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3:00 PM
If only.
 
bark, bark
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@KitSox Wait, what?
 
yip, yip, yelp
2
 
Oh! KitSox!
 
!!youtube who let the dogs out
 
3:01 PM
2
 
Did we forget to give you a couple of stars so you could have a nice hat?
 
Give KitSox a hat
 
I can’t seem to change my hat in chat.
 
She chats enough, she just needs a couple of stars.
 
3:03 PM
 
@tchrist I see the milliner one.
 
You do?
Oh.
It just changed.
 
@tchrist I looked yesterday and I'm hard pressed to find one of his I haven't upvoted.
 
@Robusto Comments.
 
Ah.
 
3:04 PM
Look, people.
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Q: Has anyone on EL&U been awarded the 'I See Your Point' hat yet?

KitFoxThe unicorn hat is still stumping those of us who discuss these things in chat. Has anyone had it awarded yet? And is anyone ready to break the oath of silence that comes with it? Alternatively, is anyone interested in discussing it and/or making jokes or other jovial observations?

 
Still, those too.
 
@tchrist He has four hats.
 
Stop upvoting the comments that have 2+.
Go upvote MetaEd!
 
@KitFox Do what?
 
shh
 
3:05 PM
shushes
 
!!youtube have a cigar
 
ELU number 12 with 1,872 hats. Code review has 1,924
 
That's plenty of stars for KitSox.
 
I've upvoted the first five comments in Lawler's queue, which are recent enough not to have already been upticked by me.
If one other person does that—hat!
 
3:10 PM
Surely we are more anal than Code Reviews!?
 
@tchrist We are 51 hats behind them.
Anyone wanna give Robusto another Enlightened?
I lack but six of a century.
 
Anyone would like to give me 2 upvotes so that I get a flair on ELU? =)
 
I'm willing, but you have to promise not to delete your account this time.
 
OK then.
 
3:14 PM
Oh come on.
The chiasmus question is a dupe of a dupe of a dupe of a dupe.
I am so angry I even closed it as a dupe of a wrong question.
 
@RegDwigнt Aww, come on. What do you have against my getting another Enlightened? Show some Christmas spirit, you godless Commie.
 
I just upvoted Robusto's chiasmus.
 
Who ever said anythin about you? Did you post the question?
 
I'm protective of my questioners when I'm close to a badge. That's all.
 
Gee, I wanted to answer the sandwich question but Colin Fine beat me to it.
 
3:18 PM
@Robusto and where's my Guru badge on meta, you godless Palin supporter?
 
@RegDwigнt Let's not say things we can't take back.
 
@Robusto That's one of your favourite lines in this chat.
 
I only say things I can't take back.
 
In the first place, there are no godless Palin supporters. That's by definition.
 
@Robusto see how careful I was about my wording?
 
3:19 PM
Do I have to do 5 reviews in 5 queues in one day?
 
There are no dogless Palin supporters either, I suspect.
 
@KitFox no. Thank Palin for that.
 
I'd prefer not to.
 
That was not a plea, soldier.
 
There are no guru candidates on meta.
 
3:20 PM
There are still five.
 
Well, at least, not at 39.
 
@tchrist well you are very picky.
 
doge hat?
in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 1 min ago, by Flyk
you need to get a comment on MSO with "very", "much", and "wow" in it up voted to 15
 
@RegDwigнt I just ran it for > 33 && < 40 and only MrHen’s showed up, which now has 40.
@Hugo My gosh.
@RegDwigнt I prefer “fastidious”.
 
15 hours ago, by Gilles
a few candidates: http://meta.english.stackexchange.com/search?q=score%3A30..39+is%3Aanswer
 
3:22 PM
@tchrist may be a joke
 
@RegDwigнt That is incorrect.
 
Too bad we'll never get Gennady to accept psmears' answer no matter at how many votes.
 
Guru is different.
Needs acceptance.
 
So?
 
That is a joke. There is no doge hat.
 
3:23 PM
It also needs 40 votes. These answers don't have that.
We can push both.
In fact we got Kosmo that hat even though his answer was at 50 already.
Because we got nohat to finally accept it.
 
So looking for unaccepted answers is perfectly legit.
 
Geezis, that sandwich answer has 4 votes already...
 
@Hugo That had some red herrings last year too.
 
3:25 PM
33
A: Exception to 30 character minimum for answers

RegDwigнtSimply link the word to its dictionary definition. Observe: Ghoti. — 6 characters. Ghoti. — 56 characters. This pushes your answer over the 30-character limit and makes it considerably more helpful, as the OP might not know that word. In fact, that might be the very reason why he's ...

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A: Excessive downvoting

J.R.Sasha: Welcome to EL&U (and I mean that sincerely). When I was in school, there was a common refrain: there's no such thing as a stupid question. The sentiment was, if you are confused about something, you shouldn't be afraid to ask. I still believe that's true – there's no such thing as a stup...

 
Yeah I'm not holding breath, but it keeps climbing at like two votes a day.
They hid the meta link real well with the update.
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A: Interjection for the sound of a bell

FAFAFDATHIS FUCKEN SUCKS AFDAFDAKLFDHGFJGAJFDFHDLSADOPISDAFOIJFDSAOIP SDFPOI SADFPOISDFPOSDAPODSFOPXCZVDSFSDFSDFSFDSFDDFSDFDSAFDS

I want to see a concerted flagging effort on this one.
 
Geezis.
 
Perhaps there's a hat for that.
@Kit back off for a second.
Let's try and get it six flags from regular users.
Real flags. None of that "inform daddy" shit.
Flag it as "offensive" or "spam".
 
It seems to me we ought to get a hat
For farting quite uproariously in chat
 
We need to get a hat for trying to get hats in chat.
 
3:28 PM
Come on people. Two are good, but we need four more.
I am seeing twenty people in the room right now.
 
W00t, 95 Enlighteneds for Roba Fett.
@RegDwigнt I done my duty.
 
First OED citation for Christmas used as an interjection is “1897 Kipling Capt. Cour. iv. 91 — Jiminy Christmas! That gives me the blue creevles.” which I thought went with crickets. Last OED citation as interjection is “1959 N. Marsh False Scent (1960) vi. 192 - ‘All right with you, Bertie?’ ‘Oh, Christmas!’ he said. ‘I suppose so.’ ” — tchrist 30 secs ago
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 @Hugo @JSBձոգչ @MετάEd gimme offensive flags on this please. Offensive, not just for mod attention.
 
Is this one of those ?
 
in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 4 hours ago, by Flyk
Mr @Oded - I have worked out how to get the Eureka hat!
in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, 4 hours ago, by Flyk
@SPArchaeologist 40 upvotes to a question on a per-site meta
 
3:31 PM
Eek.
On a new question, no doubt.
 
Oh and @Cerberus.
 
You could upvote the unicorn question...
 
Oh and @Matt
 
The review queue is as bare as a turkey carcass the day after Thanksgiving at an orphanage.
 
Got my first Popular Question badge for the stupid Christmas question!
 
3:33 PM
@Hugo I will email you my banking account details.
 
@RegDwigнt just post them here
 
@Robusto No kidding.
 
Come on people, two more offensive flags.
 
I may have to commute to figure out questions to ask. It frees my mind.
 
it's already showing as deleted for me, so i can't flag
 
Ste
3:35 PM
Offensive flags? Now what's going on? @RegDwigнt
 
Let's test putting this old one to 40 to test Eureka! Just needs 3: meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/1071/…
 
I think I may put a bounty on my "try and vs. try to" question tomorrow. Not just to get someone a hat, but I don't think it's been covered adequately. But the hat would be the catalyst. Call it a hatalyst.
 
@Ste Never mind. People voted to delete instead. Gah.
 
The point was to delete it automatically through flags.
 
3:36 PM
@RegDwigнt I knew better!
 
Anonymous
 
If I were after manual deletion, I'd have nuked it myself.
 
There is a point to the auto-delete.
 
Anonymous
First time to hear a run on sentences.
 
Spares an edit.
 
3:37 PM
so the code review of the barely-competent coworker is complete. it could have been worse. i'm scratching my head at her core design decision, but she claims that it was necessary and i'm willing to let it go since it isn't actively harmful
 
@RegDwigнt Well, we're working at cross purposes. I flagged, then it came up in the Review queue and I needed that delete for one of my five. Blame SE, not me.
 
@Robusto I can fill the Review queue with five items right now.
Priorities, my friend.
I can't post a spam answer, though.
 
@RegDwigнt So stop talking and do it.
 
@Robusto I have been doing it all day long.
 
I have never reviewed anything on SE, lol.
 
3:39 PM
"And when I got there, the cupboard was bare ..."
 
1 more vote here please to test Eureka: meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/1071/…
 
Instructions unclear, voted down.
 
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A: How to say "almost exactly 1 hour"?

KitFoxIn my regional dialect, you could say "we'll meet here in nigh on an hour." It means "roughly an hour" or "nearly an hour", with the connotation of within a few minutes of exactly an hour, inclusive of exactly an hour.

 
@Hugo Done.
 
Halps mit dem voten.
 
3:40 PM
Vote which way? On what?
 
pls up
 
@JasperLoy Thanks, now to see if @Robusto gets Eureka
 
@Hugo I can't vote for my own question, though I tried.
 
@KitFox Done.
 
thx
Do we have anyone close to Reversal or Populist?
 
3:41 PM
@Robusto the point is, it's easy to fill the cupboard yourself.
 
Oh, but don't we have a service for that?
 
@RegDwigнt did
 
Thank you.
 
Are you offended yet?
 
@MετάEd No, I just think we screwed up. It got deleted by three people rather than the Community user.
 
3:44 PM
@KitFox Reversal and Populist.
 
But I guess it might help a couple people get their flagging hats.
 
Well, I just repcapped, but I bet I have to wait forever to get awarded.
 
I have 5 votes left and my profile shows only 33 votes. I've been upvoting nothing but questions, except in two cases. I hope they don't stall me out at 38 and I have to go through the whole damn thing again. I shall wait a decent interval and see.
 
no Eureka hat yet for @Robusto's old meta question, so we could try and get this new one to 40 to test it: meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/4338/…
 
Already begun.
 
3:46 PM
Do votes on Meta questions count for the main site?
 
Why is MetaEd still have no love?
 
Oughtn’t that be noëlfun, lest it be confused for its antonym? — tchrist 11 secs ago
@Robusto no
 
OK, I should have 40 votes now and a hat.
So it's off to blow some snow (in the meteorological, not pharmacological, sense).
 
@KitFox I feel the love.
 
@Robusto well they will stall you out.
If you have 38 in total now, you aren't gettting another 2 out of thin air.
 
3:51 PM
It showed 35 when I had 5 left, so I popped the other five and now we'll see.
 
Next time put the exceptions last, not first.
 
You have to do all questions first.
 
Since it's not clear what the context is, or whether you're taking about the fraction, my reply will be that I pronounce is ounce. — Janus Bahs Jacquet 21 hours ago
 
@Robusto Oh! now that would be strange.
 
@JanusBahsJacquet I’d’ve been more apt to say inch, but I must not deal in precious metals as much as you appear to. — tchrist 3 hours ago
 
3:51 PM
The last ten are a free-for-all. Pretty much only the first ten aren't.
 
@tchrist, yeah… that would have been a much more obvious answer, wouldn't it? Oh well. Hindsight 1/12… — Janus Bahs Jacquet 2 mins ago
Egad! That boy deals with troy ounces!
Born with a platinum spoon in his mouth, no doubt.
 
Hat, please, SE.
 
I still need me peanuts. Upvote my inch comment, pretty pease.
 
Got me boater. Cool.
 
3:53 PM
Muchísimas gracias.
 
@tchrist Link?
 
2 mins ago, by tchrist
@JanusBahsJacquet I’d’ve been more apt to say inch, but I must not deal in precious metals as much as you appear to. — tchrist 3 hours ago
With a name like that, you’d just figure him for a troy-boy, wouldn’t you now?
@Cerberus v.s.
 
K another candidate for proper flaggin.
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A: What is the proper usage of the phrase "due diligence"?

safehiringi think these all are right. if you want to see something more seeenter link description here

Please only flags as spam. No deletion votes.
 
Do you have an ulterior motif other than the one I previously noted?
 
Wow. I am impressed.
Much better.
Now let's see if it gets anyone involved anything.
 
3:57 PM
0
A: Is there a word that describes a pre-wedding party?

KitFoxYou'll need at least two words here. I think pre-wedding celebration is OK, but could also include a rehearsal dinner, which you're excluding. I'd suggest last hurrah or if you're in the UK, you could use hag party (which is a combination of hen and stag).

 
I am tied with @KitFox currently at #5.
 
For a Revival, I think.
 
@Robusto What? No way!
 
It’s about bloody time!
 
3:58 PM
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A: How to say "almost exactly 1 hour"?

KitFoxIn my regional dialect, you could say "we'll meet here in nigh on an hour." It means "roughly an hour" or "nearly an hour", with the connotation of within a few minutes of exactly an hour, inclusive of exactly an hour.

 
@KitFox Hey, I gave you your 21st.
 
And one more here, I think, gives me Necro.
 
@KitFox "a combination", eh? You passed on an opportunity to use "portmanteau"? Clearly you are not Wikipedia!
 
Clearly.
 
It was kind of hard to see behind the hat. But now I know.
 
3:58 PM
@Robusto I am so happy to be tied with you.
 
Man you have to swoop in on the review queue like a plunging falcon!
 
More to the point, we are a scant 36 hats away from beating Code Review.
Well, 37. Math is hard.
 
Go give silvers to people who have low rep.
@Robusto Math is hard, but that is merely arithmetic.
 
Yes, like give me 2 votes to get a flair. =)
 

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