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MetaEd

8:04 PM

@KitFox Toast.

We're famous for toast.

Of course we do have Dixie House Cafe: "Home Of The Big Buns".

@Mitch Cheesy grits?

@Mitch Cheese fry?

cornbread ninja

8:22 PM

@Mitch 'lardashian'! belly laughs

@MetaEd and Debbie.

@MetaEd and Leatherface. And Dubya.

MetaEd

Dubya. Well, crap, I suppose he has to live somewhere.

cornbread ninja

@MetaEd he can go live with Jeb

There's also Galveston. :(

user19161

@MetaEd Do the buns refer to toast or something else?

cornbread ninja

@JasperLoy dixiehousecafe.com

sorry, that's not very helpful. the yeast buns, perhaps?

user19161

@cornbreadninja I am so hungry now.

user19161

8:25 PM

The food looks yummy!

cornbread ninja

@JasperLoy tears a piece from self and hands it to you

MetaEd

When I moved to Dallas, of course I knew it was the epicenter of the Kennedy assassination conspiracy ... but I didn't realize it was also the home of Bob Tilton and Bob Dobbs.

Weird place.

cornbread ninja

!!!

@MetaEd weirder than Austin?

MetaEd

Austin is weird in a healthy way.

cornbread ninja

@JasperLoy we have a place called The Big Biscuit.

MetaEd

8:27 PM

Well, Bob Dobbs is too.

cornbread ninja

adjusts pipe

The biscuits are about 12 cubic inches

@MetaEd I'd like to have my chance to keep Austin weird.

Mitch

@MetaEd those don't even -exist-. Oh...the Romney thing. how would he have a clue? but any way...mmmmm...grits

cornbread ninja

@Mitch obviously you've never been to a Waffle House.

Mitch

@cornbreadninja usually I fix typos. that one I left in.

cornbread ninja

@Mitch even better that it was originally unintentional!

I wish the searches at data.SE were more accurate

Mitch

8:34 PM

@cornbreadninja really they call them that? (I've never been to a waffle house while completely ...um... cognitively able).

cornbread ninja

I'd really like to know how close I am to the Sportsmanship badge

@Mitch :)

Mitch

from long drives.

cornbread ninja

well, there's the whole scattered/smothered/covered/&c thing

crap, that's hash browns

Mitch

@cornbreadninja that's hard to know.

cornbread ninja

ahh, lower left corner. cheese grits.

MetaEd

8:36 PM

Around here the place to go is Ol' South Pancake House.

cornbread ninja

@MetaEd I want to go to there.

user19161

@cornbreadninja OMG, I am starving!

Mitch

exactly...no such thing as that other name thing...sounds like some baby-talking kid.

cornbread ninja

@JasperLoy I'm so sorry!

Mitch

really Jasper, cheese grits really satisfy

nummy

cornbread ninja

8:38 PM

@Mitch more so than Snickers? snickers

MetaEd

Hyperbole.

Even better than Superbole.

Mitch

biscuits and gravy on the other hand sounds and looks like prison food (I imagine)

cornbread ninja

@MetaEd :D

blech, B&G

@Mitch or chipped beef on toast

Mitch

@cornbreadninja OMG I'm speaking through commercials. I'll go back to humming inarticulately Journey songs.

user19161

@Mitch What kind of gravy is it?

Mitch

8:39 PM

@cornbreadninja exactly. gack.

cornbread ninja

@Mitch don't stop believin'

Mitch

other pepole like it so I can't judge out in the open.

cornbread ninja

@JasperLoy white, sausage makes Mr. Yuck face

user19161

@cornbreadninja I am trying to imagine what white gravy tastes like.

cornbread ninja

I imagine the only thing worse for you is chicken fried steak.

Mitch

8:41 PM

@cornbreadninja oh...so -those are the words? I was going 'don't...something...somethingna na na na na-na-na-na-na'

@JasperLoy don't.

cornbread ninja

@Mitch that's lovin', touchin', squeezin' / city of the angels

Mitch

has chunks of something in it.

@cornbreadninja really, that sounds like you're at the produce stand.

which brings us back to food.

cornbread ninja

people in places / you wanna be / I'm lost in the city / who's got the key

@Mitch ROFL

city of the ain-gels

Mitch

@cornbreadninja dude, I'm not looking at what you type anymore. stop it.

user19161

@Mitch She's not a dude...

Mitch

8:42 PM

gah...where are my scissors to poke my eyes out.

cornbread ninja

I can be a dude.

Mitch

eyes poked out

@JasperLoy If you follow the advice on...oh that's 'guys'.

cornbread ninja

leaves town to avoid prosecution

Mitch

I always thought of using 'dudette' but that's too cute for a dude to say. And the spell check barfs on it.

cornbread ninja

@Mitch what of 'dudess'?

we'll walk / through my dudedom / and paradise / we will share

Mitch

8:44 PM

or 'lay-dee'

cornbread ninja

when you're with me, I'm smilin'

Mitch

ah thankfully I don't recognize that.

cornbread ninja

Styx

hides

Mitch

argh!

cornbread ninja

._.

I should go do some work or something

and listen to journey

Mitch

8:46 PM

really, I'm looking only at the keyboard now , not at the screen. I responding without context from now on.

cornbread ninja

@Mitch It's okay. I'll show myself out.

user19161

@cornbreadninja You are one of those who use okay instead of OK!

Mitch

@JasperLoy yeah that happens. some people treat it as a word. OK, dude?

user19161

When ELL starts, all the easy questions will go there. What will happen to us rep whores?

user19161

Unless we also go there and earn some rep!

Mitch

8:53 PM

ELL won't start. sorry, I mean to say I predict with great certainty that ELL won't start however much we might want it too.

user19161

@Mitch Hmm, why?

Mitch

The kind of people who would actually answer questions there are already doing it everyday at work.

and those kind of people are not on SE on any of the sites.

user19161

Er, what kind of people are you talking about?

MetaEd

ESL teachers, presumably.

Mitch

basic grammar answering people.

yes ESL teachers.

user19161

8:56 PM

Really? I would think that there might be several ESL teachers even on ELU.

Mitch

maybe I'm just being too negative...

user19161

One need not be a real ESL teacher to act like one.

user19161

In fact, one may be a better teacher than a real ESL teacher.

user19161

After all, how many of us had really really good teachers in school?

Mitch

as reg said about it...

8 hours ago, by RegDwight ΒВB

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

user19161

9:00 PM

Anyway, with Barrie joining the site, I think they will get some great answers already!

Mitch

@JasperLoy sure, but that's not the point. The point is who will actually show up to answer things on ELL

@JasperLoy Barrie's great but you still need volume.

user19161

@Mitch That's why we have Mitch too.

Mitch

I'm not that voluminous.

user19161

Hmm, but now that I think of it, it's actually kind of weird to have two sites and not one.

user19161

Then people would not know where to post.

Mitch

9:02 PM

That's also a problem.

user19161

If I have an Ubuntu question, I can post on Ubuntu, Unix or Superuser.

Mitch

(but migrating is a partial solution)

user19161

In fact, this whole thing about creating new sites constantly is not really a good thing.

user19161

Perhaps one should redefine the existing site scopes if necessary, just a thought.

user19161

So now if I have an Ubuntu problem I have three places to look instead of one.

user19161

9:06 PM

Over time, things get a bit disorganized.

Vitaly

The memory of the fallout we had the last time the scope of ELU got… uh… redefined isn't quite the best memory I have of this site.

user19161

That was just about jokes was it not?

Vitaly

Just about jokes. Exactly.

user19161

It's kind of silly.

cornbread ninja

9:22 PM

@JasperLoy most of the time

user19161

@cornbreadninja I always use OK myself.

Vitaly

Hey @Mitch, congratulations on your new gravatar.

@Kit Remember we had that talk about symmetry-breaking in embryos? I have just stumbled across this over at Biology.SE:

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Q: Impact of Alan Turing's approach to morphogenesis

Shortly before his untimely passing, the computing pioneer Alan Turing published his most cited paper The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis (1952). The central question for Turing was: how does a spherically symmetric embryo develop into a non-spherically symmetric organism under the action of sy...

user19161

10:21 PM

Wow @mitch you look awesome!

user19161

@mahnax Boo!

user19161

0

Q: Concise word for "overall quality" of a webpage

What is a concise word for asking the general quality of a webpage? It should inspire a person to formulate a subjective point of view about his feelings concerning the overall performance and the webpage's impact on him. A single-word term is prefered.

single-word-requests

user19161

NR

user19161

10:51 PM

Hmm, so now I can cast 15 delete votes a day on negatively voted answers or closed questions.

RegDwight ΒВB

11:09 PM

5

Q: What particular word is used for this doll?

A doll is created which looks like a human and is kept near or among crops in the farm to keep animals like deer away. I don't know what it is called in English.

meaning single-word-requests

This is a good question for ELL, actually.

But here it's arguably gen-ref.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВB Anything can be argued.

RegDwight ΒВB

Well if you insist I can scrap that part.

It is gen-ref, period.

I read "I don't know what it is called in English" as "I do know what it's called in my mother tongue". Which is where bilingual dictionaries come in.

We have such questions from time to time.

Always masquerading as SWRs.

SWRs shouldn't be pointless to your average native speaker.

Looking for "semantic satiation" is okay, looking for "scarecrow" is meh.

user19161

That webpage question above, I have no idea what OP wants.

user19161

I wonder why NC is so popular, I usually use NR.

MetaEd

@RegDwightΒВB Someone could write a bunch of questions like that and then answer them with a sock puppet. That's an awfully well written question sentence compared to most of the ESL's I've seen. ... Oh. You edited it.

RegDwight ΒВB

11:22 PM

I was the third person to edit it, actually.

user19161

@MetaEd Without edits many questions here are quite unreadable.

MetaEd

@JasperLoy Indubitably.

I wouldn't even try to dubit that.

RegDwight ΒВB

I would dubyte it, though.

MetaEd

For the rest of the day I am going to use the word "dubit" for "doubt".

RegDwight ΒВB

Bah. And of course the shopped question got multicollidered.

MetaEd

11:25 PM

And I'm going to find many excuses to do so.

Don't you dubit it.

RegDwight ΒВB

In doubio pro reo?

And the up-to-dateness question has been turned off-topic by the OP himself.

It started off as a single-word-request and ended as rewriting advice.

user19161

@RegDwightΒВB How did he do that?

RegDwight ΒВB

@JasperLoy by accepting an answer that completely dodged the question.

user19161

I got three downvotes the past two days without comment. The troll is on the loose.

RegDwight ΒВB

Or you've been answering more than usual.

Haven't you hit the cap today?

user19161

11:31 PM

Yes, I have. Downvotes are fine. I just meant it as a casual remark.

RegDwight ΒВB

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Q: definitive and permanent answer to word class of 'over' in 'the game was over'

I'm at a loss as to how it could be considered that Nicholas Ainsworth's related query could be deemed unworthy of further consideration. Could someone please explain what I'm missing? The statement This question is too basic; it can be definitively and permanently answered by a single link to a...