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Dec-25-07
 | | Domdaniel: <Jess> The project is, as we say in the biz, greenlighted. Or greenlit, even. Looks green from here anyhow, but it could be an overdose of chartreuse and Erse Yule, where there's 40 shades of ... Hey, Bing, leave those altar boys alone!
Does *anyone* know what <shalimar> is? Breezes are sweet as it in this vicinity, but I can't say I've noticed. Bing! The wine was for the nuns! And the whiskey was for Father Jack. We have to use a recycled script from the 1940s... they're not writing any new ones. But I figured out what position is on the chessboard in Casablanca, in the scene where we see Bogie in Rick's playing with himself. It's a French Defence (of course), a variation of the Alekhine-Chatard attack (Chartreuse-Casablanca Variation) popular in the 1930s: 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.h4 c5 7.Bxe7 Qxe7 8.Nb5 0-0 Bogart is analysing the position from the Black side (of course). With 8 ... 0-0 he's offered an exchange sac if White plays 9.Nc7 Not only did Bogie introduce the chess theme himself, he set up his favorite position -- a super-sharp theoretical duel from WW2. The subtext is that snatching defenceless rooks is just the sort of thing a Nazi would do, but the good guys will prevail in the end. Riumin-Lilienthal, Moscow 1935, went 9.Nc7 Nxe5!? 10.Nxa8 cxd4 11.Qxd4 Nbc6 12.Qd2 b6 ... The line is still seen. Other games (which may or may not be in the CG database) are: Christoffel-Guimard, 1946
Vitolins-Kopmann, 1992
Zezulkin-Maiorov, 1998
Unless I was misinformed. Anyhoo, this dubious data is enough to make Bogie an honorary ancestral deity of Frogspawn Inc, along with Duchamp, Nimzo, and Kermit. - Stop that at once, Bing. All right, you can play the Pope. In leather, if you really feel it's in character. "It's not easy being greenlighted"
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Dec-25-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Who knew? |
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| Dec-26-07 | | JoeWms: <The scene in "Casablanca" where we see Bogie playing with himself.> Yeah, Dom, he'd been beating himself a lot since Paris. |
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Dec-26-07
| | Domdaniel: <Joe> I put that phrase in for the edification of adolescents who find the concept of, er, pulling one's weight hilarious. And you've got to keep the little boogers from tearing wings off turkeys, this time of year. You, sir, are turning into a juvenile delinquent. Another movie that combines chess and auto-eroticism is, of course, Psycho. Norman Bates was actually a chess prodigy before turning to an alternative career as a mentally disturbed killer. It all went wrong when puberty and his first master norm arrived simultaneously. How the other kids laughed at the idea of IM Bates. They caught him in the shower and ... Hitch cut all this out, of course. Too obvious, plus he couldn't find a teenager who looked like Tony Perkins and they didn't have anti-ageing computers in them days. |
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Dec-26-07
| | Domdaniel: <Bill, Branko, Niels ... et Al> Thanks for the greetings, everyone. Likewise all round, and keep 'em coming in, um, MMVIII. "Romanes eunt Domus"
- Brian, Life of |
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| Dec-26-07 | | mack: <IM Bates>
Oh Dom you bastard, I've put my bloody back out even more now. It was worth it though; tossed-off tossing off jokes make Britain great, no? 'Now when Syd discovered malnutrition
He just couldn't keep a good thing down'
...as I believe the Daniel Johnston epic goes. Might be paraphrasing ever so slightly. |
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| Dec-26-07 | | mack: PS Nicked your joke about Sam Wollaston today, and failed to cite my sources. What sort of historian am I? |
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Dec-26-07
| | Domdaniel: Evening, mack. I see (in your place) that Bill was generous enough to say something about "getting off on our threads". Least, I think that's what he said. Just as long as it doesn't involve getting our threads off. Which would surely frighten the horses. As for the Gtness of Brit., I couldn't possibly comment. But take a look at a map of the North Atlantic: Norway is full of holes ("fjords", ha ha); Denmark has clearly failed in some fundamental way (though Danes themselves are, well, *Great*); Iceland is a large volcanic bung; Newfoundland is well hard and grizzled; Britain and Ireland are the only places to resist the savage forces of erosion while keeping their trim, petite figures. Clearly I'm no geologist. Nor can I come up with a pun on 'Rockall' to end with. Think I'll just let my mind wander for a bit. |
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Dec-27-07
| | Domdaniel: Still wandering. Who needs a planet when you've got a mind, eh? Although I suppose one does kinda feed the other. What's wrong with watching paint dry anyhow? I'd happily watch Vermeer's paint dry. Or Max Ernst. Even common whitewash might have entertaining or evocative blotches. |
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Dec-27-07
 | | Stonehenge: How do you say "I'm pissed" in American? Please help me. |
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| Dec-28-07 | | mack: <How do you say "I'm pissed" in American?> 'Wow man, this is my *second* beer of the evening...' |
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Dec-28-07
| | Stonehenge: <mack> LOL! |
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Dec-28-07
| | Domdaniel: <Wow man, this is my *second* beer ...> Three Buds and you're out. |
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| Dec-28-07 | | JoeWms: <Stonehenge: How do you say "I'm pissed" in American?> "I'm pissed."
Ignore Mack and Dom; they're Irish.
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Dec-28-07
| | Domdaniel: <Ignore Mack and Dom; they're Irish.>
British, sir. At least *he* is. I'm neutral.
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Dec-28-07
| | Stonehenge: <JoeWms> You'd better ignore me. I don't post much, but when I do it's rubbish. Or should I say trash? Or garbage? |
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Dec-28-07
| | Domdaniel: <henge> There's no rubbish, trash or garbage in *this* forum. Just stuff that hasn't been recycled yet. PS. "I have a hangover today" works in all dialects that I know of. |
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Dec-28-07
| | Domdaniel: The statement "I will have a hangover tomorrow" might superficially seem to be equivalent to "I'm pissed", the phrase Stonehenge yonder originally asked about. Trouble is it betokens a certain foresight, a capacity to imagine the next day's pain, which is not at all redolent of true inebriation. If you can imagine the hangover, you're not really drunk. Therefore this whole thing is isomorphic with the infamous Liar Paradox, and possibly a major philosophical discovery. But that's fine, I made several today. Hic. |
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Dec-28-07
| | Stonehenge: I once made the mistake to ask a friend if he had a recipe for hangovers. 'Well, drinking too much should do it', he answered. |
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Dec-28-07
 | | Open Defence: Ground control to Major Domo....
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| Dec-28-07 | | mack: <Ignore Mack and Dom; they're Irish.> I've never been so honoured. Unfortunately, there is a subtle difference between being an alcoholic and being an Irishman. My central thrust - that Americans can't drink for @#$% - is partially based on an exchange I heard this time last year in line for a swift half-time pint at Portman Road, of all places. There were two Yanks in the queue behind me, and the exchange was, I promise, exactly like this: American #1: @#$%, man, this is gonna be, like, my third pint today! @#$%! American #2: Holy @#$%! How can you even *stand up*?! @#$%. I'm worried about you, man. American #1: I dunno... guess I've been in England too long, hyuk hyuk. American #2: You're gonna be hungover for days and days and days... Etc. I really wish I were making this up. |
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Dec-28-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Right! Stop that!
Now no one has a better sense of humor than me.
Oh except my husband.
And his friends...
Come to think of it MOST people have a better sense of humor than me. Carry on then!
Brigadier Alfred Smoots
The Queens own Queens Regiment
Kingston, Ontarios |
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| Dec-28-07 | | JoeWms: Subtlety sucks.
My laconic answer to the Stonehenge rhetorical question went "shplat!" |
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Dec-29-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Joe> I disagree-- I laughed-- and I think I understood the subtlety as well, but don't go by me as I"m not a "thinker" per se... Regards,
Mrs. Faversham
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Dec-29-07
| | Domdaniel: Oh, I get it now.
I *did* have a hangover tomorrow.
How do you say "sucks" in English, btw? No fell-walkers, please. |
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