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1:00 PM
Hahaha
 
@SomeGuy Mandelbrot used no accent (circumflex i) for his first name in his autobiography. He chose his own middle initial, but it doesn't stand for anything. It is, however, widely rumored in popular culture that his middle initial B. stood for Benoit B. Mandelbrot, an allusion to recursion and fractals.
 
I will read the story when I have the time to also read the German and the Russian translation and inform you just how badly done they are.
I can also inform you about French or Spanish for a small additional fee.
 
He chose his own middle initial, but it doesn't stand for anything.
Who does that?
 
Benoit B. Mandelbrot, apparently
 
If "B." stood for anything, it would read "A.".
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You people are funny.
 
1:06 PM
Hahaha
 
@Robusto I do not pose, I depose.
 
but it does NOT stand for Anything
therefore B is appropriate
 
Wimps and deposers, leave the hall.
 
but it doesn't not stand for not nothing
 
Says you.
 
1:08 PM
Hi everybody
 
Hi.
 
then it would be C
or C++
:D
 
I am translating part of the biography of the President of my country for practice.
Could you guys please review the following paragraph:
 
Mar 13 '11 at 15:36, by RegDwight
@Robusto quoting my math professor (again), I think of A, say B, write C, mean D, and E would be correct.
 
@Meysam are you going to chose the middle initial?
 
1:09 PM
So now that you've covered A through :D, we know what the actual answer is.
 
B = E. QED
 
To BBQ or not to BBQ.
 
OK OK let's start at the other end of the alphabet
 
Kit is very quiet.
 
It's the sox.
 
1:11 PM
Kit's not here.
 
Warm socks make kit sleepy.
 
KitSox=KitFox, QED.
 
Just you wait till she also has a collection of warm hats.
 
@JasperLoy but that's not true
 
My first name is “Hassan” and until my youth, my last name was “Fereydun” as was my father’s. “Fereydun” is an old Persian name which has been mentioned in Shahnameh as well, though I don’t know why it had been chosen as the last name of my ancestor. Our grandfather, late Shekh Zeynol Abedin, was a learned, religious and articulate clergyman who owned a Maktab and passed away when my father was a little child.
 
1:11 PM
Benoit Z. Mandelbrot
 
Hence (therefore?) I never saw him and all I know about him, is what I have heard from my father and grandmother. My father lost his father during his childhood, and became orphan since youth, and along with my late uncle, they both grew up orphan. Their mother though, adopted them. My grandmother, my paternal ancestor, was a wise woman known as “Molla Loghman”.
Although Loghman is usually a masculine name, I don’t know why her name was Loghman. He had a Maktab where girls and women attended and practiced reading Quran and Sharia.
 
Benoit Y. Mandelbrot
 
@MattЭллен everything that Jasper says that ends in QED is not true. In fact, forget about the "that ends in QED".
 
hola
 
Benoit QED Mandelbrot
 
1:12 PM
semana
 
Buenas tardes
 
So tell me once again, why is it we are trying to fix the middle initial but not the almond bread?
Priorities, people.
 
sorry
 
Mandelbrot trumps initials.
 
The lady is a trump.
 
1:13 PM
I think "adopted them" should be replaced with something else, because no mother adopts their own children.
 
Stack Exchange is failing in its role as an online pensieve. When I can't quite remember something, but I remember writing about it in an SE post, then its disappointing when searching fails to serve as a back-up memory :(
 
@Meysam Orphan is usually a noun or verb, not adjective.
 
(-:
 
@RegDwigнt A small lady is a trumpette then. Or is it strumpet?
 
@Meysam it's not that simple.
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A: Can one "marry one's wife"?

KosmonautI think "he married his wife" is merely redundant, not illogical. (However, in terms of language, bear in mind that it need not be proven logical in order to be considered grammatical English and to be understood by everyone.) I think it is quite normal to have an attribution (e.g. relationship...

@Robusto a little bit of Monica on my side.
 
1:15 PM
@RegDwigнt Prolepsis. Nothing new here.
 
Of course there's nothing new here.
Sep 4 '12 at 12:36, by ЯegDwight
This room contains everything, including the known universe.
 
@Meysam how could he be orphaned if he still has one parent?
 
@SomeGuy thanks for the interesting question :-)
 
It's ELU, it's nothing new.
It only ever seems that way to you.
 
@MattЭллен Perhaps the other parent was Phil Collins.
 
1:17 PM
so long as his son doesn't go down on me
 
Don't worry, there's only one gay in the village.
 
lol
 
Unless it's the village people, of course.
The more I think about it, the more I wonder why I think about it.
 
@MattЭллен Well, in our culture, someone who loses his father is know as orphan, even if their mother is still alive.
 
Feb 17 '11 at 21:03, by Robusto
@RegDwight — from Californication, Season 2: "Elton John going down on George Michael in a public washroom? Less gay."
 
1:19 PM
Yeah. Public is less gay than pubic.
 
@Meysam ah
 
@badass You're welcome
 
@MattЭллен Instead of saying "ah" try to review my translation.
 
You're no son, you're no son of mine
You're no son, you're no son of mine
You walked out, you left us behind
and you're no son, no son of mine
 
@Meysam Lulz.
Oh wow a human stenographist, I didn't know they made these.
 
1:21 PM
@Meysam So it should be became an orphan and grew up as orphans instead.
 
Does any of this shit matter?
 
@RegDwigнt without us there would be no internet
 
> My father lost his father during his childhood, so along with my late uncle, he grew up fatherless.
That's what I'd say.
 
You're no son, you're no son of mine
But where should I go and what should I do
You're no son, you're no son of mine
But I came here for help, oh I was looking for you
You're no son, you're no son of mine - oh
You're no son - ha yeah, ha yeah, ha yeah, ha yeah
You're no son, you're no son of mine - oh, oh...
 
@badass no, there would be no Internet as we know it. There might well be a better Internet, though.
 
1:23 PM
@Meysam Their mother, though, adopted them. If you use a comma after though, have one before as well.
@badass What song is this?
 
@RegDwigнt Yes, sir.
 
You can boogie?
But you need the Phil Collins song?
 
Stop it. I don't want to have to douche my ears before I go to work.
 
@JasperLoy Genesis (Phil Collins) - No son of mine
 
And why the hell is there a dancing kitty next to the youtube logo?
 
1:25 PM
@badass Lyrics sound stupid.
 
you need the tune
 
@Robusto just douche all of yourself once and be done forever.
 
It's called a shower, and I do it every day.
 
"The Biggest Douche in the Universe" is the 15th episode of the sixth season of the Comedy Central animated series South Park. It was first broadcast on November 27, 2002 and was the last in a mini-arc depicting Cartman being occasionally possessed by Kenny. The episode is centered around Liane Cartman and Chef attempting to exorcise Kenny's soul while Stan deals with trying to debunk self-proclaimed psychic John Edward, whom the entire crew of South Park Studios agreed to be "the biggest douche in the universe." The episode is rated TV-MA in the United States. Plot Cartman is rushed to t...
 
All hail Reg the Walrus wanna be
 
1:27 PM
Thank you guys for the review.
 
ko ko kachoo
 
ko ko ka ching
 
bling bling
 
@badass He is the very model of a modern LEGO walrus
 
Indeed.
 
1:28 PM
I now have no idea what you are talking about.
 
Go listen to Phil
 
But if KitFox is so busy, why is KitSox still here?
 
I can fell it coming in the air tonight, hold on
 
This is all nuts.
 
hold on
 
1:30 PM
@JasperLoy she leaves a computer running with kitsox on it
 
Kit never takes off her sox.
 
To keep her feet warm this December.
 
She can leave her sox on
 
Hi guys
 
Hi.
 
1:31 PM
how do you describe sun light which does not hurt
 
@MattЭллен The most brilliant song ever. All just one chord. For OVER 9000 beats.
 
@Meysam Sunlight is usually one word.
 
which is smooth and one can relax beneath it
 
Gentle. Caressing. Soft.
 
@JasperLoy Usually, not always.
@RegDwigнt Thank you. You are a very articulate man (very articulate moderator).
 
1:33 PM
If I was Phil Collins' dad, I'd have disowned him too.
 
I am but a very articulate walrus.
Phil Collins is the Yoko Ono of Genesis.
 
6 mins ago, by badass
ko ko kachoo
 
Yoko Yoko kachoo.
 
@JonHanna What did his son do that was so bad?
 
@RegDwigнt That's high praise for Collins, implying he at least did something good in breaking-up Genesis
 
1:35 PM
I'm generous today.
 
You folks are going way too fast for me. Last night I went to an excellent office Christmas party hosted by the company I will be working for in three weeks, and I drank way too much.
 
Also, blaming Ono for what happened to the Beatles is nonsense.
 
@Robusto Congrats on the new job.
 
Danke.
 
@Robusto You haven't slept? Or are still drinking? Or still at the party?
 
1:36 PM
Blaming the Beatles for how Ono got overshadowed by her relationship to them, is fair though.
 
@RegDwigнt I slept. Sort of.
 
@Robusto I know exactly what you mean.
 
The Beatles are overrated.
 
And Ono is underrated.
 
@JonHanna I'm just repercussing the general consensus. No opinions of my own are included in what I say.
 
1:37 PM
@JonHanna Yoko was a symptom, not a cause. But symptoms can be disgusting, annoying, and downright painful. They are how we know something sucks.
 
Ono wasn't a great artist, but she was a good artist.
 
Ono is a palindrome.
 
I couldn't care less for good artists. I am a good artist myself and I don't give a shit about me.
 
Does she still write?
 
Good artists become great artists more often than the famous-for-being-famous, which is what she became.
 
1:38 PM
@JasperLoy U are a palindrome.
 
@JonHanna Yeah, she was one of those artists whose work nobody likes. She made a career out of showing you how spiritually edifying it was to feel bad.
 
If she was good she would still be writing, no?
 
palindromemordnilap
 
Nov 28 at 0:06, by Jez
every time someone talks about how they're "spiritual" i wanna shake them and say "and what does that fucking MEAN??"
 
ّI am looking a verb for uttering prays silently (like whispering)
 
1:39 PM
chanting
 
chanting isn't usually silent, is it?
 
I never utter prays. Or prayers.
 
@Meysam You mean prayers.
 
Jinx.
 
Chanting is like the opposite of whispering. It involves a choir and an organ.
 
1:40 PM
Jinx.
 
!!jinx
 
@MattЭллен That didn't make much sense. Use the help command to learn more.
 
lol
 
!!Jinx
 
1:40 PM
@Robusto That didn't make much sense. Use the help command to learn more.
 
"chanting prayers"?
 
!!Jinx!
 
!!lol
 
@badass That didn't make much sense. Use the help command to learn more.
 
or just chanting?
 
1:40 PM
Did Kit write a program to do this auto?
 
@Meysam nonono.
@Meysam no, don't listen to these confusing confusers.
 
I think "use the help command" means "rub me where it feels good" for KitSox.
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That's the help yourself command.
 
@RegDwigнt Help me please. I feel lost and overwhelmed in this room.
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She must be doing this auto if it is so fast.
 
1:42 PM
I am working on thinking something up for Meysam, but I dunno.
"Praying to herself"?
"Praying silently"?
 
@Meysam internalizing
 
Isn't praying silent by default?
 
@RegDwigнt I like to say "I'm not spiritual, I'm religious".
 
"Breathed a prayer"?
 
mumbling
 
1:43 PM
@JonHanna a great start. Better still, explicitly specify a particular God.
 
@JasperLoy Kit can't do an auto by herself? I don't believe that.
 
@RegDwigнt historically and etymologically, no.
 
I would just say he whispered his prayers @Meysam
 
Etymological fallacies are fallacious.
 
Irregardless, I'm irritatedly irreligious.
 
1:44 PM
Just don't forget to irrigate.
 
Then I will be irridescent.
 
Wait, is there irregardless? Or is that a whoosh?
 
Das ist irre!
@JasperLoy yes on both accounts.
 
Geezis.
 
@JasperLoy That is a whoosh. Cf. recent discussions on ELU.
 
1:45 PM
Recent? Discussions? You have been drinking too much.
 
6 mins ago, by Meysam
ّI am looking a verb for uttering prays silently (like whispering)
muttering, mumbling
 
That's not silently.
 
whispering is the best
 
like whispering
 
Well I dunno, whispering is not silently either, someone take over from here.
 
1:47 PM
chanting quietly
 
@RegDwigнt I told you.
OK, maybe not so recent.
 
Jack B Nimble? Does the B stand for anything?
 
Can you whoosh a prayer? For Jasper's sake?
 
ask Jack
 
@badass I don't know him.
 
1:48 PM
SOL
 
Somalia Online?
 
we can't ask Mandelbrok either
 
You must be out of your mind
 
I don't must, but I do can.
 
Safer than being in of your mind.
 
1:50 PM
Very funny
 
I see you adopted ChrisTOpher WalKEN stress.
 
(-:
Hi @Gigili
 
!!testing
 
@JasperLoy That didn't make much sense. Use the help command to learn more.
 
HAHAHAHA
 
1:54 PM
!!tell Jasper listCommands
 
@Jasper help, listen, eval, coffee, live, die, refresh, forget, ban, unban, info, jquery, choose, user, lego, legopart, nuke, nsa, nano, wordwar, listcommands, parentuser, norris, urban, parse, tell, mdn, afk, awsm, color, convert, define, findcommand, fuckable, get, github, google, hang, inhistory, learn, mustache, nudge, spec, stat, summon, unsummon, timer, todo, undo, weather, welcome, wiki, xkcd, youtube (page 0/0)
 
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Get ready for part II of review:
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My grandmother lived in our house with my family. In the mornings, especially during fall when sunshine was caressing and soft, he furnished a carpet in the yard and spent her time by reading Quran and Mafatih, whispering her prayers until noon.
She adored me so much, because I was the very first of grandchildren living with her. She taught me religious and Islamic matters and reading prayers. My father also had a very essential role in teaching me Islamic Sharia, and at preliminary age, I mean when I was 5 or 6 years old, he usually took me to the mosque for the Dhohr, Asr, Maghrim and Isha prayers.
 
@badass This is srs bsns, please treat it as such (see /help fuckable).
 
/facepalm
how many times have we gone through this, @badass?
!!fuckable 32
 
@MattЭллен A person that age can shag down to 23, and is the lower limit of a person of 50 years.
 
1:56 PM
@Meysam when the sunshine
 
@JasperLoy thanks
 
!!mustache Matt
 
@badass User -1 was not found (if the user is not in room 95, pass a user-id instead of a username).
 
@MattЭллен That is our age.
 
!!mustache 6040
 
1:57 PM
 
:( no moustache for me
 
You are so beautiful. To not me.
 
@Meysam not sure what preliminary age means.
 
@MattЭллен what is your avatar suppose to be?
 
@badass It's the head of an orc
 
1:59 PM
@JasperLoy I was trying to mean the age right before going to the elementary school.
 
!!wiki orc
 
Orchidaceae is a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and often fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants, with between 21,950 and 26,049 currently accepted species, found in 880 genera. Selecting which of the two families is larger is still under debate, as concrete numbers on such enormous families are constantly in flux. Regardless, the number of orchid species equals more than twice the number of bird species, and about four times the numbe...
 
it's roaring, I suppose, or something like that
 
KitSox really is slacking today. All around.
 
something ike me
 

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