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8:00 PM
Yes, linguistics is such an inexhaustible source of humor. Whoopee cushions and pratfalls aren't even in it with linguistics.
 
@Robusto How many sides does an oblate spheroid have, again? My geometry's rusty.
Like am I on the other side, or just an other side?
 
Oh, it's definitely the other side. My side is the right side, because I don't feel like getting up.
 
@DavidWallace Suffice it to say you are at the antipodes. That's upside-down in my book. No wonder you like to use fancy terms like "oblate spheroid" to describe this obviously flat earth we live on (well, some of us live on it; the others live underneath it).
 
8:21 PM
@KitFox or maybe shooting it and not getting a new one.
 
Hmm, my English essay needs expansion.
 
Use more words. Also, punctuation.
 
O''h,, yes.. I d'o love love love l'ove those ideas...
 
The apostrophe's go before the 'S'e's, rookie.
 
Adverbs. They can go anywhere. And they add flavour.
 
8:26 PM
I' c'a'n; pu:t my punctuation wherever I w;ant t'o..
 
@MrShinyandNew安宇 Why don't you use some?
 
It's like if you don't have enough dinner, just drop in some oregano until the portion size is right.
@RegDwightѬſ道 my essays are long enough, thank you
 
Well cut off some for Mahnax right there.
 
Then they'd be too short
 
Damn that's a fine analogy. Like 3 Ls ought to be enough for Cinderella.
 
8:28 PM
@MrShinyandNew安宇 Exactly. And you'd be able to use adverbs at last.
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 It's okay, I can write my own content.
 
It's not about canning.
It's about sharing.
 
Mahnax can just peruse the transcript here for anything I've said, and include it as a quote.
 
@MrShinyandNew安宇 Ooh, good idea.
 
1 hour ago, by RegDwight Ѭſ道
This room contains everything. Including the known Universe.
There. Just quote the entire known Universe. That should be enough for any teacher.
 
8:30 PM
@RegDwightѬſ道 my daughter once asked me to draw that. "Daddy, draw everything!"
 
So, are you done yet?
 
Well, I'm done adding to the drawing. But the drawing isn't done.
 
Oh, how exactly would I reference a quote from MrsHiny?
 
It was great, though. I'd say "you want me to draw a pineapple?" "Yes!" "How about a turkey?" "Yes!" "Ok, squid are part of everything, how about a squid?" "Yes!"
 
Have you drawn adverbs as well?
@Mahnax in bibtex?
 
8:32 PM
@RegDwightѬſ道 I didn't try drawing the drawing itself, which is also part of everything, because I wanted to leave that until the end.
 
@Mahnax Just put the url permalink in your bibliography
 
Or draw a picture of the link.
You can fill another page with just that.
 
@MrShinyandNew安宇 No bibliography, I have to directly quote in this essay, because it's all from a book.
@RegDwightѬſ道 Oh, nice.
 
@Mahnax then just say something along the lines of quoth, or thus spake. Really anything.
 
8:34 PM
@Mahnax Hm. Footnotes then.
16 secs ago, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
13 secs ago, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
9 secs ago, by Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
Like this
 
24
Q: What are some absurd/antiquated synonyms for "according to"?

deleteFor reasons I prefer not to explain, I am looking for synonyms of according to, as in the following sentences: Quoth Bryan Adams, "Everything I do, I do it for you". Thus spake Bryan Adams: "Back in the summer of sixty-nine". The more absurd and antiquated is the synonym, the better is.

 
@RegDwightѬſ道 Quoth MrShinyAndNew sagely and fancily, "Hm. Footnotes then."
 
Excellent. Now just add an adverb or five at the end.
Serendipitionasly or something.
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 sagely. That's how my quotes are quoth.
 
Good, good. We're getting there.
Well ain't that bloody brilliant prose.
With pictures.
 
8:38 PM
I agree.
I should get a solid 40% for just the picture and the quote alone.
So two quotes and two pictures is 80%, right?
 
Well yeah if your English teacher is also your math professor.
 
I'm afraid not.
Maybe three of each, to be safe.
 
More is more.
 
Yep. Well, gotta run, it's almost time for English class!
 
Fantastic.
 
8:41 PM
I agree.
I wonder if my measly 4k rep is worth any grade boosts.
 
CU back with an A++.
 
Anyhow, bye.
 
Well well. Another day, another good deed.
So Ima watch Seinfeld or something. Laters.
 
hey anyone on here use stackoverflow??
 
@helpme sometimes!!
@RegDwightѬſ道 bye reg
 
8:43 PM
can u please upvote me on some of my questions i have been blocked
 
@Rob right there has like 10k reps with SO.
 
if someone upvotes me
i can use it back again please help:(
 
@helpme blocked?
what kind of blocked
 
ya i cant ask anymore questions
because i eleted some questions
*deleted
@mr shiny can u help me please?
 
I will upvote your questions for one trillion dollars.
Apr 19 '11 at 19:11, by Kosmonaut
user image
 
8:44 PM
Well, it's against my policy to just pass out upvotes like that
 
ok thanks :)
NO issues
:)
 
Try The Bridge. Or the PHP room.

 The Bridge

General Arqade Chat. We tried to leave once, but the door lock...
 
I still don't understand why you're blocked
 
If you get too many downvotes, or ask too many questions, or both, you can't post more until you improve.
 
Hi.
 
8:48 PM
@RegDwightѬſ道 never knew this rule
 
They finally blocked you?
 
what is considered "too many questions"?
 
@rumtscho Stop it!!
pushes red button
That was one too many.
 
@rumtscho like 40 a month. No idea, really. It changed a couple times.
in The Bridge, 56 secs ago, by badp
@helpme sorry, this is the Gaming community. We can't help you for your Stack Overflow problems
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 but upvotes remove the block?
 
8:50 PM
whoops, looks like his acct was deleted
while I was reading his questions
 
@MrShinyandNew安宇 you didn't miss much.
 
@rumtscho something like that, yes. So you can actually escape the black hole.
I mean, the whole idea is that you edit your questions into shape.
 
No, the questions I saw were pretty bad, but I was hoping I could offer some criticism that would allow for upvotes
instead poof! he's gone
did some mod get annoyed at his begging for votes and nuke him?
 
@MrShinyandNew安宇 "pretty bad"? I don't know what kind of questions are considered good on SO. Were they for too small/trivial problems?
 
75
Q: What can I do when getting "Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account"?

ArjanWhile trying to ask a question, one could get: Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because: Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account. See http://goo.gl/C1Kwu to learn more. Why am I getting this message? Are deleted questions taken into account too? ...

 
8:54 PM
@RegDwightѬſ道 More like 12k. So what?
 
Nothing.
I was bragging on your behalf.
So I see you collected another 2k reps for your Chicago city plan answer?
 
@rumtscho Well, the cooking equivalent would be "I'm trying to make a lasagne. When I try to age the milk for mozarella, it doesn't work. How can I make this lasagne?"
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 Boston. It was a Boston plan.
 
Same difference.
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 I beg to differ.
 
8:57 PM
I know.
Which is why I went with Chicago in the first place.
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 Except this ignores Windows NT, and also I thought '95 was actually an improvement over 3.1
oh, and 2000
can't forget that one
 
What did you expect, this is a graphic straight from the Internet.
 
in fact if they called 3.1 "shit" and 95 "good" then I'd say it's an improvement even though they ignore the NT series until XP.
cuz while 3.1 was USEFUL it was pretty SHITTY
 
in The Bridge, 7 mins ago, by badp
The graphic is way more appropriate if you change "good" to "is really a service pack for the previous OS" and "shit" to "has actually innovative stuff that people hate because it is new"
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 yeah! so true! except that ME was not new, it was just the same old stuff, only shittier
 
9:00 PM
Well haven't you heard, shittier is the new new.
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 But 95 was fine!
 
@Cerberus you mean is. On your machine.
 
No, I switched to 98 very quickly.
 
Also why the heck am I defending someone's mindless post in another room.
Go there, take it up with the OP.
 
I heard IE 9 was supposed to be the most standards-compliant browser evah. And yet it still turned out mostly non-compliant, with limited support for HTML 5 and CSS3, etc.
 
9:02 PM
Feel that weird bulge behind your right ear?
That's your sense of duty.
 
He's posting moar image's as we speak.
 
OH GOODY MOAR OS WARS!!! WE NOT HAD 1 FOR LIEK 10 MINUTES!!!
 
Haha brilliant.
 
@Robusto Well, IE9 is a huge improvement over IE8. The problem is, the standards evolved while they were making it.
 
@Robusto aren't you a Mac user?
 
9:03 PM
@RegDwightѬſ道 <sigh>
 
@MrShinyandNew安宇 But SP 1 version 7 for IE 6 was not so bad.
 
Just an innocent question.
 
Hahahaha.
Verrry innocent.
 
@Cerberus er, wut?
 
@MrShinyandNew安宇 Kidding.
It seemed like a good time to defend or attack some obscure version of whatever.
 
9:05 PM
@Cerberus it didn't make sense
 
Feb 4 at 14:55, by Robusto
In fact, Windows 7 is the first really good OS Microsoft has ever made.
 
SuSE ME Leopard 95/2.
Service pack pending.
 
@Robusto Come on... XP wasn't so bad in its day.
 
@MrShinyandNew安宇 I'll try harder next time.
 
Dec 17 '11 at 19:52, by Robusto
I use both Mac OS X Lion and Windows 7. The difference is rather slight these days.
 
9:05 PM
@MrShinyandNew安宇 Shhh!
 
@MrShinyandNew安宇 No. XP was the first fully acceptable Windows OS.
 
plugs ears with wax
ties himself to mast
 
Okay. So we are seriously debating our asses Oasis OSes again?
 
@Robusto well, whatever. It's not like any other OSes were so superior at that time.
 
No, wait, it should be either one or the other.
@RegDwightѬſ道 I'm reeaally trying not to.
 
9:07 PM
Look up "try" in a dictionary of your choice. Also, "not".
 
@MrShinyandNew安宇 I agree. And there was a time when IE 6 was the best browser on the planet. But all that was so long ago ...
 
@Robusto yeah, IE6 was the best browser for a while.
Though I always avoided it and suffered through a couple years with Mozilla suite (later seamonkey).
 
Hey it was only today that I deleted the last page I programmed specifically for Netscape 4.4.
IE6 is here to stay for another decade or so.
Internet decade, mind you, Could be tomorrow in dog years.
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 Nope. It is taking a dirt nap right now. Even my company no longer supports it — except for HR, which requires it. But then, what do you expect from HR?
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 Not where I work. We've dropped support for it.
 
9:10 PM
Awwwww look at all the reactions!
 
Even IE7 is on thin ice.
 
Apr 17 '11 at 17:33, by Robusto
And btw, @RegDwight, are you accustomed to "launching your junk" from windows? Just curious ...
 
I guess I'll have even more success in the PHP room.
 
and IE7 was a big improvement over 6 (not big enough I guess)
 
You are too optimistic
in The Frying Pan, 2 hours ago, by Jefromi
Whoa: software written 40-50 years ago in assembly to run on mainframes for managing ticket prices, flight schedules, and so on, is still in use today by all major airlines.
 
9:10 PM
@Robusto only in Naples.
@rumtscho well I kind of work for the aerospace industry, so.
 
Anyway! I! Must! Be! Off! Toodles!
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 "kind of"? Sounds weird.
 
Have fun.
 
Do you build model airplanes?
 
6
Q: What is the opposite of procrastination in one word?

RenanI though of precrastination at first but that seems to signify planning to procrastinate.

Time to protect this? @Reg?
2
A: What is the opposite of procrastination in one word?

chaosThe opposite Greek prefix to pro- is epi-, as seen in Prometheus (forethought) and his brother Epimetheus (afterthought). So it stands to reason that the antonym of procrastination is epicrastination.

 
9:13 PM
Why not. Though all answers are by users with OVER 10 reps.
 
What a worthless answer. Only @Cerberus would understand what you meant if you said "epicrastination" ...
 
It's also wrong.
3 hours ago, by FumbleFingers
@RegDwightѬſ道 unless I just missed it, the nonce word should be anticrastination
 
@Robusto That sounds bad.
 
Contracrastination. Rookiecrastination. Procrasticity.
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 Wrong, worthless ... certainly synonymous to some extent.
@RegDwightѬſ道 Mauve. The opposite of procrastination is mauve. Also rubicund. And portly.
 
9:15 PM
Those are all wines.
 
@Cerberus You have no idea. Wait, you do!
I took a half-hour break to get on the spin-bike, and put on something about Greek civilization from Netflix to watch while I exercised, and it was so slow-paced it almost put me to sleep — while I was exercising.
 
Jul 5 '11 at 23:24, by RegDwight
@Rhodri Hold on, you're posting this while on your bike??
 
@KitFox — You left off the -tches.
@RegDwightѬſ道 Stop wining.
 
I have. Start noticing.
 
I've commented on Chaos's answers, which tried to add some Greek suffixes to cras "tomorrow".
 
9:20 PM
Haha WTF.
This is not a site where you play LEGO with Greek.
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 No. You have to play LOGOS with Greek.
 
On the plus side, I've got helluva load of entertainment's out of this site today.
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 Exactly my idea.
 
Then why aren't you sharing any?
 
Alan in particular was so refreshing.
@Robusto I did.
 
9:22 PM
I shouldn't have blinked.
 
You weren't around?
Ah. Blinking. A rookie move, tsk.
Actually you were around. You called him the new Joyce.
 
Oh. That was the entertainment?
 
Well it was for me.
Look, I even watch American Dad.
Right now I'm even talking to one.
 
Can you try to get more sex into it next time?
 
yesterday, by RegDwight Ѭſ道
0
A: Is "actioned" a valid word?

GoatfaceYour mum actioned a suck on my dick

Seriously, while I am sad that I will never get back the five seconds of my life it took me to read and delete that answer, I also wonder if the author realizes that he'll never have back the minute of his life it took him to register and post.
All the spam in the world is actually produced by someone.
 
9:28 PM
@RegDwightѬſ道 No. It comes in cans.
 
1 hour ago, by RegDwight Ѭſ道
It's not about canning.
1 hour ago, by RegDwight Ѭſ道
It's about sharing.
 
Share this.
 
I will email it straight to your inbox.
 
While you're at it, email me the antidote to Wasteland Skimmer spam.
 
Azure Reapers.
Xaedan.
Anything with Mimic Imperial.
Well you had to mention Skimmers, hadn't you. Now I'm getting them. For the first time in four hours.
 
9:32 PM
@RegDwightѬſ道 You're welcome.
 
I will email you some flowers alongside the spam.
 
"Unknown. Probable legacy property no longer in use." <- Like half the definitions in an old, now obsolete, data dictionary that was passed down to me and that I just found while cleaning.
No wonder I didn't use it.
 
Give it to charity.
 
or pulp it and make your own toilet paper
 
Another quarter say "Not used" and that they were for projects that were then abandoned.
It's sad, really.
I feel bad for all these unused properties someone created.
 
9:36 PM
like teddy bears on road shoulders
 
Still, it might help out a poor i-have-a-doubt-about-word-in-language-english sod when the going gets tough.
 
what is the opposite of "procrastination in one word"?
 
"Procrastination in not one word"!
 
Here, I've made you a Javascript function to handle those:
$('document').ready(function() {
// noop
});
 
> FEATURED. Not used.
@Robusto :'(
 
9:38 PM
@aediaλ You are free to improve it if you like, but I think it's just about perfect the way it is.
 
Not enough jQuery.
And what about cowbell. Dare you not forget cowbell.
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 Too late. I barely got the jQuery in under the wire.
 
Oh god oh god why did I keep all these paper prototypes too
I'll never get this drawer empty.
 
Hey I'm witnessing Rob programming contre la montre. Now I've seen everything!
 
@aediaλ Paper prototypes are just fine if you don't try to click the buttons.
 
9:41 PM
@aediaλ Fire.
Mar 2 '11 at 15:00, by RegDwight
user image
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 Cuz I'm quick like that.
 
Ooh. That's tempting.
 
@aediaλ Except don't burn it in a fireplace or you'll get an ear-beating from @Vitaly.
 
I wonder how much of this crap Vit is actually reading.
He's been lurking here for centaurions.
 
@RegDwightѬſ道 All of it. And more. What you see on the page is where most people stop, but that's where @Vitaly is only beginning.
 
9:43 PM
Gotta read it all before the singularity kicks in. Won't have time later.
 
surely we'll have nothing but time!
 
Exactly. Nothing to read.
 
> Thanks, God!
 
Hey, @Reg, thanks for the Azure Reaper advice and all. Now that I'm using those I never see Wasteland Skimmers anymore. Just other shit that crushes my reapers.
0
Q: "Where he is" vs "Where is he"

NoahWhat is the difference between the following. "You now where he is" and "You know where is he"

More entertainment for @Reg.
 
10:00 PM
> Does this work?
Aye, it doth.
 
10:13 PM
@Robusto glad I couldn't help!
Though you're giving me too much credit. I never said you should spam them.
Adding in just one already works wonders.
0
Q: Don't let's fight . .

BR79I was watching a movie the other day and one character to another said "Don't let's fight" instead of "Let's not fight." Is this the proper usage, and if so, what is the grammatical rule that applies here?

More entertainment for @Rob.
0
A: What might "knock me over with a feather" mean?

mikeoWhen something you say is actually the opposite of it's real meaning: irony, not sarcasm

 
10:39 PM
> I challenge you to distinguish a naked prostitute from any other naked woman.
> While some hookers have opted for a conservative style of dress, vast numbers of nonhookers are now confusing the landscape by screeching off in the opposite direction.
> US weaponry is capable of destroying even Iran's most protected site, experts tell the Washington Post. — newser.com/story/140831/…
 
10:59 PM
Is it The International Random Quote Day yet?
 

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