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12:06 AM
@Meysamرهادربند The method you described for changing the username before 30 days is over does not work for me. It seems that yours is a special case.
 
1:23 AM
@Vitaly — Obumbrate? Does the writer mean adumbrate?
 
1:42 AM
@Robusto It would mean "block by means of obscuring" or something. If it were a word.
 
Apparently it is a word. But this is the first time I've heard it. Sounds rather Victorian.
 
I couldn't decide whether overshadow*/*darken was the intended meaning or it's a catachrestic word for adumbrate.
Both are listed in the full OED.
 
I mean, you can't really even say "obumbrate" without sounding terribly stilted.
 
Modern novel writing was published in 1796.
 
@Vitaly Ha.
I guess that would make sense.
 
1:48 AM
@Robusto Who decides what is a word and what isn't?
 
@Cerberus Me. I decide.
 
Right. Well, then why the "apparently"?
Just use whatever you like in the appropriate context.
"Is x a word?" sounds like the stupid SWR-y people who think a language is like a code of law or a computer programme (yes, Matt said computer programme is a word!).
 
I know these words aren't synonyms, but I want to show you how much adumbrate beats obumbrate as far as current usage is concerned. And adumbrate is itself rarely used.
 
You need not have bothered, but thanks. I know adumbrate is an OK word, whereas obumbrate is obscure at best.
 
I win.
And yes, obumber is a word too.
 
1:58 AM
Labubber - bieber. /\_/---/''''''''\__
 
?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Aivv, Honest name, obumbryng nat his lyght.
c1550 R. Bieston Bayte Fortune sig. Bj, And death‥at last him doth obumbre.
1558 W. Forrest Hist. Grisild the Second (1875) i. 30 Muche prudently this wise consyderinge, Whois example inducethe to lightnes Obumbrethe of Grace the glossinge brightnes.
 
@Vitaly There, now. You haven't won until you've achieved the singularity.
 
@Robusto When you see an F-16 in a Hollywood film, who do you think pays for that?
Or a tank.
 
@Cerberus The singularity?
 
The answer is: you.
As a tax payer.
And who do you think can review the script of any film that uses Pentagon matériel?
 
2:02 AM
I don't know, but I bet you're going to tell me.
 
The Pentagon.
I guess that isn't surprising, but I had never thought about it.
The army lets Hollywood use aircraft tanks, anything, and advisors, actors, all because the films are supposed to help the army get more support and money.
 
It's all propaganda.
 
Yeah.
Look, I need a favour.
Could you become president and sort this out for me?
Would be awfully nice.
 
@Cerberus Haha, sure. Tell you what: I'll sell you my chance to become POTUS for a nickel.
BTW, > 7k arena score.
 
No no, do it yourself.
The Pentagon even has a "liaison" office for cooperation with Hollywood.
 
2:17 AM
Well, thanks for depressing me just a little more. Think I'll go to bed and dream about being a fighter pilot on a carrier. Wait, no. Listen to Tarantino on the subject:
 
@Robusto Sorry. But, hey, lots of things are still good!
 
Anyway, good night.
 
Night!
I'm afraid I can't really follow that video.
I know Tarantino is a director, but I haven't seen Top Gun.
I don't know who those guys are.
 
 
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4:50 AM
My dad bought a new router, and now our Internet is working well. Yay!
 
 
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5:55 AM
@Mitch yep. South Tyrol.
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 you're right "Ort" is the more generic term; "Ortschaft" is la village or town. I had added Ortschaft because Ort also means "place". In hindsight I should have omitted that term.
 
 
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8:15 AM
duplicate
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Q: Which English word has the greatest number of distinct definitions?

John Isaiah CarmonaFor example: in·se·cure [in-si-kyoor]adjective subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person. not confident or certain; uneasy; anxious: He was insecure about the examination. not secure; exposed or liable to risk, loss, or danger: an insecure s...

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Q: Words with most meanings

BorekI am not a native speaker and it sometimes surprise me how many different meanings some words have. An example is the word call - when I was learning English I thought it was only "shout" or "to ring someone" but the list of meanings is almost endless: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/call . Wha...

 
8:36 AM
I was looking for that. I knew I had read that it wasn't "set". But when I googled, everything I found said that "set" was the winner with 464.
 
it took me longer than it should to find
I should have just googled word with the most meanings site:english.stackexchange.com
but I was trying to be clever
I should know my limits
 
Yeah, I was trying "greatest number of definitions".
@Vitaly Isn't he the president?
 
8:52 AM
So I see today's the International Proofreading Day.
Lots and lots of meh questions.
 
Yes, but tomorrow will no doubt be better.
 
I guess the interesting question are in hiding, waiting for their moment to pounce.
 
Actually it's always a bit meh at this time of the day, and getting better when it's evening where I live.
Then again that could be a perception bias on my part.
Meh questions accumulate while I'm asleep, so I always wake up to several of them.
 
Ah, it's like how the women get better looking the more drunk you are.
 
That, too.
 
9:03 AM
But you're right; today's questions seemed a little uninspired. Lots of single word requests; lots of snide comments from people.
Including maybe a couple from me :-)
And I think there's a handful of people who are logged in at the moment and a bit bored; and these people are just hanging out for something interesting to answer or comment on.
 
@DavidWallace I thought about restraining myself, but "is there a faster way to say ..." is begging to be made fun of
 
@MattЭллен Huh? I missed it.
 
Oh, I mean "shorter way to say", but same difference
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Q: Is there any shorter way to say "military medical personnel"?

REACHUSIs there any shorter way to say "military medical personnel"? I mean by that: all the people in the army that are allowed to use medical equipment on a daily basis.

 
9:19 AM
There is a well-written and well-researched answer from our Italian friend. His English is coming on in leaps and bounds.
 
indeed
 
And I wasn't referring to you when I said "snide comments". I almost got into an argument in the "how did you do that" question; but I mostly restrained myself.
 
Well done. Walking away from such arguments can be difficult
 
Don't congratulate me. I kind of started it.
 
9:36 AM
"reign something in", "give free reign", "reigning cats and dogs", "take a reign check", "keep something on a tight reign", "get reigned out", "right as reign" — nohat 3 hours ago
hehehe, nohat's having fun
 
I have a photographic memory, I've just never developed it.
 
user19161
10:17 AM
@Gigili I took a while to get it.
 
@Cerberus I just watched the video. It has a link below it jesus-is-savior.com/how_to_be_saved.html Says that I must believe that Jesus died, was buried and rose again. Says that I am a sinner. Also says that unless I believe in Jesus Who died in my place, I will spend eternity in Hell.
 
Worse things could happen
 
@Cerberus I don't want to spend eternity in a flaming lake of fire. I am not a sinner. Well, I don't think I am (I hope not...!) If I go to Hell, I would like it to be a fun and snark-filled Hell. Then it wouldn't be Hell though, I guess. Urkkk....
@MattЭллен Depends on the variety of Hell. Which circle I suppose. But even Dante didn't portray it as fun for the people in charge, I don't recall. Nor did I read the entire thing, I confess.
 
Well, you need to find someone whose hell is the opposite of yours and trade
 
The reason I'm here is because I saw that "other name for habitation for humans" question. Forgot who left the link to the discussion in chat. It was an excellent idea, who ever did that.
 
10:27 AM
I searched the site for "other name for habitation for humans" and this is the first hit
 
@MattЭллен What's you idea of hell? Hell? The one that you referred to by "worse things could happen". Pitchforks, tails? Red horns? Occasional fun?
@MattЭллен I am lol'ing!
 
@FeralOink Oh, that was just sarcasm :D
 
@MattЭллен That is hilarious-scary! Particularly as a question title. Sounds psychotic. It wasn't actually THAT bad, but still! I am lol'ing again. IT wasn't my question, by the way.
@MattЭллен You saw this english.stackexchange.com/questions/50728/… ? It has great non-sequitor potential. I am laughing so hard right now.
 
heh bovicide
 
@MattЭллен It gets better. The entire entry, including comments, is a gem. Anyone who doesn't find it amusing is, well, needs an attitude adjustment. Did you see what @Cerberus commented? It was excellent. About wasps etc.
 
10:34 AM
yeah :D he really doesn't like them!
I guess we know what his hell involves. Although, I suppose, he spends his days guarding its gates, so he'll never get in
 
@MattЭллен I don't blame him. There was a huge nest of mud dauber wasps right over the front door, on the outside, of my house where my father lived. What a nightmare that was.
 
Yucky! I'm not a fan of wasps either
 
@MattЭллен Interesting confluence of themes just now. Cereberus, entry to hell, front door to my old house, entry ways etc.
 
Oh no! we're becoming comprehensible. We don't want to get banned. Quick, say something unrelated
 
Ringelpiez mit Anfassen.
 
10:38 AM
@MattЭллен Okay! Here's something on topic. Back to the question at hand.
@MattЭллен An answer to that other question. I lol'd. english.stackexchange.com/a/50747/4915 I'm Jewish, so I'm allowed to lol. It wasn't meant to be offensive anyway.
@MattЭллен By "something Germanic", I was thinking of the "habitation synonym hypernym hyperonym" question. Just saying.
 
something Germanic?
sorry, I must have missed something
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 What does that mean? I don't know German. Obviously ;o) I don't know anything except English, not even that, not consistently.
@MattЭллен That question, about human habitation synonyms, was in search of an English language equivalent of a German term or phrase.
One moment, I'll get the URL. Sorry, that was why I ended up in here to begin with. I'm being opaque, as usual.
 
"Ring a Ring o' Roses" or "Ring Around the Rosie" is a nursery rhyme or folksong and playground singing game. It first appeared in print in 1881; but it is reported that a version was already being sung to the current tune in the 1790s. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7925. Urban legend says the song originally described the plague, but folklorists reject this idea. Verses Early attestation The first printing of the rhyme was in Kate Greenaway’s 1881 edition of Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes: Ring-a-ring-a-roses,A pocket full of posies;Hush! hush! hush! hush!We’re all ...
 
@MattЭллен Sorry, I finally found it! english.stackexchange.com/questions/65325/…
@MattЭллен "There is the German word Ort or Ortschaft which is a hypernym for places where people live... Is there a correspondent word in English?"
 
oh. your use of by made me think you had said germanic somewhere.
 
10:46 AM
@MattЭллен @RegDwightB8 had kindly provided a link to the chat in here, english.stackexchange.com/questions/65325/… in the comments, which I thought, still think, was a good idea.
 
indeed. very useful
 
@MattЭллен Oh dear, I am still being opaque. You said we should get back on topic, so I tried to tie it together with something Germanic. Since that other question pertained to something Germanic, and I had said this earlier chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/4336065#4336065
 
Aug 9 '11 at 0:51, by random
This room was placed in timeout for 2 minutes; the topic of this room is "aka The Incomprehensible Room" - conversation should be limited to that topic.
It's OK! you're still on topic :D
 
I think I'll just go now.... I am seeming all over the place, as usual. Fear of authority figures. That we would be banned for straying off topic. You said that @Matt yes? Or I am just losing it, probably. Until later!
 
I was joking
it's a joke in here, about the topic of the room: "The Incomprehensible Room"
if we become understandable, then we're straying off topic
 
10:51 AM
@MattЭллен I'm very literal. I thought you were serious. I have trouble being sure which is which with rules, you know what I mean sometimes?
 
@FeralOink heh, sorry. My jokes don't always work
 
I mean, almost anything can be considered against the rules, e.g. that we are abusing StackExchange servers by wasting processor cycles and storage and costing Jeff and Joel money, thus will be banned. I still haven't recovered from my perma-ban on Hacker News probably.
No, your jokes are just fine! They are very nice. Jokes are always good.
And Joel and Jeff haven't ever indicated that I was a candidate for banning for wasting server space due to idle chatting!
 
well, if they did we'd all be in trouble!
 
Or rather, they would be in trouble, if they banned all of us! Right?
 
Exactly :D
 
10:56 AM
That would be a specially, individually tailored version of hell: To be required to answer questions on all 46+ SE sites for a day. In all their diversity. From MathOVerflow to Parenting, Biblical Hermeunetics, Art History, Skeptics and ummm Personal Finance!
I love seeing people answer questions on very dis-similarly themed SE sites. It is kind of amazing, as most don't do it if they can't do a decent job.
 
The range in quality of the answers at EL&U is surprising
 
Isn't it though?
 
Also, the question
we tend to have to wait a while for really good questions, but get, uh, lesser quality questions by the bucket load.
 
You should see, well, I better not say. Certain beta sites. One, in particular. ~;o) Yes, go on. But no rush, take your time.
Oh, I know. Those single word requests are so ridiculous sometimes. I really wonder if they are troll bait quite often
but how does one know? Usually, one doesn't. And then, they turn out to be wildly popular too!
 
Yeah, the question that brought you here is ridiculously popular
 
11:03 AM
That's what really puzzles me, and not necessarily specifically evident on EL&U. On Literature SE there are some awful answers, that aren't upvoted or anything, yet somehow get picked up by SEO and show up constantly in web search results as "best of". It is so strange.
 
Why is this still open?
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Q: What is the difference between "ain't" and "aren't"?

avirkI've read many times the sentences with ain't and aren't. So I'm little confused that is there any difference between them or both are the same? If both are the same so when should I suppose to use ain't instead of aren't?

 
I'm surprised that that one IS so popular, as it would seem rather dry. Cities. Urban areas. Nothing exciting there, I wouldn't have thought. I am wrong though...
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I've only just seen it. Looks quite gen ref
 
"so when should I suppose to use ain't instead of aren't?" Case in point!
 
@MattЭллен actually we can cut him some slack and close as dupe.
 
11:06 AM
I want to answer: "ALWAYS use ain't."
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I think I just found one
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Q: What does "ain't" mean?

Andro_SelvaWhat does the contraction ain't mean? Is it appropriate to use it in formal settings?

 
Absolutely! Use ain't whenever possible. Formal settings? Certainly! Isn't it intuitively obvious how appropriate "ain't" is for formal settings? When haven't you seen ain't used in a formal setting?
 
ain't is quite informal
normally people use aren't in formal settings
 
Umm, yes, I realize that. I was joking. Poorly, apparently.
 
oh! sorry :D I was distracted by work
 
11:10 AM
I was being giddy and gleeful. These just seem so obvious. I mean, someone who was a non-native speaker of English is unlikely to have a question about ain't. And people who do use ain't might have questions about it, but know intuitively that it isn't appropriate for formal settings. People who use the word ain't aren't idiots. That is why I find that sort of thing exasperating, as it seems to ridicule rural usage.
 
Ain't is perfectly fine. Millions of native speakers use it every day. You will find it in songs and poems. Just be aware where it comes from, which registers it's most popular in, and what the more formal alternatives are. For that, start with Usage of “ain't”, Why is “ain't” not listed in dictionaries?, or just check Wikipedia. — RegDwight ΒВBẞ8 1 min ago
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Yes. Exactly.
 
Saying "You should not use 'ain't'.", as one commenter did, is like saying "You should not use 'car'. Always say 'automobile'." Which is obviously nonsense.
 
No! Rules are important or language will fall into chaos!
 
There are no rules.
 
11:12 AM
never use meaning, always use definition
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 what about spoons, are there spoons?
 
@MattЭллен I love rules! But there is also context for usage. We can use and abuse language as long as we are aware of how we should use it correctly.
Or formally.
Not correctly, I suppose. Well, I'm not certain. Again, context.
 
@MattЭллен hey someone got a reference for once.
 
That was very officious of me. Stating that as an imperative: "We can use and abuse language!"
 
Woohoo!
 
@MattЭллен I didn't. Spoons?
 
11:15 AM
Matrix.
 
Oh! Okay. I saw that. Actually, I'm lying about the spoon part, remembering it.
Thank you. I liked the part about all those people who weren't born from human wombs, had those hanging, or rather, fruited body rivets.
 
See - I don't understand how the Matrix managed 3 films. When Neo understands that "there is no spoon" how come he doesn't figure out that he is all powerful - he can do exactly what he wants, reshape the Matrix however. Gah! I'd be a way better Neo.
 
How it was so unusual for the young disciple of the hitman from Pulp Fiction, um Samuel is the actor's name, anyway, his young assistant in the Matrix, one of them at least, didn't have those scars because he was actually conceived.
@MattЭллен I think you probably would. Because that really doesn't make sense, that there would be need for 3 Matrix movies. I still haven't seen the other two, though would like to.
 
@MattЭллен have you seen the other two films? :P
 
@MattЭллен How could Neo have any doubts after the first movie? I don't know. It seems like the epiphany would be necessary only once.
 
11:19 AM
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 yes. yes I have.
 
What happens in the other two films?
 
They were indeed done with the Matrix after part one. But they wanted to fix the real world, too.
 
Does Neo revert somehow?
That's a very large task. Did they succeed?
 
No spoilers.
 
actually the big battle in, I think, the second one, with all the humans defending zion is pretty cool
 
11:20 AM
Tell me, I would rather know.
I am lol'ing. Spoiler alert....!
 
@FeralOink Deus Ex Machina.
 
Ohhhh, Zion! Like Zionists! Elders of Zion! Probably not. Deus Ex MAchina. I know what that is.
Sigh.
 
Actually I like the Animatrix.
It fleshed the whole story out quite a bit.
 
Yeah, that was pretty cool
 
It is the easy way for authors to squirm out of a difficult plot. What is Animatrix?
Is it a book, movie? By whom?
I could Google it, of course.
 
11:22 AM
@FeralOink It's a series of -- nine, I think? -- animated short films about the Matrix, how it came about, etc.
Based on ideas by the same creators.
Every film has its own distinct style.
It's a potpourri of sorts.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Wow, sounds like the series of J.R.R. Tolkien's books that were prequels to LOTR. Very prolific. Nine of them, hmmm, for the Matrix. A lot.
 
Every film also covers a different aspect, subplot, or character.
 
How utterly pointless.
 
I really liked a lot of the ideas in the Matrix. Not "like" them per se. But it was very compelling, believable to me.
 
@DavidWallace Not at all.
 
11:24 AM
Kind of like the Star Wars episodes 1-3.
 
@DavidWallace absolutely not.
Lucas tried to tie it up in one giant linear plot.
 
I like some realism.
 
I like surrealism
 
Kneel before me ... I hereby knight you sur realism.
 
@DavidWallace The Star Wars thing, with numbering, felt contrived. The Lord of the Rings books were mostly due to Tolkien's son Christopher publishing his father's notes and asides, posthumously. I assume these Animatrix were different, actually, I don't know...
 
11:26 AM
Yay!
 
Sir Realism! Nice.
Nine books of Narnia. Odin hanging on Yggdrasil for nine days. Nine Lord of the Rings prequels. And now nine Animatrix movies. It is clearly related!
 
Nah, lemme check if them's actually nine.
 
That was a little joke.... I overhear lots of nutty conspiracy theories. They think EVERYTHING is related. It isn't, or at best, not causally. Gets silly often.
 
is a 2003 direct-to-video anthology film based on The Matrix trilogy. The film is a compilation of nine animated short films. Plot The plot-summaries of the shorts are listed below in the order that they run in the DVD release, which is not the chronological order. Chronologically, the order would be: *The Second Renaissance - a prequel set generations before the original film, The Matrix, relating how humans built artificially intelligent Machines, the apocalyptic war between the two, ending with the Machines enslaving the human race and the initial creation of The Matrix virtual rea...
 
Nine symphonies each by Beethoven, Schubert and Dvorak.
 
11:29 AM
Oh yeah, nine.
 
Good idea! It is 4:30am here. Ahhhh! See NINE!!!!!!
 
@DavidWallace Schubert doesn't count.
 
nine, nine, nine, the number of the beast!
lunches
 
Yes, exactly! Or... one moment, I have some etymology for that.
 
Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor (sometimes renumbered as Symphony No. 7), commonly known as the "Unfinished Symphony" (), D.759, was started in 1822 but left with only two movements known to be complete, even though Schubert would live for another six years. A scherzo, nearly completed in piano score but with only two pages orchestrated, also survives. It has long been theorized that Schubert may have sketched a finale which instead became the big B minor entr'acte from his incidental music to Rosamunde, but all the evidence for this is circumstantial. One possible reason for Sch...
See, he couldn't even decide on the numbering, and then just gave up on the whole idea.
 
11:34 AM
Actually, I don't believe it was unfinished. Here "unfinished" just meant it had fewer than the standard number of movements. You listen to the second movement and you know that Schubert intended that that was the end.
 
Um.
It ends abruptly.
 
@MattЭллен Hmmm, I thought there were three 9's mentioned somewhere in this... quora.com/… maybe not.
 
And I'm not impressed with nohat's little "reign" joke. Whereas I seem to be the trollbaitee on this occasion, I felt someone had to say it. Some poor pineapple could take The Hatless One seriously, and start writing this nonsense.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Cute (that elicited a smile).
 
@DavidWallace Some non-pineapples already do that. Big deal.
 
11:36 AM
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 My mileage varies. I like the ending.
 
There is no ending.
 
@FeralOink I know of only 7 Narnia books; those in the Chronicles. Are there two that are written by someone else?
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I've been seeing this pineapple reference thing quite frequently of late. What is that about. Not only on SE. Everywhere.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Is too.
 
Perhaps you are listening to the ending slapped onto it by someone else.
@FeralOink Now I'm curious. Where else if not on SE?
 
11:37 AM
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Am not.
 
@SpareOom Oops, maybe it was wishful thinking. I thought there were 9 books in Chronicles of Narnia. It has been awhile.
 
@FeralOink I too thought there were seven.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 On Twitter. Information security folks, mostly from Australia.
 
I just looked at my set. Still 7.
 
@FeralOink Linky please?
 
11:38 AM
@SpareOom I am willing to accept that on faith. Seven chronicles of Narnia.
 
@FeralOink I believe that in parts of Australia, it's a derogatory term for a woman of loose morals.
 
@FeralOink I used to read them every summer when I was a kid. Less often now.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 A moment or two, and I will provide! It will be fun. Your indulgence, please. I will return.
 
Mi indulgencia es su indulgencia.
 
Me auch.
 
11:40 AM
Gigili Stealth Fantastic!
 
> After Hüttenbrenner's revelation of the two completed movements of this symphony, some music historians and scholars toiled to "prove" the composition was complete in this form, and indeed, in its two-movement form it has proved to be one of Schubert's most cherished compositions.
> The fact that classical decorum was unlikely to accept that a symphony could end in a different key from its beginning, and the even more undeniable fact that Schubert had begun a third movement (of which the score he gave to Hüttenbrenner included the first page) seems to disprove the above-mentioned hypothesis.
 
@SpareOom I loved Chronicles of Narnia, wished they would never end. That there would have been more that would appear on the library shelves each time I returned to check out another. Was only allowed one book each at my library in elementary school. I will return. In search of pineapples of Australia!
 
@FeralOink It makes sense there would be 7, since 7 represents completion, theologically.
 
Don't search too hard; I'm taking the piss.
 
@SpareOom You are wicked! Distracting me from my pineapple mission with intriguing tidbits like that. Seven represents completion theologically, how so? Please tell me?
 
11:42 AM
Yeah don't distract him. I'm genuinely curious.
"Pineapple" originated in this room right here.
 
@DavidWallace Indulgencia is nicer than the other. Yuck! I will assume that is an exotic idiomatic usage. Otherwise, is gross!
 
@RegDwight I am humbled and corrected. I had no idea that Schubert had begun a third movement.
 
Robusto happened to hear it from a co-worker a couple months later, but you know where that one came from.
 
@FeralOink As I understand it, the earth was created in 6 days and God rested on the 7th... He was done with that task, or something like that. I'd have to check for further reference.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I will be back. Promise.
 
11:43 AM
Hiya, Kit!
 
@DavidWallace actually I was searching my office for a CD, but then gave up and just went with Wikipedia. ))))
 
@FeralOink And I don't understand what's up with pineapples.
 
7 is the summation of 4, which represents the worldly (4 points of the compass) and 3, which represents the divine (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit).
Hence completion.
 
@KitFox who says there are 4 points of the compass? What about zenith and nadir? We are in 3D space.
 
Why are there four points of the compass?
 
11:44 AM
Depending on your numerological system of course.
 
JINX!
 
Actually I do wonder what the world would be like if our week was 6 days long, or 8.
 
10 makes more sense.
 
Such a minor change, and yet everything would be completely different.
 
metrically speaking.
 
11:46 AM
@KitFox The French tried that.
 
There was a book about the creation of the clock, speaking of world-shattering changes.
 
Oh I'm sure there are more than one.
 
I thought we had seven days in our week because it was the time between phases of the moon. Approximately, of course.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 I know, and look where it got them.
 
It's funny how everything is in base 10, except such a fundamental thing as the clock.
 
11:48 AM
I'm reminded of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Wasn't the meaning of life 42 and the question was supposed to be what do you get when you multiply 6 by 8? There's a missing 7 there.
 
60, 24, 7, 365.2252, what nonsense is that?
 
According to Wikipedia, "Pineapple as a slang term can also mean: An Australian 50 dollar note"
 
If the world were created in 6 or 8 days, the joke in Hitchhiker would be ruined.
 
A - HA!! So that is God's plan.
Make a Universe such that Douglas Adams is funny.
 
:D I guess it worked then.
 
11:51 AM
That's a commendable plan. I commend thee, Lord.
So, um. @FeralOink you got that bit about pineapple being a banknote?
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Clearly, God does have a sense of humor.
 
@SpareOom I thought it was 6 times 9.
 
@SpareOom sometimes his humor escapes me. Just look at Oprah.
 
Yes, 6 x 9.
 
NO! DON'T LOOK AT OPRAH!
 
11:54 AM
@KitFox The mistake two which the answer 42 didn't work?
 
Pineapple Lumps are a flavoured chocolate covered confectionery with a soft, chewy pineapple-flavoured middle. They are often identified as Kiwiana. The semi-brittle shell of chocolate conceals a chewy, soft pineapple flavoured centre. History The first Pineapple Lumps were made by the Regina confectionery factory (now called Rainbow factory ) in Oamaru around 1952-54. Charles Diver, the confectionery chef and floor production manager at Regina, who would later create other classic kiwi sweets, was given the task of using up waste product from other lollies of the time. One sweet i...
 
@SpareOom Yes.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 You don't think Oprah is funny? Well, only that she takes herself seriously.
 
@SpareOom she's such a phoney that it hurts. Physically.
That's not my idea of humour.
 
Yay, someone just began a question on StackOverflow with the word "Sir". What century are we in?
 
11:57 AM
Seventh.
 
@RegDwightB8 Nor mine, really. I can't stand to watch her and it almost sickens me that so many people follow her.
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 Eighth. It's one more than the hundreds marker.
 
Oh well let's talk about cake then.
 
I could complain about my project lead some more.
 
Could you? Wow.
 
11:58 AM
You have lead poisoning?
 
I never imagined that possible.
 
blows kisses to @Reg
ur 2 sweet.
 
@DavidWallace E plumbum unum.
 
@KitFox You are correct! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
 
@RegDwightΒВBẞ8 :-)
 

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