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RegDwigнt

12:00 PM

To wit: or not to kwit. That's the question.

tchrist

Today I kumquat; yesterday a kamequit.

Robusto

To is a preposition; kumquat is a noun.

tchrist

That doesn’t mean it can’t be passed.

Robusto

Maybe it's bluperfect.

RegDwigнt

This reminds me that the past tense of come in Dutch is quack.

Robusto

12:01 PM

Booperfecked.

tchrist

Depends on one’s alimentary preparation.

Robusto

Alimentary, my dear Watson.

tchrist

@RegDwigнt And in Montréal.

RegDwigнt

I raise objections. Their mont is not real at all.

Robusto

Nor royal.

RegDwigнt

12:02 PM

It is as flat as Taylor Swift.

tchrist

Mr. Holmes

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Robusto

Taylor: the all-purpose millennial name. See Taylor Swift, Taylor Kitsch, etc.

RegDwigнt

Huhuh, Bill Condom, huhuh.

tchrist

Put a sock on it.

For a price.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto still better than Channing, FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Robusto

12:04 PM

I don't know what to call that.

tchrist

@Robusto Tink her, tail her, told hers, pie.

RegDwigнt

I don't know that it deserves to be called.

Robusto

When you scamps get together you're worse than a sewing circle.

RegDwigнt

First rule of sewing circle is,

Matt E. Эллен

bring your own needles

RegDwigнt

12:05 PM

Please do the needless.

tchrist

Knit one.

Gnat two.

Knot three.

Newt four.

Robusto

Net fore.

RegDwigнt

No GNU Ada in this chat.

tchrist

hates Prince Nuada

Robusto

hates Prince Caspian

RegDwigнt

12:08 PM

hates Prince of Zamunda

Robusto

hates Prince Spaghetti

RegDwigнt

Is this our daily five minutes of hate?

tchrist

Amen.

Robusto

No, that was in 1984.

We've moved on.

RegDwigнt

I hate amen.

Matt E. Эллен

12:08 PM

hates Purple Rain but likes the Batman soundtrack

RegDwigнt

Ramen, brother.

Robusto

likes Trent Reznor's movie scores

tchrist

From Amon Sul to Emyn Muil.

Out of one, many.

Robusto

Looks like we finally bored Justyna to death.

Who knew it just took an hour or so of mindless prattle?

RegDwigнt

That happened a long time ago.

Mitch

12:10 PM

Have I missed anything? I was gone for a couple minutes

RegDwigнt

Trent just put a nine inch nail in the coffin, is all.

Mitch

I heard Greece got a divorce from itself.

Robusto

1 hour ago, by Robusto

Superman or Batman? Which is correct?

tchrist

@Robusto On the beachfront at Byron Bay, you can pay a surferdude a few pennies to stick a ripe pineapple in a blender for you and make of it a frothy, refreshing drink.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Too late. You're working too hard at this.

RegDwigнt

12:11 PM

@Robusto I'm not working at all.

Robusto

@tchrist Can you bring your own pineapple?

Mitch

Also Buffalo meat tastes just like Yak... If only you could get close enough to the yak to try

RegDwigнt

@Mitch I heard every sane person stopped caring about Greece about two thousand years ago.

Everyone else went insane.

tchrist

Well, if you don’t, it’s more than a few pennies.

But to behold his machete is a thing of beauty.

RegDwigнt

Caution: Machete kills.

Mitch

12:13 PM

A thing of beauty is a joy just until you finish chewing

tchrist

@RegDwigнt καὶ σὺ, τέκνον;

Matt E. Эллен

> Sunday 12 July: Eurogroup leaders meet (14:00 GMT) followed by summit of all 28 members of the European Union (16:00 GMT). Both Brussels

Robusto

@tchrist Jugo de piña es una maravilla.

Matt E. Эллен

dear the BBC, both Brussels what?

RegDwigнt

@tchrist Sorry, I'm no longer into techno. Only dancefloor and jungle.

tchrist

12:14 PM

@Robusto La es.

Mitch

No one cares about the summer vacations of Germans on the Greek islands?

tchrist

@MattE.Эллен One did one Brussel say to the other?

RegDwigнt

@MattE.Эллен what is this grammer. "Both" is plural, so it should be "both brussel".

Robusto

@Mitch They have cash, they'll be fine.

Matt E. Эллен

@tchrist I don't know, what did one Brussel say to the other?

Robusto

12:15 PM

Sprout?

Ketchup?

RegDwigнt

Brussels brussels Brussels brussels brussels brussels Brussels brussels.

Matt E. Эллен

@RegDwigнt you're plural!

tchrist

@MattE.Эллен Nothing, because one was too Flematic about to give a rip about the Walloon.

Robusto

Bruxelles.

RegDwigнt

@MattE.Эллен every you in English is. Stupid language.

tchrist

12:16 PM

You is so right.

Robusto

Hey, they're your clothes, motherfucker.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto yeah that's the spelling Christina Aguilera came up with for it.

tchrist

Who can’t even spell her own name.

RegDwigнt

She can. With an X. That's the subject of the current discussion.

tchrist

The Aguilera Annex, by Dan Bron.

Robusto

12:17 PM

Wait, that Dan Bron?

RegDwigнt

The Ennie Lennox, by Bran Don.

@Robusto yes, the dan of brondingnag.

Robusto

Feb 5 at 13:30, by Robusto

> Renowned author Dan Brown gazed admiringly at the pulchritudinous brunette’s blonde tresses, flowing from her head like a stream but made from hair instead of water and without any fish in.

Mitch

The renowned ELUer Dan Bron

RegDwigнt

@Robusto sounds like Harry Potter the Deadly Hollows part three.

tchrist

@MattE.Эллен Damn it, I left out Greece: one was too Flematic about Greece.

Then again, everybody leaves out Greece these days.

Robusto

12:19 PM

We're all on diets.

Now all we eat are Macedonia nuts.

tchrist

Grease - Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee [1080p] [Lyrics]

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Matt E. Эллен

good fyrom your health

Mitch

I loved Joyce Carol Oates in Grease Iii with John Baloata

Robusto

Joyce Carole Oates—wait, isn't that some new kind of breakfast cereal?

Mitch

Some woman with three or more names. The queen?

Robusto

12:23 PM

Heh, I knew Google Images wouldn't fail me.

Mitch

She's got three or more three or more times

Robusto

The queen doesn't have a name, as you put it. She is a name.

Mitch

What do you call her then? And what do you call her name?

Hah.

Eat that, Billy Preston

Because it's good for you. Lots of fiber

Robusto

Joyce Carol Oates has more fiber.

20

Q: Is "everyone" singular or plural?

Which is correct? Everyone were convinced that he would go to the game. Everyone was convinced that he would go to the game. I think it's "was", because "everyone" is singular, but I just wanted to check.

Answer: Most people are singular. That's why there are so many songs about loneliness.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto the queen has a name alright. And it's Mountbatten.

Robusto

12:28 PM

Actually, it's Battenberg. They changed it because they didn't want to seem too German.

RegDwigнt

Or Montréal in French.

Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto what a singular idea

RegDwigнt

@Robusto that question is racist. Some people are singular, others are not.

Mitch

Saxe coburg gotha

Robusto

Hey, what happened to our pretty hate machine?

RegDwigнt

12:30 PM

It unionized.

Fuckers.

Yeah inorite.

you're welcome

I read that all as 'hate fuckers'. Thanks Obama

RegDwigнt

Obamahare.

Robusto

12:32 PM

I just wonder if he's The Big Obama.

RegDwigнt

He's not your fair lady, that much's fo sho.

Mitch

That is fair though

Robusto

No it ain't either.

RegDwigнt

Jesus Christ what ever happened to tennis. "Radwanska vs. Muguruza". Sounds like Ferengi vs. Godjira.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt *ごじら

RegDwigнt

12:34 PM

And them's women, allegedly.

Matt E. Эллен

when did they foreigners play the King's game?

bloody load of rot, wot wot

Mitch

How dare you talk about the Kardashians that way

RegDwigнt

@MattE.Эллен World of Tanks, World of Tanks.

Robusto

Lessee, how long has it been since a Brit has won Wimbledon?

Matt E. Эллен

a year?

two?

I can't remember

Mitch

12:35 PM

Oops autocorrect of Cardassians

Matt E. Эллен

two years

RegDwigнt

Lessee should know, she's the one winning Wimbledons now.

Mitch

English tennis players. ... Pfft

How could they possibly.

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен I mean before that.

Matt E. Эллен

@Robusto lol

RegDwigнt

12:36 PM

Mitch

Also Wimbledon ... Pfft

RegDwigнt

Pictured: Lessee, Wimbledon. In some order.

Robusto

Hail hail Wimbledonia!

Mitch

Pardon my spitting. Cat hair in my mouth

I didn't skin them well enough

Robusto

@Mitch You need to find another way to give your cat a bath.

RegDwigнt

12:37 PM

@Mitch Wimbledon, if you stop to think about it, is another one of those rubbish sounding self-loving words. Wimbledon. Wimbledon. The United Kingdom. Kingdom. Wimbledon.

Robusto

Semantic satiation got your tongue?

RegDwigнt

Sounds like Chancellor Kohl.

Not semantic, phonetic.

Go listen to some Kohl speeches. It is litterally "Wimbledon wimbledon kingdom".

Mitch

Wimbledon means 'never having clean your mouth of cat hair after a bath'

Look it up

RegDwigнt

I am safe from semantic satiation here, because Wimbledon has no meaning.

Twiddle Dee and Wimble Don.

Matt E. Эллен

Wimbledon is the place where Wombles live

skill patrol

12:41 PM

Why play on grass?

RegDwigнt

22 mins ago, by RegDwigнt

@Robusto sounds like Harry Potter the Deadly Hollows part three.

Robusto

Summer reruns, huh?

RegDwigнt

Summer moved on.

Mitch

I am satiated but not semantically

Matt E. Эллен

I am neither sated nor semantic

Mitch

12:42 PM

Let's say felinically

RegDwigнt

And the way it goes you can't tag along.

Robusto

I am semantic but not satiatedly.

Mitch

All dark meat

skill patrol

I am semantic but satiated

RegDwigнt

I am but I do not think.

Mitch

12:43 PM

You should think of the children and not not yourself

Robusto

We should all start dumping more on Sweden. They killed Descartes, after all.

@JohanLarsson: ^

RegDwigнt

When has the children ever thunk of me?

When? WHEN?

Don't ask what you can do for the children, ask what the children can do for you.

Johan Larsson

@Robusto guilt by association

Mitch

Swedes got it too easy

RegDwigнt

@JohanLarsson nah, that's too complicated. I'll go with guilt because Swede.

Snappier.

Matt E. Эллен

12:45 PM

@JohanLarsson I know you, so am I guilty, too? Is Descartes guilty, too?!

Robusto

@JohanLarsson Your Queen Christina made him get up early in the cold. How could a languid Frenchman survive that?

Johan Larsson

I even spelled it right, I think

RegDwigнt

Descartes is dead, which proves that he was guilty.

Matt E. Эллен

dead guilty

Mitch

Except for the cold. And the food. And the geography. And the progress stultifying welfare state. And the people

RegDwigнt

12:46 PM

All these things are dead, too.

Robusto

Please don't step on my Blue Swede Shoes.

Blue Swede - Hooked On A Feeling (1974 - HQ - Live)

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Swedes are responsible for all sorts of crimes.

Johan Larsson

A cover

@Robusto Yeah, I'm sorry about that.

Robusto

And I'm not even talking about ABBA yet.

RegDwigнt

Suede home, Al Obama.

Johan Larsson

@Robusto maybe this can make up for some of it.

Robusto

12:49 PM

Can't listen to that at work.

Mitch

Have you heard about the govner?

Johan Larsson

But you can listen to Blue Swede? What are you? A cop?

Mitch

Clown

Johan Larsson

haha

Mitch

Like a cop but serious

Robusto

12:52 PM

Красимир Геджов 3 months ago
Am I the only one around here who thinks that that primitive, tribal ooga-chaka ruins the song? It's like you made great painting, took a laxative, put your pants down and sprayed everything that you ate on that great work of art.

Another clueless Russki.

RegDwigнt

Sounds like a Bulgarian to me.

Burglarian name, Burglarian surname.

Robusto

If it Cyrillics like a duck . . .

RegDwigнt

Then it is porn?

Johan Larsson

Nothing is good about that song, the lyrics is perhaps the worst crime.

RegDwigнt

Everything is awesome about that song.

Robusto

12:53 PM

The only thing good about it is that it worked in Guardians of the Galaxy.

RegDwigнt

And is that not enough? Not enough? Not enough???

Robusto

It is sufficient.

Guardians was truly fine.

Best comic-book movie evah.

RegDwigнt

That is quite likely very true for all futures to come.

Robusto

Although Watchmen was pretty good.

Mitch

It was no Chekhov.... pauses. ... or Pinter

RegDwigнt

12:55 PM

Watchmen can only be good if you know the comic.

Robusto

Graphic novel, please.

RegDwigнt

People who don't know the novel generally find it incredibly horrible.

Matt E. Эллен

I'm heading out. if the delivery van comes, tell them to wait.

RegDwigнt

Which, as I might add, does not hold true for other novels, like 300 or Sin City.

Robusto

@MattE.Эллен No problem. We'll just steal all your shit, as usual.

Mitch

12:56 PM

I didn't know the comic and I thought the watchmen was ... incoherent

RegDwigнt

And ship it to Sweden.

Robusto

Blue Sweden.

RegDwigнt

@Mitch and for that, it took three hours.

Mitch

@MattE.Эллен make like a baby!

Damkerng T.

@Robusto Guardians of the Galaxy unlocked one mystery for me: where Howard the Duck had gone.

RegDwigнt

12:58 PM

Guardians of the Galaxy unlocked one mystery for me: that Howard the Duck is a thing.

Mitch

On vacation?

RegDwigнt

If quacks like a Howard and smells like a Howard...

Robusto

@DamkerngT. I winkle on you.

Damkerng T.

He had been with the Collector all along. (Sorry about the typo! @Robusto)

RegDwigнt

Winkel

Ein Winkel ist in der Geometrie ein Teil der Ebene, der von zwei in der Ebene liegenden Strahlen (Halbgeraden) mit gemeinsamem Anfangspunkt begrenzt wird. Der gemeinsame Anfangspunkt der beiden Strahlen wird Scheitelpunkt des Winkels, Winkelscheitel oder kurz Scheitel genannt; die Strahlen heißen Schenkel des Winkels. Ein Winkel kann durch drei Punkte festgelegt werden, von denen einer den Scheitel des Winkels bildet und die beiden anderen auf je einem Schenkel des Winkels liegen. Die physikalische Größe, die die relative Lage der Strahlen zueinander beschreibt, wird als Winkelweite oder Winkelabstand…

Mitch

12:59 PM

@MattE.Эллен ooh another one: make like a bakery van and haul buns

Or make like you're leavig a proctologist a office and get your ass out of there

Robusto

@Mitch Make like a pineapple and split.

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