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@Gilles: absolutely. Let's keep things on-topic. This question here is about SD. And it has generated two exceptionally solid answers, I might add. Which I upvoted and moved along. I'd rather see people do the same. Attacking the messenger rather than the message is uncalled for, especially now that the answers have been posted. It is an ad hominem. If someone has a beef with ELU, they are very much welcome to post the exact same question for ELU. As a separate question. Shifting the focus here will not stand. — ЯegDwight 4 hours ago

RegDwigнt

1:24 AM

Anyhoo, I was thinking the question'd be sitting there for the holidays accumulating votes and views with some answers of the kin of Ste's.

BUT NO!

KitFox

It will not stand and neither can Reg.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt Well, at least we don’t have the Hair Dude.

RegDwigнt

True. That much is true.

tchrist

Despite his having resurrected ELL: even the devil can quote scripture.

RegDwigнt

I can't parse my comment right now. I was drunk when I posted and I am OVER 9000 drunker now still. But it must be right and to the point.

tchrist

1:25 AM

I’m going to join you for a change.

I want this year to fade away, quickly.

KitFox

Спасибо!

RegDwigнt

@tchrist That is exceptionally good thinking. Even for your Verhältnisse.

@KitFox Gott segne Dich!

tchrist

Oh, she likes that.

KitFox

Did I spell it right? I have a hard time remembering the sounds.

RegDwigнt

You have to drink some bog water to think clearly.

Never forget bog water.

And yes, it was correct.

BRB

tchrist

1:28 AM

Perhaps you’ll even come to enlightenment regarding the Shoggothian Decalogue. It doesn’t hit you until the very last one.

BRB going for booze.

RegDwigнt

This man has figured it all out.

boozes

KitFox

Ваше эдоровье!

RegDwigнt

@KitFox the key is to type really fast. Really fast. Then you have all the time in the world to still fix anything and everything.

Monkeys, typing machines, yada.

tchrist

It’s true.

KitFox

I can't type fast on this tablet though.

RegDwigнt

1:30 AM

That comes with the tablet territory.

Tactileresponselackness is lacking tactile responsibillity.

KitFox

But I can type in русский this way.

RegDwigнt

543 hats! Holy crap, when did that happen.

I might as well go for the six hundred.

KitFox

But it's hard to find the letters.

RegDwigнt

Tell me about it.

My last keyboard had the letters engraved.

tchrist

@ЯegDwight I just got this hat, but I'm not sure why. By a bizarre coincidence I live in the same village as the current Count Tolstoy. — Alnitak Dec 23 '13 at 15:19

RegDwigнt

1:33 AM

This one relies on me remembering things.

KitFox

Then again, it might help me remember since someday I'd like to know them.

RegDwigнt

@tchrist I ain't got that to my inbox.

tchrist

Overfloweth.

KitFox

I like the word harbinger. I dislike the word cleanse.

Except in asmr vids. Then it is a good trigger.

Robusto

asmr?

KitFox

1:38 AM

Hey @Robusto!

RegDwigнt

There. That's five more hats.

Robusto

Hiya. Happy New Year.

RegDwigнt

And one for Rob.

Robusto

I got the hat already.

So you can unstar me.

KitFox

Ваше здоровье!

RegDwigнt

1:39 AM

Well. Doppelt hält besser.

Robusto

Spacebo.

I don't do Cyrillic well.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I am only offered the option "unstar as interesting". But I want to unstar as uninteresting. Now what?

@Robusto Me neither!

Double down.

notes

1:40 AM

I guess it really is 2014 where @Reg lives.

I still have 3.33 hours to go.

KitFox

My husband is playing Skyrim, so I am hanging out on the couch, drinking and playing on my iPad.

RegDwigнt

Yes it is. Yes you have.

tchrist

Now we have people adding backticks on suggested edits. Fugly work all of it.

english.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/48965

RegDwigнt

I am noticing Kit is one head ahat of Rob. Fight it out!

Robusto

Skyrim? That's like, so 2012. Or is it 2011? I misremember.

RegDwigнt

1:41 AM

If I eat popcorn right now, I will not feel well...

KitFox

2010 maybe.

Robusto

More liquor!

RegDwigнt

Yes.

YES!

Robusto

Moar booze!

RegDwigнt

To the ground!

KitFox

1:42 AM

We just got it back from our nephew.

RegDwigнt

So it's like 1990, then.

KitFox

Skyrim,I mean, not booze.

Robusto

"Do not ping a drunken Russian"? You might just as well not ping any Russian then.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto and yet you are the first one to note that.

Including Russians.

Robusto

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

RegDwigнt

1:43 AM

Auch ein blindes Huhn findet mal ein something.

Korn, I think.

Which, coincidentally, is German for booze.

Oder so etwas.

!!wiki Korn

Korn (stylized as KoЯn) is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. The band's current lineup includes five members: Jonathan Davis, James "Munky" Shaffer, Brian "Head" Welch, Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, and Ray Luzier. Korn was originally formed by three of the members of the band L.A.P.D. Korn released their first demo album, Neidermayer's Mind, in 1993. The band's mainstream success continued with Untouchables (2002) and Take a Look in the Mirror (2003). A compilation album, Greatest Hits Vol. 1, was released in 2004, spanning a decade of singles and ...

RegDwigнt

Oh come on.

KitFox

Ugh. Make it stop.

KitSox

1:44 AM

HAMMERTIME!

Robusto

I finished the Tuchman book today. Finally. She uses the word whosesoever, which is a first for me.

RegDwigнt

See. This one is Doppelkorn, even.

Double holds better, as they say in German.

tchrist

@Robusto People have enough freakout just from whosever.

KitFox

Oh, I didn't send you the draft of my latest novel.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Das ist der Echte.

tchrist

1:45 AM

The former follows from the latter, or precedes if you please.

RegDwigнt

Free drafts all around!

off to grab moar Russisch Korn

Robusto

Nov 24 '12 at 15:05, by Robusto

Thalassa or thalatta — the former or the latter?

KitFox

@RegDwigнt Mind the doppelgänger.

tchrist

whosesoever [huːzsəʊˈɛvə(r)], pron. arch. The genitive of whosoever: Whatever person’s; of whomsoever.

1611 Bible John xx. 23 - Whose soeuer sinnes yee remit, they are remitted vnto them, and whose soeuer sinnes yee retaine, they are retained.
1821 Scott Kenilw. xxxii, - Whosesoever be the speech, it is the thought of ninety-nine out of an hundred.
1903 Sat. Rev. 27 June 798/1 - Whose‐soever the fault there has been no effective cooperation.

Robusto

@tchrist I know, I looked up its pedigree already. I'm kind of amazed that in all the millions of words I've read, I haven't encountered (or noticed) that one yet.

tchrist

1:47 AM

@Robusto Do you use whosever or whoever’s?

Robusto

@tchrist Probably whoever's, but I would likely simply avoid the construction altogether.

tchrist

> Give it to whosever wife gets home first.

Robusto

I don't speak like a Bible.

tchrist

> Give it to whoever’s wife gets home first.

Hm.

Robusto

Whosoever smiteth thee upon one buttock cheek, turn thou and present him yet the other buttock cheek.

KitFox

1:49 AM

Yes, like that.

tchrist

whosever != whosoever

KitFox

Let's drink Omar.

Robusto

@tchrist Close enough for New Year's Eve.

tchrist

If you turn the bottle upside down, you get Ramo.

KitFox

Not Omar, stupid iPad. I said moar.

tchrist

1:50 AM

Don’t ever let it type things for you.

KitFox

I don't let it. It just does it.

Robusto

May 6 '11 at 20:28, by Robusto

"He was so dumb he couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel."

tchrist

@KitFox That is utterly evil and wrong.

Bring out the sledgehammer.

KitFox

Yep, pretty much.

RegDwigнt

KitFox

1:51 AM

Except it is easier to write in Cyrillic this way.

tchrist

@JanusBahsJacquet If you’re intent on finding hipponyms, I suggest starting with Bucephalus. :) — tchrist 14 mins ago

Robusto

Haha.

I get it. Because Boukephalos was a horse, see? Alexander's.

RegDwigнt

Bucephalus crossed the Alps. Ain't got nobody nothing on Bucephalus!

Robusto

And horse in Greek is hippo. QED

Well bouk my phalos.

RegDwigнt

Jun 2 '13 at 15:38, by Cerberus

And that's hippo wording.

Robusto

1:53 AM

OK, a coke for anyone who can tell me what Boukephalos means in Greek without looking it up. You have ten seconds.

KitFox

Bull headed.

Robusto

10

Close

5

KitFox

Wow. Jinx.

Robusto

4

3

2

1

tchrist

@Robusto Pharos.

Robusto

1:54 AM

Time's up.

I understood that it meant "Ox head" ...

But @Kit was close enough.

Maybe even closer.

KitFox

Well, I typed it before you asked the question.

Robusto

We need @Cerberus, but he's pissed at me because he thinks I was rude to him. Geezis. If everyone who thinks I'm rude shuns me, I won't have anyone to talk to.

RegDwigнt

So. While I'm drunk I might as well say this. Mad props at Kit, who headed the charts last time, and Rob as well (not sure where tchrist was; was he, even?), while I was in the twens somewhere. "Under further ran", as die Dschömanns say. This year I beat her only with her own (and Rob's and tchrist's) help and that of the weather's. Tfeels good. Here's to the next year!

KitFox

!!wiki bucephalus

KitSox

Bucephalus

Bucephalus or Bucephalas (; or Βουκεφάλας, from bous, "ox" and keplē, "head" meaning "ox-head") (c. 355 BC – June 326 BC) was Alexander the Great's horse and one of the most famous actual horses of antiquity. Ancient accounts state that Bucephalus died after the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC, in what is now modern Pakistan, and is buried in Jalalpur Sharif outside of Jhelum, Pakistan. Another account states that Bucephalus is buried in Phalia, a town in Pakistan's Mandi Bahauddin District, which is named after him. The taming of Bucephalus A massive creature with a massiv...

tchrist

1:56 AM

Or Brunellus, per William of Baskerville.

RegDwigнt

That is so gay.

> Phalia, a town in Pakistan's Mandi Bahauddin District, which is named after him

I mean. Come ON!

And he's buried there. To boot.

Robusto

I'm not even in the Top 10 network-wide.

KitFox

@RegDwigнt cheers! And um...ваше здоровье!

RegDwigнt

How will he 'splain himself at the Heaven's Gate?

@Robusto still time to fix that.

Robusto

@KitSox I should get a hat for that.

@RegDwigнt Don't know how.

RegDwigнt

1:58 AM

Lemme see.

Robusto

I only reach for the low-hanging hats.

tchrist

“I thank you, Brother Cellarer,” my master replied politely, “and I appreciate your courtesy all the more since, in order to greet me, you have interrupted your search. But don’t worry. The horse came this way and took the path to the right. He will not get far, because he will have to stop when he reaches the dungheap. He is too intelligent to plunge down that precipitous slope. …”

“When did you see him?” the cellarer asked.

“We haven’t seen him at all, have we, Adso?” William said, turning toward me with an amused look. “But if you are hunting for Brunellus, the horse can only be where …

RegDwigнt

It will take a minute or five of focusing the eyes, but I'll get there.

@Robusto you could get the IG88.

A day from now I will post a bounty on my crowded-place question.

tchrist

“I am not sure he has those features, but no doubt the monks firmly believe he does. As Isidore of Seville said, the beauty of a horse requires ‘that the head be small, siccum prope pelle ossibus adhaerente, short and pointed ears, big eyes, flaring nostrils, erect neck, thick mane and tail, round and solid hoofs.’ If the horse whose passing I inferred had not really been the finest of the stables, stableboys would have been out chasing him, but instead, the cellarer in person had undertaken the search.

Robusto

@tchrist Sounds suspiciously like the Nun's Priest's Tale.

RegDwigнt

1:59 AM

There are still some answers that I had on my list from the get-go that never got posted.

You could post one of those.

I'll award the bounty to someone else (I even know whom), bang another hat for you.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt idk no ig88

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