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Nov-29-10
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| Nov-29-10 | | hms123: <Dom> Do you have a nomination for the Rinus Award? Your opinion would be highly valued. |
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Nov-29-10
 | | Domdaniel: <hms> Yes. I do. But I expect my suggestion, when I make it, to carry the same weight as anyone else. None of this 'highly valued' nonsense. I'm not a bleedin' gemstone or a work of art. Or even a minor soothsayer. Struth.
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| Nov-29-10 | | hms123: <Dom> A little flattery didn't get me anywhere, did it? Ok, you win. Your opinion will carry some small unspecified bit of weight. BTW, I am now reading some Iain Banks (The Steep Approach to Garbadale) with The Algebraist to follow. |
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Nov-29-10
| | Domdaniel: <hms> Thankyew. Unspecified weight will do nicely. Didja mention a Dec 3rd deadline? Or was it Dec 1st? I shall aim for Dec 2nd. That way I'm either a little bit late or a little bit early. Like the apocryphal Irish hotel ...
- Rrrrring!
- Uh, hello?
- Mornin', sir. Eh, was it seven or eight ye were wanting the alarm call? - Seven! My god, what time is it now?
- Ehhh. Nine? |
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| Nov-29-10 | | hms123: <Dom>
Where you walk becomes the path. The deadline is after you post. Lao Who? |
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Nov-29-10
| | Domdaniel: Where I walk is *a* path. A vector mapped in snow. If enough people take the same path it becomes a route and ossifies into a highway. Boring things, highways: but the solo path is random, ungoverned, stochastic, free of attractors. The drunkard's walkway, the way madness lies. In between is interesting.
Lao d'Haylar |
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Nov-29-10
| | Domdaniel: <the number madness ... wearing its first smiley ...>
This is post number 15151. If I could now somehow make *half* a post, I would attain decimal 15151.5 And if I could, even more somehowishly, make 17/33rds of a post ... why, I would reach 15151.51515151 ... and so on ad infinitum. A simple recurring decimal, as large as the universe. Well, nearly.
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Nov-29-10
 | | Annie K.: I like the smiley theme, so I'll try to help out. ;) With the number of posts you've got around here, the chances are pretty good (just don't ask me to calculate'em...), that your 15151'st post was half the length of some previous post, and maybe even 17/33rd of some other previous post. OK, whether this would make it actually worth "half a post" (etc.) is very arguable, but at least there's something to argue about. ;p |
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Nov-29-10
| | Domdaniel: Hmmm ... a monosyllabic stand-alone haiku would take care of the "17" part (as long as we're talking words/syllables rather than characters or bytes) ... eg ... <As we are now in
The lee of some more fierce storm
I will wait for heat>
As for The Thirty-three, I'll dig out some vinyl and dance. Or find an Uruguayan? Think I'd rather dance ... |
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Nov-29-10
| | Annie K.: <Or find an Uruguayan?> Although the connection between 33 and Uruguay goes clear over my head, and I'm not really here anyway, since I'm reading akshly, I can still point out that some of them Uruguayans are rumored to be female, so it could be worth your while. ;) |
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Nov-29-10
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> - <at least there's something to argue about>
You mean 'debate', Shirley?
[brief pause to remember the late Leslie Nielsen, way up there among *Great Canadians wot I have met*] Ahem. Yes. Debate? Discuss? Converse animatedly about? Make inadvertently concurrent animadversions to? Uh, *talk about* ...? It's just, yanno, I'd hate to have our first argument over something as trivial as ... whatever it was. Probably something I said. |
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Nov-29-10
| | Domdaniel: <Uruguay> The *Treinta y tres* aka *los treinta y tres orientales* are Uruguay's national heroes, founding fatherpersons, etc ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty... Hmpf. Thought *everyone* knew that.
Since 33 was also the number of miners recently rescued in Chile, the number now has resonances in two South American countries. |
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Nov-29-10
| | Annie K.: Heh. Well ok, actually LOL. :)
You're due congratulations, sweet, on accounta, lotsa people can't tell the difference between arguments and debates. And I always liked those who could. ;) Right, we don't have to argue if you don't feel like it... but it's still spelled "Strewth" in correct Strine . ;) |
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Nov-29-10
| | Annie K.: Aha.. thanks for that. :)
<Hmpf. Thought *everyone* knew that.> Yes dear, but I'm not "everyone". ;p |
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Nov-29-10
| | Domdaniel: Sixty-six Americans
Went down in history
Thirty-three came up again
The rest's a mystery. |
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Nov-29-10
| | Annie K.: Incidentally, does everybody get that "A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales" banner ad when visiting a Wiki page these days? Much as I truly sympathize with Wiki's noble principles of free information sharing, I do wish the good man didn't remind me so much of "gladly the cross-eyed bear". It makes me immediately need to scroll the page... :s |
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Nov-29-10
| | Domdaniel: < I'm not "everyone">
Nor just anyone.
Strewth is Strine
And <struth> isn't even mine. A minced form of "god's truth" (as 'Zounds!' was "god's wounds", and 'Snails!', well, uh, I can see why that never caught on ...) Wasn't there also a General St Ruth, killed by a cannonball during one of those interminable 17th century sieges in Ireland? It's not as if there were many walled towns or cities to begin with. I must retire the aphorism apparatus and take the encyclo-chip out now ... G'♘ |
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Nov-29-10
| | Domdaniel: <The Outlaw Jimmy Wales>
Heh. Yes indeedy, most Gladly-like. Gladioli?
Ackshly, it reminds me of one of the spoof ads in the 'Thursday Next' series of scifi spoofs (amusing, light, sub-Adams/Sheckley) by Jasper Fforde. Thursday's the heroine. She's got a day job as a time-travel cop, but also travels into books to run 'jurisfiction'. Anyhoo ... there are full-page ads for The Socialist Republic of Wales. One reads: Come to Wales. Not *always* raining.
G'♘, G'♘, G'zzzzzzzzzzzz |
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Nov-29-10
| | Annie K.: <and 'Snails!', well, uh, I can see why that never caught on ...> Hee hee...
As Ruths go, my favorite would be T'Ruth, a character in Cordwainer Smith's 'On the Storm Planet', a novelette belonging to the 'Lords of the Instrumentality' series - I've mentioned her before. :) In her case, the T' prefix means "turtle". She is an "Underperson", an animal-derived human. Old, old theme, of course, going back to Wells' 'Island of Doctor Moreau', also used by Van Vogt in 'The Battle of Forever'... G'♘,
Shirley Yanno,
Communications Officer
Procrastinators' Club |
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Nov-29-10
| | Domdaniel: Alien corn, innit?
(Sorry. Somebody *hadda* say it.)
Now I'm really not ... here ... |
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| Nov-30-10 | | dakgootje: <Hobbes ... that would be Calvin's tigerish friend rather than Thomas 'Leviathan' Hobbes, who swore tolerably round oaths when he discovered geometry in a gentleman's library?> I thought Bill Watterson has stated that the characters are influenced by their namesakes. In which case there should not be much of a difference. I could not see the influences in all honesty though. The sentence was written with both in mind ;) |
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| Nov-30-10 | | dakgootje: I am confuzzeled.
Is namesake :
a) I am Jack Jackson and I meet someone else called Jack [possibly a Jack Jackson] and we are namesakes from each other b) I am called Elvis because mommy and daddy rily rily laiked that one guy who is dead or perhaps not because maybe he is on some lonely island and did not want attention [etc] and is he my namesake c) both of the above
d) neither of the above
-- On this test you can score 10 points, divided over 1 question. Good luck! |
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Nov-30-10
| | Domdaniel: And Michael Jackson begat Prince Michael, and the nature of the begetting is among the things that are hid. And later, in like manner, or not, did Michael Jackson beget another Prince Michael. And lo, they were namesakes of one another. But never from. And Michael Jackson wed the daughter of Elvis, but no Elvis Jacksons were begotten. And icicles hang from the roof, but if you think this is cold wait until they put you in cryonic storage, where hell freezeth over and Elvis Jackson waits with Walt Disney. |
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| Nov-30-10 | | dakgootje: Thanks! That explains it quite clearly :) |
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