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WannaBe
Member since Oct-20-04 · Last seen Jan-19-26
Thank you Daniel Freeman and Alberto A Artidiello

Not enough words can describe what you created and what we lost.

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   WannaBe has kibitzed 49754 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Jan-19-26 R Toran vs M Valls Tona, 1948 (replies)
 
WannaBe: Well, if you play f4, there is mate in 250...
 
   Jan-19-26 Chessgames - Sports (replies)
 
WannaBe: Time to look at the Final Four NFL edition. SEA +150 LAR +220 NE +245 DEN +1300 Amazing what Bo Nix (being injured) does to betting odds. NE -5.5 DEN 40.5 Money Line: -265/+215 LAR 47.5 SEA -2.5 M/L: -157/+131 Super Bowl Odds, AFC Team 48.5 NFC Team -4.0 ML: ...
 
   Jan-16-26 WannaBe chessforum
 
WannaBe: 12m in. Not impressed
 
   Jan-16-26 Chessgames - Politics (replies)
 
WannaBe: Zed's dead. Zed's dead. (if one is to go down the 'Pulp Fiction' path) "That is A tasty burger!!"
 
   Jan-14-26 Chessgames - Odd Lie (replies)
 
WannaBe: This one is from Henry Cho: "I'm changing the caller ID of my wife's phone number to Potential Spam" If you have not seen or heard of Henry, he is worth some of your time on YouTube.
 
   Jan-14-26 Dickson (replies)
 
WannaBe: Apparently, it was a "far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known"
 
   Jan-12-26 Fischer vs V Pupols, 1955 (replies)
 
WannaBe: I was thinking baseball bat, tire iron, or brass knuckles.
 
   Jan-11-26 Tata Steel Masters (2026) (replies)
 
WannaBe: So, the Tata Steel blitz were held in India, and players have 6 days to fly to NED for the next (or 2026 first) major event... What is the flight path? Here are some ideas: https://www.flightroutes.com/CCU-AMS
 
   Jan-06-26 Atterdag chessforum (replies)
 
WannaBe: <OCF> Not to mention when TV stations switch red (dem) and blue (rep) to what we know today... On a similar note, in Asia, if the stock shows red, it mean up, green, means down. Go fig.
 
   Jan-04-26 OhioChessFan chessforum
 
WannaBe: This is for you, with some deeper insight on drone productions, Russian, and now with the cut-off of oil from certain S. American country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUB...
 
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Dec-16-20  thegoodanarchist: <WannaBe: Elon Musk have left the building, or the state of CA, going to TX.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon...

I can just hear the governor and the state of TX right now: "Y'all just keep taxing them people, CA. Just keep on taxing... HP left, Toyota long ago left SoCal for TX, and people just keep leaving.">

Argh! Those damn Libs keep coming to Idaho and now our capitol city has a damn Dem as Mayor!

Now the idjits in Boise are voting for more Cali socialism! They are too deluded/brainwashed to learn their lessons! I don't want anymore Cali idjits in Texas or Idaho or Montana or any other common sense state (read: Red State)

Dec-16-20  thegoodanarchist: < WannaBe: In "Lighter Gnus", Zodiac killer's crypto message have been decoded...

https://www.sfgate.com/crime/articl... >

Heh. I noticed that the decoders were more alert than the coder! They found a typo, which, when removed, facilitated the decoding.

Now, if the 'typo' was intentional, that's a different story...

Dec-16-20  thegoodanarchist: <WannaBe: California, and the Unemployment Benefit (Agency) and the scam ran by state prisoners:

https://www.latimes.com/california/...

Yep, them Donkey-Ass party are doing great.>

Ah, Liberalism! The gift that keeps on taking!

Here is the critical excerpt:

<And if California prison inmates were smart enough to swindle an estimated $400 million in state benefits, even as thousands who were thrown out of work by the pandemic still can’t get their money, shouldn’t we hire the inmates to run the agency and lock up the officials who allowed it to become a national laughingstock?>

Dec-16-20  thegoodanarchist: <WannaBe: So COVID vaccines are rolling out, and quite honestly, I pray. Don't want to see a repeat of thalidomide.

I hope it all works out for everyone. >

I am not taking that @#$%.

Dec-17-20
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  Troller: <WannaBe: So COVID vaccines are rolling out, and quite honestly, I pray. Don't want to see a repeat of thalidomide.

I hope it all works out for everyone.

On an ethical/moral side of question, why are people in long term care (homes) getting shots? Are they 'essential'? Are they working to produce something that we need? Can they farm and harvest produce to feed others?>

This we see in Europe as well. As I understand it, the rationale is that these people are the most likely to die from Covid and hence this is where most lives can be saved. People below 70 with no health issues get a flu at worst, younger people sometimes do not even notice it.

As for the safety of the shot, I am reasonably convinced that there are no side effects. But there is always a risk, and this being a new vaccine, more unknown factors means a higher risk. On the other hand, as far as I know, it cannot be compared to thalidomid which is a molecule very alien to the human body and the effects of which are still not fully understood.

While the testing and approval procedures for the Covid vaccines have happened very fast the process has been much more rigorous than the original procedure for thalidomid. Indeed thalidomid has been partly responsible for this stricter control.

Dec-17-20  diceman: <thegoodanarchist:

"What do they call Chinese food in China?">

Scarce.

Dec-17-20  technical draw: <"What do they call Chinese food in China?">

I learned some Chinese and Chinese food translates to "things you pick up with two sticks and put in your mouth." More or less.

Dec-17-20
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  Diademas: <"What do they call Chinese food in China?">

A few suggestions:
http://earthporm.com/funniest-menu-...

Dec-17-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Not sure if those were photoshopped, but man, they don't even come close to the real words.

(Yes, I read Chinese...)

Dec-17-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  Diademas: <WannaBe: Not sure if those were photoshopped, but man, they don't even come close to the real words.>

I think it's courtesy of Google Translate.

<(Yes, I read Chinese...)> Impressive!

Dec-17-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Artistic Rights and how they are "Divided"...

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment...

It is really nothing 'new'... When Star Trek Franchise got divided, Paramount got the movies, and CBS got the TV rights.

So you can watch Star Trek Discovery and Picard on CBS Online, but movies? NOPE! NOPE! NOPE!

Paramount can negotiate all they want with Q. Tarantino on the next Star Trek, or whoever, but CBS have <ZERO> say so on the story line and change of Star Trek cannon.

(When you watch a movie, and you see these 5 movie studio logos at the intro, this is how it happens, they all co-produce the movie, and when the franchise goes up for sale, they get a piece of the pie. Depending on how the contract was written...)

So, yeah, that next mega-Marvel-Universe ($900M production cost) movie that have MGM, Paramount, Bad Rabbit, SKG, Disney, Sony & Warner Brothers logos before the movie starts... You now know why.

Alex Kurtzman, who is involved with Silence of the Lambs is a majorly involved with Star Trek with CBS Online

Dec-17-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Theranos Part Deux... What idiots.

https://news.yahoo.com/sec-sues-cal...

Dec-18-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: The game is so bad...

How bad is it??

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/...

Dec-20-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Vaccine tracker: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/vaccines

(John Hopkins Univ. via public data, notice the data are from Red states, mostly.)

Stanford University's Hospital Protest. That's 'Intelligence' for ya.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/...

Dec-22-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: 10 surprising items you will find in the new stimulus bill:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-s...

I anticipate the gov't will bankrupt/default/collapse around 2150 or 2200. Long after I've kicked the bucket and pushing up carrots.

Dec-23-20  thegoodanarchist: <diceman:

800 light years from now>

A light year is a distance, not a time. It should read "800 light years from here".

A parsec is also a unit of distance. So Han Solo's line "She made the Kessel run in 12 parsecs" is an unfortunate goof that marred the original Star Wars.

Dec-23-20  technical draw: <tga> Glad to see that I'm not the only one correcting those that say "that was light years ago!"
Dec-23-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: I enjoyed this spoof, being a fan of Queens, but I would like to know what <technical draw>'s opinions are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P3...

Dec-23-20
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  WannaBe: I have <NO> idea what the F*** this is, maybe they <ARE> the lost tribe... And what the F*** is that violin the guy is playing? Did it got shrink in the desert because of the heat?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WF...

Yeah, I am on my YouTube Judaism kick today... 🤣

Dec-23-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Harry Belafonte & Danny Kaye doing Hava Nagila?!!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_L...

Dec-23-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Don't mess with Rita Moreno...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDj...

Dec-24-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: What you get when you cross Bolero and Little Drummer Boy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yW...

Dec-24-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Why is that, Japanese or some Asian drums are bang'd laying down, instead of the European way of "up?'' I think Korean and Japanese are the only two that I know of that does it this way. Maybe Korean got it from Japanese influence, or other way around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zag...

Does it resonate more? Strike more fear into the enemy? And if the drum is struck on both sides, does it sound louder or more intimidating?

Dec-24-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Totally freakin' hilarious... But I can't hear them sing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRh...

Dec-24-20  technical draw: Thanks for those great links <WannaBe>. I enjoyed all of them. However, two things I noticed the: In the Little drummer boy video did you notice at the extreme left the lone violinist with the magnificent beard? And also the Japanese drummers defy the laws of physics by playing with their feet so far apart.

I hope you have a very happy Christmas and New Year and that 2021 can help us overcome the griefs of 2020.....TD

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