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RegDwight АΑA

14:00

@tchrist actually, Grace lives under a rock. We already established that.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен I do. It's very interesting. Etymology is also quite important in literature and all sorts of jokes, and literature is one of the pillars of our culture.

Frank Science

@Cerberus Are you John?

RegDwight АΑA

Jul 17 '11 at 16:08, by Grace Note

@RegDwight I don't know who J. (Y.?) A. Gagarin is.

Frank Science

@Cerberus Please show us the word list.

RegDwight АΑA

Sorry Grace! But I will keep bringing it up.

tchrist

14:00

Noted.

Cerberus

@FrankScience 2? 999 54488...

@FrankScience 1.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus I know you care :D I could tell your sarcasm a mile off!

Frank Science

Confused me.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Gosh, I am surprised! But I actually couldn't tell your sarcasm, if there was any.

@FrankScience Seven.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus I was being sarcastic about etymology not being important

kiamlaluno

14:02

Are we going to give numbers?

Matt Эллен

plus it's fun

Cerberus

Hey, this mode of speech must please @Reg. Now he will finally make sense.

RegDwight АΑA

@kiamlaluno no, we are going to take lives.

Frank Science

@Cerberus The encoding/decoding system should be explicit to everyone.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Ah, good. I wasn't sure; and it was also for the audience.

RegDwight АΑA

14:02

@Cerberus which mode now? Who is speech?

Cerberus

@FrankScience But that's boring!

kiamlaluno

These are mine: eighteen, fifty-two, seventy, three, six, two.

Frank Science

@Cerberus Otherwise nobody could communicate.

Cerberus

8 mins ago, by Frank Science

He made a list of the word, gave each word a rank number, then he would use a sequence of number to denote a sentence.

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus opportunist!

Cerberus

14:03

I was applying this.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwightАΑA he's not even running for mod!

RegDwight АΑA

@MattЭллен that's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

Robusto

3 22 46 18 101 9

Cerberus

@FrankScience But what does communication have to do with language? With important people, it's usually just infinite one-way blathering.

Matt Эллен

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Frank Science

14:04

@RegDwightАΑA Cerberus thought that it's efficient to use these numbers.

Cerberus

@Robusto My, your vocabulary is simple.

RegDwight АΑA

@Robusto "I like big butts and I cannot lie".

Cerberus

@MattЭллен And yours.

Robusto

@Cerberus I suit it to the audience.

kiamlaluno

Did I win lottery, with my numbers?

Robusto

14:04

@RegDwightАΑA Close.

Frank Science

3 1 4 1 5 9 2 6.

Robusto

@FrankScience No pie in chat.

tchrist

@RegDwightАΑA Right: not a lie, only a myth.

RegDwight АΑA

@Robusto you don't like big butts and you can lie?

Matt Эллен

mmmm. I'll have a slice of no pie

MetaEd

14:05

@tchrist Nice how they find an excuse for a photo of cute puppies.

Cerberus

@Robusto Me the is shit in after no elephantine.

Frank Science

@Robusto It's a sentence in a strange system.

kiamlaluno

"Hower from my phon it is impossible contie tho comversation."

RegDwight АΑA

Negativity and negation aren't not uneasy for me.

Robusto

@RegDwightАΑA What is your preoccupation with lying?

@RegDwightАΑA That was not unlitotic.

kiamlaluno

14:06

Is there a "not a real post" closing reason, here on chat?

Matt Эллен

lying with big butts?

MetaEd

@simchona Yes, apparently so did I

RegDwight АΑA

@Robusto I have good references. From Obama and Gandhi.

Robusto

@MattЭллен Big butts don't kill people. People kill people.

Matt Эллен

with their big butts

kiamlaluno

14:07

Weel, except when a big butt sits on you.

Robusto

That is an urban myth.

MetaEd

@FrankScience Sorry man, it's how you tell it.

RegDwight АΑA

A well regulated Shag, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear big Butts, shall not be infringed.

Frank Science

Etymology & morphology are just sticks or tools, not aims.

Matt Эллен

what's brown and tooly?

Robusto

14:08

@FrankScience Except you can get addicted to morphology.

RegDwight АΑA

@MattЭллен a child in an oven?

Matt Эллен

lol

Frank Science

@Robusto Maybe that's intoxicating.

Robusto

makes notes about Matt's insensitivity

RegDwight АΑA

@Robusto hey what about mine? Make some notes about mine.

Robusto

14:09

@FrankScience Why else would it be addictive? Because it bums you out?

@RegDwightАΑA I've already filled up multiple notebooks documenting your insensitivity. Further examples are not required.

RegDwight АΑA

Ah. Appreciated.

Robusto

But I did expect more from @MattЭллен. Or less.

RegDwight АΑA

For everyone else, here's what I was referring to:

Jun 28 at 11:46, by RegDwight ΒВB

Those jokes are usually quite stupid and/or disgusting anyway. Like, "What is black and knocks on the glass?" — "A baby in the oven."

Matt Эллен

more insensitivity?

Frank Science

@Robusto or toxic.

kiamlaluno

14:11

Two tomatoes walks on the street. The first says to the second, "Beware! A car is arriving! [sound of a squeezed out tomato]"
"What? [sound of a squeezed out tomato]"

Matt Эллен

I had the sensitivity to laugh at Reg's joke

Robusto

@MattЭллен Neither more nor less. Just the right amount of insensitivity. @Cerberus, what is the Greek for "nothing too much"?

@MattЭллен So you were just being kind? To someone who is known to have put children in ovens? Who lives in the country where Hansel and Gretel was written?

RegDwight АΑA

@Robusto not Hansel or Gretel, that much's for sure.

Matt Эллен

the people who need the most love are the hardest ones to love

Robusto

@MattЭллен That makes @Reg very needy indeed.

RegDwight АΑA

14:13

Yes, I am the hardest.

Cerberus

@Robusto Ehh I'm not sure there is a well-known expression that I can think of...

RegDwight АΑA

I'm harder than Michael Dudikoff.

kiamlaluno

Does that mean tough?

RegDwight АΑA

It means whatever you want it to mean. This is a Humpty-Dumpty room.

Cerberus

There is a Latin expression that goes like "everything in moderation", but I can't remember.

Robusto

14:15

@Cerberus It's a core concept to the Greeks.

Matt Эллен

a place for everything and everything in its place

RegDwight АΑA

Modus in rebus?

Matt Эллен

RegDwight АΑA

MW insists on "est modus in rebus". Pah.

Cerberus

@Robusto To all of Antiquity.

Frank Science

14:16

Incidentally, do you know spelling bee?

RegDwight АΑA

@MattЭллен is that Modus or Rebus?

Cerberus

Classical Antiquity, at least.

RegDwight АΑA

@FrankScience yes.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwightАΑA well, it's guy who wrote Rebus

Robusto

How come nobody ever has a spelunking bee?

Cerberus

14:17

@RegDwightАΑA MW?

RegDwight АΑA

Spelunke

Spelunke ist die etwas verächtliche Bezeichnung für eine schlechte, verrufene Kneipe oder Spielhölle. Begriff Das Wort Spelunke stammt von dem lateinischen spelunca bzw. dem griechischen spelygx (für Höhle). So nannten beispielsweise Römer der Spätantike die Mithräen − unterirdisch angelegte Tempel des Mithras-Kultes. In Pierer's Universal-Lexikon von 1863 ist Spelunke ein "schmutziger, unansehnlicher Ort, wo sich gemeine Leute versammeln" und Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon von 1909 gibt an, der Begriff bedeute eine "höhlenartige, dunkle, versteckte Räumlichkeit". Beschreibu...

These are far and few between, that's how @Rob.

Frank Science

@RegDwightАΑA Did they memorize a lot of words?

Cerberus

In Dutch, it means Höhle: spelonk.

simchona

@RegDwightАΑA NS has a full 35 points to his name right now. He can chat

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus you just stole that from the Greek.

Robusto

14:18

@MattЭллен Gary Oldman will play him if he ever has a biopic made about him.

Cerberus

@Robusto Ah, you were probably thinking of μηδὲν ἄγαν.

That is a famous expression.

RegDwight АΑA

@simchona who? What? Why do I care?

Cerberus

I suck at remembering quotations or sayings so much...

Unsurprisingly.

Robusto

@Cerberus Ah, yes.

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus Merriam-Webster. merriam-webster.com/dictionary/est%20modus%20in%20rebus

Cerberus

14:20

@RegDwightАΑA Ah OK. Merriam came to mind, but I didn't realize that would be a in a dictionary.

RegDwight АΑA

Neither did I. I just googled for modus in rebus.

simchona

@RegDwightАΑA Because he has a living sock

Cerberus

By the way, has any of you tried the new web Outlook?

It is pretty slick.

RegDwight АΑA

Oh. That.

Cerberus

Miles beyond the old Hotmail.

RegDwight АΑA

14:21

@Cerberus that means nothing.

My Minesweeper is miles beyond Hotmail.

Matt Эллен

your minesweeper gets email?

Cerberus

@RegDwightАΑA All right, almost as good as Gmail, then, or such is my first impression.

RegDwight АΑA

@MattЭллен no, and that's an additional mile.

Cerberus

It may have fewer add-ons (yet).

RegDwight АΑA

Gmail has add-ons?

tchrist

14:23

@RegDwightАΑA s/(e)(ar)/$2$1/

Cerberus

@RegDwightАΑA Yes, found under the section "Laboratory" in the options menus.

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist no match. Besides I copied it verbatim. It's from the Second Amendment, you know.

Cerberus

I am using this small calendar that is always in the margin of my inbox, for example.

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus ah thanks. Will check out. Though of course I already hate them all.

@Cerberus calendars are stupid. There, I said it.

tchrist

lends Reg an iron

Cerberus

14:25

Haha.

Why did you hate them all beforehand again?

I forgot.

RegDwight АΑA

Because calendars are stupid, but if I used them I would have to love them, and I hate them.

Jul 26 '11 at 13:00, by RegDwight

Asparagus always reminds me of that one girl Lewis Carroll once interviewed. She hated asparagus, and when he asked her why, she answered "well, if I liked it, I would have to eat it, and I can't stand it!"

Joke Decomposer 2.5i.

tchrist

@RegDwightАΑA “to keep and bare butts” would be substantially less harmful.

Matt Эллен

i remember that. that's children's lgic

Cerberus

But you already hated all the other add-ons too?

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus I can hate anyone. Just tell me.

Cerberus

14:26

@RegDwightАΑA Ah, OK.

Yourself?

RegDwight АΑA

Too late. Look at me. Do I look like loving myself?

Cerberus

Hmm.

Matt Эллен

I can't see your hands...

RegDwight АΑA

Breakfast ready! BRB

Matt Эллен

good save¬

Cerberus

14:27

No obscene suggestions in this chat.

Bye!

Matt Эллен

There was one just now. What are you talking about?

Cerberus

That one.

Matt Эллен

you're denying it exists?

Cerberus

Although at first I thought you meant he was crossing his fingers behind his back, or something.

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus yesyes, back, yes.

Matt Эллен

14:29

bless you. you could carry on thinking that if you wish

Cerberus

@RegDwightАΑA Front?

RegDwight АΑA

The full Monty. IPN

Cerberus

Well.

I don't know what we owe this...thing to.

And you were getting breakfast anyway.

What time did you go to bed? You are even later than I was.

tchrist

ponders whether ESL&U is truly more of a stupidity magnet than any other Q&A

MetaEd

It's not a stupidity magnet at all. Everything is soaked in stupidity all the time.

Cerberus

14:35

@Matt I like this one:

►

Is this an even or an odd number?

I forgot whether I was supposed to like or dislike this one.

Matt Эллен

this is 4 I think

Cerberus

@tchrist Have you looked at most of our questions?

@MattЭллен Only four? Is that good or bad?

MetaEd

@Cerberus Oh, so these are like Beethoven symphonies?

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus neutral?

Cerberus

Have you looked at our SWRs, mostly?

@MetaEd Oh, do they work like that? I don't remember which number I liked and disliked...the 5th is the famous one...

tchrist

14:38

Misfire

Cerberus

@MattЭллен I can't work with that.

tchrist

@Cerberus Unfortunately.

Cerberus

Indeed.

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus you just end up revving your engine and spinning your wheels

Cerberus

I...

Matt Эллен

14:39

Learn2Car

Cerberus

Can't.

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus Nine? Ten? The memory fades.

tchrist

@Cerberus The odd ones tend to be better thought of than the even ones, albeit perhaps with exceptions. I would argue that the 9th is more famous than the 5th. Or should be.

Cerberus

/lɛtsɔlspiːkɪnaːʲpiːei/

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus yes, potatoes with two kinds of mushrooms, carrots, some garlic, chives, and roasted onions, a splash of milk, some butter and flour. Stuff takes time.

Cerberus

14:41

@tchrist I...know it when I hear it.

@RegDwightАΑA Sounds good, except the fungi.

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus yeah, we've been there, I have no idea what's going on with me, but I'm on a mushroom trip right now.

Cerberus

See, that's what happens.

And now you've made me hungry.

RegDwight АΑA

Yeah, that stranger in the Alps changed my life.

Cerberus

?

RegDwight АΑA

►

Big Lebowski.

Frank Science

14:44

@MattЭллен Yes, third.

Which is right?

Matt Эллен

neither

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus They censored "see what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass" into "see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps".

Frank Science

sorry

tchrist

@Cerberus The 9th incorporates Schiller’s “Ode an die Freude”: ♬ Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium! Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, Dein Heiligtum. ♬

Matt Эллен

@FrankScience What are you trying to say? That you live on the 3rd floor?

Cerberus

14:45

@RegDwightАΑA A lovely, and random scene.

Matt Эллен

@FrankScience or that you live in a 3 storey building?

RegDwight АΑA

@Cerberus the whole movie is like that. You'd love it.

Cerberus

@RegDwightАΑA Oh, they simply replaced one line with the other, really?

I didn't hear it.

Frank Science

@MattЭллен I live on the third floor.

Matt Эллен

@FrankScience that's correct then! :)

Cerberus

14:46

@tchrist Oh, yes, that is the most famous one. But then why do I remember the 5th so vividly?

Frank Science

@MattЭллен Now I want to express the sense of subterranean.

@MattЭллен How can I do that?

Matt Эллен

I don't quite understand what you want to express

@Cerberus isn't the 5th ode to joy?

kiamlaluno

"I live in the basement"?

Frank Science

For example, I live on the floor under the first floor.

tchrist

@Cerberus For its 𝄿 𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅯 𝅗𝅥 motif.

ponders the portability of musical combining characters

kiamlaluno

14:48

The first floor (in USA) is the floor at the ground level, isn't it?

Matt Эллен

@FrankScience Oh, well in America, as Kiamlaluno says, that's the basement. In the UK we number our floors from 0. and we call the 0th floor the ground floor. so our basements are -1

Cerberus

@tchrist Where can I get that font?

tchrist

It’s Musica from George Douros. Get it free from here. Also get Symbola. And his many historic Greeks are simply splendid.

Cerberus

@MattЭллен I...don't remember.

Frank Science

@MattЭллен negative first floor?

Matt Эллен

14:49

@Cerberus oh, apparently not

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Same here.

Matt Эллен

@FrankScience in the UK, yes

Cerberus

It sometimes confuses children.

Frank Science

@MattЭллен and so on, say, negative tenth floor?

Matt Эллен

good!

@FrankScience tenth, yes

kiamlaluno

14:50

In Italy, we say "ground floor" too; the first floor is the one over the ground level, not the one at the ground level.

tchrist

@Cerberus You will be somewhere between pleased and delighted. On that you have my word.

Matt Эллен

@FrankScience also the negative floors could be numbered basements, so -1 is first basement, -2 is 2nd basement

Cerberus

@tchrist I will if I get the font, perhaps...

Frank Science

@MattЭллен Thanks. It's useful in the underground/metro.

RegDwight АΑA

Oh. It's only now that someone starred my message that I realize it was a double-entendre.

I really didn't mean that.

tchrist

14:52

@MattЭллен No, no: the 9th is. See my Schiller excerpt supra.

Matt Эллен

@FrankScience no problem :)

tchrist

@FrankScience Well, I was more thinking for the others I mentioned there, too.

Matt Эллен

@tchrist it's because 9 and 5 sound the same over the phone

tchrist

@MattЭллен Then your phone needs retuning, as C minor should not sound like D minor.

Matt Эллен

how do you mine the sea? surely the pick axe slips right through

tchrist

14:55

@MattЭллен Thank global warming.

Matt Эллен

:D

RegDwight АΑA

This question exactly duplicates content of an answer to another question here. — MetaEd 41 mins ago

Wow, good catch.

Thumbs up, @MetaEd

Frank Science

I heard that the metro in Moscow is very deep.

RegDwight АΑA

@FrankScience It varies a lot

MetaEd

@RegDwightАΑA That ain't my thumbs.

RegDwight АΑA

14:57

Some stations are like a hundred-odd meters deep. Others just three meters. Yet others are ground-level or on a bridge.

Frank Science

I heard that metro in Moscow is nearly 200 meters deep.

RegDwight АΑA

There are lots and lots of places where several lines meet. They are not connected to each other, but rather run on top of one another.

@FrankScience In two or three places, yes. I used to live not far from one such place.

Frank Science

The metro in Democratic People's Republic of Korea is deep, too.

Matt Эллен

it must get incredibly warm down there

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