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| Sep-06-16 | | Boomie: <mckmac: Cripes.> Heh. CG does require a modicum of patience. I lost my temper recently on the Reuben Fine page. A troll came to CG specifically to disparage Fine and I went ballistic. Go figger. |
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Sep-06-16
 | | OhioChessFan: <Yo, readers! Feel free to prove me wrong by shouting, jumping about, usw.> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEj...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7q... |
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| Sep-06-16 | | Alien Math: cheered when your page has activity,
few others have your blend of knowledge and way with words |
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| Sep-06-16 | | posoo: HELLO I AM HERE at frugspun to say DUMDUNOAL is a nice man. |
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Sep-07-16
 | | Domdaniel: <Alien Math> -- < blend of knowledge and way with words> Hey, thank you.
"A way with words", you say?
"Away with words", I reply.
Just jesting. I don't know where I'd be without words. |
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Sep-07-16
| | Domdaniel: <posoo> Have you ever heard 'Salome Malone' by John Cooper Clarke? "She had a number on her back/ And sequins on her tits/ The sartorial requirements/ For females in the Ritz." No relation, I imagine? |
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| Sep-07-16 | | posoo: NO
i HAVE of corse heard of SALOME
and dat is a sad storoy. |
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Sep-10-16
| | Domdaniel: <mckmac> -- < a dialogue that aspires to be friendly, funny, clever, timely, and concise.>
Thanks again for that. We can, I suppose, *aspire* to such heights ... hey, is 'aspire' related to 'suspire', 'respire', etc? Must be. So it's a form of *breathing*. 'Ruach', as I think they say in Hebrew. If shaving
Is behaving
Then aspiring
Is tiring.
There's an annoying radio advert current on Irish radio. Its purpose is admirable - a public service announcement warning people about the dangers (and penalties) of using a phone while driving. But it uses the ugly, archaic, pseudo-posh, hypercorrective form 'whilst' instead of the simple 'while'. So the voice warns us against "using the phone whilst driving" ... which sounds exactly like "while striving".
Least, that's how I hear it.
Then again, I'm neither a striver nor a driver.
LENDL: Low Expectations, No Driving Licence.
Concise, incidentally, can be read as 'short'. Which, in turn, is a result of 'lazy'. |
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Sep-10-16
| | Domdaniel: <Travis> You're always welcome to sound off here, but I'd be happier if you didn't use this place to attack or abuse people. I know the 'people' in question are grown-up and can take it (and have dished out their own share, etc) ... but it kinda lowers the tone, doesn't it? Not that we aspire to be classy or anything. Aspiring is tiring. And I'm retiring. |
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| Sep-10-16 | | Boomie: ->
Take a deep respire it
Is healthy to suspire it
Won't hurt to aspire it
So please don't perspire it. |
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Sep-10-16
| | Domdaniel: <Boomie> Aha, I forgot 'perspire', didn't I? My perspicacity failed. |
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| Sep-10-16 | | Boomie: <Domdaniel: Aha, I forgot 'perspire'> But you inspired me to perspire. You get partial credit. We'll let Jesh-Yi-Ka grade your paper should she ever return from the dark side of the moon. |
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| Sep-10-16 | | Boomie: <Dom>
It just occurred to me that you have probably checked the box to prevent posts from showing in the Chessforums list. You would get more activity in your forum if you let people see all your brilliant posts here. |
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| Sep-10-16 | | mckmac: <Domdaniel: Concise, incidentally, can be read as 'short'. Which, in turn, is a result of 'lazy'.> Yes, well, the lap-top got dropped, so these days I am reduced to ineptly tapping my contributions out on a mobile phone. As a result, 'short' is pretty much guaranteed, and 'concise' is sometimes but an accident of circumstance. Anyways, <Boomie's> suggested 'don't sweat it' will be my mantra on today's stroll up to the church and back. No, not that one, the other one, the one with a spire. |
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Sep-11-16
| | Domdaniel: <mckmac> Stroll to a church, but never walk widdershins round a kirk... |
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| Sep-11-16 | | mckmac: <widdershins> I had to look this up. Wiki says: 'It was considered unlucky in Britain to travel in an anticlockwise (anti sun wise) direction around a church, and a number of folk myths make reference to this superstition, e.g. Childe Rowland, where the protagonist and his sister are transported to Elfland after his sister runs widdershins round a church.' But I don't think we down here in N.Z need worry about this. They say we live in Hobbitland already. |
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Sep-13-16
| | Domdaniel: <mckmac> About a hundred years ago I read a short story called 'The Man Who Walked Widdershins Round the Kirk'. Something bad happened to him, I think, though I can't recall details. But the title stuck in my magnetic mind. |
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Sep-14-16
| | OhioChessFan: <About a hundred years ago I read a short story called 'The Man Who Walked Widdershins Round the Kirk'. > What a funny name for a dog. |
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| Sep-14-16 | | mckmac: <OhioChessFan> Heh ... makes me think of a silly but friendly 'ankle-biter', one with aspirations to get a little higher up on the leg ... |
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Sep-14-16
| | Domdaniel: <Ohio> Heh. I like that ... here, Widdershins, here, boy... Mit Liv Som Hund, as I think they say in Denmark. |
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Sep-14-16
| | Domdaniel: ... and the chess season starts again. This weekend I'm due to play in a tournament, the Munster Championships in Ennis. As things stand, I'm likely to be playing one of the top seeds, such as Philip Short or Rory Quinn. Any such game is likely to be broadcast live. I've beaten Quinn the last couple of times I played him, both with a French Defence. I drew with Short years ago (Kangaroo Defence, 1.d4 e6 2.c4 Bb4+) but lost to him in the same line more recently. One of my earlier games against each of these opponents can be seen in the CG database. If anyone cares, I'll try to post a link to live games later this week... |
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| Sep-14-16 | | User not found: I didn't even know chess had a season but I wish you all the best, Dom. I once played Short too but I was only a kid, not that being an adult would have helped. Good luck :) |
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Sep-15-16
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
<Dom> I heard there was a party over here but imagine my surprise to see it's a chess party! I'm thrilled you'll be meeting <Herman Munster> in the first round. He's tricky, so be sure to prepare for the Halloween Gambit. Visual aids:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herma... |
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Sep-15-16
| | Domdaniel: <chessica> Yep, I still try to play chess sometimes. I once invented an opening which I called the Munster Attack (1.Nf3 Nc6 2.a3 ... ) -- and yes, it doesn't exactly turn up very often. The Halloween Gambit, eh? Is that a variation of Hell! - Owen's Defence ...?
Which as any fule kno is 1...b6 -- the incredibly prolific and quite funny Cyrus Lakadwala (cousin of a criminal mastermind in India!) has written a whole book about it. Which I have. Though any potential opponents lurking here should note that I haven't read it yet. And to purchase a book about an opening, and to then play that opening without opening the book ... well, that's a level of sophistication which I have not yet reached. Sophistication Dan-24, or whatever. |
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Sep-15-16
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> - I was nosing around in an actual real-world bookstore today -- yes, of course it's easier to just order stuff online, but I still like to connect with the world of actual spines now and then. So anyhow I saw something you might like: the collected novels of Flann O'Brien, in one hardback volume. So that's At Swim Two Birds, and Le Troisieme Policier (originally written in French and translated into English by Sam Beckett), and The Poor Mouth (written in Gaelic as An Beal Bocht, English version by James Joyce), and The Dalkey Archive (something to do with an arty press in Illinois which publishes Harry Mathews (The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium, My Life in CIA). Und so weiter. Any falsehoods here are lies rather than mistakes. If you *must* blunder, shove your foot right into your mouth. It's painful, but hey -- it's art. |
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