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you're a pro

or as the kids say: "Like a boss"

It's a little disturbing when I'm the junior programmer.

that the señor developer doesn't know this? yes, a little

But I suppose he doesn't really need that stuff. My project is quite a bit more data intensive than any of the others, I think.

At least two of the others are just search engines.

3:13 PM

if he's a software developer then he needs to know about testing about code repos

And the boss works with some crazy kind of Access db and Citrix and weird shit like that.

So it turns out that I know a whole lot more about ASP authentication than he does.

@MattЭллен I tulgey so!

Yeah, yeah. rub it in

I am also a little upset that I can see solutions faster.

@KitFox excellent. now ask for a raise!

3:15 PM

Aye, here's the rub.

Oh, oh, me, me!

Oh. That's not what you meant, was it?

sighs Now what did I do?

@KitFox I was going to say yesterday that you look like Tilda Swinton. I couldn't think of her name.

eat all the pringles?

I'd like the can after, so I can make a kaleidoscope.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Really? Thanks. I think she looks like Annie Lennox.

A: What does "duly" mean in the phrase "duly noted"?

3:21 PM

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Right straight from the Jeff Foxworthy Concordiance: ;-D DULY -- one o' them big trucks with four tires on the rear. "Johnny n' I went with Grampa in the ol' duly-truck fer a ride ta feed the horses."

Not an answer? I'm not sure as I can't tell what the hell it's about.

Plus, I thought she made a great archangel.

@RegDwighт apparently a DULY is a type of lorry

I only know Dr Dulytle.

oh. no, that's a mispelling of Dually truck

That's "duelie" not "duly." — KitFox 48 secs ago

Jinx!

3:24 PM

so, it's sort of an answer, but it's wrong

Can we have a 'stupid answer' flag?

duallytruck.org

Well. It's sort of an answer to a different question.

It's not even wrong.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 downvote

mah points

3:24 PM

mah points, mah points, my lovely lady joints

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 you getem back, silly.

@RegDwighт it's sort of related to the last line of the question "can duly be used by itself?"

@RegDwighт 0,0

@MattЭллен oh that.

Well.

Serves the OP right for including that in their question.

"I have a question. I also have a completely different question. And BTW, what time is it now?"

:D

3:26 PM

:D

waits for Coke

You have to say jinx first.

Matt can still outjinx you.

d'oh! jinx.

Now you wait.

looks at watch

watches looks

3:28 PM

!!/jinx

Caprica Six

@MattЭллен That didn't make much sense. Maybe you meant: jinx

watches the detectives

Caprica Six

watches The Watchmen

What's with the big blue penis?

gulps coke

3:28 PM

wonders who watches Kit

Mmm.

Mans the watchers

Everybody watches the Kit.

Kit watches every body

Bradley is manning the watchers.

3:29 PM

Milton Bradley?

Milton Sealed Box.

monosodium borate

I'll monosodium your borate

That's monosodium Baron Cohen to you.

lol

3:31 PM

Unfortunately, I know a Cecilia, and the thought of making love to her up in my bedroom is quite revolting.

the Coen Brothers present Baron Munchausen

Oh Cecilia, Kit's down on her knees, she's begging you please.

@KitFox you're breaking my heart.

The Coen brothers present Munchausen's Baron By Proxy.

I would never munch an ausen. Whatever that even is. Ewww.

3:33 PM

Moving forward's using all my breath.

ow zen is the type of zen practiced by people who like hitting themselves

I only know owl zen.

Who?

:D

The Owlzen brothers.

3:34 PM

The Owlzen twins?

No, brothers.

Olsen Brothers

Olsen Brothers (Danish: Brødrene Olsen) are a Danish rock/pop music duo, and are brothers Jørgen (born 15 March 1950) and "Noller" (Niels, born 13 April 1954) Olsen. They formed their first band, The Kids, in 1965. The Kids warmed up for The Kinks in the K.B. Hallen in 1965 and released their first single in 1967. Both Jørgen and Niels Olsen participated in the musical Hair in the Cirkusbygningen in Copenhagen March 1971, and went on tour afterwards through Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The Olsen Brothers' first album came out in 1972. To date they have released 12 albums. Their big hit ...

and we're back to Jullian Assange.

Assange Blancmange D'Orange.

Eating an Assange
while making love
makes for bizarre enj-
oyment thereof.

ABD, easy as one, two, three.

3:37 PM

@KitFox my favorite dish!

as simple as do re ti

With rose petals.

Don't re ti.

and dewlap

From the unicorn garden.

Dewlap is a perfect place!

3:38 PM

Don't re ti @ home.

do so la fa mi do re, do so la ti do re do

dew it right

I must be singing it wrong. I don't get it.

Do so le mi o.

It's sol and not so, innit?

3:41 PM

It's schoenberg. It's supposed to sound like it doesn't sound right.

@KitFox yeah. It's also ut and not do.

@KitFox Not how Maria does it.

@KitFox so -> a needle puling thread

And si not ti.

ut re mi fa sol la si

throws up from cognitive dissonance

3:41 PM

Yeah if you're from the middle ages.

Or Russia

I was from there once. I didn't like it

@Mitch Which is where music comes from.

the wrong -kind- of music. the kids these days...

> 'So' is an often-used alternate for the actual corresponding syllable in the solfege system, Sol.

Sol?

3:42 PM

Sol what?

Oh sorry, I forgot that Rihanna and Eminem would never sing a si, only a ti.

There's a necessary correspondence between the notes of the scale, the primary celestial bodies, and the order of the days of the week.

Yeah, which is why the H is also a B and the B is also a Bb.

but there aren't 8 days ina week

Makes like sense or something.

3:44 PM

One is very small so you don't notice it.

@MattЭллен there aren't 8 notes in a scale, either.

> The names were taken from the first verse of the Latin hymn Ut queant laxis, where the syllables fall on their corresponding scale degree.

TIL

Hint, it's not a moon.

See. For all your learning needs. Listen to Reg.

I write like 600 songs before breakfast.

I should've figured.

Too sexy for reality.

3:45 PM

It might look like I'm here, but I'm not

@KitFox which correspond to the planets in distance from the sun and for the days of the week it is that list mod 24 (so the first hour of the day if you cycle through all the planets.

What if it looks like you're not here?

then that's OK.

BBL commute

For the sake of completeness, in Russian it's до ре ми фа соль ля си. And there's even a children's cartoon that every child in the Soviet Union knew.

Nice.

фex

A fly, a frog, and a cat.

3:47 PM

Oh so Julie andrews does RUssian?

And a dancing cow.

@KitFox ...come into a bar...

...walk into a bar. The frog says to the bartender...

Jinx

.. can I have some shit for my fly? and the cat says...

3:48 PM

That's pretty fly for a white guy.

Kickin' it old school.

Where's my coke anyhoo.

!!/jinx

there you are.

3:49 PM

Thank you.

djanada

I want coke on my own terms
After everything I've ever learned
Me, I carry too much baggage
Oh man I've seen so much traffic.

That doesn't rhyme. Oh that's the translation of the children's thing in Russian? Nice.

Hey, I understood the до свидания part.

Q: How can I practice pronouncing "Coke" so it is not mistaken for another word?

@Mitch take it up with Bernie for his gay lyrics.

But I want coke, just a different kind
I want coke, won't break me down
Won't brick me up, won't fence me in
I want a coke that don't mean a thing,
That's the coke I want, I want coke.

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I always fear my conversation sounds like this: — What would you like to drink, sir? — I will take some cock, thanks. — ROFL. Any tips on how to pronounce Coke so it is not mistaken for anything? :)

3:51 PM

Silent e makes the vowel say her name.

That's Destiny's Child.

Q: "Cool water" vs "Cold water"

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We often use cool water.But can we use "cool water" or "cold water"? Which is correct. Example: I drink cool water only. people always like cool water. In the above examples, instead of the word "cool", can we use "cold".

word-usage

please stop the madness.

Stop.

HAMMERTIME!

@KitFox 'Nam'?

3:53 PM

I don't like to talk about it.

That's where the walking, talking miracles are from.

I think our chatroom slogan is too clear. Perhaps "Incomprehensing (庚寅年) since ЭмЭмИк"?

How about "outexprehensing"?

@RegDwighт Just don't order Coke in a gay bar and you'll be fine.

@RegDwighт That could work.

@Robusto that's what the fortune cookie said.

4:02 PM

TIAL that gyre is not like gyroscope but instead with a hard g.

And that's it's borogove not borogrove.

sighs So much I learnt wrong.

O sages standing in God’s holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.

I'm getting better at it, but still need a lot more practice, I think.

I can still hear myself trying to say borogroves.

4:44 PM

Anybody here play Civ V?

@Cerb probably.

gyre and gimbal in the wabe

Hi @KitFox

How do you do?

5:00 PM

@MattЭллен All mimsy were ye borogoves, etc.

@KitFox Moi.

@Robusto Is it fun?

@Sudhir I am well. Yourself?

@KitFox: I'm good.

@KitFox It can be. It's long, and it can be hard. Very complex. Also, the AI is very rudimentary when it comes to negotiations.

Anyway, I'm out. Commuting early today!

Bye! Happy 4th!

5:05 PM

@KitFox I'd try to draw your attention towards my unanswered question.

OK

Still better. I think the cadence is smoothing out finally.

Trouble with the r sounds though.

@Mahnax exactly

Wow, I'm out of the loop. When'd we get new close options?

A few days back.

Last week, maybe?

I guess I ought to go finish some real work.

Or maybe eat lunch. I haven't eaten lunch yet! That's like 2 hours past when I usually eat.

@KitFox:So please look at it.

5:09 PM

It still hasn't really sunk in that it's summer and I don't have to be productive. So I'm being productive anyways.

learns Finnish

@Sudhir Link.

@Mahnax It's good practice.

Q: "Decline of his morale" vs. "decline in his morale"

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The decline of/in his morale was caused by a lot of factors that were once fascinating to him. I know decline of an emperor is commonly used, but I am confused between the idiomatic expression decline in and decline of. Which is more apt to use here?

word-choice prepositions

@KitFox Yeah. Although I am catching up on months of Not Quite Enough Sleep.

Did I tell you that I'm going to Spain and France next spring break?

I'm very excited.

@Sudhir OK, I have read it.

@Mahnax I didn't know. That's very exciting!

They don't speak Finnish there, you know.

Yeah. So maybe I'll ~~make tchrist~~ ask tchrist nicely to teach me Spanish.

Hehe.

5:11 PM

I bet he only knows Mexican.

hehe

Oh, hmm. Could be.

I don't know how similar Mexican Spanish is to Spain Spanish.

@KitFox: tchrist is multi-linguistic ?

I am not familiar with Spanish at all, actually.

@Sudhir Most of us are.

I think playa is beach.

5:12 PM

Wow, great

@Mahnax Oh, I doubt it really.

@KitFox So he belongs to which country?

@Mahnax And rio is ... ?

@KitFox River…?

de genero

5:13 PM

@Mahnax Yes!

See, you'll do fine.

@Sudhir Ask him.

she dances on the plains

Please you tell.

Oh Rio Rio dance across the Rio Grande.

But make sure you have your passport.

@Sudhir It's not for me to say.

I think US.

@KitFox Perfect.

5:16 PM

Donde esta El Rio Grande?

There are so many languages to learn.

Where is the big river?

Yo soy un hombre sincero, de donde crece las palmas.

@Mahnax Well. Yeah. Maybe you should brush up on geography.

@KitFox Oh, right… Rio Grande.

I am the man from the Rio Grande. hums

I should watch Innerspace tonight.

I wonder if it's on Netflix.

Is Mamma Mia! on Netflix?

That alone would make Netflix worth it.

5:18 PM

Good question. Y Tu Mama Tambien is.

I can still recall / our last summer

hums

I still see it all

My mother made me a flower crown today. It was very nice.

something Notre Dame / something tourist jam

Dad, of course, was mortified.

"That's unbecoming."

Hahaha

Poor Da.

Whatever you say, pops. I'll wear a flower crown if I want.

5:21 PM

It might infect you with the gay. You should be careful.

gasp

cackles

I hear there are camps for that.

Now, now.

Sorry.

Kinda.

Really though, sexuality is a mystery to me.

5:23 PM

Don't rush it. Don't worry about it.

Exactly. I have to go now though. Bye!

You're plenty young for that to stay a mystery. Bye!

I keep getting my windows and tabs all mixed.

Oh that guy. He's funny.

yeah

A: The etymology of the phrase "it's raining cats and dogs"

5:30 PM

I just eliminated an entire set of sprocs.

tchrist

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I always heard cats and dogs hid in the ceilings and roofs of houses and when it rained all of the animals fell out onto the inside of the house... but since when have dogs gotten onto the roof?

How do they fall off the roof “onto the inside of the house”?

And this hiding in ceilings thing. . . .

Even better:

-3

A: What's the correct pronunciation of "epitome": "Epi-tome" or "Epi-tuh-mi"?

Yes many a times 't' becomes 'd' in American English. Example: t in computer. I am an Indian and English is not our native language but it's a borrowed language. I personally, follow British English in terms of language usage, pronunciation, accent, & sentence construction, since I consider it t...

> the made up beauty of American accent is no match to the natural and original beauty of southern British accent. To my ears it's music, whereas American accent is an intolerable noise..

There’s something annoyingly self-fulfilling about the way the likelihood of rep=1 first-answer being utter crap goes up proportionately with the number of views the question has.

Then again, it’s already pretty high to begin with.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

5:49 PM

That's the whole point of rep though. If you only have 1 point you probably don't know what you're doing. Especially since we've long outgrown the initial SO crowd who came here from the podcasts

@KitFox I want to see 'Y Tu Mamma Mia Tambien'

With Mrs. Weasley singing 'Dancing Queen' to Hagrid, her lover.

Oh this pencil sharpening is making my head hum.

Wait. no, I do not want to see that.

@JSB

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 podcasts? about SO or about ELU?

@KitFox ASMR again? Altered Status of Mental Regimen? Am i being So Mental Repeatedly?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

5:52 PM

About SO. Everyone who came here from the podcasts already knew how the site was meant to work

We all knew "it's not a forum", etc

People coming here lately seem to think we're like Yahoo answers but with a color scheme.

Yahoo answers? More like snafu dancers.

@Mahnax WTH...whatever it is like being with your parents, you should appreciate that.

@MattЭллен I'd use that except nobody would understand.

Snafu dancer, snafu dancer, dancer for money, screw up what you want me to do.

classy

5:57 PM

stupid stupid girl

Do re mi in WTFspeak.

Those were Dibels measures.

(Because that should make it clear to you)

This video is like taking a bottlebrush to my neural pathways.

6:24 PM

Mick Jagger is mocking you. So, apparently, is someone named Andy Glass.

Oh, sorry, I didn't realize it was actual depictions of women hurting themselves. Bad. I just picked the first version of that Stones song I found on YouTube.

That one falling off the motorcycle looked fatal.

This was the one I was thinking of:

@KitFox That's from the only album of theirs that I play much.

They have two that I like.

Kind of the way I feel about My Bloody Valentine. I only really like Loveless.

"Isn't Anything" isn't nothing, but if I'm in a MBV mood I'll invariably put on Loveless.

Now I feel like getting drunk and dancing on a bar.

6:33 PM

@KitFox That's only shallow if you do.

I had just put that on.

MBV is one of those that I always forget I like.

hello friends

Hello.

MBV means?

@KitFox Yeah, I know, right? There are a lot of bands that I forget I really like. And then suddenly you hear them in some other context and you think, "Fuck, why don't I listen to these guys more?"

6:35 PM

@iAmbitious My Bloody Valentine.

iAmbitious

ok thanks

I was reminded of Moby's Play earlier today. I used to listen to it all the time while I was working.

I went through a Moby phase. Never went back.

It's good background music.