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Nov-30-15
 | | Domdaniel: There are 100 <stotinki> in a Ronen Lev. What is 100 <offramp>s, please? <Un Chien Andalou> = "A dog and a toilet". <Moi Aussi> = "I am Australian". <In loco parentis> = Crazy like a parent. |
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| Nov-30-15 | | WinKing: <offramp: It's odd how few female bookies I know. I can only think of a couple of dozen.> Well we have the crème de la crème <offramp> with <Annie K.>. ;) |
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| Nov-30-15 | | zanzibar: <chessgames.com: <Can you change all Scarborough HUN site tags into Scarborough ENG please?> No problem. I only wonder, where did "Scarborough HUN" come from in the first place?> I think I know where the Hun comes from! It's a term of affection, common in Scarborough... http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUser... |
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Dec-01-15
 | | chessgames.com: I see: somewhere, somebody asked "Where did that tournament take place?" and they were told, "Scarborough, Hun!" <Domdaniel: There are 100 <stotinki> in a Ronen Lev. What is 100 <offramp>s, please?> I'm sorry I don't understand. I have a feeling your wit has flown over my head. <7th London Chess Classic 2015 Tournament> We'll get a discussion page up shortly. |
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| Dec-01-15 | | Alien Math: Stotinka are bulgerian currency, 100 Stontinki (plural) = 1 Lev, Ronen Lev or Lev could be used as name exchange |
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Dec-01-15
| | Domdaniel: <Alien Math> Phew, thanks! Sometimes my 'wit' confuses me. |
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Dec-01-15
 | | Annie K.: <I see: somewhere, somebody asked "Where did that tournament take place?" and they were told, "Scarborough, Hun!"> Either that or we Magyars were bored one afternoon and decided to annex it. Nobody objected (we probably didn't explain it in English), so we consider it a done deal. ;p |
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Dec-01-15
 | | WannaBe: Yet another successful invasion of Jolly Ol' England that went unnoticed in the annals of history. |
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Dec-01-15
 | | Stonehenge: In 1970, the British Empire lay in ruins, and foreign nationalists frequented the streets - many of them Hungarians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akb... |
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| Dec-01-15 | | Paint My Dragon: Be <Gyorn>. I am not normally <Eger> to be <Erd> on such matters, but if you think you can annex Scarborough, you have seriously <Miskolc>ulated. No <Szeged> warning! Whoops, I suspect I may have negated all the good work recently done on Hungarian pronunciation. |
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Dec-01-15
| | Annie K.: Heh... ok, I'll trade you Miskolc for it, if you insist. But first you have to learn that it's pronounced Mish-koltz ('mish' as in 'mishmash', and 'koltz' rhymes with 'colts'). :) <cg> Sorry, I guess you'll have to relabel all Miskolc games as 'Miskolc, ENG' now... ;) |
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| Dec-01-15 | | Paint My Dragon: <Annie K> That's a generous offer. I contacted the Foreign Office and they were delighted. Prepare yourself for the joy of fish and chips followed by a donkey ride! |
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Dec-01-15
| | Annie K.: Well, I don't live there, but I don't think they'll mind! :) |
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| Dec-01-15 | | MarkFinan: Are you going to answer my question?? |
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| Dec-02-15 | | thegoodanarchist: < jessicafischerqueen:
<offramp> Assuming you're not joking, if you're using Windows 2.5 you shouldn't be connecting to the internets.> Then how will he use The Google? |
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| Dec-02-15 | | thegoodanarchist: <Robed.Bishop: <thegoodanarchist> I'm not sure if this will be helpful, but I access the site using Macs. I currently use a Macbook Pro with the latest OS (10.11.1) without a problem.> Very helpful - thanks!
<For a long time I used a Mac Air to access CG through a couple of OSs, again without a problem. The last OS I used with the Air was probably Snow Leopard or Mavericks, though the Air is updated with El Capitan.> I will wait for the Los Muchachos update.
<If you think it would help, I can log into CG with the Air with the latest OS and report back.> I appreciate the offer, but no need in light of this clarification by <WannaBe: <thegoodanarchist> & <Robed.Bishop> The initial problem as reported by <keypusher>:chessgames.com chessforum
chessgames.com chessforum
you can see from Sept. 30th, he posted the OS and I wasn't able to progress further with reproduction of his issue. (I only have iPad, no MacBook) He is not freezing when viewing/accessing CG, but when he runs analysis on games.> Thank you! Since I download PGN files to analyze with Shredder, and have no issues, I think I have nothing to worry about. |
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| Dec-02-15 | | thegoodanarchist: < offramp: My Dear chests games.com!
My cousin in Elista urgently needs to transfer the sum of ®®550,655,000,000,000 (five thousand quadrillion Elistan stotinki) to a U.S. account. You will receive for this seven trillion stotinki. Gracious thanks.> No way this is legit - the grammar is too good. |
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Dec-02-15
| | chessgames.com: <MarkFinan> My apologies for not answering your question; in the off-topic merriment things can slip by me. You wrote: <Just a question about forum bios. Ive just tried adding to mine and whenever I press 'Update profile' then go back to my profile, he hasn't added what I typed out, it's deleted about 300 words as well.> If your profile is near its maximum allowable size then it's no surprise that it fails to add addendums, but the part that confuses me is that it truncates something at the end. I'm not completely baffled; I have some ideas--but it sounds like there might be a bug in the text-to-HTML-to-truncation procedure. It could be that it's generating invalid HTML in your profile that hides some text from view. There are other explanations as well. <How many characters can our bios have?> That's not an easy question to answer because the limit is on the HTML characters, not just the ones you type. For example (Hello!)
is eight characters long, but
<Hello!>
is dozens of characters long, because it invokes HTML font/color tags. The workaround for your purposes right now is just to make you bio shorter. It's a known bug that when you brush up against the limit, weird things happen. And by making it shorter, you don't necessarily have to cut out your words, removing <HTML Tr♗çkš> can make the total size much smaller without sacrificing content. A proper solution would be to enforce a limit on the size of what you type and allow the HTML to be unlimited. There are technical issues with that so it's a matter well have to revisit in the future. <On a related subject> Who would enjoy and/or use a method to italicize text? I'm *really* getting tired of using asterisks as a substitute. |
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Dec-02-15
| | Domdaniel: <Who would enjoy and/or use a method to italicize text? > *Me*.
While you're at it, how about _Bold_ ? |
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Dec-02-15
| | Annie K.: Me, me, meeeee!! =)
And bold, and underline... ;) |
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Dec-02-15
 | | offramp: Just bold and italics. |
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Dec-02-15
| | WannaBe: 𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖎𝖘 𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖙𝖞 𝖋𝖚𝖓 𝖙𝖔𝖔. 𝕯𝖔 𝖘𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖌𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖕 𝖙𝖆𝖌 |
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Dec-02-15
| | WannaBe: 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 |
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Dec-02-15
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: <WannaBe> 𝗨𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆, 𝘄𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆. |
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Dec-02-15
| | WannaBe: <Switch> I know, still fun, tho! =) |
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