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| Aug-27-08 | | Red October: yes, probably better know by its anglicized name of "Bombay" (though to be honest I still call it Bombay) you could call it the financial services hub of South West Asia perhaps, but its not quite there yet... but very nice city to work in |
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Aug-27-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Ronald Wilson Reagan> heh <666>.
<Eyal> had a weblink to a funny site that had a bunch of <666> humor in it. One time in Toronto I saw a taxi that was number 666, but I'm proud to say I didn't panic! much. |
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| Aug-27-08 | | arifattar: With <Reagan> as well? Seems difficult. You have A = 6, B = 12, and so on. I always thought The Beast was supposed to be the Anti-Christ. No? Thanks for the info. But the <Reagon> one seems interesting. Should be a different system of counting. |
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Aug-27-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: No, <Beast> and <Antichrist> are separate. Together with the <Whore of Babylon> they make up a "mirror evil Trinity". Interestingly, the American "born again" account of <Revelations> has nothing to do with <Revelations>. It's like they haven't read their own book.
Well they are not big on "book learning" per se... |
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Aug-27-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: 6 letters in each of <Reagan's> 3 names. |
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| Aug-27-08 | | arifattar: While we are into this stuff, note that we are discussing this on page no. 420. Little devils are booked under section 420 in India. Yeah <Bombay> my home where my thought's escaping...... The nomenclature is still a sensitive issue with many. I am a moderator of an online community of fanatical <BOMBAY>ites |
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Aug-27-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <arifattar>
Yes- and no...
heh-
My screen doesn't show 420 pages because I have 300 people on ignore. <Bombay> is <Mumbai>!! I learned another fact today... |
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Aug-27-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Interestingly, <Munich> is really <Munchkin> in German. Similarly, <Prague> is really <Pr AHA!> in whatever language they speak there. I think it's Spanish but don't quote me on that. |
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| Aug-27-08 | | arifattar: Yeah and me learned a couple today. Thanks. It is time to say bye. Logging off now to crunch something other than numbers. |
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Aug-27-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Drop by again soon!
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| Aug-27-08 | | Red October: probably Czech... as in Czech Mate!! |
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| Aug-27-08 | | Red October: a game to check out in the English Four Knights
Christiansen vs I Sokolov, 1991
this variation itself does not seem to favour White much, but it is an entertaining game |
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Aug-27-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Thanks <Spaniel of Heaven>! I will have a lot of new study materials waiting for me in Korea now. I have to start the 80000 hour journey tomorrow.
Ugh! Tons of travel time....
Looks like I picked a bad decade to give up <chlorpromazam> |
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| Aug-27-08 | | Red October: btw Ivan Sokolov is a player worth checking out, very enterprising style Sutovsky vs I Sokolov, 2005
I was watching this game through a relay and I was like I wonder if 51...Qd3 would work.. and Sokolov played it! btw I suspect <Eyal> is <Sutovsky> in disguise... he always disappears when Sutovsky is playing :) |
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Aug-27-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Heh <Eyal> is busy translating his prize winning Phd Thesis into an English book. Then we can buy it!! (on Amazon) |
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| Aug-27-08 | | Open Defence: the one about Kafka ? :) |
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| Aug-27-08 | | hms123: <jess> Have a great trip! I left some teaching tips at my place. I am sure they will come in handy.--hms |
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Aug-27-08
 | | Domdaniel: <Deffi> Oddly enough, I didn't come up with <St Deffi the Wise> myself. It was coined by none other than *Jessica* herself, in a non-CG communication. Maybe I tweaked it slightly but the credit belongs to Jess. I can see a big painting here, maybe El Greco or Caravaggio: <St Deffi the Wise & the Blessed Jessica attended by Spanish Virgins and Backward Pawns>. |
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| Aug-27-08 | | Open Defence: Caravaggio for sure.. heh! |
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Aug-27-08
 | | Domdaniel: <Jess> I'm going to visit a <Man in a High Castle> tomorrow -- the same castle where Marilyn Manson's wedding took place, so it's probably still full of nameless beasts ... "with numbers on their backs/ and sequins on their tits/ the sartorial requirements/ for females, in the Ritz". This is only 80 miles away. But since I'm still a LENDL (Low Expectations, No Driving License) I have to go most of it by bus, which will take all day. I calculate you'll be travelling 24,000 times as fast as me, which is <ESCAPE VELOCITY> in anyone's language. |
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Aug-27-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: You are interviewing <Umberto Eco>? That sounds grand. Go light on the red wine as he's been known to 'push' this on his guests. He's still alive right? |
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Aug-27-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Also, interestingly, it was <Dom> who coined <Spaniel of Heaven>, in a truly ironic reversal!! heh- if it's a reversal you don't have to type "ironic" but I did anyways. |
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| Aug-27-08 | | WBP: <Jess> <<Bill> Hey! Where's my hello?
You've ditched me for that miserable old bag <Mrs. Alekhine>! heh did you see the "sasquatch in a fridge"?
Turns out it was mainly OPOSSUM meat.
The perpetrators, as you might suspect, are "Sasquatch promoters" in that they make money off the myth. I'm still looking for the <bona fide> skookum. They don't have any in Korea.>
HI!!!!! I'd never ditch you for anyone! But I knew that if she was going to tangle with you, she (and <Insane Olde Batte> would need to know a thing or two. Yeah, those two guys are about as stupid as it gets. And they were both cops! Not sure how they imagined things would play out, but going on national TV to make a claim you know is manifestly untrue that it will be found out to be so soon...well..sure hope the 'possom tastes good! Hey, I've finally "made it." I finally got a rating in Ratemyprofessors.com! Now I'm going to retire and write memoirs ("Diary of a Typographical Error Terror"). Love what you and <Niels> (Hi <Niels>) are doing with the various chess diagrams, which, alas, I can only give scant notice, such has been my schedule. Hi <DoM>, and everyone else. |
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| Aug-27-08 | | Duck McCluck: Welcome back! I can quack a sigh of relief. I have been ducking out until you and Mrs-A have been placed on opposite sides of a great firewall of china. I am glad to swim again in warm waters! Quack quack quack, a happy duck is me, quack quack quack, in a pleasant mood is thee. |
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Aug-27-08
 | | Domdaniel: <Jess> No, it was Jamieson's Whiskey which Eco pressed on me last time. It has legendary semiotic qualities in Italian culture: those who drink it become newspaper columnists. Which is exactly what happened. Spooky Romish semio-magic, I imagine. Tomorrow's victim is one of those insane Germans who makes stuff out of leather, glue, and dead celebrities. |
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