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Mar-27-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Wilson> are you drinking daquiries and suntanning and looking at chicks AND typing on a computer at the same time? SPRING BREAK!! (packs bags for Bermuda Triangle) |
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| Mar-27-07 | | chessmoron: And residing in beautiful Atlantis Paradise Island. Sweet, Sweet life. |
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Mar-27-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Enjoy your Winnings, <Wilson>!! (A line from <Fawlty Towers>) |
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| Mar-27-07 | | TheSlid: <I should come here more often> It always makes me laugh and there is always another 10 pages I don't have time to look at. Great stuff, chaps! |
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Mar-27-07
 | | Domdaniel: Dear (lover of two humped camels)
We apologize for the delay in replying to your letter -- it was misfiled in the office. Actually, it became the subject of a sort of tug-of-war between two different departments. And all for want of a humble hyphen. Or not, as the case may be. Let me illustrate with reference to an actual conversation I overheard between two senior faculty members, whom I'd better call Kurtz and Longfellow. Kurtz: One humped Arabian camels.
Longfellow: Did one, by George? Bit of a dark horse, aren't you, Kurtz? I never have such luck on my overseas postings... You see our dilemma, I trust. The guys'n'gals in the Exotic Desert Sports Dept wouldn't hear talk of a (virtual) hyphen, insisting that the camels in question were clearly, well, humped. While my colleagues here in PTT (Pedantry, Taxonomy & Taxidermy) took the view that it was a pair of two-humped Bactrian camels which, at most, deserved to be thoroughly stuffed. While the latter view currently holds sway, I'm not sure how long I can hold off the rotters in Desert Sports. Apparently they've already sold the movie rights, and approached certain Hollywood stars about playing the camels. Dr O'Medary.
PS. They even have a theme song, Ali Baba's Camel, by The Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band... "Ali Baba's Camel loved Ali Baba so..."
One recoils from further quotation, whether with one hump or two. |
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Mar-27-07
| | Domdaniel: <Achieve> -- <Like 50's Jazz.>
I think of 50's Jazz much the same way I think of Samuel Beckett -- undoubtedly brilliant, ineffably cool, awesomely hip, currently dead -- and seemingly beyond my understanding. I thought I wouldn't 'get' either of them until I was properly grown up... and I'm still waiting. *mandatory Bonzo Dog band theme songs*
"Jazz - Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold"
and
"Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?" |
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| Mar-27-07 | | Eyal: <the same way I think of Samuel Beckett... seemingly beyond my understanding> What's there to understand? He's so simple and methodical. For example: <Here he stood. Here he sat. Here he knelt. Here he lay. Here he moved, to and fro, from the door to the window, from the window to the door; from the window to the door, from the door to the window; from the fire to the bed, from the bed to the fire; from the bed to the fire, from the fire to the bed; from the door to the fire, from the fire to the door; from the fire to the door, from the door to the fire; from the window to the bed, from the bed to the window; from the bed to the window, from the window to the bed; from the fire to the window, from the window to the fire; from the window to the fire, from the fire to the window; from the bed to the door, from the door to the bed; from the door to the bed, from the bed to the door; from the door to the window, from the window to the fire; from the fire to the window, from the window to the door; from the window to the door, from the door to the bed; from the bed to the door, from the door to the window; from the fire to the bed, from the bed to the window; from the window to the bed, from the bed to the fire; from the bed to the fire, from the fire to the door; from the door to the fire, from the fire to the bed; from the door to the window, from the window to the bed; from the bed to the window, from the window to the door; from the window to the door, from the door to the fire> (and so on for several pages) |
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Mar-27-07
| | Domdaniel: <Slidster>
The laugh of Gojiro
Rings hollow across the inland sea.
We weep.
Camcorders and digital
Noodles litter the overpass.
We stop.
- Morituri |
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Mar-27-07
| | Domdaniel: <Eyal> C'est pas simple, ca. But I saw Godot in Korean once and I had it for a moment... |
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Mar-27-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: LOL <Beckett> passage... And I thought there were needlessly laborious passages in <Faulkner>... <Dr. Dom> Thanks for your full, complete, and thoroughly confusing answer to my query of Dec. 7, 1941. NEW QUESTION:
Dear Dr. <Dom> (all rights reserved) It seems we just bested the Frog at Agincourt, and now we've the Hun to deal with as well? Not to mention the Japs? It's enough to make one go out and buy a bunch of vintage WWII wargames, I tells you. Mrs. I Am Really, Really, Stupid
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Mar-27-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: RIGHT! THAT'S IT!
WATCH IT!
Mess of the Yard, too busy to read posts but not to yell nonsense at my friends |
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Mar-27-07
| | Domdaniel: We apologize for the tardiness but we were off collecting tardigrades in our Tardis. Dr Whoooo.
"Money be damned! The very life of [insert name of nation] is at stake!" Fr Waugh |
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Mar-27-07
| | Domdaniel: Announcement. We have decided to abandon the perpendicular pronoun and use the royal 'we' in future... This is not to be confused with the Siberian shamanic custom of drinking a chieftain's urine in order to get a secondary hit from the powerful hallucinogenic mycotoxins therein. A quite different variety of royal wee. Mahatma Gandhi also 'took his own water', albeit for more ascetic reasons. And there were rumours about Princess Diana which are probably best not visualized too clearly in daylight. We suspect. |
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| Mar-27-07 | | JoeWms: I would never abandon my perpendicular pronoun. I take comfort in knowing the convention of writing pronouns for God in capital letters. That's not all. Even our dear brother Branko uses an eastern Yurpean form of the convention by writing a capitaal You when he addresses Me. |
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| Mar-27-07 | | JoeWms: Oops! "...pronouns for God in INITIAL capital letters."Perfectionism is a curse. |
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Mar-27-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: STop that!
I warned you!
Dim of the Yard (ever vigilant, increasingly daft) |
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Mar-28-07
| | Domdaniel: <Joe> Perfection is both a curse nad a blessing. Ehhmm, I think I meant "and". It's the easy ones that catch you out. The pronoun department has changed its mind and reverted to full-spectrum I, me, it, we, they, he, she, our, and whatever you're having yourself. |
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| Mar-28-07 | | WBP: The pronoun "I" spelled backwords is "eye"--that's too creepy for me. |
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| Mar-28-07 | | achieve: <Domdaniel>-<I think of 50's Jazz much the same way I think of Samuel Beckett -- undoubtedly brilliant, ineffably cool, awesomely hip, currently dead> Fair enough, we live in 2007 now so you might have a point there.. ;-) The memory of that era of music is very much alive in my mind though. Thanks to modern tech we have video's DVD's and records to "relive" the magical sounds and sights that are on record.
BUT it is nostalgia and the atmosphere that lead to truly remarkable performances is no longer there. (dead in a sense) The likes of Robbie Williams and Jamie Cullum, Harry Connick Jr. and Michael Buble all openly admit a desire to having been part of that *scene* then. The happy, fluent style of music making. Occasionally they actually come close to creating an honest atmosphere and a level of performing that comes close... but not quite.. Since Jazz is basically improvising on a theme, solo or in an ensemble, it requires sharp reflexes and the ability to make complex leaps, connections, tuning in to others, being in close contact with your emotions (sense of humour/joy/sadness), but not get carried away.. -breather-
..I am curious to _your_ likes and dislikes with respect to music.
Because you clearly show the skills I mentioned, in <your> writng!! Oh, come to think of it, properly educated classical pianists in the first part of last century could improvise on a theme very well. But not that many. For some reason that ability is found in less and less towards the end of the 19th century. It is well known that Schubert Beethoven Bach Mendelssohn etc. could all sit behind a piano and play endlessly on any given theme. That ability seems pretty much gone now.. So we can "relive" that 50's era but never will it become "alive" in the fullness it radiated then, when it was now, current! But it is not DEAD <Dom>, you really hurt me when you said that buddy.. but I'll pick myself up again.. later. |
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| Mar-28-07 | | TheSlid: <The laugh of Gojiro
Rings hollow across the inland sea.
We weep.
Camcorders and digital
Noodles litter the overpass.
We stop.
- Morituri>
Gojiro is Godzilla and Morituri is latin - as in <those about to die> in the Roman games. But the Noodles I don't get. |
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| Mar-28-07 | | Eyal: <I do however have the same birthday as Thomas Pynchon. I was busy being born while he was celebrating his 21st birthday. Meaningless coincidence, of course. If you pick 23 random persons the odds of two sharing a birthdate are over 50%.> 23 again?! |
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| Mar-28-07 | | Ziggurat: I got married when I was 23 years old, on the 23rd of May (the fifth month, and 5 = 2 + 3). Of course I was aware of the "magical properties" of 23, so I was cheating a little bit - I think I actually proposed that the date be 23/5. |
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Mar-28-07
 | | TheAlchemist: <Ziggurat> That's overkill :-) 23 is my lucky number as well, and it already was way before I knew of its "meanings" and all. |
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Mar-28-07
| | Domdaniel: <Slid> The noodles were in the air. I forget who mentioned them first, but I'm sure *somebody* mentioned noodles. Yep, Morituri is Latin -- well, spotted, old gladiator -- but it is vaguely thought to 'look' Japanese... Latin words with epicanthic folds, hmm, whatever next? It's actually one of Pynchon's dodgier bad puns. Ensign Morituri being a minor character in Gravity's Rainbow, a junior Japanese Diplomat in WW2 Berlin. |
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Mar-28-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> what day is your tournament? Don't forget to record all your game scores so we can marvel at your prowess... You can publsh them in FROGSPAWN, the little journal that could. |
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