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Apr-21-11
 | | Annie K.: Did I ever tell you about the time I was taking some pictures and then put my camera away, and then couldn't find it? Until I looked in the fridge.
Just saying... hope you feel better now. ;) |
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| Apr-21-11 | | Somebody: Yes I do, in fact, just every day of my life actually. But, on to the more serious matters at hand: I do reassure you! Hope you feel better now, <Dom>! P.S.: I am not Jessica ... |
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Apr-21-11
| | Annie K.: I assume "somebody else" will show up next. Darned (and mismatched) socks. :p <Dom> - ackshly, dear, I'm glad to hear you are interacting with people at all. :p Yeah, I know - "you think I ..." ;) |
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Apr-21-11
 | | Domdaniel: Thank you, thank you. Fridge photography is an interesting hobby ... kitchen stuff has many uses. I used to make short-lived sculptures from the bubbles formed by boiling washing up liquid ... now I prefer to watch the temperature dial on a kettle and make calculations. Sometimes I switch it on first. Um, where was I? One doesn't actually have to interact with humans to smell the idiocy. They leave evidence - their media, their cities, their *stuff*. Enough to give a stylite claustrophobia ... and I don't often sit on columns. Why would anyone want their socks to match? OCD territory, I suspect. I may have been screaming quietly for a while there ... Festin Nu meets Eddie Munch ... but it's much better now. Thanks, Annie. Thanks, Somebody. Yes, Jessica, I know you're not Jessica, you *really are* somebody. As are we all, even the compulsive master-baiters. |
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Apr-21-11
| | Annie K.: <I used to make short-lived sculptures from the bubbles formed by boiling washing up liquid ...> Never made any mountains out of mashed potatoes? ;)
<now I prefer to watch the temperature dial on a kettle and make calculations. Sometimes I switch it on first.> Heh... reminds me of the one that goes
'I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put some in the food.' Not a personal statement, of course, since I can't stand alcohol. :s <Why would anyone want their socks to match? OCD territory, I suspect.> You really need to read Harry Potter. You'll like Dobby. ;p Heh. Nite. :) |
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| Apr-21-11 | | TheFocus: <Domdaniel> <I may have been screaming quietly for a while there> Funny but I have that feeling a lot. |
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| Apr-21-11 | | TheFocus: Watches and clocks earlier.
My advice: Watch your step, but don't step on your watch. |
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Apr-22-11
| | Annie K.: <the compulsive master-baiters> So nu, I tried not to comment on that, I really tried. But, every now and then, I have to admit that you're brilliant, sweet. :) Also (as you can probably tell), ;) I finished the Chabon book last night, and he's brilliant too, rilly. Thanks for the recommendation. |
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Apr-22-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Thanks ... have to go and chase an inflated ego now. Give it any encouragement and it thinks it's a blimp. |
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Apr-22-11
| | Annie K.: I know, dear, I know... ;p |
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Apr-22-11
 | | LIFE Master AJ: <Dom> Most of cheating - to the best of my knowledge - occurs on the Internet. However, people do cheat in OTB. When Richard Crespo was running tournaments in New Orleans, one of his students was doing well. However, I noticed that he left the tournament hall after EVERY move. Needless to say, this aroused my suspicions. I followed the kid out, he had a "Pocket Fritz" and was using it to make his moves. |
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Apr-23-11
| | Domdaniel: <AJ> So I've heard. I don't like playing online ... not so much because of possible cheaters as because I find it hard to take the games seriously. And I like the atmosphere at OTB events. And yes, of course, cheating happens there too. Haven't seen much, but one hears stories. What I find totally farcical is the FIDE practice of testing players for supposedly performance enhancing chemicals (to keep in line with Olympic norms for physical sports) when the real danger in chess is silicon. |
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Apr-24-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Hello <Dom>= your mild mannered, but substantial, posts on the <AJ-Nakamura Fight Club> thread were a good idea. Distract people with actual ideas about chess.
However, the fact that this thread appears on the top three list of "recent Kibbutzing" on the front page every single day is not a good advertisement for <chessgames.com>. It's bad enough that the <Rogoff> page is already there as well every day. Terrible advertising. There are children who use this website. I'm glad to see the administrators recently deleted a series of posts on the <AJ-Naka> thread that "featured" a disgusting "discussion" of a frankly sexual nature. Look <Dom> if you and me want to post dirty limericks there are heh |
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Apr-24-11
 | | Open Defence: Happy Easter!!! |
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Apr-24-11
| | Domdaniel: Hi, Jess. Just being my mild-mannered and somewhat tedious long-winded self, yanno? He who speaks with long wind, kinda thing? I'm not sure the Nakagoldbugs are distractable, or educable. They just like fighting. Maybe a couple are torn between loathing the self and the other, and could use a few centuries of therapy. But I have better things to do with eternity. Like finding a way in. |
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Apr-24-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> quite right.
"loathing the self and other"
That sounds like an allusion to Sartre's illuminating, and not well-enough known, book-length essay "AntiSemite and Jew." Food for thought, literally. |
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Apr-24-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: "goldbugs"?
Are you referring to <Poe>? Apropos of nothing, you realize there's no such thing as "the intertext," right? Mrs. Was Forced to take too many Semiotics courses and what on earth do they have to do with "Touch of Evil" in the first place. |
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Apr-24-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: Well Ok just one more can't resist-
"finding a way in to eternity"
Acolyte: "But Buddha, then when is eternity?"
Buddha: "Now. Be sure to take a look or you might miss it." |
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Apr-24-11
| | Domdaniel: I thought an acolyte was the bridge equivalent of a patzer. M'sieur Alfred Jarry, who features regularly in these pages, thought 'ethernity' more innaresting than the other kind. As for finding a way in, I suspect there's a portal in Dirty Limerick. |
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Apr-24-11
| | Domdaniel: Speaking of poetry, I saw a verse by James Stephens from 1922 celebrating Irish independence - whatever that was, musta been before they called the IMF - featuring the lines ... <Call, and come, and come, and call!
Nothing is denied the gay!
All to each, and each to all!>
And people say there's no internet.
Oh, wait, it was intertext. Never mind. Lolling at anachronisms is still gay. Like people who skip trigonometry lessons in order to dry grass, they shun sines while making hay. |
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| Apr-24-11 | | hms123: <the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides.> Or,
<the squire of the high pot and noose is equal to the sum of the squires of the other two sides> |
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Apr-24-11
| | Domdaniel: The Squire of High Potternews ... ? |
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| Apr-25-11 | | hms123: There were three medieval kingdoms on the shores of a lake. There was an island in the middle of the lake, over which the kingdoms had been fighting for years. Finally, the three kings decided that they would send their knights out to do battle, and the winner would take the island. The night before the battle, the knights and their squires pitched camp and readied themselves for the fight. The first kingdom had 12 knights, and each knight had five squires, all of whom were busily polishing armor, brushing horses, and cooking food. The second kingdom had twenty knights, and each knight had 10 squires. Everyone at that camp was also busy preparing for battle. At the camp of the third kingdom, there was only one knight, with his squire. This squire took a large pot and hung it from a looped rope in a tall tree. He busied himself preparing the meal, while the knight polished his own armor. When the hour of the battle came, the three kingdoms sent their squires out to fight (this was too trivial a matter for the knights to join in). The battle raged, and when the dust had cleared, the only person left was the lone squire from the third kingdom, having defeated the squires from the other two kingdoms, thus proving that <the squire of the high pot and noose is equal to the sum of the squires of the other two sides>. |
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Apr-25-11
| | Domdaniel: Why, <hms>. A full-length narrative, practically. I am oddly moved. I stole my pun - The Squire of High Potternews - from Jasper Fforde, from whom I also lifted 'The Big Over Easy'. I'll get back to my own punnery section forthwith, despite the anguish seemingly caused to Farquitts. Oh, dash it. One Daphne Farquitt penned a bodice-ripper, The Squire of High Potternews, in the aforementioned Fforde. Imbeciles, is what I shoulda said.
An *imbecile* is somebody who has temporary residence, or domicile, in an imbroglio. Domicile? Yeah, just passing through, me. |
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| Apr-25-11 | | hms123: <Dom> I just assume that being a poly<math> means that you know all of these math puns. I have to go back and try Fforde again. I read the first two books in the series and lost interest for no particular reason. It may have been that my real life (such as it is) interfered with my mental state (assuming that I have one). |
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