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| Jun-16-09 | | Trigonometrist: That must be <hms123>.. |
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Jun-16-09
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I am a cartoon book
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Fear me |
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| Jun-16-09 | | Trigonometrist: <ChessBookForum>
I have face more than a hundred books of trigonometry each having terrifying and bizarre combinations of sines and secants... Furthermore,I have braved years of torture by the Pythagorean and Appollian theorems which have killed several of my war mates and have sent many more to mental asylums all round the world... And now a mere chessbook like you asks me to fear you?... Well...You are a bit scary...;) |
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Jun-16-09
 | | jessicafischerqueen: My dear <Trig>
I don't want to alarm you, but are you aware that you are talking to a cartoon book? |
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Jun-16-09
 | | Domdaniel: In loco parentis -- crazy like a parent
[or - cellphone version]: "Hi, I'm on Daddy's train!" Moi aussi -- I am an Australian. |
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Jun-16-09
| | Domdaniel: <Trigo> -- <wunderkind ersatz...> *Zapkinder*, actually. <Zapkindersatz>, if you like: it's a bit like Sitzfleisch, but with a remote control (aka Zapper) for the TV (aka ersatz, or Life Lite). |
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| Jun-16-09 | | Trigonometrist: <My dear <Trig> I don't want to alarm you, but are you aware that you are talking to a cartoon book?> Gosh..You're right...
Maybe I haven't braved the perils of the Apollonius theorem or something... |
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Jun-16-09
| | Domdaniel: <Phrontistery Wargames> Time to open a 2nd phront ... send in the light brigade to change all the bulbs. Then get word to the *baptistry* and order the Baptists to charge the Russian gun emplacements. It's just half a league forwards. Speaking of games, I saw about 30 seconds of *Terminator: The Sarah Connors Chronicles* last night, by accident. The kid was playing chess. Mom, in voiceover, was saying something like "Chess taught him everything he needed to know about war ... how to be cunning, and wily, and ... [onscreen, Bxh7+] ... willing to sacrifice". It's an improvement on most chess-on-TV-drama scenes. The Phrontistery, btw, is thinking of relocating to Al-Andaluz. There are several reasons, including: Andalucia, by John Cale
Bunuel & Dali, *Un Chien Andalou* -- meaning, of course, 'a dog on a toilet'. And the town of <Moron de la Frontera> which seems to suit us perfectly. Villages have idiots, but the Phinal Phrontier has a Moron. |
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Jun-16-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: What's wrong with being a Moron?
The <Osmond family> are all Morons. And that guy who ran for president. "Mike Huckabee"? I think he was a Moron too. |
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| Jun-16-09 | | SugarDom: Mormons, hahaha |
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| Jun-16-09 | | Trigonometrist: Yep there's nothing wrong with being a moron...
Morons and Nerds are in the same group. They make the world a better place by making others feel better about themselves... And <Dom>...<wunderkind ersatz> refers to useless genius...Nope never found a contradiction or oxy<Moron> if you will, though I readily confess my ignorance of < Sitzfleisch >... |
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| Jun-16-09 | | achieve: < Sitzfleisch >
Alludes to a "buffer-zone", and stamina, as well as a perhaps passive, forced or not, attitude, often seen in ... But it might as well conceal deceptive passivity, and prepare for ... Being dutch, with the equivalent "zitvlees", I know there is a host of interpretations... Context dictates ;) El Cluedo |
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Jun-16-09
| | Domdaniel: <SugarDom> Welcome to The Phrontistery. That's the first time I've said that, and it feels weird. Frogspawn -- see the last 300 pages or so -- may have to return. Anyhow. This -- <Mormons, hahaha> -- simply *is not done*. You'll find, should you stick around, that when somebody seems to make a mistake, here, it's almost always deliberate. They do it on purpose. It's like spiders and flies and webs. It's called <ironing> or something. And at least you said 'hahaha' -- lol <spits> would have been criminal. Funny thing, though. If Mormons are really Mormons, how come the Book of Mormon stars *The Angel Moroni*?
If you ask me, they stuck an extra 'm' in there to stop people laughing at them ... |
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Jun-16-09
| | Domdaniel: <Trigo> Let me get this straight. You have one hundred trigonometry books -- some with hyperbolic sines and the odd catenary -- and you've never heard of Sitzfleisch? You must really enjoy them. It's only a half-chess word, and it's probably been made obsolete by digital clocks, rapid time controls, and computers. It had its heyday in the age when you could win a game of chess by out-sitting your opponent. Mind you ... given FIDE's new rule about zero tolerance for latecomers, half a second (not a secant) late and you forfeit the game, Sitzfleisch could be on the way back. Rule XXIII(b): no toilet breaks during a seven-hour playing session. This could have a genuinely positive effect on chess skills. The main reason people get better at chess is to escape from the under-1400 section at tournaments, which smells funny. It'll get funnier with Sitzfleisch.
By extension, the word also applies to any activity where you can prevail by holding your own. As it were. |
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| Jun-16-09 | | SugarDom: <Domdaniel: Anyhow. This -- <Mormons, hahaha> -- simply *is not done*. You'll find, should you stick around, that when somebody seems to make a mistake, here, it's almost always deliberate. They do it on purpose.> The pun was intended by <Jessica>, that's what made me laugh... The Angel Moroni actually provided the verses to the Prophet...and that's why it can be called the "Moronic" verses...LOL This is just for "pun", i mean fun...
Not meant to be "racist" or you know what... |
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Jun-16-09
| | Domdaniel: If the Osmond Family was <Polygamous Mormons>, you'd have 8,129 WAGs on the tour bus ... and an *awful* lot of funny smells. |
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Jun-16-09
| | Domdaniel: <SugarDom> OK, but you've used up your "LOL". And you only get one, barring special circumstances. If we laughed at all the puns intended by Jess we'd be here till, um, August 10th 4004, at seven o'clock in the morning. |
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Jun-16-09
| | Domdaniel: <valiant> If we were talking about any other country, I'd say "Ha! A *top Secret* list of names!" ... cue paranoia. But that couldn't happen in Sweden, could it, with all those Freedom of Information Acts that really work? We have a Freedom of Information Act too. You write to the ministry and they write back telling you that you can't have the document you want. That's Irish-style FoI. If you're really lucky, you get a xeroxed document with the content crossed out: "Dear XXXX, we XXXX to XXXX XXXX of XXXX. Due to XXXX XXXX and XXXX, we cannot XXXX to XXXX XXXX at this time. Yours, XXXX." |
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| Jun-16-09 | | Trigonometrist: <Dom> and <achieve> Thanks for the education...
<If we laughed at all the puns intended by Jess we'd be here till, um, August 10th 4004, at seven o'clock in the morning.> Indeed and if we laughed at the puns intended by <Domdaniel> we'd be here till Domemeber 35th 8008...Yes a 13th moronic month in memory of our leader.. Wunderkind Ersatz indeed... |
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Jun-17-09
 | | Open Defence: I knew I was an Ambi-dexterous Ortho-Phrontist, now to get out of here pronto |
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| Jun-17-09 | | Trigonometrist: <You write to the ministry and they write back telling you that you can't have the document you want.> Come now <Dom>...atleast you get a letter stating that you've hit a dead end(with a couple of dozen crosses...besides the point though) If you come down to India...well it's completely different... My great grand dad...bless his old soul, once sent a letter to the British regiment of his time politely requesting them to "pack thier boats back to England".... And I received a reply to that letter yesterday stating that they've obliged...In accordance to this chrony...we as Indians will forever neglect the patience of others as well as ourselves... Thank you...XXXXX |
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Jun-17-09
| | Domdaniel: <Deffi> *Ambi-dexterous*? Meaning you eat left-handed sugar as well as Dextrose? Impressive. I'm bitextual myself -- I do reading and writing. |
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Jun-17-09
| | Domdaniel: <Trigo> I like the idea of having a month named after me. Just like Julius Caesar. And look what happened to him. BTW, does anyone know why, in English, the months have Roman names, but the weekdays have Germanic/Nordic ones -- Thor's Dag, etc. Is it something to do with Anglo-Saxon-speaking peasants getting paid by the day, while their Norman French overlords got money by the month? |
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| Jun-17-09 | | Trigonometrist: <Dom> Good question.... Why not Janday,Febday and so on for the days and Monuary,Tuery and so on for months?... What would they name years if given a chance?... |
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Jun-17-09
| | Domdaniel: <What would they name years if given a chance?...> (a) Dragon, Dog, Monkey ...
(b) One, two, three ... |
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