The ugly rat thing holds this flyer that says, "A stitch in time would have confused Einstein." and I have no idea what this means I looked it up online and I found it as some qoute but i still don't get it. Some one help me out.
Oh yeah and this movie was reallt cool and well made. I like the message.
the "message" to this film is: buy more stuff you don't need, get into debt by using Amazon's credit card and have less time in your life because you now have more stuff.
this is not a film, its an advert
the quote is a reference to the original quote "a stich in time saves time", and the nodd to einstein is a comment about the theory of relativity (whereby Einstein states that you can't travel faster than light), and therefore can't save time through time travel.
lets stop analysing this meaningless made-for-internet advert and get on with our lives.
I think you're mistaken on the original proverb, which is "A stich in time saves nine." I do think it relates to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, just not quite sure how.
Anyone notice the flyer is for a place called Loophole Tailor ?
I've heard "A stitch in time saves nine" a lot, so I think that is the correct proverb. However, I still have no idea what that means. Anyone have an answer as to how that proverb got started?
How about "The whole nine yards"? I think someone once told me it related to sewing. Anyone know?
"A stitch in time saves nine" is indeed a sewing reference. I believe it came about as a bit of advice for mending clothes. If you notice something is starting to rip then it's better fix it sooner rather than later, because then you won't have to use as many stitches. catch it while it's a small problem before it gets to be a big problem.
as for the "whole nine yards" i always thought that was a football reference. however, that was just an assumption. I'm positive on the stitch question.
you may be right about the "whole nine yards," I think I may have heard that and it does make sense.
I'm still unsure about the "nine" part in "A stitch in time saves nine." Is it just because nine and time just sound alike? Notice also that here, "A stitch in time" refers to not procastinating, while in the movie, "A stitch in time" refered to a break (I think) in time itself (if that makes sense).
A cubic yard is a measure of volume (3 ft x 3 ft x 3 ft).
A concrete truck can carry 9 cubic yards of concrete.
So when you use the entire contents of a concrete truck, you're using "The whole nine yards." This is the origin of the saying that has become a reference to using (or including) everything available.
It's a nice thought although unlikely as the term can be dated to the 1950s. Smaller concrete mixers (4½ cubic yards) were still being used into the '60s.
I've always heard that it's origin is military in nature. The length of the ammunition belt in the Spitfire was nine yards. When a pilot had shot all his ammunition he would say he had shot 'the whole nine yards'.
Nice try. Actually, the quote is "A stitch in time saves NINE". The quote is a double referral to Einstein. First that it mentions him; secondly that the original quote refers to the dialogues of Ernst Mach, and Austrian Philosopher contemporary of Einstein's, regarding Einstein's 9 tenets of space-time theory.
Putz. If your going to give a history lesson, make sure you know your history.
I'm viewing this on my new 23-inch flat-screen monitor....great advert.
First, reading back through the quotes, I don't think anyone claimed to be the end all of this particular saying.
Second, could you explain your two points? How does the saying mention Einstein (not by name obviously)? And if you could, could you summarize what the quote means and how it relates to the dialogues? From your post, the nine makes sense, but I don't know what a stitch in time is, or how it SAVES nine. Saves his theory?
Basically, could you explain what the quote actually means, and how it compares and contrasts with our current usage, if I were to use this in a basic conversation. I would like to make sure I use it correctly. I don't think when people say it nowadays, it is referring to some esoteric theory that I've never heard of.
Thanks,
Eric
I won't speak for Stevenopus, but I believe that the quotation "A stitch in time would have confused Einstein" is a play on words: The aphorism "A stitch in time saves nine (stitches)" means, as correctly referenced earlier, that taking the time to mend a tear with one stitch when it is first noticed will save one the headache of mending an unattended tear later with ten stitches. The message is don't procrastinate.
A play on these words puts the emphasis on the word time. With reference to Einstein's work on relativity, "A stitch in TIME would confuse Einstein" is a humorous observation (not meant as an aphorism at all IMHO).
Your post makes the most sense to me. I quickly asked the people around me yesterday, and they had the same opinion.
Yea aphorisms!!!
Isaac Asimov wrote a little story (A Loint of Paw) about a man who eludes a verdict of guiltiness using a legal hole. The man commits a crime and walks through a time machine, reappearing nine years in the future, when the legal time to pursue his crime is over. The verdict says (in a word-play by Asimov): "a niche in time saves Stein" (Stein is the name of the man). The word play is so similar to the one in the flyer that I may presume the writers have read that story, too. The title of the story also uses a word play with an initial-swapping: "A Loint of Paw" instead "A Point of Law".
Of course the phrase "a stitch in time" is used as a fixation/manipulation of the "time-continuum", not in the sense of a stitch made in the right time to prevent later rippings.
The phrase is a play on the proverb "a stitch in time saves nine". I think it hints to the fact that we can make the man choose to smell the roses the first time around, thereby saving time in the end by not looping through the same scene over and over. The Einstein and time references also refer to the fact that this is a time loop we're in (notice how it always resets back to 2pm at the start).
"Loophole Tailor" is a hint which tells us the above proverb is the clue to ending the loop, and the word "tailor" and "stitch" are used together to further emphasize this link.
Sorry for looking too deeply here... I promise never to watch another Amazon theater movie. :)