Transportation shouldn't be the biggest problem here... ;-)

Don't play too short time controls to start with..

Nemesis... nemesis... ? Wasn't that the guy who got clobbered by Hubris? Only saying.

This Significant Hypothetical Other Eye (SHOE) is starting to worry me. Like waiting for the other SHOE to drop, as it were.

And it's funny, but I have no interest in playing online. Same with poker, actually. I'll play against engines or I'll play against humans in person, but humans at a distance seems pointless.

they must have an "alert" on that word.

I wouldn't worry, though. It's not like they have the power to shut down your forum or anything.

(keeps a low profile)
Insane Olde Batte
Watch it!! BE SAFE

Or some algorithm/routine that automatically converts f-words and their kin into bundles of @#£$'s ... and a second routine that is unable to distinguish the converted from the meta and the ironic ... the cyberfuzz version of shooting first and asking questions afterwards.

No Letters as requested... I'll send this as digitized katakana... or maybe Sequoyan.

There must be some way outta hier

At the last census, we had: one perfesser; two genuine academics, slightly used but in full working orders; five academic escapees; twenty-one students with delusions; twenty-three people who put letters after their name for fun, profit, personal advancement, or to attract women; and a large number of escaped lunatics, some of whom believe they are academic institutions and some who believe they are swimming pools.

Category membership may overlap.

But *everyone* here is on the faculty of Forum University Capablanca Karpov. It hasn't gone away, you know.

This isn't plagiarism, of course -- heaven forfend -- but it may be a synchronicity. I once wrote a short-short story -- about 60 words in toto, written to fill a very small gap in a magazine -- which went something like this...

- I say, Smythe, look out the window.
- What is it, Carstairs?
- Just look, I say.
- By Jove, Carstairs, you're right. It *is* I out there.

[the drawing alongside, which I'd prepared earlier, showed a man looking out a window, goggling, while a second chap just gaped. Ah, the mysterious art of inspiration ...]

File under: juvenilia, short, forgotten.

But the local club seems OK cause you get to see the faces and a bit of what's behind them. Point being to play more..

All's relative
Just sayin'

Tractors are better for this.

Grin.

<Why prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet if you don't actually meet any faces?> Case closed. That is THE definition of pointlessness. (lessness?)

Let's run'em down tomorrow..

Regards,
Stiff Limb
Syntactlessness

Normally, your English is better than mine. So I must conclude that <Many a time I've come into people while driving a handwritten wheelchair> is not an escaped idiom, but a fiendishly deliberate act of verbal sabotage.

Brilliant. Especially if we factor in that strangely ithyphallic 'handle' (heh!), *stiff limb*.

I don't know what it is, but somebody is up to something. (I think Bob Dylan may have phrased this more neatly, but so it goes, Mr Jones).

yours,

Pythagoras

One reason is I keep coming across the word for crow in various different languages. Jesse Kraai (or Kraaj) in Santa Fe Dutch. O Corvo in Portuguese, also the name of a Brazilian comicbook character. And Nabokov identified a rare triple pun between English and Russian, involving Vorona (crow), Korona (crown) and Korova (cow).

Isn't Korova the name of the milk-plus bar in Clockwork Orange, where Alex hangs out with his droogs (Pete, Georgie and Dim) ... ?

*goes to wind up antique DVD-o-phone*

Yes, the <crow> is clearly a supernatural bird.

The <Tlingit> believe <Crow> created the world with a single tear drop.

There's nothing wrong with science fiction except many who attend the <festivals and conferences> pretend to their friends that they don't go.

<Pythagoras> He discovered, of course, the curious mathematical oddity of the <Golden Crow>, which <Aristotle> later worked into his <Nicomachean Ethics>, the gingery little beggar.

I have to agree with <Dom> on the subject of your English usage.

I think that because you are highly educated AND because English is NOT your first language creates the curious situation in which YOUR English usage is frequently more precise than that of many who speak English as a first language.

<come in to people> means for a man to ______ into the ______ of other persons, hence the hilarious pun.

Was it intentional? Either way, brilliant!!

Insane Olde Batte
Thanks for being a <sentimental bastard>

Get <Benjy> from the <pasture>, it's time for his lunch!!!

1.<Dom> re: <Crow-etymology> check this out from <Eyal>:

<(Btw, Speaking of etimology, "Kafka" (or Kavka) is jackdaw in Czech)>

Coincidence? Jackdaw is a name for a type of Crow!!

Insane Olde Batte
Metampsychosis Department
FROGSPAWN University Cork at Kangaroo

2.<Dom> I was about to complain that at least 70 pages of your forum are due to my posts-- Then I realized that 70 pages of my forum are due to YOUR posts!!

So it's a wash.

Never Mind

Insane Olde Batte
No Letters Please

<Me, I can't read too good, don't send me no more letters, no, not unless, you address them from...>

Heh

Greatest two Harmonica solos on record in that track, IMO

I don't know Math well, but doesn't your number crunching indicate that <Dom's> forum will grow exponentially?

Like <ice 9>?

Yikes!!!!

Rather, we merely engage in scholarly intercourse. Like Mozart, we use <just enough notes> to get the message across- no less, no more.

This is ("clearly" - not sure what 'clearly' actually means, but outraged and incensed people and insultees always say it, so I thought I'd best throw it in... uh, where was I?)

This is clearly:

(1) Sacrilege. A grievous insult to the Holy Name of Science. It's true that I "don't even know the name" - Cohen's Theorem - but still, hey, outrage.

(2) Sortilege. Haven't found the hard evidence yet, but where there's Sacrilege, there's Sortilege. And giant exploding statues, sometimes.

(3) A blooming liberty. The French (friends of Liberty, Fraternity, Equality & Frogspawn) often erect statues to Liberty, even presiding over Manhattan (or Babylon). These mostly haven't exploded yet, but scientific experiments that even raise the remote possibility are ("clearly") a threat to national, nay, planetary security.

(4) Security. Putting a pal on an Iggy List, even in jest, is like ripping away their security blanket and feeding it to mad ravenous hippos. It could be construed as an act of war, but we won't go there yet.

(5) The Synchronicity Meters are in the red zone. I just tried to send a text message using the word 'Kafka' and it came out as 'Jafka'. Whoever that is, we're onto him/her/it/them.

(6) Should we gang up on him? Or respect academic freedom? I'm inclined to go with the respect option, but he should still be broken down to Professor of Unheimlich Maneuvers.

Pour encourager les autres.

Trivia dept. First one to name the 18th century British admiral shot for failing to grab a Mediterranean island from the French wins a Frogspawn Free Pardon.

Obscure hint: more Crooner than Cruiser.

Island: Majorca? Menorca? Cos? Malta? Extra points for clarification.

Frogspawn Free Pardons may be traded on the free market but do not get you out of jail free, terms and conditions apply, local and state taxes and incarceration policies not covered by warranty, Frogspawn accepts no responsibility whatsoever for anything. Except gravity. That was us.

And we could switch it right back off again, too. So there.

They were there when the 49th parallel was just a line on a map. And now it's... a line on a map.

Jerh Dixon & Chas Mason, Esq

Hmm. That sounds almost Grandmasterly, doesn't it? Poets fighting in the Tower... while downstairs Alekhine and Nimzowitsch translated obscure Chinese verses without knowing Chinese and wrote doggerel about cats?

Darn, another Category Mistake.