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| Sep-12-11 | | mworld: <OhioChessFan: <Srsly, <Ohio>, very suspicious behavior... >
Indeed. However, obvious as it is, it's a paramount truth that there is a time and a place for everything. Calling Infidel Central...there's a time and place. Agitating the evolutionists.....there's a time and place. Letting someone take a shot at me and I pay it no mind.....there's a time and place. I will note the single most annoying poster on this site did recently earn some admiration from me for paying no mind to an especially vulgar shot taken at him.
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so im just catching up on all these shots...well erm, I guess to mean these *rhetorical* shots. Ironically, Once was considering the age old spit or swallow around the same time as the Col took aim and fired. |
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| Sep-12-11 | | mworld: <DD>
In the village of Bernard Shaw (which I titled one of the games) Bernard would argue the necessity of the village idiot. Maybe you can incorporate into the model. |
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Sep-12-11
 | | Domdaniel: <mworld> Indeed - Village Idiot used to be a worthy calling, part of the village ecosystem ... but now any old, um, idiot can become one overnight. It used to take years of toil, apprenticed to a senior idiot. And you weren't a properly qualified V.I. until you'd produced a Masterpiece of Mind-numbing Stupidity -- but who cares about that kind of craft now? McLuhan promised us a Global Village. Instead we got Globville, the Suburb of the Sick. |
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| Sep-13-11 | | mworld: i never got to hear about globville. did you try it? |
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Sep-13-11
| | Domdaniel: I live in it. Everyone does, now. |
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Sep-13-11
| | Domdaniel: A clue from today's Guardian cryptic crossword: <Mismatch? Cry out "That's what 5 26's 20 is really about!" (11)> I already had the others:
5 was 'Arthur'
26 was 'Miller'
20 was 'The Crucible' (an anagram of 'electric hub', incidentally) So we look for an anagram of *Mismatch cry* with reference to Miller's play ... <McCarthyism>. Funny, don't think I'd noticed that before. |
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Sep-13-11
 | | Annie K.: In an alternative universe, the Vikings landed in China. One robust Viking maiden, having married a son of the noble Tang family, produced so many children for him - having failed to die in childbirth, as his two former, more petite, Chinese wives had - that he eventually lost all interest in his latest offspring, and even left their naming to their mother. She named one of them, after her father, Uric. :p |
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Sep-13-11
| | Domdaniel: And his Hungarian fencing instructor, a foul-mouthed Magyar famous for his skill with the rapier, the epee, and the saber, grew impatient with the youngster's inability to dissemble. "Feint, Uric T'ang", he bellowed. |
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Sep-13-11
| | Annie K.: :) Ah, this could so easily grow into a fascinating alternative history novel... if we weren't too lazy to keep it going. ;) |
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Sep-13-11
| | Domdaniel: OK, then, these Chinese Vikings ... you reckon they were a branch of the Kievan Rus who headed east from the Volga, or descendants of Lief Ericsson who came via North America, aka Vineland? Or mebbe they rowed around Cape Horn? |
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Sep-13-11
| | Annie K.: Via North America, definitely. This would allow the use of all sorts of great American Indian cliches. :D |
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Sep-13-11
| | Domdaniel: As the sage Lakota-Tsu, also known as Lao-Tsioux, once said, "Where did these Frenchmen come from?" Chinese terms for foreigners were often less than effusive, as western Gweilo or ghosts will attest. I think the Japanese were known as 'dwarf pirates'. |
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| Sep-13-11 | | dakgootje: I'd love to be a dwarf pirate. With my very own dwarf parrot, and a small fruit-knife saber. And demand a lot of respect, because otherwise they'd quickly get hit in the shins, or thereabouts, without them seeing anyone. Moreover, I'd need only half a pint of lager to be completely wasted - so that'd be fairly cheap. |
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Sep-13-11
| | Annie K.: <dakkie> and you'd be called Lilly... so you might be able to claim some relation to <hms>. :D <Dom> heh. Yeah, the Chinese culture was quite parochial; perhaps the quintessential villager mindset. In reality - even an alternative one - the Viking maiden could only be a concubine, a status of wife would be extremely unlikely. |
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| Sep-13-11 | | dakgootje: Sure, dwarf pirate Lilly it is. I'm yet unsure whether to have a tiny pirate-boat or a full-sized one. Or perhaps extra-large, to compensate. In any case, it shall be called HMS The Valley.
Dread, I'd need a crew as well, for my pirating business. And capture quite some ships, or I'll turn a net-loss, while this should be a cost-effective enterprise. Perhaps I should become a land-based pirate and specialize in swearing, spitting and looking tough. |
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Sep-13-11
| | Annie K.: I think you could still have the parrot... that's the main thing, innit? :) |
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Sep-13-11
| | Domdaniel: It was a conversation like this that gave Terry Gilliam the inspiration for Time Bandits. "OK, dwarf pirates, led by a flying Dutchman called Lilly the Pink. And an Evil One besotted with technology. And Robin Hood - "Have you met them, the Poor? Awfully nice people, just a tad, well, *poor*." And Napoleon ..." |
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Sep-13-11
| | Annie K.: Napoleon goes with the extra-large pirate boat option. :) |
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Sep-14-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Hey <Dom> I know I was teasing you over at Annie's, but still it's been a long time since we spoke. I found it quite rude, actually, that you did not acknowledge, in any way, that I had addressed you. I figure we deserve a little more than that from each other? This was more galling than it might have been given your recent criticism of others at this site for flagrantly rude behavior (although I fully agree with your choice of targets, as usual). At any rate, if I indeed offended you, then it's me who was rude, and I'll apologize in advance. Or after the fact?
You do the math! |
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Sep-14-11
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> - <I figure we deserve a little more than that from each other?> Of course, my queen. 8761 times as much, approx.
I just, y'know, hadn't got around to responding - pleased though I was to see your interjection. I'll try to mention this more often. |
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Sep-14-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: Well it's just good to talk with you again, much too long between chinwags. It's no worries you know I can't stay peeved at you for long. However, I do enjoy complaining, and with my family 10,000 kilometers away, there's a shortage. You can't complain- ever- to a Korean person.
They smile and do nothing and then secretly hate your guts the rest of their life. It's the "Asian way" although it's hard to see how Buddhism arose from that kind of attitude. |
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| Sep-14-11 | | dakgootje: <I think you could still have the parrot...> I'd refuse being a pirate -even a DWARF pirate!- without a parrot. Parrots are an imperative accessory in this line of work. The least I can do for my business-victims -while I stab them in their knee- is a parrot squeaking 'Awk, pieces of eight' and things like that. |
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| Sep-14-11 | | dakgootje: Why do we call the period after noon, afternoon, but before noon not beforenoon? Instead, there is apparently a necessity for dawn and morning. It's the same way in Dutch. Middag is literally noon [mid day], and namiddag is occasionally used, but never voormiddag. It's odd. |
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Sep-14-11
| | Annie K.: <Jess> interesting, that bit about the Asian attitude.
Makes sense with Buddhism, though - accumulating all those suppressed resentments over the years, they need an incentive to calm down and not take things so hard, or they'd all die of burst veins and heart attacks... :s <dakkie> quite right, on all fronts! :) Hmm, "beforenoon" is a perfectly normal word in both Hungarian and Hebrew, and just as commonly used as afternoon. I might venture a guess that cultures in which it's a less common word, may not be getting much done in that time period... or at least not much that they'd want to talk about. ;p |
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| Sep-14-11 | | dakgootje: <cultures in which it's a less common word, may not be getting much done in that time period> Whereas I like a good theory as much as the next dwarf pirate - I have my doubts here. The Dutch are historically proud not so much on their tolerance [which would also be misplaced nowadays], but the hard-work, honesty [often interpreted as rudeness] and down-to-earthness. A very simple society with simple rules, fairly deprived of passion. Which might actually be a cause of the historic tolerance - imagine a farmer; if you are good for his cows, he won't give a @#$% about your religion. Of course this is simplifying a lot, but you'll get the general picture. Or, if we suppose this view might be culturally-influenced, take the Germans. I presume they are seen in the rest of the world as very precise and hard-working. They have a separate word for morning as well. |
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