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Jun-07-11
 | | Annie K.: Yeah, <Jess> did say the 'ann' was more Canadian French accent. Well, there's nothing much wrong with it then, all in all. OK, much grass. :) Re.: PS - Yep. Maybe you could send me the address again, and no peeking at the previous version? ;) Cmfgyp Wbvkxj Qz. |
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Jun-07-11
 | | Domdaniel: Dunmailin. Lovely village. I'll move there some day. |
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Jun-08-11
| | Domdaniel: <what is this chess business?> If it's a business, I'm bust. My last income from the game was in 1989. But apparently it's to do with Cartesian skin parasites. I read that somewhere, so it must be a figment of the imagination. |
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| Jun-09-11 | | Once: <The urge to 'do good', to heal the wounds of battle and to raise the dead into lifemastery, can be a tad self-important.> Meaning me?
I've been called worse things than a tad self-important. Glenda Jackson did <once> accuse me of talking BS. Even if she did later try to say that it was meant as a compliment. |
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Jun-09-11
| | Domdaniel: Yes, I suppose I did have you in mind, Once. As it were. Along with a couple of others who have tried to stem the flow, stop the rot, end the pain, make it go away. You've been more articulate and even-handed than most, but also more persistent. We've all been called worse things. I could try to trump your celeb putdown by dear Glenda, but all I can think of right now is a Hollywood director who offered to hit me with her handbag. I suspect my memory edits out that kind of stuff. I'm certainly not given to dwelling on it. And I was being intentionally mild anyway. You understand the strictures of rhetoric better than most: I'd written myself into a corner where I simply had to end by accusing somebody of something. Once, a tad self important, was the mildest I could manage. Where we part company on the AJ Wars is your belief that these vast mounds of philosophical ordure pollute the whole site. I think they're good for it. |
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Jun-09-11
| | Domdaniel: Damn this l'esprit de l'escalier. When the pornographically named <Big Pawn> asked "Who died and made you God?" - or words to that effect - I shoulda mentioned the Dealey Lama and one of the Lamed Wufniks. And maybe my neighbour, the monster Acheron. |
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| Jun-09-11 | | Once: I'm with you part of the way. I certainly don't believe in deleting arguments. As you say, they are healthy and can be quite fun. So I have no-one on ignore and never delete posts in my forum. Don't want to miss anything or be accused of rewriting history. I also can't get too upset about AJ posting his own games. It's not what I would do and I'm not rushing to play through them, but we don't have to look at them if we don't want to. Heck the most recent of his games that folk are complaining about is one that AJ lost. He posts his losses. As they would say on the other side of the pond, go figure. For that matter, I can't get too excited or worried if people appropriate a section of this site to have their own private discussions. No big deal. But when the negativity leaches onto the more public areas of the site, like the POTD, then I start to get worried. When the posting guidelines are broken so often that we might as well not have them. Or when I start to think less of people I usually respect ... that's when it starts to matter to me. |
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| Jun-10-11 | | mack: 'It's Rae!'
(Rae's *it*.)
'Sit, Rae.'
(Rae sit.)
''is 'eart?'
''tis, Rae. Sear it.'
'Sear it?'
'Sear it.'
'Er... it's a...'
'Sear it. 's a rite.'
I stare. Tears; 'I...' |
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Jun-10-11
| | Domdaniel: Astir? E! |
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Jun-10-11
 | | OhioChessFan: Tea, sir? |
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Jun-10-11
| | OhioChessFan: <Where we part company on the AJ Wars is your belief that these vast mounds of philosophical ordure pollute the whole site. I think they're good for it.> I hope it doesn't ruin your day to discover I mostly agree with <Once> There is something disturbingly ugly going on. And really, I don't care if it ruins your day, mostly because I know it won't. |
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Jun-10-11
| | Domdaniel: I'm starting to agree with <Once> myself, but it's interesting to see a trained mediator in action... 1. Look for common ground, no matter how tiny. Deal with objections patiently, one by one. Remain calm. 2. Refer often to the "many people you respect on both sides". Everyone can think you mean them. No doubt there are many subtler techniques ... and they're gradually working on me. |
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| Jun-10-11 | | Once: <Refer often to the "many people you respect on both sides". Everyone can think you mean them.> Dash it, you're spotting my trade secrets! |
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Jun-10-11
| | Domdaniel: Think I'll stay home for a while. In all senses.
I have this recurring nightmare in which Once's efforts merely convert the pack into AJ *supporters*, and they run around biting and snapping at anyone who disagrees. Pavlov called it the ultraparadoxical phase, as I recall. |
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| Jun-10-11 | | Once: Somehow I can't see that happening.
I'll settle for people not threatening to kill each other, criticism to the point of slander and no insults about AJ's late wife. Mutual disliking, loathing, sarcasm, difference of opinion - that sort of stuff think we can all cope with. Which is probably just as well, cos I don't think it is going to go away. Interesting POTD today, BTW. I can't make my mind up whether it's a straight puzzle, a spoiler or just a bad choice by the admins. Have a look (if you haven't already). I'd value your opinion. |
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Jun-10-11
| | Annie K.: <Once> good luck. :) <Dom> home, sweet home. ;) And you have <mack> back here too! =) Also, your "IRL" home is about to be attacked by a rogue package, sent yesterday, so stay there indeed. At least for the coffee. :p |
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Jun-11-11
| | Domdaniel: <Once> Can't see any problem with Polugaevsky vs Ftacnik, 1982, other than being rather deep and rather beautiful. So you must have meant yesterday's puzzle, which I never got round to looking at. |
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Jun-11-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Yes, <mack> dotted the final oxymoron on his meisterwerke over 36 hours ago, and began spewing out puns and anagrams instead. Perhaps later the lad will enjoy half a pint of shandy and calm down. |
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Jun-11-11
| | Domdaniel: <Panama hats> This thread woke something in my brain. Paul Morphy's father, Judge Alonzo Morphy, was *killed* by a Panama hat. True story. The brim cut him above the eye and he succumbed to blood poisoning. |
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| Jun-11-11 | | Once: Yup, it was today when I wrote it but yesterday now. Hey, isn't that a line from a song?
"I was twenty one years when I wrote this song
I'm twenty two now but I won't be for long."
Here's the link to yesterday's if you want to join in the fun. Rare for a POTD to remain unresolved. C Maier vs I Gat, 2008 Talking of unusual ways to leave this world, didn't Kirsty Maccoll die in a water-skiing accident? She was swimming and a water skier or a powerbpoat hit her. Or something like that. Then again, for dark humour you can't beat the conversation that Elvis and Rod Hull might have had if they met in the after life... "So how did you get here?"
Always assuming that one or both of them did indeed shuffle off this mortal coil. |
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Jun-11-11
 | | moronovich: And people get killed by a dime thrown from a skyscraber. Standup comedian: "so why dont we just throw 72 cents here and there in Afghanistan ?" |
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Jun-11-11
| | Domdaniel: <A latent pedant wakes>
"This mortal coil" is *not* a bendy planet or a squiggly serpentine place of habitation. It is properly pluralized - "these mortal coils" - and it refers to our bodies, which are to be imagined as coiled around the kernel of our souls. The notion that the Shagsperean 'coil' is akin to 'roil' or 'tumult' is at best unsatisfactory. <Indy's Rule> states that, where alternatives exist, choose the one without snakes. Coil was also a punk-era musical combo specialising in electronic noise. Mortality may be assumed. A soul is composed of 50% light and 50% mucus. Despite having the viscosity of the latter, it moves with the velocity of the former. Which in turn should not be confused with that well-known agricultural measure, F, the velocity of the Farmer, which is roughly two furlongs per 'arvest, unless a tractor is used. |
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Jun-11-11
| | Domdaniel: *walking the dog*
This - as in the Rufus Thomas song 'Walking the Dog', performed so brilliantly by Mr John Cale on Sabotage/Live - is old American slang for heroin addiction. Because one does it every day, presumably.
But I meant that I *was* unmetaphorically
*walking the dog*. |
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Jun-11-11
| | Domdaniel: I had this on DVD and I lost the disc. Oy, so it goes. Unless it eloped with one of my Fritzes. http://youtu.be/3F4QgYbVbrc |
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| Jun-11-11 | | Once: I consider myself properly out-pedanted. |
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