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3:00 PM
Nothing compares to "ZUrück in die ZUkunft" lol
 
Návrat do budoucnosti in Cheque.
Terug naar de toekomst in Dutch.
 
Vissza a jövőbe in Hungarian. If you read that in Russian, you will get something on the "strange looks"/"broken nose" continuum.
 
lol What is the word they use to provoke Marty? In italian it's "fifone" = coward/chicken
 
koshinuke means "coward"
 
3:04 PM
And in English?
I meant that, sorry :D
 
In German, it's simply "Feigling". Coward.
 
腰抜け literally means "loins absent" or something like that.
 
@Alenanno They call him chicken.
Except in 1885, they call him yellow.
 
Yellow?
 
Yeah, it also means you're a coward. But it is more old-fashioned.
 
3:08 PM
I need to watch it again in English
 
Yellow = cowardly.
 
Ah thanks
 
Kit
@Alenanno Yellow as in pee stain color.
 
Could also be given as "yeller" or "yaller" ...
 
Kit
Not as in "Asian insult."
 
3:09 PM
@Kit Are you sure it came from that? Because the common term is "yellow-bellied".
 
@Kosmonaut — Beat me to it.
 
Came here to say that.
 
Kit
Yeah, ok.
Yellow-bellied, like an eel from the fens or a lizard.
Still, it is pee-stain color.
 
lol
 
And black is KITT color. Now what.
 
3:11 PM
Hm.
 
The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) is a medium-sized woodpecker found in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. Taxonomy The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker is part of the New World sapsucker genus Sphyrapicus, which is within the woodpecker family Picidae. The genus also includes the Red-naped Sapsucker, Red-breasted Sapsucker, and Williamson's Sapsucker. Description Adults are black on the back and wings with white bars; they have a black head with white lines down the side and a red forehead and crown, a yellow breast and upper belly, a white lower belly and rump a...
 
First citation in the OED for yellow-bellied is 1924.
 
The most cowardly of birds?
 
The term "yellow" for cowardly is from the mid-1800s
Maybe "yellow-bellied" was created just as a play on yellow and "yellow-bellied" birds.
It looks to be that way.
 
Kit
SQL date comparison: If date Is Null?
 
3:12 PM
I like this quote:
 
Kit
@Kosmonaut No, yellow-bellied lizards.
 
"You know what we'd do if we had a man in the White House instead of a yellow-bellied potatomouthed reformer‥? We'd‥clean this place up."
People need to call people "yellow-bellied potatomouthed _________" more often.
 
I don't know about bellies, but German has both greenhorn and yellowhorn, and Russian has "yellow mouthed birdie".
 
@Kosmonaut — "Potatomouth" meaning Fenian?
 
Actually, I hadn't considered the real meaning
 
3:15 PM
Very colorful, in its own way.
 
It is a quote from 1930
 
Kit
@Kosmonaut Who would that be? Coolidge? Wilson?
 
Hoover
 
Hoover
Jinx!
 
Hoover did have Irish heritage.
 
3:16 PM
But I don't think of him as a reformer.
 
Kit
Ah. Hoover, yes.
 
True
Hoover's mother was Canadian!!!
We need to see the long-form birth certificate!
 
Kit
@Kosmonaut I was just typing that!
 
Ah, it's from John dos Passos The 42nd Parallel.
 
Kit
Why are so many Americans so damned stupid?
 
3:17 PM
It's a free country, that's why.
 
It's referring to Wilson.
 
Kit
@Robusto Ha! See, I said Wilson!
Right for the wrong reasons is almost as good.
 
You gave a list. It was on the list. Grats.
 
Why are you talking about volleyballs?
 
Kit
@Robusto There were only two choices out of a possible 44.
Come on!
 
3:18 PM
Short lists are still lists.
 
Bush and Bush are not two choices. They are not even one choice.
 
Was it
George Washington (1789-1797)
John Adams (1797-1801)
Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
James Madison (1809-1817)
James Monroe (1817-1825)
John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)
Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
William H. Harrison (1841)
John Tyler (1841-1845)
James K. Polk (1841-1849)
Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)
Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)
Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
James Buchanan (1857-1861)
Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)
Did I get it right?
 
Yes! How did you know?
 
Kit
Bastards
 
3:20 PM
Hey hey hey, now. No need to use italics.
 
Not all of those presidents were bastards.
 
True, some had married parents.
 
Which ones were bastards?
 
Chester A. Arthur. You know what you did.
 
Wait, what, George W. Bush died in 2009?
 
Kit
3:23 PM
@RegDwight That was his reign, not his lifespan.
 
You mean he got older than eight years? I never got the impression.
 
He will die in 2012, like everyone else.
 
A reign can be ended in three ways:
death
abdication
abolition of the office
 
Jun 3 at 13:17, by RegDwight
My money is on the Maya.
 
@z7sg Lack of long-form birth certificate
You forgot that one
 
3:25 PM
Not having a relationship with a woman helps, too.
 
Sorry, I'm not an expert on the US monarchy.
 
Kit
I love these f*ckers who say "his parents have to be American for him to be a citizen."
And then try to get Arnold Schwazenegger to run for president.
 
Yeah, that so does not compute. How do you decide if the parents were Americans?
 
Jez
Ahhhnold
 
HASTA LA VISTA, DEFICIT
 
Kit
3:26 PM
@RegDwight I don't think they know the word "recursive."
 
@Kosmonaut No, please not "see you again, deficit".
 
Jez
Arnold was more open-minded than 99.9% of Republicans about soft drugs
not bad
 
Ahhhnold actually wasn't so bad on the social issues.
 
@Kosmonaut "Hasta la vista, maybe!"
 
Auf nimmerwiedersehen!
 
3:27 PM
@Kosmonaut — Especially the ones involving sex out of wedlock with the help.
 
Speaking of which, I gotta commute.
Wait. That was not the intended context.
 
@RegDwight I AM JUST ACKNOWLEDGING THE CYCLICAL NAYCHA OF DA MAHHKET
 
Kit
I mean seriously, Obama and Palin are barely US citizens. They were both born in the two newest states, about a year or two after they became states.
 
If Palin gets to be president, I'm moving to Canada. Wait, make that Bermuda.
 
@Kit The funniest thing in 2008 was that McCain was born in Panama.
 
Kit
3:29 PM
Oops, Palin was actually born in Idaho. My bad.
 
Speaking of McCain, did you know he called his wife a c*nt in front of news cameras? And he wasn't, like, Australian or anything.
 
I never understood the whole philosophy of integrating loser states into the US. I mean, first you kick your foes' asses, and then you decide to let them run your country? Worst idea ever.
Anyhow, commute.
TTYL.
 
Kit
Tchuss.
 
Laterz.
 
HASTA LA VISTA
 
3:30 PM
MAYBE
 
Hai.
 
Kit
@Cerberus Hey poochy.
How's my boy? Want cookies?
 
I want human!
 
Him them eat dog biscuits.
 
bits chunk out of the evil Robusto
 
3:32 PM
What!
 
Kit
3
Q: About using singular as food

StanleyConsider the following : He likes dogs. He likes dog. (1) would mean he likes dogs as pets and (2) refers to dog as food. My question is, does the same apply to nouns such as orange and oranges? He likes oranges. He likes orange. Just wish to confirm that (1) and (2) ...

This guy likes eating dog.
 
See? At least Kosmonaut was wise.
 
Wow, an image of an "image not found". Mind = blown.
 
@Cerberus Let me know when you find one.
 
@Robusto I got that too. But the link still worked.
 
3:32 PM
You can only glimpse those for a brief instant, and then they're gone. Like the famouse "flash of green" before sunset.
 
@Gigili Find what, Gigi?
Right, the flash of green... perhaps it can be protracted by a tsunami?
 
@Cerberus Human cookie.
 
Oh! Yes, please.
 
@Cerberus — "Bits" or "bites"? Make up your mind, doggy doggies.
 
Kit
@Gigili It's called soylent green.
 
3:34 PM
@Kit I see.
 
Kit
Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer. Starring Charlton Heston, the film overlays the police procedural and science fiction genres as it depicts the investigation into the brutal murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution, overpopulation, depleted resources, poverty, dying oceans and a hot climate due to the greenhouse effect. Much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green". The film, which is loosely based upon the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room!, by...
 
We all know what soylent green is. I much prefer it to soylent red, btw.
I mean, if you're going to eat people, what better way to do it than in chip form?
 
@Robusto Oops! I suppose my subconscious thought you were skinny.
 
@Robusto Isn't it interesting that the head really defines the entirety of the person.
So if you have two heads, people see you as two people
And if you take a picture of your head only, you can say "that's a picture of me"
 
3:38 PM
True. Anthony Weiner tried another part and it didn't work so well.
 
But if you take a picture of your foot, you don't say "that's a picture of me"
 
Kit
There's an interesting book on why we perceive our consciousness to be in our heads.
 
So did Brett Favre. But wait, somehow people knew anyway!
 
@Robusto Well, his name is Weiner so it was probably more confusing for him.
 
Musta been the Caller ID.
@Kosmonaut — I like the top line: "It's not just for Tuesdays anymore"
 
3:42 PM
I believe neuroscientists have done experiments where you would see a talking human face on a screen, but you could see that there was no head behind the face, just empty air. It considerably reduced viewers' perception of the face as a human being.
 
> no head behind the face, just empty air

Are we still talking about Palin?
 
Kit
But even cartoon eyes are enough to keep people honest...
I gotta get lunch. TTFN.
 
@Kosmonaut — Word.
 
@Kosmonaut *hair
 
ha
 
3:46 PM
Palin was asked what she thought about the Freedom Trail in Boston, and she gave a stupid answer, then later called it a "gotcha question" ... wow.
 
Haha, that's our girl.
 
But I hear that she wouldn't stand a chance if she decided to join the race?
 
@Robusto Huh!?
Seriously, I have no idea what she said.
Couldn't understand it.
 
3:49 PM
@Kosmonaut — Genau.
@Cerberus — Just wanted to show that I'm not making any of this up.
 
Hey what do you guys use to type IPA?
@Robusto I believe you this once.
 
@Cerberus — You didn't grok Palin's cogent analysis of American history?
You know, seriously speaking, that's an answer you wouldn't even accept from a fourth-grader.
 
Jez
Palin is obsessed with guns. I want to shoot at her on a hunting range.
maybe if I change my name to Dick Cheney...
 
@Robusto Cogent in that its craziness paralyses opponents dying from laughter?
 
Jez
i'm sure she'd be happy to take one for the team
 
3:53 PM
@Kos: What do you use to type IPA in your browser?
 
On the Daily Show, Jon Stewart said that the animals in Alaska were all breathing a sigh of relief that she was on the campaign trail down in the lower 48. Cuz it meant they weren't gonna be shot from a helicopter by her.
 
The IPA Typing Assistant is OK, but it often leaves my control key down, which sucks.
http://www.palsoftwaredesigns.com/ITA.htm
 
@Cerberus — cogent: abbreviation formed by combining "cognitive" and "dissonant" into a single word.
 
@Cerberus I have used the IPA-SIL keyboard enough that I can type pretty fast, if it is a language with phonemes I am generally familiar with
 
3:55 PM
@Kosmonaut Okay, so you're using Mac... does it work well? Can you seamlessly type IPA and normal letters in the same sentence?
 
Jez
@Cerberus i usually copy/paste from dictionary.com and wiktionary :-)
 
@Robusto Well thank God it's not going to be her.
 
@Cerberus I press cmd-space to toggle IPA. I can do it without much slowdown at all.
I am typing normal, ænd naʊ aɪ pi eɪ
 
@Jez If you are prepared to copy-paste, use this page:
http://rishida.net/scripts/pickers/ipa/
 
Jez
IPA's like English would be if it were spelt the way it's pronounced - unintelligible.
@Cerberus yeah but i forget that the sounds are; i need to get a word that already has the sound in :-)
 
3:57 PM
It would be bad to use some kind of purely phonetic writing system.
 
@Cerberus — I would definitely thank God if I thought that would do any good. But there is still a chance that she could be president. It may be small, but it scares the hell out of me.
 
@Kosmonaut Okay, so you use different keyboard layouts and switch with a hotkey. For now I'd like a keyboard where I can see what symbol is under what key when I'm typing, which the IPA Typing Assistant provides...
 
Jez
@Robusto who cares, tbh. you have Obama, who is GWB with skin-deep change. you're screwed either way.
 
@Kosmonaut What do you mean?
 
@Jez — I'm not that cynical. And I know it could definitely be worse.
 
3:58 PM
@Robusto Then again, you survived Bush jr.
 
Jez
@Robusto that's not saying much.
 
@Cerberus I used to have another thing in addition that would show a keyboard with all of the IPA on it, so you could hunt for your symbol. I updated my system and lost track of it so I can't remember what it is called.
 
@Jez — It's saying enough.
@Cerberus — Barely. And so did you, btw.
 
Jez
@Robusto saying "you could be zimbabwe" is enough? heh
not for me it isn't.
 
@Jez — Well, you may not see a difference between Obama and Palin, but I sure do.
 
3:59 PM
@Cerberus It wouldn't work. You want a certain amount of abstraction.
 
Jez
i said you're screwed either way, not that there wasn't a difference.
 

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