Not Chinese Lizard Year- It's <Ox> year.

Are you familiar with <Oxnard>?

Hint-- one of them is much, much bigger than the ones you have...

HAHAHAHAHAAHAH

This joke is for you, not for <everyone else>.

BTW in <Deffi's> forum the reason for the Puppet is given.

I meant to make the puppet and use her once to make one joke.

Ie- <Acrice> said "it was everyone's fault"

Then this perennial wag, and non-sockpupptet guy <User: everyone> chimes in with a jest--

He only does two things at this website: study chess games and wait for people to type "everyone" in some context so he can swoop in and contradict them-- with athority, of course, due to his ingenious moniker.

So then <Howard> mentioned it was therefore "everyone else's fault"

at which point I began hoping, geez it would be great if <User: everyone else> would now "swoop in".

But he didn't, so I had to do it.

Then, I was too lazy to sign out and sign in again as "me".

So then I went to <Eyal> and got caught up watching his press conference and then I started posting maniacally because the conference was so interesting.

I really like this <GM Moves in and Won't Leave>.

OK thanks for the compliments-- again-- and for the love of Mike I get lots of <high end intellectual stimulation> on the Net from you and <Eyal> and <Howard>-- just counting three of my friends who are/were actually "in the business" so to speak.

It's just that you guys are never available in "real time" on the Net and neither are my other extremely smarty pants friends.

It's a little frustrating- not that you guys aren't working- it's the opposite. You are working at the job of being intellectuals in your "real lives" and I'm stuck (by choice) in a Medieval Korean farm hamlet.

So I can't expect you guys to address all of my questions and points via Chat site blog in real time or even any time.

Sigh...

A really complicated and abstruse EMU with all kinds of profound combative points about important issues would be grand-

Can I have one? For my Birthday!!

As your time/inclination permits, of course.

I didn't <Ox> for too much this year.

Ok look carefully at this post:

(well Ok it's part of a post out of context. It's a sentence!)

<The royal Dane never said anything remotely like life is a tale told by an idiot. For anybody interested in whom the nod should have gone to (other than the Bard) dig it up.>

That's from the humorously entitlted <Dr. Noooooooo> (heh) and it's part of a post in which he makes several curiously outlandish truth claims.

Now you responded to this (a bit huffily) with a truth claim to your <MacBeth knowing the play well credentials>.

But look at the sentence--

He starts out talking about Hamlet but then switches the <apparent subject> of the sentence midstream to <The Bard>, thus conflating <Hamlet> and <Shagspr> as the dual subject of the sentence.

His sentence demands a reading that <Dr. Nooo> is unaware of one of the most famous lines from one of "The Bards" most famous plays.

Meaning he is unaware that the <Bard> has to be credited with <Life is a tale told..>.

So either he doesn't know Shagspr indeed wrote this line, or he just mixed up his subjects.

Which is what <Kings> do, normally, not <Doctors>.

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAAHAHA

Cripes that <Dr Nooo> sentence allows for another syntactical-logico-whoopa reading--

The sentence <also> makes sense if <Dr. Noo> thinks that <Hamlet> and <Shagspr> were the same person.

That's more interesting to me than the first two readings.

It would mean that <Dr. Noooo> has gone insane....

WHICH MAKES SENSE because in the <Bond Film> he *is* insane!!

I'm pretty sure the facts are all lining up to support this reading.

Like the stars and planets...

OK A fried Burrito in the mail if you can answer this:

WHO WROTE THIS (it's not me even though I *am* writing it right... NOW)

(NO Gobbling or other Search engining)

<I am not aware that there was any particularly significant confluence of the stars and planets upon the occasion of <Gerry McCarthy's> birth, but I should think it quite likely>

Ok I'll wait for your answer.

Is there a <username:nobody>? Cos *nobody* said that ... did they?

Yeah, I *was* huffy with the Doc, wasn't I? He deserved less.

And, yes, a B-Day EMU would be <about bloody time>, wouldn't it?

AM I TOO LATE?!

Zomaar. (just like that)

--I'm super busy this week but first things first, as always.

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WHY didn't I know that? If I had a minion to cuff, now would be a good moment.

Have they started calling Magno-boy <Drawsen> yet? I haven't been following that soap opera either.

Time to really get in touch with the pieces; feel them out... in... all over...

Carlsen has by now of course become <Drawlsen>, and Leko his master teacher, and all that funky music we've grown to tolerate yet dislike.

Time for a candle?

I'll light it anyway.

Smeets is trying terribly hard to steer towards time-trouble, good grief...

...Kids they keep naggin all day long, til my head stiiiings..."

Und so weiter

New set to your liking?

I'm still fiddling around on me old dad's first chess set... Still can't do without it.

Here's a pithy answer, although I first thought it might be a student at <Oxford> :-)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/defi...

It's just a flesh wound.

J Rowson vs M Daniels, 2005

Incidentally, I've just realised what the most surprising thing about meeting you was. Not the hair, glasses, chess style, attire, teeth, height, weight, topics of conversation, accent, glossolalia, or any of that. No, it was this: the fact that you choose to buy packets of fags rather than roll your own. Don't know why I expected otherwise, but it's suddenly playing on my mind.

Did you play Gonzaga, and if so did you see young Greg? I think he said he didn't see you, but buggered if I understand what we talk about half the time. We'll probably try to make it over for Bunratty.

In any case, I'm not a knit-your-own type. If shops sell readymade stuff, and I want it, why quibble?

I played in the Mulcahy tournament in Cork -- 2.5/3, then 3.5/5, then my usual stupid last-round loss.

I think this crisis lark is a ruse dreamt up by the plutocrat boss class to con the rest of us into working. And I don't even have a job ...

I'm setting aside EMU time soon. Should have a window by, eh, Sunday.

Speaking of conflations, you know the type of sentence (very common in Letters to the Editor, for some reason) that goes "As a philatelist, Canada should be broken up and fed to the starving Koreans" ... ? Or "As the largest country in South America, I get the urge to invade Poland when I listen to music".