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RegDwigнt

15:00

Oh oh oh, question for @Rob incoming.

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Q: Word that encompasses 'everything,' in the sense of both nature and 'super nature,' (i.e., the supernatural)

The title says it all: I'm trying to come up with a word that includes 'everything' there is, including the supernatural. Any ideas?

single-word-requests

Cerberus

RegDwigнt

I swear we're getting these once a day now.

Cerberus

Women in China sunbathing.

Robusto

@Cerberus All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good ships to just lie there.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus lol no that's no pussy riot.

Cerberus

15:01

They don't want to get farmer's face.

Robusto

How about 'everything'? — Robusto 8 secs ago

Cerberus

I.e. a tan.

@RegDwigнt Close!

RegDwigнt

The masks are fucking racist. They have not only slit eyes, but also slit mouths and slit noses.

Robusto

@Cerberus Farmer's face? Is that like a farmer tan? And who cares anyway, with a belly like that?

Farmer tan. ^

skill patrol

red neck

RegDwigнt

15:03

^ Dark Tan

Robusto

@Cerberus I'm not saying she's fat, but she came back from the beach with a sunburn and three harpoon wounds.

Cerberus

@Robusto Yes, I was trying to make it sound like a disease.

@Robusto Shouldn't be smiling.

@Robusto Hah.

RegDwigнt

That's no smile. That's farmer sad face.

Robusto

I've seen elephant seals with trimmer figures.

Cerberus

But attractiveness is not their goal: they just don't want too look lower class.

And I have to agree: tanning is bad.

RegDwigнt

15:06

Never mind elephant seals, I've even seen Americans with trimmer figures.

Cerberus

Unpossible!

RegDwigнt

Inorite

Robusto

You make jokes about fat Americans, but you don't start seeing a lot of those until you head South. Texas, in particular.

skill patrol

cali too

Robusto

There are like three people in my office who could be construed as fat. Three out of two hundred or so. I saw a higher ratio in Frankfurt, I can assure you.

RegDwigнt

15:08

No, you don't start seeing a lot of those until you head South. Most immigrants don't start seeing a lot of those until they head North.

Just because you live in Alaska, doesn't mean everyone does.

Robusto

I don't live in Alaska. Nobody does, because that ain't living.

RegDwigнt

But the minimum wage is twenty thousand whales a day.

You're missing out.

And one bottle of beer only costs seven thousand whales.

You should try.

Robusto

Alaska has two seasons: frozen and pestilence.

RegDwigнt

Season I:

Season II:

Robusto

Pretty much.

RegDwigнt

15:13

Do note the communist change in color.

Noöne ever notices. Your country is doomed.

Robusto

Every time I look at her I wonder how anybody ever thought such a vacancy could be president.

RegDwigнt

Luckily you then go to the Internet and realize that humans are fucking retarded scum.

Thank you, DARPA.

skill patrol

Season III:

RegDwigнt

Eww. Communist bikinis. See? See? There's no turning back.

Cerberus

How common.

Robusto

15:18

@Cerberus That's what you get when you promote a common market into a European Union.

RegDwigнt

Oh comm on.

Wealth.

Our home and native land.

Tom Brady love in all thy sons command.

Intermezzo: seriously WTF, not even the Queen says "thy" anymore.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt You don't know that. She might be doing that just to spite you.

RegDwigнt

You have a point. She often does that, especially following le quatorze juillet.

Robusto

Still smarting over Bastille Day, I reckon.

RegDwigнt

15:33

The Hound of Bastille is still hounding her.

Cerberus

@Robusto That doesn't look very European.

RegDwigнt

NOUR a pean.

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Stacey

15:50

"Puppet turned out to be as fragile as Salt and as bulky as Chef" ... 'as' x 4. How do I make it nicer?

or is it okay as-is?

Robusto

Fine as is. Don't get hung up on repetitions of small words like that.

Stacey

bonus points for recognising the jargon :)

okay. Thanks

I was taught in Prof Comms that word repetition is bad. But thinking about it now, it's not really reasonable to minimise the use of short words.

skill patrol

Puppet turned out to be fragile like Salt and bulky like Chef

..."like" x 2

Robusto

But she wants a comparator on each side.

Stacey

I did consider a combination of both "as fragile as salt and bulky like chef" but that seemed messy.

Robusto

16:02

as ADJ as NOUN is not really the same as ADJ like NOUN

@Stacey Sometimes repetition is a special form of emphasis. It's all how you use it, and what you use it for.

Stacey

I have settled on "Puppet turned out to be both as fragile as Salt and as bulky as Chef"

Robusto

I think the both hinders the flow a little, but it's your sentence.

Note that you could also say "Puppet turned out to be fragile as Salt and bulky as Chef" (that is, elide the first as on each side), but that is not an improvement.

Stacey

I think I'm happy with 4x as

skill patrol

as long as you're happy :)

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Oh-la.

skill patrol

16:10

hi pal

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

pulls out skills for examination

skill patrol

:D

Robusto

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Hey, nice skills, babe.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

wiggles skills

@Robusto why, thank you.

Is there some tchrist imposter?

Robusto

Yes! It's horrible!

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

16:16

Oh dear.

Robusto

Everybody wants to be tchrist suddenly. And by everybody I mean one guy who came in here a couple of times. It was terrible.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

There can be only one.

Robusto

So if you star that request, maybe he'll have a change of heart.

I will let him know that you personally starred it, and that should tip the balance.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

I did star it.

Robusto

I will let him know.

@tchrist: ^

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 I think your gravatar is a wonderful example, btw. Probably the best one in chat. Perhaps you could give him a few pointers.

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

16:19

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I remain bothered.

@Robusto I think we all know how to use PowerPoint.

Maybe he could illustrate christ on the cross with a cuppa.

Also, thank you.

Robusto

You're welcome.

I will also tell him that if he doesn't change it now it might make you cry.

He would have to have a heart of stone to persist in that case.

"Two things I know to be true: There is no difference between good flan and bad flan, and there is no war in Albania."

cornbread ninja 麵包忍者

Flan is awful.

I must go retrieve my car soon.

Matt E. Эллен