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bwDraco

1:05 AM

> .s.k.y.p.e. .s.u.p.p.o.r.t. .n.u.m.b.e.r. .s.k.y.p.e. .t.e.c.h. s.u.p.p.o.r.t. .p.h.o.n.e. .n.u.m.b.e.r.

lol

Spammers getting creative :P

Ben N

1:32 AM

@bertieb When you hit 10K, it shows the total number of reviews pending instead (cc @DavidPostill)

@JourneymanGeek That's adorable! :D

allquixotic

@Bob @JourneymanGeek either of you (or both) want to begin playing a game sometime within the next 6 hours?

bwDraco

Anyone?

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Q: Origin of "turn thrice widdershins"

I've seen "turn thrice widdershins" (or variations thereof, such as "turn around thrice widdershins") several times online (1, 2, 3). It seems to be Gaelic in origin, having to do with fairies, but I can't find any concrete information about where this phrase actually came from or how it's signif...

Bob

@allquixotic urk... I'll have to check but today's probably not a good day

allquixotic

2:03 AM

groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/phantomjs/wwO0dx2c6D4

Please don't reproduce, guy ^

Gypsy Spellweaver

@bwDraco Look into something called the "Wiccan Rede Poem" several versions, but IIRC one of them uses that phrase, if not most/all.

Been many moons since I sung it, and it may not be there, but it sounds very familiar.

bwDraco

Checked several variants; "widdershins" and "circle thrice" are present in all cases, but not in the same verse.

Gypsy Spellweaver

Is sounds Gaelic, true enough, but 90% of neo-pagan material is created, not truly ancient. So, if found in such a source, I'd be inclined to look further anyway.

bwDraco

[James Og] is indyttit, that in the year forsaid or thairabout, haiving corne to drey, to have borrrouit fyr from hs nychtbour, haiffing of his avine than presently, and to haue taine ane birne of the corne on his bak, and careit it thrie tymmis woodersonis aboue the kill. [my emphasis] —‘Notes by Mr. John Ros, minister at Lumphanan, regarding certain persons accusit of witchcraft.’ Printed in The Miscellany of the Spalding Club, I.XLIX. , 1841, p. 189 under the date 1597. OED 1 gives earlier citations for 'widdershins' involving 'turning' nine times. . . . — StoneyB 57 secs ago

Gypsy Spellweaver

2:18 AM

:36133049 aye

bwDraco

whoops

Gypsy Spellweaver

@bwDraco Stoney likes to run a taught ship, it seems.

Rahul2001

Mornin'

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Rahul2001 ? Mornin' ? Since when?

Rahul2001

@GypsySpellweaver I just woke up, it's 8 AM :P

Gypsy Spellweaver

2:33 AM

@Rahul2001 Funny clocks in that part of the world? I thought all the world ran on my time!

Rahul2001

@GypsySpellweaver It's got something to do with the world rotating, I hear.

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Rahul2001 :D No wonder I've been dizzy lately.

Rahul2001

@GypsySpellweaver That's probably the alcohol :P

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Rahul2001 Can't be. Ain't had none since "International Get-Drunk Day"

Coffee maybe, though

Bob

@GypsySpellweaver I keep telling you people to stop living in the past!

Rahul2001

2:39 AM

@GypsySpellweaver ...yesterday? (St Patrick's) psychogoldfish.newgrounds.com/news/post/441988

Gypsy Spellweaver

How's livin' in the past. "Second star to the right and straight on 'till mornin' "

Glad to know someone else uses the same name for it :D

'thou me thinks the marshmallows were really white, just sat too long and turned green. >_>

Rahul2001

broth'r, methinks lest I going to wend back to catch but a wink

farewell, lief friends

at the more time, the interim having weighed it, let us speak our free hearts to each other

(Modern translation: super sleepy, bye, ttyl)

Gypsy Spellweaver

tt

Rahul2001

Shakespearean english is cool.

Gypsy Spellweaver

Gotta do some chores meself. Off I go.

allquixotic

4:48 AM

@Bob it would be cool if we used this for a bot, but (1) porting JS to Python or Python to JS or linkage from one to the other = ow; (2) porting existing bot code or adapting the ChatExchange API to match the bot and IO APIs... ow

would eliminate (totally) the whole headless question and probably solve a bunch of bugs in the IO layer of Zirak chatbot though

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