hear they can do some wonderful things with fertility treatment these days.) And then imagine that those children want to play with teeny-tiny meta-dolls of their own. Would you believe that someone out there has already hand-knitted teeny-tiny clothes for the teeny-tiny meta-dolls? Let's not think what it would be like if the baby Barbies wanted their dollies to have little dolly tefillin as well...

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[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

Those are amazing!

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Let's not think what it would be like if the baby Barbies wanted their dollies to have little dolly tefillin as well...

...or to have dolls of their own...

[liv]

Seriously? On the scale she's using the dolls' dolls' dolls would be less than 1 mm tall. I'm thinking you'd have to get one of those gadgets for writing on grains of rice, and just do a simple smily face on a grain. Surely nobody is insane enough to make clothes at 1 : 12³ scale!

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Big dolls have smaller dolls
In order to delight 'em
And smaller dolls and smaller dolls
And so ad infinitum.

Or, as rysmiel so succintly puts it: 0, 1, infinity. :o)

[liv]

Heh, your comment made me think of that Belloc ditty too. I'm glad I didn't post it cos your version is much more witty!

There are some seriously obsessive people in this world

[(Anonymous)]

The original was Jonathan Swift On Poetry -- So, naturalists observe, a flea/Hath smaller fleas that on him prey;/And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em,/And so proceed ad infinitum./Thus every poet, in his kind,/Is bit by him that comes behind.
The ditty adopted by Lethargic Man is Augustus de Morgan (1806 -- 1871) A Budget of Paradoxes.

Without a URL I can only sign myself the Southernwood Pedant.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I said that ?

I don't recall it, and it seems to me that that really should go 0, 1, many, infinity.

Overly pedantic answer

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

A perusal of my mail archive reveals a conversation of ours at the start of xber '97 in which I said, after you said there was still a non-zero number of something:

ME: Yup; I'm learning now—in rysmielspeak that means there's an infinite number. :-)
YOU: *peals of giggles* Zero, one, many. Simple.

In June '99 I misquoted this back to you as "Zero, one, infinity...", and you said "This is a meme I will admit to, yes."

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

On reflection, I think the difference between where you're coming from and where I am is the fact that I'm basing my thinking on mathematical induction, where there's no stage beyond "one" short of "infinity".

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

Coo-ur. That's LITTLE.

[owlfish]

That's impressive microknitting!

Playmobil came out with a new line this year... mini-Playmobil at the right scale for Playmobil kids to play with. So tiny!

[liv]

OMG! There's mini-Playmobil for Playmobil kids? That's one of the coolest things I've ever heard, and it makes me want some, even though I don't have any children in my life to play Playmobil with. (I like the way your icon is appropriate for the topic, too.)