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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
5:36 AM
> Individual work productivity scores measured using the WPAI questionnaire (the table includes data on all randomized patients, n=200; where an answer was not required, the box contains a horizontal line in accordance with the questionnaire usage rules)
Is there a shorter phrase in English? In Russian we say that the box contains a procherk (a strike-out: a horisontal line that "strikes out" the possibility of writing something there)
 
skullpetrol
skullpetrol
a dash
 
 
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skullpatrol
skullpatrol
7:12 AM
@Mitch i don't get it
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
8:12 AM
@Robusto so who did you pay how much to get so prominently featured in the site tour.
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skullpatrol
skullpatrol
Perhaps, kitfox?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Ouch.
Also, who took our site tour and removed the bit where it said that naming variables is off-topic.
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
::runs::
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Basically what I'm saying is, if you need a site tour, just ask me. I know all the tours and all the detours. I will teach you.
This Robusto guy, he doesn't even know he's part of the tour.
"On the right you can see Robusto's hyperbole." Everyone turns their necks and takes photos. And he doesn't even know.
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
do i detect a hint of "jealousy"?
or perhaps "envy"
 
skullpatrol
skullpatrol
8:43 AM
RIP :-(
 
 
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Færd
Færd
10:18 AM
The latest sequel to the global rising tide of right-wing extremism:
Most of the world's largest democracies seem to have fallen prey: Brazil, the US, the Philippines, and now India, again.
 
 
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Robusto
Robusto
12:30 PM
@RegDwigнt Well, I wouldn't have known if you hadn't pointed it out. I never took the site tour, and I don't read manuals either.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
shocked
Neither do I.
 
 
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Robusto
Robusto
2:13 PM
Something is strange about that example, though. It only shows 4 upvotes, whereas the current total is 34. I thought that might be because the screen-snap was taken back when there were only 4 votes, but then how does it show my current rep score and badge total?
I surmise that someone thought the current vote tally might appear unseemly, and so photoshopped out the 3 and centered the 4.
So why choose that answer? I suppose because none of Sven Yargs's were succinct enough to fit in such a small space.
See? Brevity is the soul of wit. You can point to it.
Or, as Shakespeare might have said, "Brevity will get your post on the ELU site tour." QED
Actually, no photoshopping would be required. You can simply live-edit the HTML and then screen-snap it.
@RegDwigнt: Also, why in the hell are you taking the site tour? I can't believe you're that bored. Go play with your Lego blocks!
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
2:40 PM
@Robusto Wit as in jocularity, or as in wisdom?
(I believe wise and wit are cognate.)
 
Robusto
Robusto
@Cerberus Shakespeare would have said wisdom. See Hamlet, Act II, Polonius telling the royals their son is mad.
The word comes from Old English, btw.
See gewit in OE.
Also, note that the witan or witenagemot in OE referred to the assembly of wise advisors to the king.
Witenagemot
The Witenaġemot (Old English: witena ġemōt, Old English pronunciation: [ˈwitena jeˈmoːt], modern English "meeting of wise men"), also known as the Witan (more properly the title of its members) was a political institution in Anglo-Saxon England which operated from before the 7th century until the 11th century. The Witenagemot was an assembly of the tribe whose primary function was to advise the king and whose membership was composed of the most important noblemen in England, both ecclesiastic and secular. The institution is thought to represent an aristocratic development of the ancient Germanic...
Also, regard wisdom in the Shakespearean language as referring broadly to mental capacity. Not wisdom in the sense of sagacity (as Polonius might have used it to describe his own orotund bathos).
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
3:47 PM
@Robusto I was looking for the FAQ. Where it said that naming variables was off-topic. That's how I ended up on the tour. But I also did the tour when it was first introduced, because there's a bronze achievement for that.
@skullpatrol I don't know what you're detecting, that's a question best directed at yourself.
But I for one am not envious of being in the spotlight. I'm a background person.
Oct 27 '18 at 20:15, by RegDwigнt
When I'm at a party, everyone's dancing, and I'm in the kitchen washing the dishes. And it's not my party and not my dishes. But that's what I do.
 
 
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Mitch
Mitch
5:41 PM
@skullpatrol Got it.
 
 
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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
8:10 PM
@Mitch Get it?
 
Mitch
Mitch
9:02 PM
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Goo goo ga joob.
I mean that sincerely.
 
 
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skullpetrol
skullpetrol
10:22 PM
@Mitch i still don't get the joke; sure, German can connect words together; but what's so funny about that? is it that they can do it ridiculously many times
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
10:53 PM
@skullpetrol I would that that's it, yes.
 
skullpetrol
skullpetrol
Thanks, pal @Cerberus
 
skullpetrol
skullpetrol
11:07 PM
@RegDwigнt my mistake; my apologies.
 
Mitch
Mitch
11:46 PM
@skullpetrol Oh. No. It's just funny. It basically sounds like ba ba ba ba ba... bi uh bi uh.. . Ha ha. That's it. What else is there in life? Sure, there's donuts. But there's also:
> When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles,
they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.
Donuts and this. Now there's nothing more.
OK, maybe also huevos rancheros and getting all the Final Jeopardy! questions right when no one else can.
I'm sure there's other things but that's it for now.
 

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