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Aug-01-18
 | | offramp: Now that the two founders have gone, what will become of the site? Does this site earn money? Would anyone want to buy it? I have had a wonderful vision!
An entrepreneur buys the site. He is highly computer literate. He has a look at the most popular pages on the site. Kenneth S Rogoff and The Kibitzer's Café. His stomach churns. He cannot believe his eyes!
Like Captain Queeg he orders a complete overhaul of the ship from stem to stern. All fractious posts are deleted. In a night of the long knives twenty kibitzers and all their posts are annihilated. What a joyous day that would be! |
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Aug-01-18
| | offramp: My favourite poem about the reality of death, by one of America’s greatest poets, Wallace Stevens. Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream. |
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Aug-01-18
| | offramp: How about this?
chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #29870)<B1g pwn: Who is in charge of this site now?
I have a complaint of criminal threatening.
<Trav1s B1ckle: B.P., I only have a few weeks left on this site.. Then I will spend my time hunting you down a$$#0le! A good friend of mine is a lifer as a Seal in the Navy.. He's working on your IP Address.. When I have your address tough guy I'm going to punch the **** out of you f*gg**!!> Is this site out of control now that Daniel has passed, or is someone in charge here? For whatever it's worth, I am going to file a complaint here https://www.ic3.[etc]/splas... Just to be on the safe side. A lot of people make criminal threats online, including stalking, like this threat, and threats of physical harm, and then they are on the news. So even though Daniel just died and no one wants to hear this, that's not excuse to condone criminal threatening and stalking. I've got to do what I've got to do.>
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I do not know if that is funny or incredibly sad. These people are savages. Rogoff and KC, Rogoff and KC... |
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Aug-01-18
| | offramp: Note to self: <NEVER GET OUT OF THE BOAT>. |
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| Aug-01-18 | | morfishine: <offramp> Its times like this where people act strangely and out of character (or in character depending on one's point of view). <tpstar>'s post was a class-less act that not only attacked <Mark> but was a slap in the face to Daniel. What are people thinking when they do such stupid things? I have to side with <BP> on that one since <TB> made about as direct a threat as one could make Rogoff is one thing and should be just that one. But now a bunch of dirty ruffians have overrun the Cafe. Thats a real pity. Imagine a new member finding his way around the site. He may decide "The Kibitzer Cafe looks like a great place to start". And then he sees all the garbage being slung back and forth and he can only wonder what kind of nut house <CG> really is. A real pity Nice poem
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| Aug-01-18 | | Count Wedgemore: I fully agree with <morf> that the Cafe is the no.1 problem that really should be dealt with, one way or another, on this site. The Rogoff forum is a more obscure forum, it took myself quite a while to even discover it after I had joined this site, while the KC is a sort of portal or gateway to all the different forums and arenas. How many new members must have stumbled on there, perhaps to ask a question, get help or something, only to discover the resident drunkards (given some of the comments they really do seem intoxicated or something)) spewing all kinds of insults against anyone who dares entering "their" territory? And what's up with all these endless Youtube links? That place is really a mess. |
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Aug-02-18
| | offramp: The Caruana-Carlsen match is going to be in London! In Holborn! Ain't that great? |
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| Aug-02-18 | | morfishine: <offramp> That is terrific! Will you get a chance to see them playing in person? That would be the experience of a lifetime: Besides all the celelbs, media & chess vendors peddling their various chess wares, there's the food vendors! |
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Aug-02-18
| | offramp: <morfishine> I certainly intend to go this time: I have missed all of the London Classics and various matches. The most high-level event I have ever spectated in person was Smyslov vs Ribli, 1983. It was very dull and apart from the bookstands there wasn't much else to do. It is different nowadays. The match will be right in the centre of London! |
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Aug-03-18
 | | Check It Out: I went to one of the london Chess classics, 2012 I believe, and it was terrific. Met a few chessgames folks, played some chess with them, and visited some pubs. Did not meet harry. Enjoy the world championship match, it should be a lifetime memory. |
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Aug-03-18
| | offramp: <Check It Out: I went to one of the london Chess classics, 2012 I believe, and it was terrific. Met a few chessgames folks, played some chess with them, and visited some pubs. Did not meet harry.
Enjoy the world championship match, it should be a lifetime memory.> If I go this time, I hope I will see you there.
I know the area around Holborn extremely well.
Directly opposite the venue is a very beautiful arcade called <Sicilian Avenue>. Will that be a harbinger? |
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Aug-03-18
| | offramp: I like this old limerick:
There was a young lady of Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face of the tiger.
I also like this post:
<tpstar:
<harrylime>
<Dr Winston OBoogie>
<Enough with the fake "mourning" over the tragic loss of Daniel Freeman and your childish reactions prove that you only care about yourselves.
<fab4>/<harrylime> tormented our Webmaster for eight full years from 2010 to 2018, and career criminal <Mark Finan> really tormented our Webmaster for eight full years from 2010 to 2018. Everyone else read the same things I did, Dot Dot Dot. Just think about how much more he could have done in chess, except you two unrepentant rulebreakers wasted hundreds of hours of his time with your rulebreaking damage. Yes I said hundreds.You never cared about Daniel at all, but you already miss the special treatment. I will finish out the criminal cases myself, and I do not care what anyone else says or thinks or does.> > |
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Aug-03-18
| | offramp: Does anyone else here think that this site might not survive the year? |
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Aug-03-18
| | offramp: I was thinking today about British politician John Stonehouse. You can read about him here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_...
...And because I was watching cricket I also thought of Lord Dexter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timot...
In the news in May of this year was a superb journalist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkad... |
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| Aug-03-18 | | Count Wedgemore: <offramp: I like this old limerick: <There was a young lady of Niger Who smiled as she rode on a tiger>> Well, 'Niger' and 'Tiger' are pronounced differently, so this sorry state of affairs must surely lead to a points deduction on the <Internet Huskisson Sliding Limerick Appraisal Index (IHSLAI).> |
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Aug-03-18
| | offramp: <Count Wedgemore> you are right there. I first heard this limerick as an original Edward Lear limerick, but the woman was from Riga! https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/... But it is NOT by Lear, Riga does NOT have tigers (and nor does Niger), and neither Niger nor Riga rhyme with "tiger"... And you are right - the IHSLAI gives this a disastrous 0.9 points! The name of the place and the type of animal both need to be changed. But by then the poem will have lost a lot of its point. |
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| Aug-03-18 | | thegoodanarchist: <offramp: The Caruana-Carlsen match is going to be in London! In Holborn! Ain't that great?> I really don't know. Never been to Holborn myself, so I cannot speak to the quality of the venue. |
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| Aug-03-18 | | thegoodanarchist: < offramp:
If I go this time, I hope I will see you there. > This was directed to <CIO>. However, I'd like to add that I hope to see you in person too. Especially if you look like your Avatar, Albert Pike. If not, I think I would be disappointed, even if you look BETTER than Pike! |
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Aug-03-18
| | offramp: <tga> did you see the post at offramp chessforum (kibitz #1099) ? |
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| Aug-03-18 | | thegoodanarchist: <offramp: <tga> did you see the post at offramp chessforum (kibitz #1099) ?> I did see that post. And frankly, I can't always tell when you are being serious and when you are jesting. Is that really you? Or is it a jest? |
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Aug-04-18
| | offramp: <tga> I understand what you mean about how it's hard to tell if I'm serious or not, but that's really me. |
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Aug-04-18
| | offramp: Gap-maker poem:
<Is this picture of Picasso's, this "hoard
Of destructions", a picture of ourselves,
Now, an image of our society?
Do I sit, deformed, a naked egg,
Catching at Good-bye, harvest moon,
Without seeing the harvest or the moon?
Things as they are have been destroyed.
Have I? Am I a man that is dead
At a table on which the food is cold?
Is my thought a memory, not alive?
Is the spot on the floor, there, wine or blood
And whichever it may be, is it mine?>
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Did you see this? Why do people even LOOK at the KC?? Kibitzer's Café (kibitz #235563) <If Daniel died of a heart attack, I think <W1nston> and <H@rry> can take a lot of blame for his death, frankly.<M@rk> AKA <W1nston> is a con man. He said so himself. What he does is buys a user a membership "anonymously" and then tells them, along with some kind of &%?£ heartfelt, true blue compliment. Then he sends them messages on FB so consummate their "friendship". Then he spills his guts about his drug life and the <MOUNTAIN> he has overcome, pathetically calling for their sympathy. Then he gets a pat on the head, just for almost being normal now, and he uses this flattery, this con, to con certain members of this site into defending him, because trolling on this site is of the utmost importance to this kid. This site losers, like <M@rk>, <H@rry> and <Tr@vis> can't help themselves, so we should have some understanding at the end of the day, but we should also understand everything. It really comes down to their upbringing. Parenting really matters and people are brought up differently. It makes a difference if your folks go to church and live right, versus if your mother is a whore who goes to the bar 5 nights a week and brings men home when Dad is away. All of that matters...>
Savagery in the time of retrospection. |
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| Aug-04-18 | | thegoodanarchist: < offramp: <tga> I understand what you mean about how it's hard to tell if I'm serious or not, but that's really me.> It's an excellent likeness, sir!
I see you've spared no expense. And you look nothing like King Leopold the XXVI, nor even Albert Pike. |
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| Aug-05-18 | | morfishine: <thegoodanarchist> I couldn't pass on your comment: <...And you look nothing like King Leopold the XXVI, nor even Albert Pike> I respectfully disagree. If <offramp> were to carefully let his beard grow out while diligently trimming and grooming, he would be the spitting image of Mr. Pike It'd be a Pikeness Likeness ! |
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Aug-05-18
| | offramp: The beard is very recent. It got some good reviews after I started it so I kept it. I’m just an average overweight, over aged London geezer. I see friends and acquaintances dying young.
I think, “I’m older than Alekhine, Tal, Petrosian and Capablanca when they died.” Scary. |
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