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| Nov-06-06 | | Nightranger: I vote for Malevolent. Multisyllabic. Then you can be 'MDD'. Otherwise, 'Depraved' works. Then you can be the 'Triple-D' |
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| Nov-06-06 | | Nightranger: Ya know Dom, no that I look at it, your avatar looks similar to the icon for 'Graphics Workshop'. |
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Nov-06-06
 | | Domdaniel: <Nightranger> This could be true. When I get 5 minutes to spare I'll go photoshopping and build my own avatar... until then, the Eye has it. Eye eye sir? |
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| Nov-06-06 | | Nightranger: Make it so. |
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| Nov-06-06 | | JoeWms: Dom: Twinkie Defense.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinki...; |
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Nov-06-06
| | Domdaniel: Time flies.
Time flies you cannot, they move so quickly.
Time flies like an arrow - fruit flies like a banana. In the meantime, here's a
*** MARKER DIAGRAM ***
He has played 23...Nd3 to reach this position (White to play): 
click for larger viewAnd it might be a good idea to move our Queen. There's a nice square on d2 - been there, yes, but not done that. |
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Nov-06-06
| | Domdaniel: <Joe>
That Wiki link leads to 'unsupported characters'. Hmm. A subtle comment on the ontological fragility of my existence?I can't _prove_ anything, your honor, but I can call these here solipsists as character witnesses... |
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| Nov-06-06 | | chessmoron: Click here:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinki... > |
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Nov-06-06
| | Domdaniel: Aha, _that_ Twinkie Defense. The old blood-sugar-level made-me-a-serial-killer routine. Thanks <chessmoron>. Ever so helpful, the way you keep tidying up the bits of ignoramus litter I throw about the place... <Joe> That's a quadruple entendre, at least. Too many meanings to process right now. I need some glucose first. |
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| Nov-07-06 | | JoeWms: <Dom: Time flies.>
Tempus ...
... Oh, fugit.
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Nov-07-06
| | Domdaniel: <Deffi> - <while thinking of a Karpovesque nick> Strangeways? No, that's more of a Nimzoesque Nick, really, innit? The Bastille? Brixton? Alcatraz? The Gulag? The Panopticon? Mountjoy Jail? |
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Nov-07-06
| | Domdaniel: <Joe>
<Tempus ...
... Oh, fugit. >
Firkin good Latin, that.
O Tempora! O Mores!
Where have our molars gone?
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| Nov-07-06 | | JoeWms: <Dom>, it embarrasses me to post this: The <Twinkie Defense> relates to your insistence on giving <Twinlark> a nick of Twink. <Irony is lost on children.> --Linda Ellerbee Take a look at our site, Linda, and see how often our ironies and subtleties go SPLAT! |
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Nov-07-06
| | Domdaniel: But, <Joe>, Joe, Joe, my friend... Be not embarrassed. Berate yourself not. I got the <twink> reference. I just didn't reply in such a way as to make it clear that I got the <twink> reference... Quadruplicity on my part, it seems. Let's see, <twink> is level one. Hyperglycemia is level two, as previously discussed. Levels three and four were possibly figments of my disordered imagination. Or I've forgotten 'em already. I think I generally catch the 'ironies and subtleties'. But They already tell me that I waste too much space (as per number of posts, prolixity, verbosity, etc.) If I were to flag every 'gotcha' we'd never get anywhere. Sadly, it doesn't seem technologically possible for me make all your posts glow with the fine texture they deserve - rosewood and hammered bronze with a dash of pure marble and a hint of old parchment. I have to settle for striped paint. |
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Nov-07-06
| | Domdaniel: And this might even be relevant to the <Twinkie> question. While I'm familiar with words like 'Twinkie' and 'Hershey', my brain files them under 'American arcana' rather than 'sugary things redolent of a sugary childhood'. This lack of resonances may actually make it easier to play with the words and catch the puns... Nah, doesn't work. I'd have done the same with 'mars bar' or 'snickers'... |
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Nov-07-06
| | Domdaniel: Hey ho. What have we got here? Step forward, William Makepeace Thackeray: The night was stormy and dark,
The town was shut up in sleep:
Only those were abroad who were out on a lark,
Or those who’d no beds to keep.
There stood a potato-man
In the midst of all the wet;
He stood with his ‘tato-can
In the lonely Haymarket.
Two gents of dismal mien,
And dank and greasy rags,
Came out of a shop for gin,
Swaggering over the flags:
Swaggering over the stones,
These shabby bucks did walk;
And I went and followed those seedy ones,
And listened to their talk…
(from ‘The Speculators’, c.1850)
Hmm. A lark, a potato-man, and two swaggering gin-soaked bucks. Whoever did he have in mind? |
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Nov-07-06
 | | Open Defence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewba... |
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Nov-07-06
| | Domdaniel: Oh, Deffie, Deffie. The Chewbacca Defense? When did I last blow up a Death Star? Am I a hairy alien? Have I tried to overwhelm anyone with nonsense recently? Question: rhetorical
Answer: affirmative
Verdict: guilty
Sentence: long, with sub-clauses
Ignoratio Elenchi, even. Is that the Zetetic Elench or the Common-or-garden Elench? |
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Nov-07-06
| | Domdaniel: Alright then, another pome dressed as a song. Step forward, Brian W. Aldiss: This morning right early
We was up with the lark
We shot it down dead
And crawled back in the dark.
Life's never been better
Each night lasts a year
Stuffed with women and music
And pissups and beer.
(from Barefoot in the Head).
Did I say anything? |
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Nov-08-06
| | Domdaniel: Semper tempus fugit.
***MARKER DIAGRAM***
We have played 24.Qd2 to reach this position (Black to play): 
click for larger view |
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Nov-08-06
| | Open Defence: <Sentence: long, with sub-clause> actually Sentence: long, with sequels and prequels.. maybe even threquels.. |
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Nov-08-06
| | Domdaniel: <Deffi> Quel dommage, votre majeste. |
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Nov-09-06
| | Domdaniel: And another...
**MARKER DIAGRAM**
He has played 24...Nb4 to reach this position (White to play): 
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Nov-09-06
| | Domdaniel: All right? Our new routine here seems to be: song/poem, marker diagram, song/poem, marker diagram, etc, osv, usw... The Game of Chess
In their grave corner, the players
Deploy the slow pieces. And the chessboard
Detains them until dawn in its severe
Compass in which two colors hate each other.
Within it the shapes give off a magic
Strength: Homeric tower, and nimble
Horse, a fighting queen, a backward king,
A bishop on the bias, and aggressive pawns.
When the players have departed, and
When time has consumed them utterly,
The ritual will not have ended.
- Jorge Luis Borges |
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Nov-11-06
| | Domdaniel: Time for the next
**MARKER DIAGRAM**
We have played 25.Rf3 to reach this position (Black to play): 
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