English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room - 2012-03-19 (page 2 of 3)

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RegDwight Ѭſ道

5:01 PM

I'm merely talking auras. There's not many Poles I know, mostly the South and the North, but one thing is for sure: Germans just don't have aura, and if they had, they would complain about it the loudest.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 "Feed the Soul: Nourishing your soul is just as important as feeding your body. Replenish your soul by ..." it goes on to blather about yoga, meditation, prayer, communing with nature, etc. being "soul food". This weirdness wouldn't be unfathomable... except that it is in a customized report coming from my health insurance in which there is real information, even noting that it's recently updated based on research, like how often to get a vision screening or pap test.

i don't find this to be that odd

Yeah but why are they assuming that readers think they have souls?

maybe it's "odd" in that it's atypical, but, yanno, psychic health is still health

unicorns don't have souls?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Unicorns don't need such rubbish medieval concepts to exist.

5:07 PM

It doesn't seem very medical. I don't mind when they talk about my emotional and physical health.

"soul" is such a broad and ill-defined concept that it can refer to almost anything

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Then your question doesn't make sense.

if you're not into metaphysics or whatever, just think of "soul" as the fuzzy boundary of psychology that we don't understand anymore

Doesn't it seem a little odd for a doctor to address your soul without you asking for them to do so? That's why the tone seems so strange to me.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@JSBᾶngs So let me rephrase then, why are you assuming that I think there's a fuzzy boundary of psychology that I don't understand?

5:10 PM

it is peculiar.

@JSBᾶngs I might or might not have a rainbow inside, but I don't really want to be cut open to check unless it's necessary

@RegDwightѬſ道 not you of course. as an ELU mod, and also an owl, you are of course all-knowing

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@aediaλ Wow that is total rubbish

Call up the people who wrote it and tell them that if they don't remove that crap from the survey you're going to punch them in the aura.

And make voodoo dolls of them and poke them with pins.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Poor pins.

i'm legitimately surprised that people here are so enraged by the suggestion that they might have souls, even if we interpret "soul" in a non-mystical way

RegDwight Ѭſ道

5:16 PM

Well that's how soulless people react.

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Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@JSBᾶngs No, what bothers me is that a health insurance assessment should stick to science and not rubbish like "you should meditate more".

i might agree with you more if it actually tied your coverage to demonstrating that you meditated or some such

i actually think that it's nice that an insurance company is taking a slightly more holistic approach to wellness

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

That nonsense just doesn't belong in an assessment. Health insurance providers have no business telling you to "commune with nature more" or "pray more".

It struck me as a failure at making it inclusive when it would be just as easy to write the passages in a way that is welcoming, simple, and scientifically accurate. It's fine to mention emotional or mental health and suggest people choose activities to energize or relax, but it's weird to suggest that I need to "feel whole, alive and 'one with the universe'" when in the next couple pages you're telling me to get regular screenings and defining things like osteoporosis and hypertension for me.

ok, i guess

being 'one with the universe' is likely to elicit an eye-roll from me, too

5:26 PM

does any know of a term/phrase that implies certifications are required, or is it basically "required certifications" the best i'm going to do

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@ChrisMarisic What is the context?

certifications as in industry awards

user19161

@ChrisMarisic How about giving the exact sentence you want to put the word in? It is vague.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@ChrisMarisic No, I mean, under what circumstances are these certifications required

well the absolute context is the terms im building software around

so i could literally use RequiredCertifications

but it feels like there might be a word that implies these are things a person must have, as opposed to just Certifications which are things a person might have

user19161

5:32 PM

@ChrisMarisic What is "terms I am building software around"?

user19161

I still do not get what you mean.

@JSBᾶngs I don't mind that they're trying a more holistic approach - we have incentives for pedometers and I kind of like that; it spurs me to exercise more. I probably wouldn't even have noticed this except that it clashes so much with the medical tone of much of the surrounding content and it uses "soul food" to mean something that is decidedly in conflict with my internal definition that resembles fried chicken and mashed potatoes.

specifically property names of members of classes

RegDwight Ѭſ道

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A: What is a finite verb?

A finite verb is sometime called the main verb

Thank God he posted that, because @JSBngs's answer kinda sucked.

user19161

Well, I think something like "this must be certified" or "certifications are required" is fine, though I still don't quite get you. That's all I have @chris!

user19161

5:35 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 That is heresy!

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 Also the answer is lacking a letter and a dot.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Also today you collect more whooshes than usual.

But I gotta run errands. Laters.

Bai!

@WillHunting thanks i wasn't sure if there were any other ways to express that, doesn't seem like any substantially better options

user19161

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Q: What do you call someone who has a 'problem'

I need one word(or two) for somebody who has a problem. Any problem. For example, when the person to whom an address belongs (in a letter) is called an addressee(not entirely correct) So in similar terms, what's the person with a problem called?

single-word-requests

user19161

5:43 PM

Not a real question as it is overly broad.

@aedia That's what I was thinking for "soul food" too.

And given that they seem to think you have terrible eating habits, they probably ought not to be encouraging you to have more "soul food."

user19161

Regarding the above question, since everyone has problems, the best answer is "human".

@KitFox I know! drools a little thinking about fried everything

@KitFox @aedia me too, actually. fried chicken, mmmmmmmmm

Stupid dental forms asking me for my driver's license, annual income, and a personal reference.

Also, nearest relative phone number.

5:50 PM

A personal reference? Sheesh!

Yeah. Don't think I'll be filling that in.

The bargain I made with my husband last time we switched some doctor or other is that he would go as long as I filled out the arduous and unnecessary forms for him.

Damn it. I made this work with a With and now I'm befuddled again.

He almost killed me when they couldn't find his forms at his first appointment and wanted him to fill 'em out again though. (they did find 'em... silly paperbased offices)

@KitFox proffers orange chocolate

6:05 PM

Have I mentioned that I really like my boss?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

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Q: Is the usage of "service" as a verb a recent phenomenon?

I am finding that people use the word "serviced" in place of other verbs such as served, repaired, helped, etc. Has the use of the word service always been acceptable as a verb? Or is that a more recent phenomenon?

Been there, done that.

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Q: 'Services' or 'Serves'?

I seem vaguely to recall that a long time ago, 'servicing' was something a bull did to a heifer or a boar to a sow. But it seems to be creeping in to general usage as a synonym for 'serving'. Has anyone else noticed this, and, if so, could they shed any light on to why this should be?

word-choice verbs

Not extremely satisfying, though.

Actually the newer question is getting better answers.

I like Plastic's gravatar mo betteh.

Huh. How likely is it that I have exactly 200 interventions that did not have cumulative values in the field of interest?

user19161

6:22 PM

That depends on the exact probability distribution. QED.

Matt Эллен

@KitFox I don't know. As likely as any other number?

user19161

@KitFox He looks quite cute.

@MattЭллен I suppose there is that. @Vitaly has information about that thing that humans do with the roundness of numbers.

user19161

@MattЭллен If each intervention has a chance of half of having cumulative values thus making it a binomial distribution, then the probability is not the same.

Ugh. About half of our active users are doing it the wrong way.

Matt Эллен

6:30 PM

@KitFox is there a way you can confirm the number?

I don't think so. There are 1150 interventions, and if I don't use a self-join, I'm not sure how else I would figure it out.

And I am not going to do it manually.

user19161

@reg I have a question for a mod like you. I know the way to delete an account. But suppose I have 8 accounts and I want to delete say 4 and keep 4, do I send 4 emails or is there a better way to do it?

user19161

Seeing how many people have multiple accounts on the network, it might be a good idea to change the modus operandi of deleting accounts.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

6:57 PM

@KitFox The DB probably has a data-analysis query syntax that can find this for you.

MSSQL right?

Yes, but what?

data-analysis query syntax?

'lo, people!

Holla.

@KitFox weren't you discussing db stuff last time I came here? I think you have an obsession on the go there!

Nah, it's just my job.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

6:59 PM

@KitFox I'm not sure how to do it in MSSQL. Actually I'm not sure what you're doing. But there are ways to group records in Oracle such that you can query certain properties of the groups of records.

Oh. Well. I already did a self-join and figured it out once. I just am not sure if it is right.

But I'm on to something else now.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox ok

If you ever find yourself reaching for two self-joins or wishing you had n self-joins then you should look into the data analysis functions.

makes notes Will do. Thanks. I hadn't heard of it before.

...thinks... database query facilities are amazing today compared to what they were 30 years ago...

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Oracle calls the tools I'm thinking of "Hierarchical queries".

7:03 PM

Hey, do you know if I can explicitly cast a variable using a variable?

Matt Эллен

in SQL?

In .Net.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

So you can do things like partition the result (like group-by, only it doesn't group it) then do group functions on partitions, then summarize the data by connecting each row in a group to the next row (which is a bit like a n-level self-join)

@KitFox what would that look like

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Yeah, that's what I did with the self-join. You're saying this is a built in tool?

in C++, (void) kitten // cast kitten into void

I still like that!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:05 PM

@KitFox it is in Oracle

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@WillHunting I suppose one email to the team would be enough. I assume it's the same two-and-a-half devs who handle account deletions, so whether you send them four mails or one doesn't really matter.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I'm thinking something like Dim variable As otherVariable.GetType()

Matt Эллен

@KitFox so the type is a variable?

e.g. sometimes you want it to be an int and sometimes a string, or something?

Well, yes.

@RegDwightѬſ道 It happened to me the other day that somehow SO didn't recognise me, and asked me to sign up again. I rebooted the machine and it was okay - but if I'd let it go thru, would it have been a big problem to sort out if I ended up with multiple accts where I only wanted one?

7:08 PM

I can get the type, but I don't want to have a case-switch or an if-then statement.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox In Java, you'd have to just call it "Object" and work with it as an essentially unknown type.

@KitFox but how do you expect to use it if you don't know what type it is?

Matt Эллен

@KitFox one sec, there is and SO question on this I seem to remember...

Well, that's what I'm trying to get around. I want to get the type and explicitly cast it.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox But you can't cast it because you don't know what it is

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@FumbleFingers merging accounts is one click, entering a number, and another click.

7:09 PM

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Right.

Matt Эллен

@KitFox you can use generics, if you make the method or class generic

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I mean.. let's say it's a String. Dim var2 as String. or it's an Integer. Dim var2 as Integer. What happens next?

@RegDwightѬſ道 thanks - I won't lose any sleep over it if it goes t*ts up again then

It's really just that I need IQueryable to go to whatever the appropriate Linq-to-SQL class is, so that I can CopyToDataTable it.

Matt Эллен

@KitFox if you're using .net, it has the dynamic keyword, but that's a bit of a problem if you want to return the variable

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:11 PM

Plus on SO mods have nothing to do anyway. They have an army of 3k users who do all the legwork.

But that looks like it won't work, so I'll have to figure something else out.

Matt Эллен

although you have to have option strict off in VB

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox Do you expect all instances of this object to implement a particular interface? Just cast to that, maybe?

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 We have no army here?

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Oh, true. Maybe I am looking at the wrong interface.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:12 PM

Why the hell am I asked to review flags from a room titled something something something?

Imported Discussion from Why do peopl…

Excess comments from Will's answer to Why do people get Chassi...

Matt Эллен

@KitFox oh! that's not so hard, I think.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

"Why do people get Chassidishe Shchita?" Because that's not even a question, that's why!

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 I thought it was my answer at first when I saw the subtitles.

Matt Эллен

@KitFox use the cast(of T) method

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@WillHunting check the site's title. English Language and Usage. So we have an army and a fleet.

user19161

7:13 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 It sounds like a vegetable. I remember long beans = sesquipedalis.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I have the Sesquipedalian badge in Clockwords.

@MattЭллен That only works if I know the type to begin with.

But I think I can manage if I make it IEnumerable.

Matt Эллен

@KitFox do you have a representative line I can see?

@KitFox oh, well that's even better :)

Is I am taught that the same as saying I've learned that?

Matt Эллен

only if you've learned what you've been taught

pop

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:16 PM

"I am taught" requires someone to actually teach you. "I've learned" is something you could do yourself in your spare time by reading a newspaper.

@Gigili "I am taught that" invests the authority in someone else and implies that the teacher may be wrong.

user19161

@Gigili Almost. Learning can take place without a teacher though. I can learn something through my observations in which case I would not use taught.

Also, what Reg said.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Also, what Jasper said.

That too.

7:17 PM

Got it, thank you.

user19161

In fact I learn most things myself these days. I realized that I have been taught lies.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Also, what Kit, Reg, and Jasper said. And Matt.

user19161

That is why in life it is important not only to learn but also unlearn and relearn.

I've been taught that if I use an emoticon at the end of an offensive message, it'll remove the offensive effect of the message or something..

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Yes. Matt. What he said. Cf also Mr Shiny and New.

user19161

7:19 PM

@Gigili Depends on what message and what emoticon.

user19161

If I say "Go to hell :-)" it means it is a joke.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

And I would actually say that "I've been taught" is the better choice there.

Because it could be total rubbish, but hey, someone taught you that way.

@RegDwightѬſ道 haha I doubt that. It seems to me you must have done a bit of head-scratching and donkey-work the other day before answering that Could mods catalyze synonym voting? question!

@RegDwightѬſ道 Yes.

user19161

If I say "Go to hell" it could be a joke or it could be real hostility.

7:21 PM

@Gigili Oh go f*ck yourself! :)

RegDwight Ѭſ道

"I've learned", on the other hand, would imply that you've done some testing yourself by posting messages with and without emoticons, observed the effects and learned from them.

Like if I say you Intolerant bastards ;-) @FumbleFingers

@Gigili standards are a lot lower here on chat than on the main site, I think

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightѬſ道 Nah, maybe he just observed other people posting messages

user19161

But because such seemingly offensive messages require the use of emoticons I rather not write them.

7:22 PM

A moderator said it and got starred

RegDwight Ѭſ道

patiently waiting for someone to forget an emoticon at the end of his offensive post

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user19161

@Gigili Don't worry too much about stars or flags. They don't mean too much.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@FumbleFingers obviously that was sarcasm on my part. Heck, I am a 3k user on SO and I haven't visited in years.

Years!!!!

user19161

Real stars and real flags exist only in the sky.

user19161

You see the former at night and the latter in the day.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:24 PM

@MrShinyandNew安宇 yeah I wanted to include that, too, but got bored with my stupid run-on sentence that anybody was going to read anyway.

@RegDwightѬſ道 I think we sailed pretty close to the wind in comments on this question about swearing

user19161

@FumbleFingers Yes I think it is bordering on excessive.

@WillHunting I deleted my worst snipe!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@FumbleFingers Yeah.

user19161

I think the comments there should stop or the SE team might step in with guns.

user19161

7:25 PM

So knock it off children!

@WillHunting I rather doubt that, but yeah

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Jan 19 at 19:04, by Cerberus

God, orthodox Jews suck.

user19161

This is one of the more liberal chat rooms on the SE network.

@RegDwightѬſ道 I thought @Cer didn't believe in God.

@RegDwightѬſ道 only my opinion, but I suspect the proportion of strongly religious people here on ELU is probably much lower than in the American population at large

user19161

7:27 PM

Someone is messing around with the stars again.

user19161

First they starred my message and then they unstarred it.

@WillHunting not me

@FumbleFingers You'd probably be surprised then.

user19161

I know Mitch messes with them to see the effect it has on the star board.

We have quite a lot of the faithful in chat.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:29 PM

Dec 22 '11 at 21:22, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

Right. Merry Christmas. You Catholic heathens.

user19161

@KitFox Daniel, Mahnax and Sonic are good Christian boys.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Dec 22 '11 at 21:28, by RegDwight Ѭſ道

More people should realize that it ain't called *ortho*dox for no reason.

@KitFox wot? you mean the fundamentalist xtians lay low to avoid getting caught up in controversy?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

That's my stance.

@FumbleFingers They don't much, actually. We've had some heat in here.

7:31 PM

I think at least the "publicly-acknowledged" role of religion in society is far less in the UK than the US these days

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Catholics are about as fundamentalist as daffodils. They should go spend some actual qualify time in church. Like, three days in a row without food or sleep, like us orthodoxen on Easter.

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 I find Catholics more liberal than Protestants.

user19161

Many Catholics marry non-Christians for example.

@FumbleFingers Well, at least we don't have a national religion, like some countries I could name. (Yet, anyway.)

user19161

But not many Protestants marry non-Protestants.

7:32 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 catholics are usually more strident than protestants, and the UK protestant leaders are making fools of themselves by opposing govt over gay marriage right now

we'll never have a nat'l religion. not even the evangelicals actually want that

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto You only print your religion all over your money, you don't really mean it.

'lo rob

@RegDwightѬſ道 We don't have a Church of the United States.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Fed begs to differ.

user19161

7:33 PM

Sometimes "religion" is just used as an excuse to do things like stop others from doing things you don't like eg gay sex.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Scientology, too.

@RegDwightѬſ道 Money is god here. Which part of that don't you understand?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto I understand all parts of it cause it's precisely my point.

we had a national leader (tony blair) who said "god made me do it", but he has very little credibility in retrospect

user19161

The funny thing is "Thou shalt not commit adultery" is one of the ten commandments. But there is a law against gay sex but not adultery.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:34 PM

In memoriam.

@RegDwightѬſ道 you may laugh, but I have scientology's global HQ just down the road. it is truly shaming for me

@RegDwightѬſ道 You obviously know what I meant, but choose to spin it anyway, as usual. So, OK, yeah, you're right in all particulars.

user19161

@FumbleFingers He could have said his conscience made him do it which is totally fine.

also, I used to read hubbard's sci-fi when i was a lad, even more to my shame

I thought it was shit sci-fi and couldn't even get through it.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:35 PM

@FumbleFingers Gods, I hope we're not going to be judged by what kind of sci-fi we read as kids. Cuz I read Piers Anthony.

@WillHunting yes, but he didn't, did he? he got sucked/suckered into the american way

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto Well if we all just agree on everything we ain't got us no chat here. Everyone would just monologueize away in his mind, in total sync with the rest.

user19161

I have read exactly zero scifi books.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@WillHunting why doesn't that surprise me

oh c'mon! let's have a xtian, so we can throw him to the lions!

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

7:36 PM

Please read Stranger in a Strange Land, and if you can get your hands on it, Steel Beach

@RegDwightѬſ道 Oh. Suddenly I see how you are single-handedly preventing such a catastrophic failure of the chat mechanism.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 i did my degree dissertation on heinlien

user19161

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Sounds good. They all begin with S like Shiny.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto Thank you, Katie Tunstall.

@FumbleFingers Egad, man. And you still can't spell Heinlein?

7:37 PM

Who told you?

user19161

@FumbleFingers Who is heinlien, a scifi author?

Oh. Nevermind.

Hey, why did you quote me on the Jews? @bird

@Robusto I think the lecturer who had to mark it didn't bother reading a single book!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus I never quited you. I never even quoten you!

7:38 PM

Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein ( )(July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers," he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre. He set a standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was one of the first science fiction writers to break into mainstream magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s. He was one of the best-selling science fiction novelists for many decades. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Cla...

@WillHunting yes, but also in his way a bit of a social commentator

@RegDwightѬſ道 I prefer K. T.

heinlein was such a putz

@RegDwightѬſ道 But you would have liked to.

user19161

I only know Heinz baked beans.

7:38 PM

So why?

he wrote, like, one good book, and then thousands of pages of tripe

@JSBᾶngs You can't be a putz if you aren't Jewish, right?

@JSBᾶngs well at least (unlike clarke) he didn't ionterfere with little boys bits

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@WillHunting I know other baked beans, too.

(the one good book was Moon is a Harsh Mistress, btw)

@Robusto i never knew that

7:39 PM

@JSBᾶngs that was a "kiddies book" compared to the later stuff

@FumbleFingers oh, so you're one of those religious fundamentalists now?

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 Oh, actually I do not know other baked beans.

Heinlein gave me lots of ideas when I was a teenager. There were bad ideas, but there were a lot of them.

@JSBᾶngs touche! nah, actually, I think heinlien was mostly a dirty/grumpy ole man!

@JSBᾶngs I'm just kidding.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:40 PM

@WillHunting how about the baked beans that grow in your garden? Or does that one belong to Heinz, too?

user19161

At first I thought ole was a misspelling of old.

@KitFox yeah - he made me think bisexuality was worth looking into!

@FumbleFingers Well, that was one of the good ideas.

@WillHunting it is, but it's a convention too

@FumbleFingers Whoa, I need to resurrect a '90s cliche now: TMI, dude.

user19161

7:41 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 Unfortunately I have no garden, and if I did I probably would not grow beans.

@KitFox ah! so you have experimented there too!

@FumbleFingers lol

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@WillHunting well that's two things to fix in your life!

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Q: Is it grammatically correct to use "reference" as a verb?

Increasingly, I have heard many people (including English teachers) use the word "reference" as a verb. An example of this might be, "The author references Hemingway in his argument to better illustrate what he means and provide emphasis from a famous third party." Is this usage correct? Is it o...

Dupe of half the questions on ELU.

@FumbleFingers "Experimented"? cocks eyebrow

7:41 PM

@KitFox mind that "cock"

@WillHunting As @Cerberus would tell you, a fabis abstinete. (Or something like that.)

brb - the glass isn't even half-full, let alone half-empty!

@FumbleFingers Don't you worry about that cock. It's only if it goes off that you have to worry.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto gen-ref. He should go find me a dictionary that does not include that word as a verb.

@KitFox What if it goes off half-cocked?

7:43 PM

@KitFox I keep thinking about poor bobbit, and going off half cocked!

Jinx

@Robusto you beat me to it! i couldn't remember the word!

Well, there is only one eyebrow cocked, so I suppose it should always be half-cocked.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Okay so we've got OVER 9000 10k users in here right now, and that question is still open?

@FumbleFingers You couldn't even remember half of the word.

7:44 PM

@KitFox ooh! go on! one eyebrow half-cocked is arch (aka, "sexy")

@RegDwightѬſ道 You're a mod. Get off your dead butt and do your job.

user19161

@Robusto I voted as general reference and commented with a link.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto My job is to do as little as possible.

@RegDwightѬſ道 You're working too hard at it, then.

@RegDwightѬſ道 you're kidding! 9000 10k users in ELU?

user19161

7:46 PM

@FumbleFingers Only 35.

Also, aim higher. Don't strive to do "as little as possible." Strive to do nothing. If you're going to be a true slacker, that's the bar you have to reach.

@Robusto no no - that's the bar you must strive to limbo under

That's the bar I was dancing on.

Just go to the nearest bar. That's all you have to do.

@Robusto Abstain from beans?

7:47 PM

@KitFox stop trying to get me excited - or at least dance on the pole!

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@FumbleFingers No. Not in ELU. In this room. Nöone ever reads what I write!

@Cerberus The Pythagorean Maxim, rendered in Latin.

user19161

I think I am quite good at limbo.

@WillHunting How are you at purgatory?

Which maxim?

I believe they had many.

And I don't recall any of them.

user19161

7:49 PM

@Robusto I did not know they have this men's magazine in those days.

@Cerberus books.google.com/…

RegDwight Ѭſ道

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This Maxim.

Yeah. Much bigger seller than Theorem. Also, better jugs overall.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

It's got sex, Pakistan, Mischa Barton... what's to love?

It's got crazy sex. And escapades. Don't forget the escapades.

user19161

7:51 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 Different coutries also have different versions. A bit like English dialects.

@Robusto Right. They were a silly lot.

@RegDwightѬſ道 She looks...photoshopped.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@WillHunting you might wish to look closer to notice that it is from a different country.

@Cerberus yes, IRL she is ten times thinner.

I see.

Just like the Germans, though. It's not just "crazy sex escapades" they're interested in, which would be way more than enough for most countries, it's "crazy sex escapades of the powerful" that really turns them on.

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@Robusto well no one wants to read about your sex escapades. Newt Gingrich's, on the other hand...

7:53 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 He is not powerful. Just loud.

I guess the Germans confuse those two things.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

The point still stands. Even you yourself have posted zero escapades of yours, but a handy image of all of his.

@RegDwightѬſ道 I don't have to post anything and mine are still less boring than his.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Precisely.

Now go blame the Germans for that.

It's the fault of the Germans. There, are you happy now?

@RegDwightѬſ道 barfs

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:55 PM

@Cerberus it took you several minutes to stop liking and start barfing.

I really can't understand how all those Republicans will vote for a man who violates all the values that supposedly stand for.

@Cerberus Do Dutch doggies say barf? They say arf in America. And if they throw up a little, it's only in their mouth.

And I believe they stand for them, at least when they don't apply to themselves.

@Robusto They some sometimes.

@RegDwightѬſ道 He is so handsome.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Okay let's mix us a menage a trois from Robusto's pix.

Who could resist his cute little toad head?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

7:57 PM

Feb 15 at 13:20, by Robusto

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Feb 14 at 15:47, by Robusto

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Feb 7 at 13:45, by Robusto

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user19161

All these pics look familiar!

Hmm now why did they have to pick a good-looking guy for the office idiot in America?

@Cerberus they liked clinton. americans like a person of loose morals who apologises much more than a person who just keeps his nose clean as a matter of course

The English guy is ugly and fitting.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Cerberus Because they don't have bad-looking guys in America.

user19161

7:59 PM

@RegDwightѬſ道 I would say that about Germany.

@FumbleFingers At least those were Democrats: they don't hammer on such values all the time. By the way, did Gingrich apologize?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@WillHunting And you would be so wrong.

@RegDwightѬſ道 I rest my case.

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 But you are also wrong about America.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@WillHunting you would be so wrong even the Germans themselves would violently disagree.

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