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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Even though it didn't come out until the later part of the 2000s, the Portal cake is probably the official cake of that decade.
Better yet, it's based on a real black forest cake from a bakery near Valve
Would that mean that the cake is not, in fact, a lie?
Or is it a deeper commentary on the realism of a representation of a thing, a la Magritte's The Treachery of Images? The cake is a lie because it's not a cake, it's a representation of a cake.
Doc, this is heavy.
Any black forest cake that's not from Regent Bakery and Cafe is a lie.
There's that word again, "heavy". Is there something wrong with gravity in Portal?
I loveeeee a good black forest cake.
Agreed. The cake is a lie.
I was watching the screensaver of a Big Buck Hunter arcade cabinet at the bar last night, and one of the minigames involved shooting roaches crawling all over a house. The cake in the kitchen was definitely the Portal cake.