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user19161

12:03 PM

Is it a special day today? It's so quiet in here.

It's raining.

user19161

Ah, so raining implies no chat? Interesting!

I don't feel like chatting when it is raining.

Do you?

user19161

Haha, I actually feel like chatting more when it rains, hehe.

I've also uncomfortably decided that I am not appropriately dressed for work.

Now that I'm at work.

And have to leave my office to get coffee.

frowns

user19161

12:05 PM

Oh no, well just switch off the worry a bit.

tries that

I guess if I go sooner, it is less likely that anyone will notice.

user19161

Yes, go NOW.

user19161

Just say sorry if anything happens.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

good morning

user19161

speedyGonzales, Sofia, Bulgaria

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user19161

12:15 PM

So that's what he looks like, hehe.

Wow, a free online IQ test suggests that he has an IQ of 145. How impressive.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

From etymonline: gawky
"awkward, ungainly," 1724, from gawk hand "left hand" (1703), perhaps a contraction of gaulick, thus "gaulish hand," derogatory slang that could have originated during some period of strained Anglo-French relations, i.e. most of recorded history.

english.stackexchange.com/election/2/#comment-147275

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

that last bit made me giggle

No way. That's awesome.

user19161

12:22 PM

Hmm, IQ test also means nothing to me. It just measures various skills. One can always have one's own criteria.

Oh, no inlining...

That's odd.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

it isn't a regular page

@JasperLoy And an online IQ test ought to mean zilch.

There was no link, had to find out the anchor by looking at the source.

12:24 PM

Oh yeah. Huh.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I am somewhat certain people succeeded at inlining comments from the election page in the past.

Maybe it's different now that the elections are closed?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwighт I'm not, but I will defer to your excellent memory/open tabs.

That crossed my mind, but why would that be?

The HTML is the same.

Because the comments were locked or something?

Oh.

Matt Эллен

12:27 PM

What we need is a potato powered potato farm

perpetual motion!

user19161

Jinx!

Matt Эллен

on a more important note — I lost 20 reps because Nortonn S had 2 questions deleted. He is the worst.

@MattЭллен that's ultimately solar-powered, then. In which case everything is perpetual. Until the Sun burns out.

user19161

@MattЭллен I was responsible. I cast 17 delete votes today.

@MattЭллен you should have worked on getting more reps. Then you'd have kept them.

user19161

12:30 PM

@RegDwighт The human race might be extinct before that.

@MattЭллен You should be whipped and mashed for saying that.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy well, there's a good chance it will be extinct AFTER that

Matt Эллен

@RegDwighт getting more reps is haaaaard, I just want reps for free.

user19161

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yes, a chance of 1.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy Not 1. What if we manage to leave the solar system?

user19161

12:31 PM

Wait, what am I talking. NVM.

user19161

@MattЭллен You need to pounce on the right questions.

You must ask the right questions.

What is that from? Damn it.

@JasperLoy All the right questions have been gepounced already.

Matt Эллен

@KitFox a whole bunch of places

You guys coming to Writer's Chat today?

@MattЭллен OK, here. Listen to it in my head and tell me where that one is from.

Matt Эллен

12:33 PM

:D

beams thought to @Matt

Maybe AI.

Matt Эллен

tunes his antennae

Get a room.

user19161

It is this room.

Matt Эллен

lol

12:34 PM

Get a different room.

user19161

We are having an o***.

I have a different room, but I've got another person in it.

Flirtations aren't meant for a Habermasian public sphere.

This isn't flirting.

Close enough for rock 'n' roll.

user19161

12:35 PM

@Robusto The last I checked, the chat is a rectangle.

I don't think you need to bowdlerize "orange."

Or "okra."

Matt Эллен

or opal fruit

Who, me?

user19161

Ladies' fingers!

@JasperLoy I hope you don't mean that.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

12:36 PM

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Look up ladyfingers and then figure out what "ladies' fingers" might mean.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

from here

drools a little

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Wait, there aren't supposed to be real people in LEGO land, are there?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Robusto They visitors, like Gulliver in Lilliput.

12:38 PM

Off with their heads!

user19161

@Robusto Wait, you do know that ladyfingers and ladies' fingers can both be eaten right?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 very recent build. Some of those parts only just got introduced.

@JasperLoy Eating the former is merely somewhat effete, while eating the latter is decidedly cannibalistic.

He probably started constructing two years ago, and had to tear it apart again to improve.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwighт yeah he must be a bricklink fiend.

12:41 PM

I'm still waiting for my LEGO iPad.

I do wonder how he managed to put glass into those one-wide sidewards "windows".

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

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@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Thank you. Oh, and it's only $600! What a deal!

user19161

@Robusto In case that was not a whoosh, see oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/ladies%27%2Bfingers

@JasperLoy I whoosh you would stop with that.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

12:43 PM

@RegDwighт looks like a clear bar

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user19161

@Robusto I had to make sure, because JSB did not know that it was "just deserts" the last time instead of "just desserts". =)

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 they don't make clear bars of that length.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwighт the other end of the bar could be inside a brick-with-hole

This is Light Bluish Gray Panel 1 x 2 x 3 with Side Supports - Hollow Studs and a regular 1 x 4 tile.

Matt Эллен

12:45 PM

maybe it's a clear stick, like you get on space lego

It looks like it might be in two pieces.

@MattЭллен that's what Mr Shiny is talking about. But those are longer.

Matt Эллен

oh

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwighт ah we are talking about two diff windows

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I figured, hence the picture and the link.

user19161

12:46 PM

@RegDwighт Your t now looks like the inverted perpendicular symbol, very nice.

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Q: "Renewal meeting"?

What do you call a meeting which has the goal to renew the delegates/members of an association/organization/board? Renewal meeting/re-election meeting? Or is assembly the word I'm looking for? I just couldn't find the right expression.

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Whatever you call it, I call it boring.

That's a very good word. You can call everything that.

Better than ananas, even.

user19161

The first thing I thought of was AGM.

@RegDwighт I frequently do.

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Q: What is the difference between 'framework curriculum' and 'curricular framework'?

I know that the curricular is an adjective and curriculum a noun but are they both used excatly in the same meaning? Or are there some differences concerning what they imply to? Being a non-native English speaker I would say that they are the same or at least use as synonyms. I would prefer to us...

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Here's another. All the way from Deutschland.

user19161

One is the framework, one is the curriculum.

user19161

12:48 PM

A houseboat is a boat, a boathouse is a house.

Matt Эллен

a faceplant is a plant

A facepalm is a palm.

A facehugger is a hugger.

user19161

QED.

A facet is a t.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

a facebook is neither a face nor a book

12:50 PM

A wanker is a wanker is a wanker.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 that's a different game.

Oct 8 '11 at 19:56, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus The Federal Reserve is neither federal nor a reserve.

user19161

This is getting Non Sequitur!

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 MySpace is not my space.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

stack exchange doesn't exchange stacks

@RegDwighт A Bundesrepublik is neither a Bund nor a Republik. QED.

Matt Эллен

12:51 PM

banana cream pie is neither federal nor reserve

@Robusto actually it's both.

@MattЭллен But you can wank while winking, and wink while wanking.

The last fish taco I ate was neither fish-y nor a taco.

user19161

A woman is a woman and also a man.

In fact it is called "Bund" all the time.

user19161

12:51 PM

A man is a man or a woman.

Matt Эллен

@Robusto I've not tried...

@MattЭллен What, you've never winked?

@KitFox the last fish taco I ate was neither eaten nor by me.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy Wrong

"man" can mean men or women, but "a man" cannot mean "a woman"

Matt Эллен

@Robusto not while wanking

12:53 PM

@KitFox Ah, the enigmatic cousin of the ladyfinger. Proving you can have your fish taco and eat it, too.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 so why does that wife-man in LOTR say "I am no man" and no "I am no a man"?

user19161

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Hmm, depends on the interpretation. That should read as "a human is male or female".

@Robusto Even if you are allergic to fish.

@JasperLoy adjust your hue, man.

user19161

@RegDwighт Adjust your feathers, bird.

12:54 PM

@RegDwighт She might have said, "I am no' a man" in a Scots dialect.

@Robusto I think she said "I am no ma'am".

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@RegDwighт Well, it seems everyone was stealing from Odysseus.

Matt Эллен

I am no imam

I am norman.

@MattЭллен then why is it imam and not hemam?

12:55 PM

You are, however, inane.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JasperLoy That's what you meant, but that's not what your sentence says.

user19161

I am not Nortonn.

@Robusto that was last week. Today I'm outane.

Pink sea cows are an odd hue manatee for a mermaid.

Bravo. What?

12:56 PM

@JasperLoy The jury is still out.

Cows are not mermaids.

The converse is sometimes true.

Sea cows, they are.

Better than sea men.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

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Seen cows in the water.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

12:57 PM

^ cow mermaid

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 oh come on. You just drew that.

Et voilà.

Matt Эллен

I didn't know one would get cows in the pink sea

That’s a bovocentaur.

Why do they call camels the "ships of the desert"? Because they're full of Arab seamen.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

12:58 PM

@RegDwighт s/drew/sculpted/, painted and photographed/ just for you

Why is it called a bovocentaur? The horns are round, the tail is round, they should call it broundcentaur.

Because cow eggs are boval in shape.

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See, tchrist is not into sculpturing.

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