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RegDwight Ѭſ道

3:00 PM

@Robusto You are 24?

user19161

And the time on watch advertisements is usually around 10.10.

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 Probably 42.

@RegDwightѬſ道 — What do you care. You Krauts just say the digits backwards anyway.

user19161

Anyone knows why it is 10.10 and 23 just tell me, I really want to know.

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Q: Where can I find sorted word lists used by native students?

I would like to find a sorted list of vocabulary that is studied by native students in primary and secondary school in UK or USA, arranged by grade level. Is there any official place to download such a list?

^ off topic

Matt Эллен

3:01 PM

tooty four

RegDwight Ѭſ道

ruofytnewt

@JSBᾶngs He misspelled naive.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Also, unused.

Catches another comment.

> You are entitled to your opinion, Michael. I don't pretend the word does not exist. I simply said (and say) there was no reason to introduce it in a comment. It added nothing and detracted from the person who said it. My opinion. In this country, I am entitled to my opinion as long as I don't overstep my boundaries or add name calling. Easy peasy. Thank you for your thoughts.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Old.

3:02 PM

How about one of us just answers "In the sorted word list bin." and we all upvote it, like, 100 times.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Seriously, kiam, why are you quoting that stuff from over 9000 years ago? It's not like it isn't documented.

user19161

@kiamlaluno So in other countries we are not entitled to our own opinions?

@RegDwightѬſ道 It would be ex if I noticed it before.

@JasperLoy Only Lombardy!

Matt Эллен

is documented like not documented?

3:03 PM

@JasperLoy It's not what I wrote. It was a comment from Cinque.

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 I watched the movie 10,000BC.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Congrats, Cerberus. Here's your non-sequitur-of-the-day award.

@MattЭллен It's there if you look.

@RegDwightѬſ道 I made it seque.

@JasperLoy That one is OVER 9000!!!

3:04 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 I was hoping for a help to find those comments I didn't wrote. :-)

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Ah. That.

@kiamlaluno — Still needs help.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto You mean a help.

@Robusto Let me "help" you.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Let me unhelp you all.

3:05 PM

The nurse will be with you shortly.

user19161

@kiamlaluno You inspired me to change my smileys from :) to :-).

@RegDwightѬſ道 I didn't wrote that for a reason.

gets camera

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto I know.

No Joke Left Unexplained.

user19161

Robusto=Robert=Bob, so we should call him Bob.

3:06 PM

No Child's Left Behind.

snicker

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Per Jasper ad astra.

Matt Эллен

hehehe

Bob is on the phone.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Get him down quick. He'll damage the poor phone.

Dave? Dave's not here, man.

3:06 PM

Exit to the left.

@RegDwightѬſ道 You call it unexplained, I call it elaborated upon.

user19161

Mahnax=Bob Marley=Bob, so Robusto=Mahnax. QED

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto You call many things many things when the day is long.

Helloo Dave!!

Those aren't exclusive.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

3:07 PM

Everything is exclusive. At least where I live.

Oh, sexy.

@RegDwightѬſ道 Exclusive, but not unique.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

My deck is full of unique legendaries.

(If it is not unique, it's cinque.)

All the guys say that.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

3:08 PM

One more unique than the next.

user19161

Some say unique is more special than special but I think special is more special than unique since unique just means one of a kind.

Matt Эллен

you say deck, I say patio

Apr 13 '11 at 9:53, by Robusto

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What seems to be the problem?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Okay folks, I gotta run. Won't be back for like four hours. Keep an eye on the war.

Matt Эллен

cya @RegDwight

3:09 PM

OMG the war.

Matt Эллен

dont' mention the war!

We are OVER 2500!

@Robusto Yum. Dementia.

You look so good in drag, @Rob.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto you misspelled

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Matt Эллен

indeed

3:10 PM

@Robusto Wow you haven't changed one bit.

@RegDwightѬſ道 Yayy!

And bye!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Over and out.

in War Metal Tyrant, Oct 9 '11 at 19:34, by Robusto

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Laterz.

Haha.

You all appear to be RegDwight's sock-puppet accounts. He leaves and you all clam up.

It's because you are here.

3:13 PM

squeaks

There. I said it.

Matt Эллен

can't talk without Reg's hand up his arse

Meanie.

Eww.

ventriloquizes himself

takes lens cap off camera

Matt Эллен

because I'm a sock puppet. not for any other reason

3:14 PM

eats lens cap

puts lens cap back on camera

but lens cap is now in my stomach

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus you should improve your diet - a man cannot live on words and lens caps alone!

Have no fear, I eat everything!

it's my lens cap. i can do what i want with it.

3:15 PM

then come and get it

@Cerberus (except hairy pie)

punches left head

Hairy pie? But but...

left head is stupid anyway

jumps down left throat

removes lens cap from stomach

it is already down in my tummy

@Kitḫ I bet he does... most men do really.

3:16 PM

I swallow you right back in

@z7sgѪ Eggscuse me?

punches left kidney

@Kitḫ left kidney produces a riddle to distract you

@Cerberus You like getting stuck into a hairy pie.

@Cerberus Oh, shiny!

I think he's confusing us, @Cerb.

I do rather look three-headed from a distance.

then come closer

3:19 PM

ears prick up

A rich man dies because his piece of cardboard was too thin.

A cheating poker player?

I made this one up myself, so it will be ramshackle.

Nope.

Matt Эллен

did he die of cuts?

No.

3:21 PM

Was he murdered?

No.

@Cerberus — Was he Dutch?

It's a riddle not 20 questions!

Did he like the taste of seagulls?

@Robusto No.

@Kitḫ Probably not!

3:21 PM

Semi-Dutch?

@z7sgѪ No, the questions are necessary and welcome!

@Robusto Who can say, these days?

Not riddles, minute mysteries.

Matt Эллен

@z7sgѪ it's riddle solved by asking an indeterminate number of yes/no questions

Was he a snow man?

Did he die from a fall?

3:22 PM

No, and no.

Ah ok I see, it really is a ramshackle riddle.

Matt Эллен

do I know this guy?

Ehh the story doesn't say so.

Probably not your kind of people.

You will understand at the end.

Was he trying to use the cardboard to get somewhere?

Matt Эллен

was he using the card when he died?

user19161

3:23 PM

@z7sg Would you like to accept this answer? No obligation.

user19161

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Q: Is "banned from the airways" an eggcorn or malapropism?

It should be "banned from the airwaves", meaning "not allowed to be played on radio". I noticed this mistake in a British newspaper story. The former star's music has largely been banned from the airways since his fall from grace. Is this an eggcorn?

eggcorn malapropism

@Kitḫ Hmm...it was indirectly used in the process of getting somewhere, but he could have got there without it.

@MattЭллен No, but he thought he was!

@Cerberus Did he know the cardboard was too thin?

@Kitḫ No!

He thought it was thick enough.

But alas.

Anyway, few rued his death.

Was the cardboard object a box?

3:25 PM

No.

Just a rectangular piece.

Was the rectangular piece playing card sized?

Could have been, yes. Thought it was probably a bit larger.

Matt Эллен

was there anything written on the card?

Only part of a brand name, which is irrelevant.

Was it a ticket?

3:27 PM

Nope.

I think the cardboard is the hardest part of the riddle.

His death and his wealth may be easier.

Was he sliding on it?

No.

Was he a thief?

Yes!

Very good.

What sits on a hill and howls at the moon all night and is full of concrete?

3:29 PM

@Robusto Your mother?

Poor Robusto doesn't understand the game.

Matt Эллен

Oh no you dihent!

@Kitḫ My mother is dead, TYVM.

Aww.

@Robusto She ought to be, if she's full of concrete.

3:30 PM

@Kitḫ — Better than full of jizz like yours. :P

Was he picking a lock with the card?

No.

@Robusto Tru dat, but my mother's a whore. I'm used to it.

Anyway, the answer to my riddle is "A coyote." I put the concrete in to make it harder.

Matt Эллен

lol

3:31 PM

chuckle Good one.

Wow, that is an excellent riddle.

Hard as a rock.

Was he using the card to hide?

No.

Was the cardboard an electric insulator?

Nope.

3:32 PM

Geezis, that's not very safe.

Was he caught thieving?

Not before his death.

You never made a cardboard capacitor?

Did he die whilst thieving?

Yes!

Matt Эллен

did he know the person he was stealing from?

3:33 PM

Was the cardboard supposed to stop a trap?

Stop, yes; trap, no.

He got trapped in the vault?

@MattЭллен Hmm you're assuming it's a person.

@Kitḫ Yes!

Matt Эллен

everything that is stolen is owned by someone

otherwise it's not stealing!

Or a collective.

Matt Эллен

3:35 PM

true

You're almost there!

So he was stealing from a bank, and used a piece of cardboard to hold the door open, but it wasn't thick enough. The door closed and trapped him inside.

Yes!

And why did he die?

Matt Эллен

and he suffocated?

Ding!

You got it!

3:36 PM

But he would have been discovered long before he died.

Congrats!

Matt Эллен

yay!

@Kitḫ It was the holidays?

Maybe he was stealing from a freezer...

Matt Эллен

:D

3:36 PM

Vaults have ventilation.

Air-exchange.

This was an old-fashioned one.

I don't think you could suffocate in one.

You could in this one.

Maybe it was a special, top-secret vault containing the last bit of smallpox.

Manufactured decades ago by an obscure Austrian company.

3:37 PM

That would certainly be airtight.

@Kitḫ Hmm, very good!

I like that.

But the vault's door needs to be very heavy.

Besides, vault doors don't work like regular doors.

Depends on the time and the place.

He ought to have been able to push it open from inside.

Anyway, doesn't matter.

I didn't say it was a modern vault.

3:38 PM

Let's have another.

Matt Эллен

it's all your vault, @Cerberus

Okay, you think of one. I need to put in my contact.

@MattЭллен In this case, I do not object!

It's Matt's turn.

Matt Эллен

ah

ok, give me a sec, I'll have to improvise

Or Rob? He's been waiting impatiently.

BRB

Matt Эллен

3:41 PM

OK, I'll steal on from TV

There is a man fixing his car. He see another man, alive, in a field looking into the distance. His car back fires. The man in the field is dead. What happened?

The man in the field is a scarecrow?

Matt Эллен

no

Did the man fixing the car cause the man in the field's death?

Matt Эллен

no

haha i saw that too

Matt Эллен

3:44 PM

:D

Did the man in the field die of a heart attack?

Matt Эллен

you can steal the show if you like @z7sg

no

what do you mean? this is funny... they guessed heart attack first too!

Matt Эллен

good good :)

Did the man in the field die when he was struck by something from the car?

Matt Эллен

3:45 PM

no

Did the man in the field's death have anything to do with the car backfiring?

Matt Эллен

yes

Did the man in the field burn to death?

yeah there are no red herrings in the riddle.. that would be cheating imo

Matt Эллен

no

3:47 PM

Was the man in the field looking at the car?

Matt Эллен

he did look at it after it backfired

Was the man in the field riding a horse?

Matt Эллен

no

So the man didn't die immediately after the car backfired?

Matt Эллен

not immediately, but very soon after

3:49 PM

Was he shot?

Matt Эллен

no

Was he mortally wounded by an animal?

Matt Эллен

no

BRB

Matt Эллен

ok :)

3:53 PM

Did he die of boredom?

Matt Эллен

no

are you dying of boredom, @Robusto?

Not exactly.

Was his name Robusto?

Was he a delicious italian dressing?

Matt Эллен

I don't know his name :D

no

Was the man looking at the thing that killed him?

Matt Эллен

3:57 PM

nor was he a type of cigar

at some point yes, but not all the time

ooh good question

Did the car distract the man from the thing that killed him?

Matt Эллен

yes!

Was the man controlling the thing that killed him?

Matt Эллен

sort of, but not really

he set it going

3:58 PM

Was the thing that killed him a kite?

no

Matt Эллен

no, but good guess

A plane?

Matt Эллен

no

Was it a hobby item?

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