Scrambled Meaning ((INSTALL))
Cecelia Shane
When you are tired or distracted, you sometimes feel that your brain is not functioning well because of lack of focus. Many years ago I said that I'm absent-minded, but a native speaker of English said that it sounds like I have something wrong with my mind. But that is what a dictionary says. Then I have found these phrases, "My mind is scrambled." "My mind is foggy." "My mind is fuzzy." However, I don't know if these phrases are appropriate. Can I use one of these phrases to express what I want to say in a daily conversation? Or if there is a good phrase for this, I'd like to know.
What does it feel like when one's meaning making is impoverished and threatens to break down? The aim of this study is to show how meaning making is achieved in the context of one's life and how this achievement is often a struggle for the individual. The study reports data from semi-structured interviews with a female participant, which was analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). This paper examines how cultural discourses and conventions are experienced and given meaning by the individual. First, the analysis demonstrates how dominant discourses are used to explain anger and aggression. These include hormones, alcohol, and the influence of past relationships on present action. Second, it examines how the participant's meaning making is often ambiguous and confused, and how she variously accepts and challenges available meanings. Finally, the analysis demonstrates how meaning making can break down and the consequences of this for the individual's sense of self.
The term was used during the Battle of Britain, when Royal Air Force pilots and their fighters were readied and available to fly. Detection and monitoring of enemy aircraft, e.g. by the Chain Home radar stations, would feed into the RAF Fighter Command's Dowding system for control and management of the defenses. Once a decision had been made to intercept the enemy formation a telephone call would be made to the chosen fighter squadron's airfield, and those air crews available would be scrambled. The scramble order was communicated to alert pilots waiting by their aircraft by the loud ringing of a bell.[1]Every minute lost before takeoff would be advantageous to the enemy, as it could allow a pilot to gain extra height above the advancing plane formations.[2]
During the Cold War, many NATO air forces had crews stationed in Europe on alert and scrambled whenever their airspace was penetrated. The rudimentary bell-ringing communication was eventually replaced by electronic radio communication methods. However, many fighter squadrons into the current era would keep a bell at their squadron bar in legacy to the Battle of Britain roots. A common tradition was that anyone at the bar who rang the bell would be required to buy a round of drinks for all present.
In the usual entanglement detection scenario the possible measurements and the corresponding data are assumed to be fully characterized. We consider the situation where the measurements are known, but the data is scrambled, meaning the assignment of the probabilities to the measurement outcomes is unknown. We investigate in detail the two-qubit scenario with local measurements in two mutually unbiased bases. First, we discuss the use of entropies to detect entanglement from scrambled data, showing that Tsallis and Rényi entropies can detect entanglement in our scenario, while the Shannon entropy cannot. Then, we introduce and discuss scrambling-invariant families of entanglement witnesses. Finally, we show that the set of nondetectable states in our scenario is nonconvex and therefore in general hard to characterize.
Data scrambling is the process to obfuscate or remove sensitive data. This process is irreversible so that the original data cannot be derived from the scrambled data. Data scrambling can be utilized only during the cloning process.
Thank you for this! I've been watching Fraiser on Netflix recently, and my son kept asking me why they sing 'tossed salad and scrambled eggs' at the end. I just read this to him. He's very happy to have the mystery solved.
Every time you name comes up in the credits, I think 'oh I know him,' even though I don't. Silly, but there you go.
I, for one, like Kelsey's version of the song. In fact, he may have missed his calling as a jazz or blues singer. With the ingruous pairing of "tossed salad" and "scrambled eggs", I always assumed it was about confusion, but Frazier's own confusion, not his patients. Even though Kelsey sang it, I never imagined it coming from Frazier himself, unless he had a hip alter ego that was never revealed on the show.
I always like it in movies or TV shows when a song expresses the overall theme or mood, but the lyrics can't really be taken literally. Best example: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid when "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" comes on. Obviously, it's not raining in that scene, but it best describes Butch's insouciant attitude.
Thanks, Ken, I have always wondered why in the world Frasier would sing about tossed salads and scrambled eggs. Kelsey does it so well, it's unlike any tv series song I've heard.
Now that you've explained it, the song title sounds a bit like the album Emerson Lake and Palmer released in the 70s, Brain Salad Surgery.
Interesting that ELP was mentioned by Rebecca in the last episode of Cheers. That was the fictitious law firm she claimed to work for,"...yeah, they're a pretty famous group..."
This article bugs me: I smell bovine excrement.
"Tossing a salad" is prison slang for manual sex. There are two things "tossed salad" could mean and that's one of them. Given that combined with the fact that the show featured three bachelors mostly striking out in the relationship department,"scrambled eggs" really could not have any but the same meaning.
I'm sorry for any unwanted mental images, but that's quite definitely what the song is about.
"Mark S. said...
'Tossing a salad' is prison slang for manual sex. There are two things "tossed salad" could mean and that's one of them. Given that combined with the fact that the show featured three bachelors mostly striking out in the relationship department,"scrambled eggs" really could not have any but the same meaning."
Ah yes, because Niles and Frasier were noted for their constant employment of ephemisms au currant with the Incarcerated Community. Why, Frasier was practically Oz, only with 99% less male nudity and rape scenes. When I think the Crane Brothers, I always think: "Prison Slang."
There's actually a third meaning for "Tossed Salad": a salad that has been mixed by tossing, but no. Frasier was undoubtedly just singing his jazzy prison slang terms, given it was a show about two Harvard-grad psychiatrists who were gay in every imaginable way except that they still thought they were straight and went after women who responded the the manliness of discussing dead opera divas and undetectable differences in slight color-shade gradations before going off to their wine-tasting club.
I still treasure that episode where Niles accidentally shanked Daphnee.
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I always thought those lyrics described Frazier's life after divorcing Lilith; tossed salads and scrambled eggs sound like things a single-guy would make/eat to sustain himself."
I like that one. Of course Frasier Crane's bachelor meals are more likely to be tossed caviar and quiche, but still, I could see that one, even if it misses the obvious prison masturbation references so glarlingly clear in the song.
I always thought that any meaning in the jazzy little ditty was eclipsed by Kelsey Grammer's ego. And Eddie doing something cute.
But that was before I played the sound file backwards.
When you play the song backwards, you clearly hear, "Brip jum brip murple yim D McEwan's mother tosses salads in hell byup blim yumba."
And then it all made so much sense.
Great post. Follow-up question: Towards the end of the fifth season there is an episode in which KACL becomes a Spanish-language music station (due, as usual, to Frasier's well-intentioned bungling - scrambled eggs all over his face again), and at the end of the episode they cleverly played a Spanish version of the title song. Anyone know the lyrics/author of the Spanish version?
I have loved watching Frasier for many years and now watch it in syndication every night on Hallmark. The theme song has always been interesting to me (I like it) and I wondered what it was about.
Since I could not figure out the meaning, I thought that it might be part of a whole song and the remaining words would help me understand the meaning. Tonight I decided to look for the lyrics to the whole song and found this blog that explained the meaning. All I can say is GENIUS!
I love this. I honestly grew up with Frasier both on cheers and Frasier and recently started watching the reruns.
I've always thought "scrambled eggs" fit very well because of the "cracked " people who called or sometimes the way they acted. Never could figure out the "tossed salads". And of course "they're callin' again" is so self explanatory.
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Thanks a lot! Almost always the answer is found on internet and once again found it, it didn't let me down. I've been also wondering why he sings tossed salad and scrambled eggs. Now I know why :)
Frasier is the best and I've always enjoyed a lot by watching it.
I had some idea that eggs and salad represented something that wasn't right or ordered. Mixed up things... Tossed salad... Scrambled eggs. But I guess I needed someone to tell me I was on the don't path. The rest of the lyrics are fairly easy ti figure out otherwise. I always come away from hearing the music with a yen for fluffy scrambled eggs and buttery toast. Go figure. I've been marathoning the series this past month, netflix has then all to stream so I have bee. Watching a few episodes each night on my smartphone before I turn off the light. I always loved the show... Brilliant writing. And I have never really liked Kelsey. He comes off as such a Dbag in real life. But I have to credit him his due props for Frasier... He is nothing short of genius. DHP however is the one I love the most. I am in mid season ten and am already lamenting that it will soon be over. Then onto Wings I suppose. ::sighs::
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