The Sphinx's Lair

I was born lightyears ahead of my time but now am dark beers behind the cart. (And still trying to be funny.) (And still trying on your nerves.) (Always worth another try.)

Sid

@humn So, you were not born in Earth?

(light years is a distance measurement unit not time..)

humn

6:28 PM

(so I play with words)

(and persons, all aboard!)

n_palum

choo choo

M Oehm

I note someone in travelling mood. :)

Deusovi

@MOehm Is that a cryptic? It looks like a cryptic.

humn

It has : letters.

For anyone who missed it (the show that never ends):

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 - 1st Impression - Part 2

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n_palum

@Deusovi someone's excited

M Oehm

6:35 PM

No, just a straightforward nudge at n_palum. What crypticism there is is owed to my, er, progressive grammar.

humn

6:45 PM

... another pause? ...

Genesis - Watcher Of The Skies - Midnight Special - 20/12/1973

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(Sorry to be so jumpy. If i didn't skip out of bed occasionally i'd've missed more beats.)

(ThankYouTubeAgainAndAgainBeforeEachCopyrighterGetsToYouTube)

(By the way, for the record, all that 1960s through 2010s stuff made sense at the time.)

(I happily assume that all those earlier and later stuffs did and will as well.)

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer - Stop Making Sense

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For the record, during another interval of silence, David Byrne might be the Danny Kaye of recent memory.

Deusovi

7:07 PM

That means nothing to me. I know very little about music.

Er, about musicians, I should say.

humn

They are/were both performers as much as musicians.

You are a performer, Deubravo, even if you don't fancy yourself a musician.

Whenever anyone says that they don't know about something I take it as an admission that they don't know as much as they'd like to.

Deusovi

I don't consider myself a performer. A musician, maybe (though I don't think I've shared any of my music with you all, and it's amateur at best), but I could never get up on stage in front of a large group of people.

Sid

@Deusovi What do you play? Or sing?

humn

What instrument(s)? (jinx)

n_palum

Or do you create music?

humn

7:12 PM

I, for one, play almost everything, badly, and am not ashamed to admit as much.

Deusovi

All electronic. I make 8-bit music.

n_palum

That was my guess actually

humn

I have a free copy of Anvil Studio and am pretty happy with it.

(I also have wind instruments and am delirious over them.)

Sid

I did play the keyboard years ago. I wasn't too good, though and gradually dropped that and now I don't even remember what I used to play..

humn

You still play a keyboard, Sid.

One stroke at a time, even when they come in bunches.

Not bad random find:

Giuseppe Verdi - Il Trovatore - Anvil Chorus

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"Il Trovatore" means, unless I'm mistaken, "those who travail." (Do correct me on occasion.)

Gareth McCaughan

7:26 PM

It may be true that unless you are mistaken "Il Trovatore" means "those who travail", but if so then, unless I am mistaken, you are mistaken. Doesn't it mean "The troubadour"?

humn

O? That makes more sense.

Deusovi

That would make sense, especially because "Il" is a singular pronoun. At least, if I've picked anything up from my vague knowledge of Romance languages through Spanish.

humn

Got it confused with that/those other opera.

La traviata

La traviata (Italian: [la traviˈaːta; traˈvjaːta], The Fallen Woman) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La Dame aux Camélias (1852), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The opera was originally titled Violetta, after the main character. It was first performed on 6 March 1853 at the La Fenice opera house in Venice. Piave and Verdi wanted to follow Dumas in giving the opera a contemporary setting, but the authorities at La Fenice insisted that it be set in the past, "c. 1700". It was not until the 1880s...

(But I don't know any tunes as catchy from that one as Anvil Chorus from Il trovatore.)

)

... just typing away ...

n_palum

tip tap

humn

7:41 PM

tiddlywhack

(that was a made up word, i hope)

n_palum

give a dog a bone

GentlePurpleRain

@humn google.com/search?q=tiddlywhack

humn

This old man came rolling (not in the X sense unless someone on the street slips me one) home.

(oh, that didn't look up so well across the internet, "roll" is slang for taking MMDMA, also called X for "extasy".)

(That took a lot of edits and it still came out incorrect.)

Does anyone take drugs anymore? I don't, but assume that others do. Now I wonder.

Sid

@humn Oh, pretty sure WHO has some stats on that too

humn

(Yes this is not the place to list them. Just musing.)

Sid

7:56 PM

However, that also depends on whether they consider Marijuana drugs or not. But, anyway, let me pull up a link for you

humn

Everyone I know has a THC card. I'm so jealous. But I stopped getting stoned just days before venturing here. See how that works?

Sid

Well, I get a link exclusively for the US, though. luxury.rehabs.com/drug-abuse

Maria Deleva

wine? amaretto? are these drugs?

humn

Right, it's a matter of definition. I'm high on oxygen. (And brain tissue repair.)

Maria Deleva

everybody is

and water

and food

and most women - sweet things

humn

8:00 PM

Food is my remaining vice.

Women are my daily bread. (Nothing against guys, just went with that word.)

Sid

Well, excess of alcohol is bad anyway..

humn

Alcohol is tough stuff.

Maria Deleva

excess for some is routine for others

that line would be good in a riddle

:D

humn

!

I like to rough and tumble.

For fun. (Again, language, tada!)

Like that feral feline, one paw holds close to the heart while the other reaches out for knowledge. Both paws sheath claws sharper than teeth but are padded softer than snow.

^ (that was relentlessly edited for you, @Rand al'letters.)

Rand al'Thor

Nice!

humn

8:17 PM

"reaches out for" = "reaches for"

"sheath" = "sheathe"

Femtosecond edit timout . . .

New measurement of time: "Editosecond"

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It's that brief interval between when you type something you wish you hadn't and when you struck backspace, only too late.

Maria Deleva

or when you would like to edit a mistake and it is too late

humn

I want to copymachine everyone one of my successes and erase each mistake.

Maria Deleva

you do not need to do that - mistakes form your experience and success can only come after

humn

You know how it goes.

Maria Deleva

too welll

humn

8:27 PM

I only wish I could learn from my mistakes. Others have.

(I have too, to be honest, but not as swiftly.)

Maria Deleva

What is a mistake? Is it something you take in a mist?

Rand al'Thor

It's the ache you get from mist.

Maria Deleva

Or is it my stake?

But if it is - am I a witch? If yes, which?

:D

humn

":D"? Coming from a surnym that begins with "D"?

Think I'll change my usernym to "Dumn" before I give a damn.

(changing my name is an ongoing joke)

(after i'm done changing my name i just might change yours)

(That was truly weird. Apologies.)

After I'm done apologizing for myself, I just might start apologizing for you.

Long trail ahead.

(someone please splat another music video, I'm getting tired of putting up Yes after Genesis)

(buf if I must, have a splash of red_)

King Crimson - Red (OFFICIAL)

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(...at full volume)

Every note is an expression of hope, no matter how horrendous it sounds.

(Signed, editor/arranger/interpreter)

(Signed, same as you. Aren't we all? Hadn't I felt a kinship along the way i wouldn't've had gotten a tenth this far.)

... and while I type faster than I think that TV is still time compressed ... Really? Nobody else recognizes that?

Nobody talks that rapidly.

I love a rapid thinker/typist/speaker but the TV has squeezed time to the limit. Beyond the limit of comprehension, I'm guessing.

Should just turn that thing off.

But, again, I asked my sib, the phonologist, and he just said, "sorry, I don't watch TV."

I don't mind, they've cleverly left every syllable audible, but, really, doesn't anyone else hear how sound compression has invaded our earspace?

I relish each undertone and they've time-compressed them out of reach.

(Not making this up, listen for yourself.)

I lied. I do mind, and check the record just to calibrate these ears.

Whatever ... those cackles make me feel like Chicken Little, but i don't think i'm crying "wolf."

Just guess i'm crying "who cares?"

But if anyone does care, public media are time-compressing undertones from our ears.

I listen for undertones like I devour tasteless treats. Guess this isn't necessarily the place to lament the topic. Here is just a place where others catch a clue with barely a hint. And rarely I see a TV show where all we're left with are scratches and commercials.

"we're" = "where we aren't"

n_palum

9:30 PM

It's gonna be okay humn humn

humn

I've survived worse. It ... just ... ain't ... fair.

May you be as lucky as to survive the worst!

@n_palum , in other words, thank you. I'll get better. Dammit!

n_palum

:)

Better foretter

humn

One of my muses said, "if you die on the next ride I'll never forgive you."

So i went to the trouble of not dying.

Here to live and tell.

(and edit)

How commonplace my muses' names are compared to mine. Carol and Karen (see? no internet search will scare them). Then again, I gather muses by the bushel.

n_palum

9:47 PM

Woo

humn

Only way to go!

I soak brains for breakfast.

n_palum

Zombie!?

humn

Not that way! I hydrate them and feel nourished as a result.

(was an attempted double entendre)

n_palum

Entenentrance! The grand reopening of the kitchen! Full of spoons and soaked brains!

humn

Thank you for entrancing me.

ffao

9:55 PM

@Deusovi going in front of an unspecific mass of people looks much easier than engaging in conversation with a stranger

is humn a walking horror movie? fear is spreading through the PSE chatrooms, it seems

humn

The world I see is a walking horror movie.

Correct that, it is also a panoply of glory.

That's why I reflect both the worst and the best.

Really, half of what I see is a B&D (=bondaage and discipline) flick.

The other half is B&R = beauty and release.

That's the half I try to reflect.

n_palum

The world is a scary place

Who knows how long it will stay scary though

Will we just all melt?

humn

.... given global warming ... (that's just glib, I know many who live mere inches above waterline)

... I don't actually look for B&D flicks, just recognize it in daily life ...

... I look for B&W flicks ...

And you know by now, I hope, how I try to scatter sunshine.

n_palum

@humn Scariest bit is the water rising is the least of the concerns

The heat! The horror! Only GPR will be safe!

humn

That genie seems to only surface when necessary.

My best attempt at sunlight:

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Q: Two many rainbows?

Wish I’d had a camera at the time but a cartoon will have to suffice, representing two actual incomplete rainbows that stop in midair where they meet, lit only by a setting sun. This seemed so paradoxical, I honestly wondered if it was a dream. After all, on a normal rainbow with two arches, t...

It produced a gallery.

n_palum

10:11 PM

Beauty beautiful beauties

humn

Hope you enjoyed the recent full moon too.

The world just keeps turning.

Soon a solar eclipse.

Which also means a lunar eclipse or two.

(Stop this geek from typing.)

n_palum

Tip Tap!

humn

Skip to that lou!

So you've figured it out, n_palum. All you have to do for another verse from me is to reverse.

n_palum

Subverse, reverse, and inverse the last verse you rehearsed

humn

Are you Rand al'disguised?!

Maybe I am. One never knows.

(Spoiler: I'm not but wish I were.)

(Spolier: I'm not even whom i wish i were, but keep trying.)

(Spoiler: It's easier than it looks.)

(Spoiler: It only looks difficult.)

Sphinx

10:25 PM

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Q: Raven's Inception

Raven's Inception Fluff (no clues): The horde is chasing you. You run for your life along the main street of a small nondescript town you wish you had never set foot in. You turn a hard right, put your entire body behind you and crash into the door of a building. You burst into a small...

logical-deduction visual

n_palum

Spoiler tags!

humn

Can't believe I just stripped the answers to the world's most difficult puzzles.

Ignore at will.

Okay, those weren't the actual answers. They were world's most difficult pzzs uncovered. Half of any solution is understanding the puzzle.

(Many wished edits beyond the timeline. Good thing that nobody cares.)

C'mon, performers. Either I'm stinking up the stage or intimidating a step-through. Whichever, please don't be so shy. That's how I am in person, shy. Here it's a safe audience.

Rand al'Thor

10:43 PM

You should change your username to ijaf.

humn

When I'm done joking about it that's a great idea!

n_palum

I think gynb should be the new name

humn

Try it on for size.

I still don't know what n_palum means.

(But I'm used to knowing less than that.)

(To be honest, I'm used to knowing less than nothing and thinking i know everything.)

One Never Knows, Do One?

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Took some time to get used to thinking i know everything.

(You know that's a joke, i hope)

(Someone please share another loud song before the neighbrs get retorted in kind. They have a loud stereo too.)

Until then (yes, a repeat):

Gabriel FAURE': Pavane, Op. 50 - Paintings By "CLAUDE MONET"

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n_palum

11:05 PM

:O I've discovered a multilingual pun!

@humn If I share you a certain song you have to promise not to share or tell!

humn

@n_palum , that's a c'mon if I've ever heard one. Tell the world!

n_palum

Sweater Weather - The Neighbourhood (Cover)

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humn

Thank you!

n_palum

It's a friend of mine but it's a private link now (he took it off the public scene)

humn

This place is leading the way to a world of unconditional acceptance. Not always easy.

as4s4hetic

11:14 PM

G'day humn

humn

Glad to see you, as4etc. Are you J bro?

(I still think my sib will show up here, but one never knows.)

Sorry for the misattribution, but please take it as a compliment.

... back to philosphy ... complete disclosure (as here) can only lead to complete understanding ... kicking and screaming as we go ...

... weird how the only things we don't reveal are our actual identities ... but, no doubt, they're not that hard to find out ... but, rest assured, those who can find out are too busy otherwise to do personal harm ...

(I root others on while they grab the controls.)

(Sometimes i don't know whether i'm a bee in their bonnets or a feather in their fannies. And if you can figure out where this came from, i just might know you.)

(But I'd rather nestle here. That was a moment of fluffling.)

Rand al'Thor

11:41 PM

@humn Note: that F-word means something different here in Britain from what it does over there.

humn

(not "fluffing")

n_palum

Where do cats go when they die? **Purr** gatory
De donde van los gatos cuando mueren? Pur **gato** rio
Dove vanno I gatti quando muoiono? Nei pur **gatto** rio
ou vont les chats quant ils meurent? Au pur **chat** toire
Para onde os gatos vao quando morrem? Para o pur **gato** rio

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humn

(does this font make me look obscene?)

ffao

f-word? Are we going to outlaw my cousin's name Fanny now?

n_palum

English, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese - minus some of the accent marks :P

ffao

11:45 PM

multi-language joke, I like that :P

n_palum

Bah I couldn't edit it in time now it looks dumb D:

Oh what the heck it is bolded on the star

I goofed the edits I want a redo

humn

A familiar feeling.

Rand al'Thor

Two cats named One-Two-Three and Un-Deux-Trois had a swimming race across the Channel. Which of them won?

One-Two-Three cat won, because Un-Deux-Trois cat sank.

n_palum

Heard that one too :)

Although minus "cat won" and "cat sank"

"An old joke for fun: There are 2 cats, an English cat and a French cat, in a contest to swim the English Channel. The English cat is called the one-two-three cat, and the French cat is called the un-deux-trois cat. who won? A: The English cat. Beause the un deux trois quatre cinq!"

ffao

@Randal'Thor would have to be "sunk", right?

took me long to get the joke because of that

humn

11:56 PM

(Bowing in awe.)

Rand al'Thor

@ffao ... not the way I speak French.

hoping I haven't been pronouncing French "in" wrong all these years

humn

... but giddyap, dawgies, no other speaker-busting music video for the moment? I'm trying to take another nap but can't rest easy without music that scares the kittycat outa here. Don't make me go Bach-cum-Rundgren (again).

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