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Apr-12-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Kurt RIP.
I will re-read <Breakfast of Champions> once term is over in your honor. Jess, thanks for all your wonderful work. |
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Apr-12-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Knightlord> As queen, I believe I have the right to "de-Knight" you, so WATCH IT BUDDY. Best, Bill |
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| Apr-12-07 | | Knightlord: Queen or not, where's me bloody shrubbery? |
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Apr-12-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: My name is Roger.
I am a shrubber. |
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| Apr-12-07 | | Tomlinsky: Frogspawn Arts & Entertainment Section submission:
http://www.thefrenchdefense.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8uA...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo_F...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKPo...
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| Apr-12-07 | | Tomlinsky: Oh, I forgot...
Best, Buy |
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| Apr-12-07 | | mack: <Mr. Notlob, Ipswich> You wot?
Sorry, my ears prick up whenever I hear people mention local places. Suffolk born and inbred, y'see. |
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| Apr-12-07 | | Knightlord: <mack> I'm afraid it's merely something silly from Monty Python (dead parrot sketch). It has something to do with Notlob being the palindrome of Bolton. They should call it Michael Palindrome, btw. |
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| Apr-12-07 | | Eyal: <Mr. Notlob, Ipswich> Mr. Praline: Well, I wish to complain. I got on the Bolton train and found myself deposited here in Ipswitch. Attendant: No, this is Bolton.
Mr. Praline: <to the camera> The pet shop man's brother was lying!! Attendant: Can't blame British Rail for that.
Mr. Praline: In that case, I shall return to the pet shop! <He does.>
Mr. Praline: I understand this IS Bolton.
Owner: Yes?
Mr. Praline: You told me it was Ipswitch!
Owner: ...It was a pun.
Mr. Praline: A PUN?!?
Owner: No, no...not a pun...What's that thing that spells the same backwards as forwards? Mr. Praline: A palindrome...?
Owner: Yeah, that's it!
Mr. Praline: It's not a palindrome! The palindrome of "Bolton" would be "Notlob"!! It don't work!! Owner: Well, what do you want?
Mr. Praline: I'm not prepared to pursue my line of inquiry any longer as I think this is getting too silly! |
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| Apr-12-07 | | mack: God almighty, I didn't even look at the Notlob bit, just cut-n-pasted blindly. Of course it's Python, I know the sketch off by heart backwards! |
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| Apr-12-07 | | mack: That's Inter-City rail for you. |
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Apr-12-07
 | | Domdaniel: <Jess> Funny, you don't sound a day over 3800. These congrats are getting entirely too frequent.
Happy now, thank you. |
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Apr-12-07
| | Domdaniel: Suffolk, Suffolk, rings a bell... oh, I know. It's the name of the ranch where all those oil barons lived in 'Dallas', ain't it? Miss L.E. and Mistah J.R. and Colonel Tom Parker an' all... |
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Apr-12-07
| | Domdaniel: <Tomlinsky> The French Defense is a ... a play? Some allegedly chess-playing alleged theatre alleged critic I allegedly turned out to be. |
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| Apr-12-07 | | mack: <Dom>
Bear in mind that the 'u' in Suffolk is pronounced 'aaaaaar'. Just ordered the new Pollard LP (Silverfish Trivia), and the titles are as fantastic as ever: Come Outside
Circle Saw Boys Club
Wickerman Smile
Waves, Etc.
Cats Love A Parade
Touched To Be Sure
Speak In Many Colours
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Apr-12-07
| | Domdaniel: <Knightlord> So 'Notlob' is a kind of Bolton Wanderer? |
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Apr-12-07
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Be honest, now -- would the title 'Come Outside' really have that effect if it wasn't for the context? Hmm. Maybe it would, at that. The others sound ace as well. I shall convert, soon, any day now, really... Do ears really 'prick up' in cyberspace? Bloody technology. Marvelous. |
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| Apr-12-07 | | mack: Oh naturally, Come Outside is nothing more than a damp squib - but 'Circle Saw Boys Club'? That's worth the price of admission alone. You can actually listen to that track - completely legally - here: http://gbv.com/sounds/circlesawboys... It's not the best 'initiation' song, and you'll probably think it's a tad dreary at first... but listen to the words, man. NOBODY writes songs like this. |
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Apr-12-07
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Dreary, no, not in the slightest. I like it. I will pursue. Since you're a fan, comparisons would be odorous, but I'm vaguely reminded of something from squillions of years ago -- Kevin Coyne, and Margery Razorblade. He was screechier, though. As for titles, the novelist Michael Curtin -- hugely under-appreciated, blah blah -- has one called The Cove Shivering Club. Not as good as The Plastic Tomato Cutter and The League Against Christmas, though. I'll give it another listen now and see what seeps in. |
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Apr-12-07
| | Domdaniel: Anybody know how to Pollard a FEN?
Just asking. |
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| Apr-13-07 | | Plato: <Domdaniel: One last chess snippet. I have never, in my entire life, played either side of a Spanish/Ruy Lopez.> Just saw that remark on your bio ... Something else we have in common, as it turns out. I have played both sides of the Ruy Lopez in blitz, of course -- but I've played just about everything in blitz, so that doesn't count. Strangely enough, I've never played either side of the Ruy in tournaments or rated matches. I imagine I will eventually, but it's such a deep opening and I'd still feel like a complete patzer were I to use it... I plan on studying the Ruy in much more depth before I venture to play it. When I do finally include it in my repertoire, I have a feeling that it will be primarily from the Black side. |
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Apr-13-07
| | Domdaniel: <Plato> I'm not even sure if I've played it in blitz -- I must have done, but very rarely. I opened 1.e4 a few times as a schoolboy, as everyone is supposed to do - but I played either the Scotch or Italian, and soon switched to 1.d4/1.c4/1.Nf3. And I've never played 1...e5 as Black, having discovered the French very early on. I got a transpositional shock in a tournament game once, though. I was White, and it went 1.Nf3 f5 [a Dutch, perhaps?] 2.e4 [Lisitsyn Gambit] and then he hit me with 2...e5. And we were in a Latvian. Neither of us, luckily, were e4/e5 players, so we didn't have a clue what to do beyond the next couple of moves. I remembered Nimzowitsch saying "The world may insist on playing its knight here, but I go my own way and play knight there" -- so I tried to work out where 'here' and 'there' were. I got a bit too subtle, though, and came up with a third knight move that even Nimzo hadn't tried. But I won in any case. |
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| Apr-13-07 | | whiteshark: Dear Editor,
<I remembered Nimzowitsch saying>"Put your Frogs on the 7th rank",
but what did he said about <spawn> ?
<I forget>
Hopefully... |
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Apr-13-07
| | Domdaniel: <Sharky> Good point. What *did* Nimzo say about Frogs? Hmmm... "Why are all boring and tedious things, such as the learning of any sort of 'principles' and 'elements', considered highly propitious for a child, when an adult would show revulsion if expected to concern himself with such uninteresting matters?"
- Nimzo, 1929
Adults also sometimes 'show revulsion' at Frogs. But Frogs are not *boring and tedious*. "Restrain, Blockade, Hoppity-hop" |
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| Apr-13-07 | | Plato: <Domdaniel> I had a similiar experience. Some years ago when I was considerably weaker I was playing Black against the Bird Opening and decided to essay From's Gambit (1...e5). Instead of capturing, my opponent played 2.e4 and suddenly we were in a King's Gambit. Even then I was already a full-time French "junkie" (I started playing the French at age 11 and never looked back), so I was none-too-happy to be in a King's Gambit. Happily I won the game, but not because of the opening. I remember coming home from that experience and resolving to study *lots* of openings, including ones that I had no intention of playing, primarily to increase my "chess intuition" by getting a better feel for the various pawn structures and thematic ideas that arise from different openings. |
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