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Apr-14-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Bill> it would be creepy except it's so obviously a fake. Me and you and a $25 cell phone that takes streaming video could do a better job. yeesh.
I'm sure your prologemena will be included in the Meldrum.... (Farm out your grading to lowly TAs man- what's the use of having power if you don't use it WITH AN IRON FIST) I know these "student" types- shifty skivers, the lot of them. Jess of the Yard |
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Apr-14-07
 | | Domdaniel: <Chess Lassie> No, it's not a bowdlerized Scottish version of Chess Bitch... it's a movie about a loyal dog who wins chess tournaments... hmm, maybe it *is* a version of Chess Bitch after all... Could somebody check on the movie rights situation?
King's paw to King's paw four. |
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| Apr-14-07 | | WBP: <<Chess Lassie> No, it's not a bowdlerized Scottish version of Chess Bitch... it's a movie about a loyal dog who wins chess tournaments... hmm, maybe it *is* a version of Chess Bitch after all...> Very amusing. Actually, <Dom>, I wanted to tell you that something you posted eons ago was hilarious. That was in my pre-posting phase, hence, I didn't remark on it at the time. It was when Topalov and Ivanchuk were playing in a tourny (Corus?). You remarked that the photos used were not particularly flattering to either, and that, in fact, Topa looked like a Transylvania Count, and Chucky like an ur-Igor type. Panning up to the photos (which I had also thought were unflattering) I discovered your description wass right on the money--laughed like hell. BTW, someone has posted your remarks on the Chess Quotations page; sadly, the photos are not included (though I guess someone could find the original post w/photos). <Jess> <(Farm out your grading to lowly TAs man> Would that we had them!...sigh. We actually have been discussing faking bigfoot stuff in the class. If I teach this course again (and several students have asked if I will--that's up to the powers that be), I think we will try to do some hoaxing, just to see how easy/difficult it is to do! Go <Wilson>!
Best, Bill |
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Apr-14-07
| | Domdaniel: <WBP> You could be Professor of Applied Sasquatchonomics ... or Practical Bigfoot-and-mouth Nosology. If you managed to mysteriously 'lose' a couple of students, the media coverage could be worth it. Get 'em to sign waivers and disclaimers in triplicate first, of course. Then go stomp on the terra. |
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| Apr-14-07 | | Tomlinsky: <The rest are descended from beetles and stones. And holly.> A select few changed their names by deed to Herman and became hermits as documented in the film High Noone. But the less said about them the better really. No, really. |
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Apr-14-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Ok right! Stop that! No more coy puns referring to 1960s Brit pop bands nobody cares about anymore!! The Pop Music Police
1 Police Plaza, Scotland yard
Second verse, same as the first!
No, really you guys- have Mersey- Please for God's sake Mrs. Grump |
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Apr-14-07
| | Domdaniel: Sigh. <Jessica> is right. No more 1960s pop nostalgia, okay? We'll just move on to the Seventies, the decade that taste forgot (Dave 'Ziggy' Bowie, Jethro Tull, Lindisfarne....) Lyrical examples therefrom:
"Pour me out another phone/ We'll call and see if your friends are home/ Perhaps the strange ones in the dome/ Can lend us a book we can read up alone..."
(Drive-in Saturday)
"And where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday/ And where are all the heroes who always saw you through?"
(Thick as a Brick)
"Sitting in a sleazy snack-bar sucking sickly sausage rolls"
(Fog on the Tyne)
After that comes punk, and new wave, and the 80s ... a whole lot of past to be mined for noise. Not to mention the Lost Decade of the 19th century and Vivaldi's Kazoo Concerto. Ribbit, Blockade, Hippety-hop. |
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Apr-14-07
| | Domdaniel: <WBP> -- <Topa looked like a Transylvania Count, and Chucky like an ur-Igor type> Thanks, but naturally I stole the line "Have you watered the brains, Igor?" from (the late, great) Vivian Stanshall. "Five years ago I was a fifty-pound weakling... today I am two separate gorillas." |
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| Apr-14-07 | | WBP: <If you managed to mysteriously 'lose' a couple of students> A couple of students I wouldn't mind losing, myteriously or otherwise (just kidding--I love my students!). But the Topa/Chucky thing was very funny, even if the one line was "borrowed" (let's not call it stolen). |
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Apr-14-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Bill> "losing a student" is perfectly permissable in an academic environment. As they say in the Mafia, "Stuff Happens."
Best of luck to you-
Jess |
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Apr-14-07
| | Domdaniel: Trivia time, for you fans of the hairy humanoid humanities dept. In which movie do we glimpse a newspaper headline reading "Scientist Found Inside Gorilla"? Eh? |
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Apr-14-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: LOL <Dominus>
Gorillas don't even eat scientists!!
I think they subsist mainly on a diet of sociologists and, rarely, journalists, when available. Sounds like a <Cronenberg> joke to me... Hmmmmm...
No idea- but I'm going to guess Cronenberg's version of <Naked Lunch> Shot in the dark.
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Apr-14-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> from the "unconscious school of chess" files. Just finished winning a couple of Sicilians on the Net, which I dutifully bragged about already in <Eyal's> forum. In the second game, I was white- and I played almost the entire middle game thinking I was a pawn down in material. Then, I was studying the position, and wondering why it was still looking so good for me-- and ONLY THEN REALIZED I HAD AN EXTRA BISHOP!! I had won the exchange in the early middle game WITHOUT EVEN REALIZING IT. Does this ever happen to "real" chess players?
It was like finding an Easter Egg or something.
I felt happy and stupid at the same time.
Sigh |
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Apr-14-07
| | Domdaniel: <Does this ever happen to "real" chess players? > Dunno, but it happens to me.
Cronenberg? Good guess ... but it's the even wackier Terry Gilliam. In 'Twelve Monkeys'. |
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| Apr-14-07 | | JoeWms: <Dom>, I deserve an attaboy for this doublepun I posted on my forum: <Yo Yo Ma of cellophame>. |
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Apr-14-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Hi <Joe> LOL
<attaboy>!
Jess of the Yard |
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Apr-14-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <12 MOnkeys> and I love Gilliam. Dang!
Thanks Dom- BTW, would you consider posting the best game you played from day one of your recent tournament? I've been dying to look at it. Didn't you beat some monstrously high rated guy on the first day? And were tied for the tournament lead? Fans want to see!!
A. Fan
Chessington station
In the Loo |
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Apr-14-07
| | Domdaniel: <Joe> Indeed you do. Two attaboys, even - one here and one there. Cellophame -- that's the Mother of all Yo-Yo puns... |
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Apr-14-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> No way, Jose. My win was a messy scramble and I was half joking about being in the lead (me and 30 others). And round 2 was where I missed a win -- or at least chickened out from playing a good move -- against a 2300 guy, and eventually lost. I might post that position, as soon as I can stand to look at it again. |
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| Apr-15-07 | | whiteshark: enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3mX... |
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Apr-15-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dominus>
HELP! The Iazyge have crossed the <Danube> and your presence is requested on the front lines!! No more Republic, so it's all down to you Holmes.
"Bend it Like <Marcus Aurelius>" Signed
A. Pushy Broad
Broadway
Broad City, Broddington. |
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| Apr-15-07 | | WBP: <Dom> Just bought a bunch of chess books and a chess clock from the United States Chess Federation. Here is a warning included with the clock: "The clock is not allowed to![sic]be in contact with corrosive substances, and free from severe sunshine, rain, dropping and magnet field" Darn! Those are all my ideal conditions in which to play. ("Severe sunshine"?!?) I love running through magnet fields in spring. |
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Apr-15-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Bill> OK that's the most insane post I've read yet. Good work man!! I'm trying to locate my Sasquatch piece (I have it on disc somewheres) so I can reply to your last email. Hope your marking is going well,
Jess of the Yard |
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Apr-15-07
| | Domdaniel: <WBP> "This clock is not allowed ... to be free..." Clearly an UnAmerican timepiece. Is it a Commie plot to take over Time itself? Is it those pesky nihilists again? Or the Maya Liberation Army, wanting to go back to the Long Count? Or, gasp, Aztecs, looking for human sacrifice... to tear out their still-ticking hearts... That reminds me. One of my favorite lines of dialogue in anything, ever. Doctor Who, the periodically reinvented hero of the long-running BBC sci-fi series. He's in 18th century Versailles, where he's fallen in love with Mme du Pompadour and saved the cosmos from nasty clockwork automatons (which is itself a neat historical allusion to Vaucanson, for those who care about such things). The evil automata have travelled in time to rip out Madame's heart and use it for Bad Things. The Doctor prevents them. As the last clockwork nasty judders to a halt, he looks at him evenly and says "It's all over. I'm not winding you up." Genius.
Your problem is different. Perhaps there are thousands of these sinister unfree clocks, each awaiting its bomb. Only time will tell.
Best, Time of your Life |
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Apr-15-07
| | Domdaniel: Meanwhile, sad news for lovers of mangled English. The authorities in Beijing have begun to remove dodgy English-language signposts in advance of the Olympics. So 'Racist Park' has now become 'Ethnic Minorities Park'. |
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