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Contents 1 Original research 2 Spiderman? 3 Triangle Man 4 Meaning of the song 5 Greek Philosophy 6 Fair use rationale for Image:Particle man.jpg 7 Fair use rationale for Image:Particle man.jpg 8 Interpretation 9 He's got a watch with a minute hand, a millennium hand, and an eon hand... 10 Silent Hill 2 "reference"

[edit] Original research

• I removed a bunch of fan speculation as it is obviously originally research and not verifiable in the least. Wickethewok 05:40, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, except for the one about Terry Pratchett. That one is rather specific and is *probably* not speculation. Thus, I just put it back in with a citation tag on it, until someone can verify for sure. Mucus 15:58, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spiderman?

"Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a Spider can" "Particle Man, Particle man, doing the things a particle can" Isn't it kind of a reference? Maybe? I dunno

I'd say that's a serious reach. Particle man is sui generis.

I don't think it's a reach at all; many people I've asked said they immediately thought of Particle Man when they heard the Spiderman line. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.48.163.61 (talk) 21:16, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Triangle Man

US Government...Executive, Legislative, Judicial
Particle Man: Uranium
Universe Man: God

I had always heard: Triangle Man = Christianity (trinity) Particle Man = Science (Christianity smacking around Gallileo, et al.) Universe Man = Deism (watchmaker, hands-off theory of a deity- Thomas Jefferson, for example) Person Man = Secular humanists (Also smacked around by Christianity) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.48.163.61 (talk) 21:18, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meaning of the song

I seem to recall at some point being told that the person/people who wrote this song didn't have any particular meaning in mind... If anyone can track down an official source for this staement, it might be important. (Personally, the song always reminded me of the Mega Man games, but that's probably a lot less important...) --Scrounge 03:32, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Greek Philosophy

Since Person Man lives in a garbage can, wouldn't Diogenes of Sinope be a more suitable influence? And Pythagoras for Triangle Man? Or is this Post-Modernism gone too far?Mon Vier 16:45, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Particle man.jpg

Image:Particle man.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Particle man.jpg

Image:Particle man.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot 01:24, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Interpretation

I changed the interpretation title to cultural references as I believe it fits better, discuss Banime 18:35, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] He's got a watch with a minute hand, a millennium hand, and an eon hand...

I think it's important to point out that the song goes on to state state: "when they meet, it's happy land". A happy event/place occurring on the scale of the entire universe should not be left out of a discussion of the song. It's important to note that Universe man did not stand up for person (smaller) man. This casts a pall over the entire song, characterizing the universe as an indifferent force. 66.67.236.248 (talk) 03:03, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Silent Hill 2 "reference"

One could add a pretty popular, albeit crudely drawn Youtube music video showing similarities between the four persons described in "Particle Man" and characters from the video game Silent Hill 2. The video can be found here. The characters are as follows: Particle Man is Walter, Triangle Man is Pyramid Head, Universe Man is Eddie and Person Man is James. They fit surprisingly well, actually.91.67.221.191 (talk) 22:38, 9 April 2008 (UTC)