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Robusto

01:46

@Cerberus Congrats for crushing Wilders.

Cerberus

@Robusto Gratias.

Although, even if he had won the most votes, it wouldn't have been a big deal, fortunately.

Let's hope Le Pen will lose in France.

Chances are low that she will win, but one can never be sure, these days.

At least they have two rounds.

If she wins the first round, everyone will vote for the other candidate in the second round.

tchrist

02:05

@Lawrence He apparently used 180 degrees so that his needle on a circular dial would point down straight down at freezing and straight up at boiling. This doesn’t work well below 0 but brine’s freezing point at 0 was the coldest he could reliably measure. Either that or his wife had a fever all the time.

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SmokeDetector

03:41

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skill patrol

06:13

Everybody is welcome to join the NCAA bracket challenge Password is quora.

For added banter:

The Clubhouse

General discussion for sports.stackexchange.com

skill patrol

06:28

Brackets lock in 8 hours.

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RegDwigнt

11:39

Q: What is a shorter term for "grammatical correctness"?

The only one I can think of is "pronunciation", but that one is more related to the way you say it rather than to the way you write it.

single-word-requests

What is a shorter term for "differential analysis"?
The only one I can think of is "number", but that one is more related to the way you count it.

WHAT THE FUCK.

skill patrol

dif. anal.

skill patrol

11:56

What happened to your white owl avatar? @RegDwigнt

In chat it's a green pattern.

RegDwigнt

12:47

I can see the owl alright.

If you can't see it, you must have a bug in your computer.
Simply uninstall it, and it will work fine.

While you're at it, download more RAM.

tchrist

Looks white.

Sounds racist.

Tastes like chicken.

M.A.R.

@skillpatrol It's a bug with Gravatar. It sometimes replaces Gravatars with identicons

tchrist

Rush Fly BY Night

►

skill patrol

@M.A.R. thanks for the info pal :-)

M.A.R.

It ruined Jeff Atwood's avatar on meta.SE as well.

Sometimes

skill patrol

13:01

other mods too

@tchrist classic!

M.A.R.

Yabbut other mods aren't important

Wait. Someone said 'yabbut' isn't a good thing to say. I forgot. Shrug

skill patrol

You can say it, just don't type it :-)

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Tonepoet

16:28

@Mitch Would you please provide the description of your chatroom with a link to the conversation you are continuing, so that other people can follow along?

Mitch

17:27

@Tonepoet Sure.

another chatroom: No, 'no', POS, OED - "continuing the discussion about what the part of speech 'no' might be and relatedly whether OED is right"

Tonepoet

@Mitch Thank you.

Mitch

no problem

Tonepoet

Ah, @Mitch I meant to indicate from where it is continuing. I never really did see the original comments that elicited it.

Mitch

@Tonepoet Oh.

Right.

It all started from this:

Q: How can the word “no” be an adverb?

I am an English teacher and keen to learn things in detail to explain to my students. I would like a detailed explanation of why the word “no” can be an adverb if it is being used alone in response to some question. It is not qualifying anything in this usage.