The Nineteenth Byte

Downgoat

2:01 AM

@Geobits that pun really ducked...

Geobits

-1 repeat

Helka Homba

Lowest so far: 10101951002

Downgoat

@Geobits Duck, that wasn't supposed to be a repeat!

poi830

> duck

Doorknob

@HelkaHomba 10101751003

Geobits

2:02 AM

@Downgoat I woodstar that, but you already have profanity on the board ;)

Downgoat

brb telling google to index TNB chat transcript

Geobits

@QPaysTaxes Wow, three repeats in one. Very nice :P

Doorknob

@Doorknob 10101551008

Nathan Merrill

colinm.org/language_checklist.html

Downgoat

@Geobits Geese, that's good don't think I can top that

Doorknob

2:03 AM

That's an order of magnitude bigger

Downgoat

@Doorknob ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Helka Homba

@Doorknob 10101231992

Doorknob

@HelkaHomba I see 1 result

Alex A.

> Geese

Geobits

@Downgoat I dove into the haystack to find that needle, so I'm glad you liked it.

Doorknob

2:05 AM

@AlexA. thatsthejoke.jpg

poi830

@Downgoat ಠ_ಠ

Helka Homba

@Doorknob Really? not me

Downgoat

@Geobits Wren will we stop this?

Doorknob

Geobits

@Downgoat -1 repeat

Downgoat

2:06 AM

@Geobits really... you gotta be lion

Helka Homba

@Doorknob How about 10101231592 (less)

Doorknob

no results for that one

Alex A.

@Doorknob Oh I see, you're all making a mockery of my species.

poi830

10101134893

Alex A.

This was not apparent to me as I was not paying attention

Geobits

2:07 AM

@Downgoat I'm no dodo:

41 mins ago, by Geobits

@El'endiaStarman I have no idea wren that's going to happen >_>

Downgoat

Let minnow if you think of a pun... I'm running out of ideas...

Geobits

@AlexA. For nearly an hour. It's one of the longer pun-binges so far. I was thinking of tweeting some of them >_>

Helka Homba

@poi830 10101133390

poi830

10101122291

El'endia Starman

@Geobits There were some really good ones.

Geobits

2:08 AM

Oh, sorry, that was a pun, too. I didn't mean for it to fly over any heads.

Downgoat

wtf babel just spent 30 minutes compiling...

Geobits

>_>

Doorknob

@Downgoat maybe it's trying to tell you something :P

El'endia Starman

@Geobits Oh wow. How'd I miss that. -_-

poi830

@Doorknob use babble instead?

Doorknob

2:09 AM

clearly

Geobits

@El'endiaStarman I don't know. Usually you'd beak-eeping up.

Downgoat

@Geobits I can't keep puffin these puns out...

poi830

@Doorknob update babble repositories

@Doorknob upload oldstuffs/ to github please

Doorknob

llama@llama:...code/rust/babble$ git push
Everything up-to-date

@poi830 >____<

Downgoat

@Doorknob don't forget to upload ~/.ssh/ too

Helka Homba

2:11 AM

@poi830 finding hard to beat :)

El'endia Starman

@Geobits You're pecking them out like crazy though. (That wasn't a repeat, I hope.)

poi830

@HelkaHomba it was all skill

Geobits

@El'endiaStarman I don't think it is, but looking for new ones is definitely getting harrier by the minute.

Downgoat

@Geobits I must get an interro_gator_ to figure out how you come up with these

El'endia Starman

@Downgoat -1 not a bird pun :P

Helka Homba

2:13 AM

Cookies to anyone who can find a smaller decimal int than 10101122291 that yields 0 Google results

Geobits

@Downgoat Sadly, it's my one true talent. I'm basically a loon.

Downgoat

@El'endiaStarman gators are related to birds

@Geobits let's all pigeon and come up with a one great pun

Geobits

Even so, it's not a high-quaility pun.

El'endia Starman

@Downgoat But they are not in the same <insert appropriate taxonomic classification> as birds.

Geobits

@Downgoat pigeon is repeat

El'endia Starman

2:14 AM

@Downgoat Repeat.

poi830

@HelkaHomba somebody really needs to write a webcrawler

Downgoat

@Geobits These puns are getting really grouse

Geobits

@poi830 webcrawler.com >_>

El'endia Starman

I'm really trying not to look up birds on Wikipedia or something...

quartata

Did I miss a pun fest?

Geobits

2:15 AM

@quartata A good one.

El'endia Starman

@quartata Still humming along actually.

(Does that count?)

Geobits

All the good birds are taken, though. Just left with the turkeys.

Helka Homba

@El'endiaStarman He probably didn't do it on porpoise

Geobits

@El'endiaStarman Judges? They seem to be okay with it.

El'endia Starman

@Geobits Yeah, you gobbled them up!

Geobits

2:17 AM

Eider I did or someone else, but yea...

quartata

Seems like we're going on a wild goose chase looking for more puns

What a thrush of energy I have from all these puns

Geobits

@quartata That's a repeat, but since you're new to this we'll only give a warning. This time :P

Downgoat

How long are we going to carrion with this?

Geobits

There's no tealing, really.

El'endia Starman

As long as it's jay to do so.

Geobits

2:20 AM

I'll probably keep grousing around for more as long as anyone else does.

El'endia Starman

@Geobits Grouse is a repeat.

Geobits

Ouch. I don't remember that one >_<

poi830

you're really starting to crane for these puns

quartata

I can't compete. You really have a hawk's eye for puns

Alex A.

I need to quit being a tit and get things done.

El'endia Starman

2:21 AM

(Dunno if this counts as a pun, but machine guns set up by people who dig for ruins could be called archeopteryx.)

@quartata Hawk is a repeat. Sorry. :P

@poi830 Repeat.

quartata

These puns roc?

Geobits

So far this has been very..... pheasant?

El'endia Starman

We've definitely got a rapt(or) audience.

Geobits

Condor-knob join in?

Doorknob

no

Downgoat

2:23 AM

@El'endiaStarman that was very flocking bad

El'endia Starman

@AlexA. Repeat. :(

@Downgoat Well, I ain't gonna start mourning any time soon!

Geobits

@Doorknob Aww, why not? I'm not prion, but what else are you going to do right now?

Downgoat

these puns are really starting to fly south...

El'endia Starman

Any chance we could migrate to other flying creatures so we can keep batting these around?

Geobits

I don't see why gnat.

Doorknob

2:26 AM

@Geobits I couldn't come up with a unique one even if I'd been thinking since the dawny of time.

Wait.

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman What do you think this is, Passerine-a, California?

Doorknob

also @HelkaHomba 10095582908

Downgoat

El'endia Starman

@Downgoat That'd certainly be starling to a lot of ~~people~~ birds.

Downgoat

dolphinetly

El'endia Starman

2:28 AM

Oh don't you flutter off to earth-bound creatures...

Downgoat

\o/ babel finished

quartata

I wish I could pun

Downgoat

@El'endiaStarman If I could, I wood

Geobits

@El'endiaStarman We could form a group and murder him for it, but that seems a bit excessive.

Alex A.

Nah

Seems reasonable

Downgoat

2:30 AM

@Geobits how is that a pun

Alex A.

A murder is a group of crows

Downgoat

o_o

El'endia Starman

@Downgoat A group of -- ^^

Downgoat

who tf came up with that name

El'endia Starman

no idea

Alex A.

2:31 AM

Probably the same person who called a group of lions a pride or a group of geese a gaggle

Geobits

@Downgoat What pun? ^_^

quartata

©_©

El'endia Starman

...well, looks like the bird puns are tailing off...

Downgoat

I like otter types of puns better...

El'endia Starman

Or shall we keep abreast of it all?

quartata

2:32 AM

oh no please stop I'm starting to physically cringe

poi830

^

Downgoat

@quartata are we not seal-y enough?

quartata

1 hour of puns is 1 hour too many

El'endia Starman

What are these murmurations I hear...? Heresy!

Downgoat

@quartata we're not doing these on porpoise!

El'endia Starman

2:34 AM

@Downgoat Repeat.

quartata

what a mockerybird of comedy

Downgoat

@El'endiaStarman oh, deer. sorry

Geobits

@quartata Is that what you'd caw it?

El'endia Starman

@quartata Clawing at the bottom of the barrel, I see.

Nathan Merrill

"The only reasonable numbers are zero, one, and infinity"

El'endia Starman

2:36 AM

@Geobits Man, I tried to think of a way to use that one a couple times. I guess you were just better at homing in on a good use.

Alex A.

@NathanMerrill Well, we've had more than one pun so 1 and 0 are out. Oh god, does that mean we'll have ∞ puns?!

Geobits

@El'endiaStarman I kinda just plucked it out of thin air.

Nathan Merrill

I'm ok with saying we'll have an unreasonable amount of puns

El'endia Starman

In any case, I guess we can call Geobits the king fisher of bird puns. :P

Geobits

Oh, does that mean I'm.... penguinning? >_>

Alex A.

2:38 AM

brb smacking face into wall repeatedly

Downgoat

alpaca my bags, I'm done with puns...

El'endia Starman

@Geobits Until your macaws you home!

I'm still gonna put up a flight! (I'm sorry.)

Geobits

That one should have been sent back to mynah league.

Downgoat

ugh these are so tearable...

El'endia Starman

Only 'cause you're/we're not alighting on good ones.

Downgoat

2:42 AM

Maltysen

wut

El'endia Starman

...I wonder when we're gonna stop giving a flying fox about these puns...

Geobits

I dunno. It's almost starting to get aukward.

Alex A.

I'm so tempted to just scream and move the entire last hour of the transcript to trash

El'endia Starman

Almost? It's been like that for a while. :P

@AlexA. If you do, at least let me squirrel some away so I can fly them again some day?

quartata

2:45 AM

brb writing Perl script that splits a sentence into words, looks for one whose soundex code is in a list of codes for common birds and does the appropriate replacement

Doorknob

@HelkaHomba 10043552490

Alex A.

@El'endiaStarman (╯AHHH）╯︵ ┻━┻

Geobits

@AlexA. I never thought you seemed like a screamer... >_>

<_<

Alex A.

...

El'endia Starman

Okay okay I'm done. It was getting really hard to think of more. (I'm sure these puns will bee back later though.)

quartata

2:47 AM

Can anyone provide me with a plaintext list of common birds?

Geobits

Alex probably can. Birds of a feather and all.

Maltysen

@quartata outsource it to PPCG

as a challenge

El'endia Starman

....owl say! Did we never do owl?

Geobits

Yea, I used owl ;)

El'endia Starman

Ah, so you did. :(

quartata

2:49 AM

Actually, might be better if it does overlapping slices of 4 of the word. Then it could replace just part

El'endia Starman

And finch.

...if anyone else guano keep going, be my guest, but that'll be my last one. :P

Alex A.

Isn't guano poop?

El'endia Starman

Yes.

I know I know...I ended on a crappy note.

Alex A.

Well shit.

Geobits

I'm not sure there's anyone else on the rooster now except me.

But you know what they say: All's well that hens well.

El'endia Starman

2:54 AM

Okay, pretty sure we're done with the puns now. :P

Nathan Merrill

so, I was reading an article about making your own language: drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/…

and it was talking about transcendental functions

quartata

Changing the names would be easier, but if you're not comfortable lying, try only making friends with people named Alice, Bob, Carol, etc.

Nathan Merrill

those are just functions on doubles/floats, right?

Maltysen

@NathanMerrill in math those are functions that aren't algebraic

Geobits

@El'endiaStarman I've been randomly generating them the whole time with these birds of pair-o-dice:

Maltysen

2:58 AM

like they can't be expressed in terms of exponents and the four basic operations

El'endia Starman

@Geobits ..........okay, I give up.

Geobits

But yes. I'm done now :P

Doorknob

FINALLY!

Geobits

You should have chirped up earlier...

Shit

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