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I have a cold. My noses aren't working according to spec.

Did you read the dialog exercise I wrote? That's a good example of what my mother is really like.

@Mitch So you had nothing?

Where did you write it?

12:54 AM

@KitFox OK. Then thats just wird, but I don't think it is a 'thing', just kind of random.

I've got to wire a switch. bbl

@Cerberus That reminds me of something (multiple noses). There was a passage in a Tom Robbins story (look it up) about somebody who went in for a nose job, and the plastic surgeon fancied himself an artist of sorts, and when ....

@Mitch , you win the game of saying semi-random-things-that-there-is-probably-a-point-behind-but-that-are-formulated-in-such-"real speech"-ways-that-they-become-almost-undecipherable.

@Cerberus correct. but the thing I read is better than any thing I could make up right now.

Your modesty is false but big and friendly.

I appreciate it.

12:57 AM

@Cerberus I find it very difficult to write (I almost wrote 'right') words that are made up of sentence fragments like you just said. But that's how I talk (or at least how I talk in my head).

@Mitch Sounds like great fun. The more, the merrier.

@Cerberus Excellent. The ruse is working. Next step is to ask for small 'donations'.

@Mitch Yeah, the hyphen is a much smaller button and at an inconvenient location.

There, now just words in my head.

My name is not "Shit".

Not every brown person is faeces.

12:59 AM

did I say that out loud?

Besides, Kerberos means spotted: I'm not all brown, if you look closely.

@Cerberus what shade of brown -are- you?

@Mitch No, you merely thought it.

@Mitch Several shades.

@Cerberus all in one part (like a hologram) or diffferent areas with different shades (like a quilt)?

The latter, except not squared.

And NO shades of fucking grey.

1:01 AM

I'm multicolored...pale on exposed areas and light pale on the covered parts. In the dark, I don't exactly glow, but you know there's a certain catching of what little light there is and reflecting it.

@Mitch Wat.

yeah no shit first sign of either frostbite or a heart attack.

so to end the story...

@Cerberus and when the patient came out from anesthesia after the facial surgery...

and looked in the mirror...

@Mitch Have you considered glow-in-the-dark-paint?

what she saw was a picasso-like eyes facing different directions and two pairs of noses with extra nostrils.

Yay!!

1:04 AM

@Cerberus that's the point. don't need it.

claps hands

But could she even see with those eyes?

@Mitch But you could use radium!

or sure. the doctor was good.

And become nuclear!

@Cerberus you know those glow sticks they use at raves?

Like early glow-in-the-dark stuff.

Yes?

1:05 AM

I've heard that te goop inside is... well... it omehow -has- to be radioactive to have that strong a glow.

I heard it was poop.

sucha statement would take actual knowledge to support but I just don't have it.

@Cerberus Is this stuff supposed to mean anything?

@Cerberus Poop. now that would be interesting if it glowed!

@Mechanicalsnail I don't think so. It's just brown.

1:06 AM

@Cerberus Dude...did you just come back from clubbing?

A party.

Nice.

I ate a paracetamol first.

and then drank?

So perhaps that magnified the drink.

I didn't drink much.

1:07 AM

don't you read the practical advice here? that's bad for your lliver.

And there was time in between.

I drank 3 glasses of wine, and that was two hours after the paracetamol.

it doesn't magnify the drink it just overloads the bag of chemical processes that is the liver.

why take the paracetemol? did you have a headache first?

@Mechanicalsnail I think you expect too much. This is the internet.

A bit. Just a bloated head. I have a cold.

@Mitch Surely 3 glasses and 2 hours in between isn't that bad?

@KitFox Link? I don't think I have read it.

Yoohoo doctor!

1:10 AM

@Cerberus I'm not a doctor so really I wouldn't know, but I wouldn't think it is a problem. There'd be more public service announcements about it if it were a problem (I would expect).

Yeah.

And lots of people do it.

And not many die in agonising pain.

@Mitch Here's a glowing cow pie:

Hey, what do you have against good, old slime?

@Cerberus my uncle forwards right-wing crap to the whole extended family and friends. It's kind of a ... what do you call it...

Why go mechanical?

@Mitch Eek!

1:13 AM

@Cerberus yeah..none that I know of.

@Mitch Yeah I haven't lost more than a couple of friends that way.

not 'boring' ...it's when it happens all the time and you don't expect what happens to everybody else to also happen to your (but the law of averages says that more than likely it should). Also, other than the stupid forwarded emails, he's totally cool.

not 'trivial'... not '...

oh yeah. what a cliche! that's it.

klee-shay

> Also, other than the stupid forwarded emails, he's totally cool.

This bit was clear.

The rest was not.

match it with cliche and see if that works. My words follow my thoughts which even at the best of times is not necessarily coherent.

Fastest three-way ever.

1:17 AM

...

With whom?

oh.

Girlfriend and husband?

Haha. Got you! I was talking about the switch I just wired up.

!!

I totally thought it was about something else!

like an intersection you just drove through.

That was entirely the point of the joke.

1:19 AM

Joke? I don't get it.

A Conversation with Mom, but I think you have read it.

Well, well.

That's a deep subject.

Oh yeah..I read that.. it was hilarious. But what lead me astray was 'dialog' becayuse it was a run on 'monolog-with-you-not-being-able-to-get-in-a-word-edgewise'

Yeah.

1:21 AM

@KitFox OK...jokes with our four-year-old are on-topic here but don't over do it.

Having said that... what's brown and sticky?

A stick.

(Have we done joke day before?)

(I dunno.)

Tell me something dirty...

Mud!

1:22 AM

@KitFox Hilarious! I may have read a different (earlier?) version of this?

A white horse fell in a mud puddle.

I get the picture.

What's long and hard and full of seamen?

a submarine?

1:22 AM

ok that's for 12 year olds

> Priced at $495, the Challenger 2P sported a whopping 4KB of RAM, a 32x32 character display, and support for Microsoft BASIC—all powered by a MOS Technology 6502 processor running at 1MHz.

ah.. the 6502...memories

when declaring an array of size more than 10 would overflow memory

@Mechanicalsnail hm...nope, nobody I know. who is it?

@Mitch ?

@Mechanicalsnail Yes?

Oh.

See you posted a picture of cow manure, and I made it seem like you were posting a picture of a person (by asking for their name). Now you should reply with another twist of what I said, in another totally different direction. If at somepoint you're able to bring it back to anything fecal, then we would have won together.

1:27 AM

@Mitch Thomas Crapper?

That's the rules of that game. There are other games, like insults, or innuendo, or (much more common here) etymological connections. Robusto and tchrist and regdwight (and others) are good at all of those. very hard to keep up the pace.

oh Kit has some excellent zingers...like the trilingual one...

Oh criminey. Is that what I'll be known for?

@Mechanicalsnail exactly..then I say something like 'John Thomas'? (links are bonus points but I can barely type and read at the same time...I can't search that fast)

A Romanian shark walks into some Germans and says "hi!"

@KitFox oh. well, no, that just came up here. I think you're best known for... well, not that. What do you want to be known for?

@KitFox !! exactly!

hilarious!!

wait...

1:30 AM

Really? People were just talking about that?

Why romanian?

we were just talking about jokes and witty repartee.

I don't think "hi" means anything in Romanian?

'That's the rules of the game'

Hai is the German word for shark.

hai = shark in german

and I guess romanian too

1:31 AM

coughs I typoed rather disastrously.

what...it's supposed to be 'roumanian'? 'rumanian'?

Rechin

Rechinii, din franceză requin, (ordinul Selachimorpha) sunt pești cu schelet cartilaginos și cu un corp hidrodinamic. Rechinii posedă între cinci și șapte branhii pe fiecare latură a corpului prin care se efectuează respirația. Pielea lor este acoperită de denticuli dermali care îi protejează de leziuni sau paraziți și le asigură o mai bună dinamică în mediul acvatic. O altă caracteristică a rechinilor este că dinții lor sunt substituibili. Din punct de vedere al dimensiunii lor, rechinii prezintă o mare varietate de la rechinul pigmeu sau Euprotomicrus bispinatus o specie care trăiește ...

Hai in Romanian means "come here."

> pești !

That is a lovely word.

@Cerberus How?

1:34 AM

Wow, Romanian really isn't that hard to read.

I had no idea it was so easy.

@Cerberus That's only because most of the words here are cognate to English.

Of course an encyclopaediac (sic) article is the easiest thing to read ever, but still.

So the joke is actually "A Romanian shark walks into a bar and the Germans shout 'hi!'"

@Mechanicalsnail To Latin and the other Romance languages, yes.

Or at least, I eventually turned it into that joke.

1:35 AM

Oh WTF.

I vist Romanian Wikipedia, turns out I have a message.

In Romanian.

From 2009.

ro.wikipedia.org/w/…

I can't read that.

@Cerberus It's just the canned welcome.

And it has a translation:

ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Welcome

I know what the message must be about, but I can only understand less than half of the words.

@Mechanicalsnail I know, I know.

"Bun venit" I can still understand.

Q: Why do so many core Romanian words with Latin roots come from different roots than in the other Romance languages?

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Romanian is a romance language like Catalan, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Spanish so much of its core vocabulary is derived from Latin. Why then even in core vocabulary does Romanian so often seem to be based on different Latin roots than its sister languages? to go a merge < mergere C...

I remember that question.

@Cerberus Wikipedia has a list of sound changes:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Romanian#Internal_history

1:40 AM

Yeah, very Slavic.

@Cerberus There's also a guy claiming that Romanian comes from Dacian. Named "Haios", for what it's worth.

I thought Dacian was different?

I suppose some substrate remains may have been absorbed.

Anonymous

salut

Bonjour!

Ou bonne nuit.

Où as-tu passé la nuit?

or Ta! (or is that goodbye?)

Anonymous

1:43 AM

Je suis le Bat Man. Je ne dorm pas la nuit

@Cerberus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacian_language#Romanian

Ah, mais bien sûr.

@KitFox It's also Yes in Japanese and You have in Italian. :P

> The possible residual influence of Daco-Moesian on modern Romanian is limited to a modest number of words and a few grammatical peculiarities.

Anonymous

Il se paraitre qui, t'etais un prof d'anglas

1:46 AM

Etail?

Anonymous

etait ou etais ?

Ahh so that's what you were saying.

Anonymous

It seems you were a English teacher

Anonymous

That is what I was trying to say.

Il parait que tu étais un prof d'Anglais?

That's probably not correct either.

Anonymous

1:48 AM

yes. I shouldn't have used " un"

But it is an improvement, hehe.

Anonymous

Il se trouve que..

@TheCOMPLETEPHPNewbie Why not?

Il se trouve?

That is more like "it is located"...

Anonymous

Il se trouve que, t'etait prof d'Anglais

Anonymous

Et ca ^

1:50 AM

I'm not sure about the article.

I think both with and without would work.

Anonymous

I thought Il se trouve means It Seems

I don't believe so.

À Paris, il se trouve beaucoup de musées.

I'm not even sure whether that is correct...

I would just say à Paris se trouvent beacoup de musées.

Il y a is much more simple, but I don't know whether that is correct.

Yes.

Il y a is the simplest option.

And the best.

Anonymous

1:52 AM

In my example.

@Cerberus Let's use it everywhere then!

Anonymous

Check the google searches

@Mechanicalsnail that is one long involved article.

@TheCOMPLETEPHPNewbie Ah, you were right!

I have never seen that.

@Alenanno Yay!

Time to restart Firefox...

There you go.

1:55 AM

Better.

My friends went to this trashy club and I didn't go with them.

I'm glad I didn't!

If it was really trashy... lol

I think it is.

I have never been there.