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Nov-13-10
 | | Annie K.: <Dom: <Dino farted. Fred put his foot on the gas and hit the road.>> Take two: Debonair... and de not-so-bon air. ;s
<chancho: <She's studying in Germany.>> Good, then you can sneak into her room unseen and read those books yourself! ;) Also, good for her, btw. Germany is beautiful - I've been a bit around the south there once. :) <dakkie> you could try 'referentiative' as well, I suppose. It doesn't actually exist, according to some dictionary, but that hardly matters. Dictionaries don't understand these positions. ;) |
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Nov-13-10
 | | Domdaniel: My idea for an irreality TV show is this: get some perps, litigants, wannabes, victims, whatever. Get several judges trained in different legal systems -- code Napoleon, Sharia, Common Law, Old Irish Brehon Law, and the Code of the Woosters ... Put together, light fuse, stand back.
Contestants sign a waiver allowing the 'winning' judge to demand forfeits, amputations, executions, etc. I'm thinking of calling it <As God is my Judge> ... or <Ordeal or no Ordeal?>. |
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Nov-13-10
| | Domdaniel: <She's studying in Germany>
In Germany there are roadsigns saying <Gute Fahrt!> Just saying. |
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Nov-13-10
 | | chancho: <Annie/Dom> I was stationed in West Germany (back in the day) for three years. (Long before my daughter was born.) When she was little, I would say a few words in German or count to ten and she was impressed with that. (Truth is, what little German I know is truly atrocious) On the other hand, she's becoming quite fluent.
Funny how these things go.
<Annie: Good, then you can sneak into her room unseen and read those books yourself! ;)> I've seen the Potter flicks already, Maybe I'll read the last book: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. <Gute Fahrt> You're too much Dom... :-) Gute Fahrt! Have a good trip! |
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| Nov-14-10 | | dakgootje: <Ordeal or no Ordeal?> hahaha, with that name, you would have a few million viewers ;D <Germany> I was in Berlin half a year ago; surprisingly poor and grey and decayed.. |
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Nov-14-10
 | | Open Defence: < Annie K.: Technically, you probably want "referential". However, if you wish to rely on <Dom> as a role model - not a bad idea there ;) - making words bend to your will <is> in fact the right direction. :D> but <Dom> can make words bend for immoral purposes too... thereby becoming immortal... |
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Nov-14-10
| | Domdaniel: <dak> Last time I was in Berlin was, um, about thirty-five years ago. Dinner at the Kempinski -- only time I've ever eaten veal -- then through Checkpoint Charlie to the DDR. Past the spot where guards shot a nervous truck driver a couple of weeks earlier. And in East Berlin I wound up as interpreter for a charming French couple. Were we spies? Who wasn't, in those days ...? |
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| Nov-14-10 | | dakgootje: I can assure you that I was not.
On a more serious note, how many languages do you even speak? |
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Nov-14-10
| | Open Defence: what is more important is how many languages does one speak that others understand.... |
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Nov-14-10
| | Domdaniel: < how many languages do you even speak?>
Not many at all, really. In those days my French was OK, but it's rusty now. I can read the Germanic languages to various degrees, but I wouldn't get far speaking any of 'em. Plus a bit of Irish Gaelic and enough Latin to make Romance languages accessible. This mix would have been useful about 1600 years ago ... I coulda been a missionary sent to convert the heathen Teutonics ... |
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Nov-14-10
| | Domdaniel: "Guten tag. Ich bin Sankt Dom von Ersland. Wo ist die Krankenhaus, bitte? Ich habe mein Kopf verloren ..." |
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Nov-14-10
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> You can catch malaria from de not-so-bon air. Or even the Ratisbon air. Not to mention the <London Derriere>. |
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Nov-14-10
| | chancho: Wo ist die Toilette? |
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Nov-14-10
| | Open Defence: just follow the sign that says <Gute Fahrt!> |
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Nov-14-10
| | Annie K.: <Dom> then there should be <Ordeal or Deal> - the witness protection program, of course. ;) <<Gute Fahrt!> Just saying.> & <etc.> You are most defiantly misbehaving, dear. Definitely, too. ;) And <Deffi>-nitely ... hmm... there's some pun potential here that I won't spell out cuz I'm <behaving>. Though I don't see that lasting, under the circumstances. :p <chancho> watching the movies is no substitute for reading the books... just saying, to quote somebody here. ;) I've been in Munich, and to the south of, in 2001 - or 2002? - something like that. Very pretty, then & there. Heh... I got to thinking, reading the latest contributions here, that we might have fun with a round-robin. That's - not chess - a sort of collective writing effort, where every participant writes a paragraph or two, and leaves the story hanging for somebody else to continue. Some groups enjoy making things as difficult as possible for each other, and such projects usually peter out soon under the weight of the resulting overcomplications and contradictions, but an actual cooperative effort can go far and be a lot of fun. (And I like that sort of thing, since writing 1-2 paragraphs at a time is about my speed.) :p I'm thinking an SF theme would be nice... or whatever, and we could put it here, or on the Moscow page, or hijack some inactive Robin's player page. ;) Any interest? :) |
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Nov-14-10
| | Domdaniel: < a sort of collective writing effort, where every participant writes a paragraph or two> Funnily enough, it's been tried before. But yeah, absolutely. I also tried writing a piece of fiction at a strict rate of one word per day, with the idea of completing a novel in a lifetime. Of course the writer has a breakdown or crisis of confidence and eventually inputs 700 successive obscenities ... |
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Nov-14-10
| | Annie K.: Kewl! :)
<Of course the writer has a breakdown or crisis of confidence and eventually inputs 700 successive obscenities ...> Easily solved. Just insert a scene with the MC needlessly losing an important chess game right before the string, and voila - it all makes perfect sense, and wins prizes for outstanding realism. ;) |
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Nov-14-10
| | chancho: <Open Defence: just follow the sign that says Gute Fahrt!> lol |
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Nov-14-10
| | Annie K.: <Dom: <Not to mention the <London Derriere>.>> The level of the conversation has really struck bottom here. :s Spank you very much. ;p |
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Nov-14-10
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> -- < Just insert a scene with the MC needlessly losing an important chess game right before the string> Doesn't work like that, unfortunately -- unless the writer knows the breakdown is coming and carefully writes an exposition to 'contain' it. But with everything going on in real time, it tends to come out like "As he contemplated the vision before him, he @#$% @#$% @#$% @#$% @#$% ..." And so on for a year or two. |
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Nov-14-10
| | Domdaniel: <Spank you very much>
I'll give yer arsenic if this goes on. |
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Nov-14-10
| | Annie K.: Heh... good one. :D
<And so on for a year or two.> Well yes... I was thinking about the way the editor can get a few things rewritten before publishing. You just keep on with the writing when you feel you're quite done with the string, and when you send the manuscript off to the publisher, simply attach a note about the scene to be incuded. ;) Well ok, that's a little bit cheating, but it does improve the chances for winning those prizes. ;) Or just decide you want to do it cut-up style - nobody said the writing can't be complicated <further>, did they? - then you can write the ending for the scene preceding the string, a reasonable plotline leading up to the chess game scene, et al, at your leisure any time, and just shuffle them around eventually... |
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Nov-14-10
| | Domdaniel: I *did*, in fact, start a word/day story right here a couple of years ago. It faded away in a few weeks. Just imagine, I'd have nearly 800 words now ... I realized (a) you have to start such things at a slightly younger age, and (b) it's a good concept - but better written up in Borges/Lem fake review form, as though somebody else had done it. Describing the childish intro, the rapid climb to greatness, the long string of obscenities during the author's depression, and the final return to sanity and the wise, mature, fade to black. The end. Bang. |
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Nov-14-10
| | Annie K.: :) Good outline - sounds quite possible.
Anywhoo, the round-robin concept is different in that working with others <in an uncoordinated fashion> is both more challenging and more interesting, as in unpredictable. The results (and the process itself) can be very funny too. Have you tried that? |
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| Nov-14-10 | | hms123: <Annie> Jess, Boomie (?), Twinlark, and I (others?) did something like that a few years ago. It was fun and turned out reasonably well. I don't know that I still have a copy---vagaries of changing hardware and all that--just saying. Besides, Dom is a pro and we are but poor writers on a stagecoach to nowhere. |
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