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Damkerng T.

19:00

Grice's?

Anonymous

Good ol' they. They always knows what to call stuff.

MARamezani

@DamkerngT. Crisis.

Anonymous

The Cooperative Principle

MARamezani

@snailboat They is the most informative guy I've seen ion the internet.

Damkerng T.

"They" are everywhere!

MARamezani

19:01

@DamkerngT. We're NOT talking about zombies.

Anonymous

Don your tinfoil hat!

MARamezani

@snailboat Where is it? I can't find it...no...go without me...

Anonymous

Jokes can also carry presuppositions of various sorts

MARamezani

@snailboat For example, this is a good joke.

Anonymous

Well done

MARamezani

19:03

(Talking about rules about jokes where there's no rules)

Damkerng T.

MARamezani

Nice spinning wheel.

Anonymous

I got an actual non-wheel image

Damkerng T.

Hey, I remember that scene!

Anonymous

From what?

MARamezani

19:05

@DamkerngT. They look like an ice cream cone.

Damkerng T.

It's Sign or The Sign. Not sure.

Anonymous

I don't know movies as well as you do, though I've seen my share :-)

Damkerng T.

Oh, it's Signs.

Anonymous

I haven't seen that one yet

MARamezani

@snailboat Maybe because you don't have a library to hang from.

Damkerng T.

19:06

I can't remember I watched which one first, between The Sixth Sense and Signs.

MARamezani

@DamkerngT. Do you really need to watch them? They're already in your memory, I think.

Damkerng T.

LOL -- I had to watch that one; it was the first time I've got a good look at Jim's friends.

Anonymous

Are those horror movies?

Anonymous

I don't usually watch horror movies unless they're also comedies

MARamezani

@snailboat I think so.

Anonymous

19:09

I liked Shaun of the Dead

MARamezani

Because of the name.

Damkerng T.

It's a hybrid of aliens and horror genres, but not very scary.

MARamezani

It's always somethings or The something or something of the another thing.

Damkerng T.

^One of Jim's friends in the movie. :P

MARamezani

@DamkerngT. I'm amazed by the resolution of that image. Do you have a smaller version?

Anonymous

19:10

The Dawn of the Platypus

Damkerng T.

@snailboat I can't remember the details in the movie now, but I remember I had a lot of good laughs!

Anonymous

Yard Gnomes

Damkerng T.

@MARamezani The smallest I was able to find already.

Anonymous

The Hula Hoop

MARamezani

@DamkerngT. @Jim @Jim, run! You're exposed!

Damkerng T.

19:11

@snailboat Hula Hoop, as a movie!?!

Anonymous

I made up horror movie titles based on MAR's templates :-)

Damkerng T.

Oh!

MARamezani

@snailboat They work!

Damkerng T.

Wait, a horror movie titled The Hula Hoop!?!

Anonymous

Yay! I win!

Damkerng T.

19:12

imagining a plot for it...

MARamezani

Dawn of @Jim Starring Jim as Jimbie.

Anonymous

They want to stop hulaing but they can't

Damkerng T.

MARamezani

The box of chocolates

^ Scary! ^

Must see!

Anonymous

People try to stop the hoop but they get sucked in and can't stop hulaing themselves

MARamezani

19:13

TONIGHT

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Sounds healthy rather than scary! :-)

MARamezani

@snailboat Shivering

Anonymous

Soon everyone is dead and aliens come and claim the planet in their name

Damkerng T.

Argh!

Anonymous

But the aliens can't stop hulaing either

MARamezani

19:14

@snailboat And zombie's rule the subways.

Damkerng T.

LOL

MARamezani

@snailboat Biting fingernails

Damkerng T.

Where is the plot heading to?!

Anonymous

It turns out the hula hoops are advanced mind control robots from the far future

Damkerng T.

Tada!

MARamezani

19:15

@Dam stop them, my hero!

Anonymous

Miniaturized ringworlds that each contain vast civilizations with untold aeons of history

Damkerng T.

@MARamezani Too late. No humans and aliens left, according to the plot.

MARamezani

@DamkerngT. But wait!

All of this was in the mind of a folk.

So haha we kid you.

Go sleep.

Anonymous

Darn those folks

MARamezani

BUT WAIT!

Damkerng T.

19:16

Boin!

MARamezani

Suddenly, in the end, a robot appears and eats a banana.

So it was real after all.

Damkerng T.

Wait, what?

Anonymous

Sometimes snails eat bananas

Damkerng T.

When snails rule the Earth!

MARamezani

@snailboat That, actually, was the main title of a horror movie.

Anonymous

19:17

They already do, you just don't know it yet

Damkerng T.

Someone gotta liberate these bananas!

MARamezani

Box Office: 3455234543234543456 bitcoins

Damkerng T.

@snailboat Oh, indeed!

MARamezani

@DamkerngT. Then a reign of angry monkeys appear, with read eyes and a dagger in their hand.

Damkerng T.

@MARamezani What's the exchange rate for bitcoins today?

@MARamezani Hah! Isn't that from another movie?

MARamezani

19:18

The poster says: YOU THOUGHT YOU'D SURVIVE, LITTLE BANANA. YOU WERE WRONG...

Damkerng T.

LOLROTF!

MARamezani

Oh, a monkey attacks the last banana.

Then

Comes the credits.

You have to wait for the second f***ing movie to appear to find out who ate who.

Damkerng T.

Q: Resources to improve academic writing?

Is there a site or book with essays and annotated corrections for grammar --word usage, punctuation, sentence structure etc.? I've seen the Strunk and White's Elements of Style but I am looking for a resource that contains passages. Paragraphs would be ok too but not short sentences. I'm in in gr...

MARamezani

If any conclusion is going to come outta this, it's that we're a weird gang of people here.

Damkerng T.

I wonder if Elements of Style can help improve academic writing.

MARamezani

19:22

@DamkerngT. I wonder that too...

Damkerng T.

Maybe it can. What do I know?

MARamezani

(Whoa, we killed all the humans, aliens, and bananas, for just a tinfoil hat)

Damkerng T.

@MARamezani But we still have one banana left for the sequel!

MARamezani

@DamkerngT. A demon will possess him in the next movie.

Too late.

ʇolɐǝz ǝɥʇ qoq

20:10

@MARamezani Hi!

@DamkerngT. Hi!

Damkerng T.

20:41

Hi @ʇolɐǝzǝɥʇqoq!

Damkerng T.

21:04

@MARamezani And the demon will go bananas!

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Damkerng T.

23:38

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