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As absurd as it sounds, their brains had to find something to associate that context with. He gave off a signal, and they had to interpret it somehow. Maybe it was so absurd and out of context it just switched the entire context of what they were being processed at the time.

We're like walking flash drives constantly associating, downloading and updating our storage.

Disarm people with absurdity. I'd rather not test it out though

He used that line as an album title too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Like_the_Sun_(album)

Yeah, that's when he used to tell this story.

I misquoted the line, using "brighter than" instead of "nothing like".

The title was apparently based on his use of that phrase.

Related, if someone looks like they will get violent with you, ask them "Who won the game last night?" and slug them while their brain pauses to process and answer the question.