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Jul-24-07
 | | Domdaniel: "Eleventy o'clock and I didn't feel like very much,
I said to myself 'where are you, Naqadah boy? Where's your famous naqadah touch?'
I thought you knew where all the Goa'uld lie down,
I thought you were the pilot of every death glider in the town,
Just take a look at your body now,
There's nothing left to hate,
And an alien voice in the mirror cries,
"Hey prince! Dial the Gate."
[with the usual apologies to Leonard Cohen *and* to Stargate SG-1, who both have Canadian connections and would make a perfect couple.] |
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| Jul-24-07 | | Red October: <Where does the Snowman fit?> are you trying to be funny old boy ? |
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Jul-24-07
| | Domdaniel: <Red> I'm pretty much always *trying* to be funny. I'm aware that sometimes I miss the mark by so much that the result is mistaken for lunacy, daftness, insult, typos, sobriety, very bad chess annotations, poetry, translations from Antarctican, 'that guy up to his incomprehensible tricks again', random wordplay or genius. But I sometimes get a LOL or an even more valuable <heh heh> ... or even a word from your good self, casually thrown down from Mt Olympus where you live with Marx and Spenser. I'm guessing. |
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Jul-24-07
| | Domdaniel: <Deffi> True story ... a guy accosted me in a train station a couple of days back, and started spouting poetry at me ... he also offered me cider and asked if I wanted anyone killed. Routine stuff, the assassination offer aside... drunks who spout their self-penned verses in railway stations being an Irish tradition. Or maybe I just attract oddballs. Things like this seem to happen to me a lot. Funny thing is his poem sounded pretty good -- not doggerel, not simple verse, not just blind passion. It had subtlety, but I can't remember any of it. But he seemed to want me to reciprocate, and communication is tricky when the other guy is doggedly repeating his answer to a question from five minutes earlier, and you're about to miss the last train. So -- just before sprinting away down the platform -- I recited the only 'poem' I could think of. In a way, it's about our friend <Red October> (and yes, I've used a version of it here before). And all poetry is a kind of hunt, as Yeats woulda said if he'd been wittier, or Oscar Wilde woulda said if he coulda been bothered. Anyways, here goes: <A war surplus submarine sandwich/
Fires torpedoes at your head/
The waiter is waiting for money;/
The manager's eyes are dead.>
Then I ran away. Who could blame me? |
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Jul-24-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Not me. Although I hope you got his "number."
You never know when you might need someone "whacked." See <Jim Jarmusch's> very fine <Ghost Dog> for evidence that <artists> make the best <hit men>. |
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| Jul-24-07 | | JoeWms: <Artists make the best hit men.> A fine example is "Solo" by Jack Higgins. It's about a concert pianist on tour. It was released about 25 or 30 years ago. |
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Jul-24-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Joe> that film sounds awfully familiar... I'm wondering if I've seen it on TV. I'd GOOGLE it, but I'm way too lazy for such shenanigans. <Batchimeg Tuvshintugs, Mongolian Champ> |
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Jul-24-07
| | Domdaniel: Can I just mention <Grosse Point Blank> here? No reason, just the fact that it's my forum and I'll whack whomever I choose. 'Whomever',eh? And they say hitpersons don't got no class. Apart from class reunions, aka armageddon writ small. Once more, Armageddon outta here... |
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Jul-24-07
| | Domdaniel: Oops. It's not my forum. I think I've mislaid myself. Either that or somebody else mislaid me. Now I have to go against 1,800,000 years of hominid evolution and ask for directions. |
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| Jul-24-07 | | Eyal: <Jess> A suggestion for a new chess terminology you might like, after the first 4 rounds in Montreal: <I guess we could have castled short [0-0], castled long [0-0-0] and then castled <Short> again [0-0-0-0]> (http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt...) |
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| Jul-24-07 | | JoeWms: Even nitpicks help your stats. I got careless and didn't notice the subject was films. Jack Higgins's "Solo" is a book about a concert pianist on tour who contracts hits in the cities on his performance schedule. Bye.
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Jul-24-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Eyal> LOLOLOL!
<Short Circuit in Montreal
<<<Nigel Short>>> may have more than a little very well-aged beef with Gata Kamsky, but it's not on the crosstable of the Montreal International. After four rounds of this category 16 (2650) ten-player all-play-all, Kamsky is one of the trio of leaders with 3/4, along with Eljanov and Ivanchuk. Meanwhile, Short is doing his best to make Pascal Charbonneau look like Genghis Khan. My fellow Brooklynite, still playing for Canada, has a half point so far, but he's being kept out of the cellar by Short, who has lost all four games. <In other words, Short has the same score as Canadian chess legend Abe Yanofsky, and Yanofsky's dead>. By the way, we need a term for losing four in a row. "Castling long" for three straight losses is pretty good. I'm sure we can do better than "castling really long." Baseball has the "golden sombrero" for striking out four times in one game, upgrading the universal "hat trick" for things that come in threes.> |
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| Jul-25-07 | | Eyal: Btw, I've finally made it to the list of the top 40 Mouthiest kibitzers on this site... (ChessGames.com Statistics Page) |
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Jul-25-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Heh I just bet the farm on <Grischuk v Radjabov>. <Grischuk> OWNS <Radjabov> when he has the white pieces. I'm counting my winnings already!! |
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| Jul-25-07 | | achieve: <jessicafischerqueen: Heh I just bet the farm on <Grischuk v Radjabov>.> That's no surprise, you have a luxurious home on every continent.. ;-p (hey.. my jokes are getting even worse..)
I am an ABSLUTE DISGRACE!! A blithering FOOL!!! |
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Jul-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <Joe> -- <Even nitpicks help your stats. > There's some folk might say that stats and nitpicks are actually the same thing. I don't agree. With stats, you don't have a nit stuck to your fingernail afterwards. |
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| Jul-25-07 | | achieve: Btw I was SUBconsciously imitating your vocabulary. Sew me.
I just can't help myself, it seems..
Regardez,
Noway |
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| Jul-25-07 | | achieve: HELP!!
Sew = Sue
No harm intended!
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Jul-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <Sew me.> I'm sorry, but I am unable to follow this thread. The Missionaries warned me that you people might be dangerous, but they really had NO IDEA. Stew me. |
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| Jul-25-07 | | achieve: Yeah, I know that may be confusing..
<I'm sorry, but I am unable to follow this thread.> Is that pure brilliancy or do you have access to other means...?? I'm onto you, friend!
;-)) or ROFL!! |
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Jul-25-07
| | Domdaniel: Kurtz needs our help. A perfect string of zeroes is tantalisingly within reach, but the poor hapless sap could so easily spoil everything with a <Grossmeister Point Blank> draw. We have to do something. They say syphilis worked on Pillsbury in Russia 100 years ago, but antibiotics would save him now. Should we try Prayer? Or stick to tradition and find a volunteer to deliver a STD? Or -- *wicked grin* -- BOTH of the above simultaneously. "Our Virus, which art in electron microscope, elusive be thy molecular structure. Give us this day our daily mutation..." [*usual disclaimers, blah blah... no sentient life forms were harmed... no non-omnipotent entities have been insulted, and frankly the Omnis are well able to look out for themselves*] "No names have been changed to protect the innocent, since God Almighty protects the innocent as a matter of heavenly routine." -- Kurt Vonnegut "I'm not quite as cool or forgiving as I sound..." -- Bob Dylan |
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Jul-25-07
| | Domdaniel: I lied. Two names were changed to protect the innocent: Kurtz and Domdaniel. But one is a legendary fictional character. And the other was in some Conrad book, I think. |
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| Jul-25-07 | | achieve: I did write sew by mistake, as the translation in Dutch is a "double entendre". <Dom> We are dangerous! But not armed! Btw a bomb has gone off in the Tour de France as Michael Rasmussen has been taken out of the tour 15 minutes ago.. Try and talk to "you" later. |
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Jul-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> -- <Is that pure brilliancy or .. ?> "What do *you* think, Theseus?", as the lassie in the labyrinth said. |
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Jul-25-07
| | Domdaniel: The Missionaries also told me that I wouldn't stay down. Spew me. |
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