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12:03 AM

Also, any reason you're not voting to close this? @dr65

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Q: Looking for certain idioms

I'm looking for certain idioms or informal/slang/colloquial expressions having the following meanings or relevant to the following situations... It doesn't matter who you are, rules are rules for everyone. What if you are the Prime Minister or the Archbishop? You have to wait in the queue as ev...

idioms expressions common-expressions colloquial

@simchona Nope. I just did; thanks for the notice! I like the questions, but not as one question.

@drɱ65δ Yeah--I just don't like that the OP is like "I've seen longer questions"...that's not the point

He doesn't seem to be getting the point.

I upvoted your good comments though.

Yeah. I upvoted D.Krueger and Kit, because they're helping explain it way better

SE at its finest. Almost, anyway.

12:25 AM

I agree that #4 should be kept. There is a decent answer for it already, so it causes less change

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Q: President Obama is called Sleeping Barry. Who in the world is this "Sleeping Barry"?

Today’s (September 10) New York Times carries Maureen Dawd’s article titled ‘Sleeping Barry Awakes.’ The headline is followed with the following beginning lines: WOW, what a relief. The president was strong and House Republicans were conciliatory. There was only one teensy-weensy pro...

meaning-in-context

English.SE is a better place with Yoichi Oishi

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Or at least a more entertaining place.

He has hilarious questions. The guy reads a lot.

I love his comment after JSB's answer.

I'm extending badge-award day to today, I see. JSB should get another Good Answer badge soon. :)

@Kit I can't answer your question. Good one!

Whenever I see your new user name, I mentally add and kin. :P

It would be cool if you had a dog named Kin. Or a cat. (Or a fish?) ...

@Kit(h): Wait... is your name pronounced Kith now? Or still Kit?

12:40 AM

@drɱ65δ My name is pronounced the same as always, but my screen name can be pronounced howsomever you choose.

@drɱ65δ Perhaps I should simply rename my firstborn.

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@Kit--I love that you recite the Spanish alphabet with your kids.

@simchona Well, it gets kind of fuzzy in the middle, but we end strong.

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@Kitḫ All's well that ends well.

Aww, that's really sweet

Are you sure? We can keep (removed)ing at each other

You know - that looks really weird.

@drɱ65δ You won't even see the holes after it's history.

12:52 AM

WAIT I MISSED THAT ONE

BRING IT BACK

@Simchona Why don't you change your About Me? Do you still think you're trying to figure it all out?

@drɱ65δ Yup. I'll change it when I know everything.

If you want to help, yes, that would be nice.

@drɱ65δ The last five or so minutes is hilarious

Now look.

12:54 AM

Someone's going to look and be like "were they swearing at each other or something?"

It's getting better.

Getting funnier by the minute.

Shoot. Missed a few.

Chat is becoming a clandestine affair.

Sorry. Should I flag? Or just leave them since they don't give anything away?

I wonder how many deleted messages with automatically flag a mod.

12:56 AM

If I keep starring you, you won't want to delete, will you?

So now that you both have learned the names of most of my family members, let's just keep it between us, OK?

I starred you!

Are you Outspoken yet?

I really can't look away from this tab. Every time I do, someone says something and then removes it

@drɱ65δ Yes.

But simchona isn't.

12:58 AM

Can you unstar at least most of those please?

I don't want to draw a ton of eyes to this part of the transcript.

Especially the only one you didn't unstar.

Thank you.

simchona isn't Outspoken yet? How odd.

You're very welcome. No stars.

@Kitḫ I'm not sure why not. Maybe because the same people star me, and I'm only in this room

G2G! THX!

@drɱ65δ I know that it's difficult not to star everything I say, because I am so wity and briliat.

NB: I intentionally mis-spelt those words to enhance the humorous effect.

I was checking on my question. It seems I have generated more confusion that I thought was possible.

@Kitḫ Well my answer just got downvoted twice in the last few minutes.

1:09 AM

Hmm. I guess I should think about how to clarify it.

I didn't think it was that confusing. I mean, we have similar ones about c and k and s all the time.

user19161

What just happened in chat?

I got crazy.

@Kitḫ — Yes. You are definitely whitey and Brill-O.

user19161

Answer:transcript pollution.

@Kitḫ — Umm, I think you've been crazy for a while now.

user19161

1:12 AM

The stars are still happening, I think people are on drugs.

user19161

@Kitḫ I think that is me.

@Jasper You are Kit?

user19161

@Robusto That is me as well.

@Jasper — No. You're a rock.

@Jasper No, I am me. You are you. For you, the same is also true.

1:18 AM

@Kitḫ Stop with the existential dilemmas. If you start pulling on that thread, the fabric of the universe will unravel.

user19161

@Kitḫ But in different ways. Only Matt will have the details.

user19161

I just sent him a super long email about my life.

BTW, I'm curious: Have all the other SE sites got their swag bags yet? Are we being singled out for being "bad"? Or?

user19161

I did not ask for my swag on EL&U.

And I wasn't here when it was offered

1:20 AM

@Robusto Pretty sure Gaming got theirs weeks ago.

@Robusto It's an old rhyme. It's clever.

user19161

They should offer it to anyone who makes it to top two pages at any time.

user19161

Perhaps I should make this suggestion.

If you start pulling on that thread
The fabric of the universe
Will unravel in your head
And then things will be worse

user19161

I am trying to figure out what each person in this room is thinking now...

@Robusto OK. It's not an old rhyme, I just made it up to show how clever I am.

1:24 AM

@Kitḫ — No. I made it up.

1 min ago, by Robusto

If you start pulling on that thread
The fabric of the universe
Will unravel in your head
And then things will be worse

user19161

Ooh, it suddenly got extremely cold here, raining the whole night.

user19161

I think this room should be renamed The Crazy Room.

@Jasper — I doubt that you know what "extremely cold" really means. You're in Singapore, right?

user19161

@Robusto Yes, and I know you are not the Sultan of Brunei.

@Jasper — You don't know. You only suspect.

Anyway, Singapore's coldest day would be T-shirt weather for me.

While Boston's coldest day would freeze the hairs right off your head.

1:28 AM

@Robusto No, I made it up.

11 mins ago, by Kitḫ

@Jasper No, I am me. You are you. For you, the same is also true.

user19161

@Robusto Alright, but these cold days happen twice or thrice a year. Very mysterious.

@Kitḫ — That rhyme is already in the public domain. Don't start trying to charge royalties on it.

@Robusto While my hometown's coldest day would freeze your nostrils shut if you had a runny nose.

@Jasper — You misspelled "slightly less warm" ...

@Robusto No, it's mine, mine, mine.

1:32 AM

@Jasper I know exactly one person from Brunei

user19161

@simchona The Sultan's son was my schoolmate IIRC.

Sonic The Hedgehog

Brunei?

And one from SG.

Sonic The Hedgehog

where is that?

@sim ..Sodom and Gomorra?

@SonicTheHedgehog Yes dear. I am good friends with those wretched souls.

It's really Singapore

user19161

1:34 AM

@SonicTheHedgehog Hope you enjoyed kimchi!

@simchona Singapore is Sodom and Gomorrah?

user19161

Now Matt knows my 3 wishes this life. They will be revealed when they come true.

user19161

So nobody wants to tell me what the removed messages are?

user19161

@sonic Thanks for the poem. At first I thought you wrote it.

@Jasper I told you, I got crazy.

I'm sure you can figure it out.

Sonic The Hedgehog

1:40 AM

@jasper Please, if I was able to write a poem like that in teen, I would have already gone to college.

user19161

@Kitḫ No, I have great difficulty figuring everyone out. The force is not with me.

Sonic The Hedgehog

What exactly is this "force" everybody is talking about?

user19161

@SonicTheHedgehog Star Wars.

user19161

And don't try to figure me out too, it's beyond imagination.

@Kit-- I tried to update my answer to your question

1:43 AM

@Jasper It's not important. I just started telling stories about my boys and realize that I had used their real names, which I prefer to keep on the DL. So I deleted and the others helped out too.

user19161

@Kitḫ OK, though it is pretty harmless.

Maybe someday I'll post my actual picture here. Hmm.

user19161

@simchona Sounds cryptic.

Bye.

@Robusto Bye!

user19161

1:46 AM

@Robusto See you.

@Robusto Bai!

Sonic The Hedgehog

bye

Ah. Pings. Again, adieu.

@Robusto Bai! giggle

user19161

@simchona Though I may have some idea what it will look like.

1:48 AM

@Jasper Yup.

user19161

Maybe someday I'll post my 3 wishes here, even if they have not come true, or perhaps they never will.

Everyone deserves to have their wishes come true

At least some of them

@Kit: I found information on why Y is igriega in Spanish

> pl. Y's, Ys /waɪz/ , the twenty-fifth letter of the modern and twenty-third of the ancient Roman alphabet, representing ultimately Y, Υ (u psilon) of the Greek alphabet, a differentiated form of the primitive V which has given also U and V. It was adopted first in the Latin alphabet in the form V to express /u/ and /w/ , and was later (after b.c. 100) readopted in the form Y to represent the Υ of borrowed Greek words.

The name of the letter in the Romanic languages, ‘Greek i’ (e.g. French i grec, Spanish i griega), and the German name ipsilon, Italian ipsilon, -onne (†yssilonne), and Por…

user19161

@simchona It will be a miracle if any of them happen.

user19161

But the first must happen before the second can, and the second must happen before the third can.

@simchona Thanks!

1:53 AM

@Kitḫ You're welcome! I would've included it in my answer, but decided against it

user19161

There is a chance that the first will happen next year, and the second the following year, and the third the one following that.

@Jasper That's pretty soon for wishes

user19161

@simchona Hence chance. I was stating the best possible case.

@simchona Are you kidding? That's ages and ages. @Jasper needs a new lamp or frog or whatever.

@Kitḫ Frog -> prince

user19161

1:56 AM

Note that they may never happen.

Doesn't mean it can't or won't

@simchona I thought there was a wish-granting frog somewhere?

user19161

But I really do need the first to happen, and for all the shit I have gone through, I think I deserve the second and third as well.

@Kitḫ Hmm. I always associated frogs with kissing them to make them princes

@simchona Oh wait. I've remembered now. It's from a joke.

user19161

2:00 AM

Hence my poem "Justin Bieber. Just believe."

That's not really a poem, is it?

user19161

@Kitḫ Ya not really.

Would it be an epitaph?

Or does that require being dead?

Hmm. I think it would just have to go on a taph for it to be an epitaph.

(In other words, on a tomb.)

My bad.

2:03 AM

No worries. It allowed me to make a joke albeit poorly.

user19161

I have a great sense of humour. I may take very long to understand some jokes, but I can see a joke where nobody can. So most of my jokes are not funny.

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user19161

And again for those who don't know, you can edit your chat profile too.

user19161

I just found out a few hours ago.

user19161

Wow, I look at the messages on the right. It has been a starry night.

'Tis a great night for stargazing

(It's actually not. There's been thunder, lightning, but no rain)

Did I say it wasn't raining? Because now it is.

user19161

2:16 AM

Rain sounds romantic.

user19161

Well, it's day here and the rain has stopped.

Good night, folks!

user19161

@Kitḫ Night!

Night @Kit!

user19161

The Starry Night

The Starry Night () is a painting by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. The painting depicts the view outside his sanitarium room window at night, although it was painted from memory during the day. Since 1941 it has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Reproduced often, the painting is widely hailed as his magnum opus. Genesis In September 1888, while van Gogh was staying in Arles, he executed a painting commonly known as Starry Night Over the Rhone and later he incorporated a pen drawing in a set of a dozen based on recent pa...

user19161

2:21 AM

Let's do some stargazing.

@Jasper puts out a telescope

user19161

@simchona Sounds like a scene from A Walk to Remember, another of my favourite movies.

2:38 AM

I only saw that once

I don't like crying during movies

user19161

I have the VCD. I watched it a few times. I like crying during movies, though I try not to attract attention from that.

user19161

In fact I read the book too.

Sonic The Hedgehog

Another pic for Kit.

@Jasper I don't think most people want to be seen when they're crying

Sonic The Hedgehog

imgur.com/gallery/D6mhR

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