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| Jul-19-07 | | mack: <Dom> By posting on the Timmerman page I think that means you're irreversibly 'in'. Ooh, it's going to be just like old times, innit? |
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Jul-19-07
 | | Domdaniel: <mack> I could abstain, or become a maniac... but I suspect you're right: in is in. Though I won't have anything like the time that GMAN took. Now I've got this open document -- <Scarcely Felt Brothel Creepers> or somesuch -- to which I must return. I'm enjoying it, but I've been too busy to think until today. It seems to work quite well at the nonthinking level. If you ever want to make a grab for the mass audience... My, my, that's the second time... I'm being a crabby misanthropic old elitist today, it seems. |
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| Jul-19-07 | | mack: <It seems to work quite well at the nonthinking level.> Thanks?!? |
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Jul-19-07
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Wasn't expressing myself very well there. What it is, is: I can either read something with my brain disengaged (Sunday Murdoch training comes in useful here) or in a responsive mode where I want to respond, debate, argue, enjoy, go "oh, I didn't know that" or "profound" or "but hey, what about X...?" I'm now reading your stuff the second way. At last. It's fun. And I will start arguing soon... even though you seem to be overwhelmingly right about everything. |
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Jul-19-07
| | Domdaniel: It seems checkers has been 'solved'. Amazing. They'll be doing draughts next. |
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| Jul-19-07 | | mack: 'Checkers is draughts for tramps.' - Paul Morphy |
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Jul-19-07
| | Domdaniel: 'Checkers is a son of a bitch' -- Richard M Nixon |
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| Jul-19-07 | | mack: <It seems checkers has been 'solved'.> Crumbs, I thought this was some mad in-joke that I didn't get for a second - but no, it's true. What is terribly, terribly strange for me is that I had a dream that draughts had been solved just last week. There was probably one of those twists that only happen in dreams, too - like I was also in Bedknobs and Broomsticks at the same time. Wow. Can't say I'm surprised though, the game is a bit @#$%e. According to the ever-reliable BBC, 'chess may prove more tricky to solve'. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech... |
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Jul-19-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: "and the powers that be left me here, to do the thinkin'" Dam those <powers that be> are reckless. |
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Jul-20-07
| | Domdaniel: It's Synchronicity City again. <mack> has strange, troubled dreams full of foreboding and board games -- nothing new there, then -- and <Jess> contemplates the 'powers that be'. I was just trying to construct a 'joke' about CG (the powers that be) and ManBee (the bee that powers). Didn't really work, though. |
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Jul-20-07
| | Domdaniel: <mad in-jokes>
1. Oh ye of little faith, congratulations.
2. Oh ye of no faith at all, that's even better.
3. Though this be madness, there is method to it.
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Jul-20-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: G'day, g'day, What's all this then?
"I see no method... at all..."
And for those who prefer their <Kurtz> on print instead of celluloid: "I had accidentally said the right thing... although he could not possibly have been more lost than he was at that very moment." Regards,
Terry Eagleton (deceased) |
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Jul-20-07
| | Domdaniel: Yep, Kurtz went down in flames in the 1st round in Montreal. And you, Jess, are a seer and a prophet. And probably secret controller of Canada as well. He should never have done that lese-majeste thing. |
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| Jul-21-07 | | Red October: I see you have been to the new place... feel free to post your comments.. except stuff that could get the place locked and necessitate fumigation... ;-p |
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Jul-21-07
| | Domdaniel: Thanks, Red. I suppose, going by earlier precedent, I should call you <Octy> or <Ockie> but they just don't sound right. So <Red> it is. Or Rot, Rouge, Krasniy, Rod and Carnadine. If I remember correctly, the line "spare the rod and spoil the spasm" was one of the quotes that got me shut down before. So I'd better not repeat it. |
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Jul-21-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Good choice <Dom>!
Perhaps the greatest race horse in history was the Australian <Pharlap>, who was affectionately known as <Big Red> by his many, many fans. |
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| Jul-21-07 | | Red October: <Mr Nomad> In my case the appropriate term is <Comrade> or maye <Comred> or <Commie Red> .... oh well .. we will settle for <Red> |
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Jul-21-07
| | Domdaniel: Da, Tovaritch Krasny! |
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| Jul-21-07 | | Red October: <"spare the rod and spoil the spasm">
<<<<<"<spare the <red> and spoil the socialism">>>>> |
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Jul-21-07
| | Domdaniel: But, Red ... socialism doesn't *always* end in spasms. On nearly one planet in every million, the people live happily ever after. You can't say that for capitalism, which is inevitably catastrophic. |
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Jul-21-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Well OK then I guess <sex> is more interesting than <Thorougbred Racing> history. Who knew?
Regards to <Dom> and his new pal <Red> from <Batchimeg Tuvshintugs> <Deffi> it's important to me that you know I wasn't trying to compare you to a Horse. I've seen your photo in <Wilson's> "hot babes" section and you don't look anything at all like a horse. Which is more than <Princess Margaret> can say, the miserable old bag. <Insane Olde Batte>
<Fellow member of the British Commonwealth "family" of post-colonial states> |
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| Jul-22-07 | | mack: Food for thought #1:
It seems to me that there are certain objects that everybody, at some point, will want to get rid of. These may not necessarily particularly naff items, but my thesis is that de temps en temps we collectively go through this mental process whereby we look through our shelves and think, 'well, don't want that any more'. My evidence? Charity shops. On a trawl through five (5) charity shops in sunny Stowmarket yesterday afternoon, I came across the following in at least three of them: Videos:
- Friends (esp. series 6)
- X Files
- Vic & Bob related vids (Shooting Stars uncut, Big Night Out on tour etc) - Danny Baker related vids (Right Hammerings, Own Goals and Gaffes, that sort of thing) - Twelve Monkeys
- Fantasy Football & other Baddiel & Skinner related vids
- Flatliners
Books:
- Garrison Keillor (!) authored stuff
- Winston Churchill related stuff - English Speaking Peoples, war memoirs, loads of biographies (most of them tripe, although I was able to replace my copy of ESP vol. I) - Fighting Fantasy books (sadly, all ones that I already own) - Roux Brothers (again, all stuff I have)
Now, we all know that there are some items that are mainstays of the charity shop scene - Tom Jones albums, incomplete jigsaws, etc. But some o the things above are utterly, utterly inexplicable. Why would Garrison Keillor's tales of Lake Wobegon be found again and again in charity shops? In rural Suffolk, nonetheless? Any other books/videos that people constantly come across in Sue Ryder or Oxfam? |
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Jul-22-07
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Relentlessly, dementedly meta - as per usual - I have decided to take your advice. Accordingly, I intend to offload my chain of charity shops at a fraction of their market value. Bargain hunters -- aka zen bounty hunters who have become one with the target, one of those Ballardesque social rituals brought to a fine point of Japanese precision in the bowels of suburban England -- should note that 7/4 and 1000/1 are also fractions. After this, I plan to have my springs cleaned.
As for your main suggestion, I wouldn't be much use. I lose things (quite often) and I sometimes press books/videos/musics/miscellaneous possessions on friends - or relative strangers, even - in a fit of madcap enthusiasm. But I never knowingly get rid of stuff and the very thought of decluttering is anathema. File under Magpie, heretic persuasion, with sponge tendencies. "But I got up and I stomped around and hid the piece where the trees touch the ground" -- Syd Barrett. "Things are in the saddle and ride mankind." -- ?? |
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Jul-22-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Did somebody put the Evil Eye on Kurtz? His start in Montreal is spookily similar to my start in Dublin, viz 0/2, including an idiotic miniature loss as white. I know mine was more idiotic but, hey, he's a super-GM. In the sense that Superbaby - the foetus of steel - is a bona fide (sic) superhero, perhaps. Bona Fide: what's good for FIDE is good for super-GMs, whether A-listers, B-listers, or plain old Elista. Speaking of Dublin, I had this great idea for a movie about a burned-out hippie bum and his chess friends, who meets a dodgy millionaire with the same name and gets sucked into... um... a vortex. It'll be called <The Big McCarthy>. Sample dialog: "What's with this 'McCarthy'? I'm Dom. Everyone calls me Dom. Or The Dom, if you like, or His Domness or Il Domerino..." |
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| Jul-22-07 | | Red October: or <Major Domo> |
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