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user19161

11:01 PM

Although I don't get many stars, many stars are gotten by others in response to my messages. For example @reg got 5 stars today just from that.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Well that tells you something, does it not.

Speaking of telling us something...

Blog - Stack Exchange: Respect the community – your own, and others’

Shog9 on March 22, 2012

In “Why Can’t You Have Just One Site?” Jeff wrote about the rationale for creating three sites instead of one, and the process for determining where a question belongs:

Is it really so hard to figure out which community you belong to, and thus, where your question belongs? Ask yourself this:

what is your job title?

which community do you consider yourself a part of?

what are you trying to accomplish?

You can use the same mountain to go downhill really fast on snow — but it’s plainly evident to the participant which culture they consider themselves a part of, “skiers” or “snowboarders”. …

user19161

@RegDwightѬſ道 It says I am the one with the true star powers.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

> Finally, be extremely reluctant to migrate old, answered questions. The votes and answers on these reflect the opinions and work of the community where they originated, and in most cases they’ll be somewhat out of place elsewhere – you want your greatest hits to reflect the best that your community has to offer, not someone else’s.

So that is why we got those SO questions from 2006 migrated here!?

Robusto

@WillHunting You are the voter of stars. Admit it.

@RegDwightѬſ道 I didn't even know there was a 2006. I must have skipped a year.

user19161

@Robusto The truth is, I have not favourited a single question or starred a single message in chat till now.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

11:06 PM

I'm not sure Rob can handle the truth.

user19161

And you know I never lie.

Robusto

I try not to handle the truth. Except with gloves.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

It's like his entire Weltbild comes crumbling down. Have pity, man!

Robusto

You misspelled Weltanschauung.

user19161

Of course there are times when I star and then unstar something to see its effect.

user19161

11:07 PM

That happens in a matter of seconds only.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

So technically you have starred things. You Clinton.

Robusto

These have stars upon thars.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Five-pointed stars, no less.

Communist stars. Painted green.

Robusto

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Those are communist environmentalists.

Children beware!

Robusto

11:10 PM

Here one has a star and the other doesn't.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I bet he will soon enough.

It must be contagious.

Robusto

It's Dr. Seuss, so, yeah.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I wonder if there's Dr. Suaer as well.

Robusto

You mean coitus?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I also wonder why 30 minutes into the war nobody has fought on either side but me.

@Robusto I don't get that one.

Explain yourself, old man.

Robusto

11:14 PM

Just testing you, Turing-wise. makes notes

Subject doesn't understand random jokes.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Coitus is not Turing-complete.

Robusto

It'll do until Turing-complete gets here.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@Robusto Why do you say that subject doesn't understand random jokes?

Robusto

makes more notes

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Why do you say that makes more notes?

Robusto

11:15 PM

hides notebook from test subject

Uh, nothing.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I agree.

As a courtesy to future readers, de.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%C3%BC%C3%9F de.wiktionary.org/wiki/sauer

Interestingly, no entry for süßsauer.

Robusto

11:29 PM

I sense you're getting cross with me.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Check your qualia.

Robusto

Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel (; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone. He published 46 children's books, which were often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of trisyllabic meter. His most celebrated books include the bestselling Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton Hears a Who!, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Numerou...

Anyway, later.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Mar 27 '11 at 1:41, by Robusto

If not, I will stop making Dr. Seuss allusions.

KitFox

Holla. You guys having a tiff?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I am having a bmp.

Rob is posting random links to Wikipedia, it seems.

Perhaps you can explain how he gets from suaer to coitus?

He just wouldn't tell.

KitFox

11:36 PM

I was pondering that myself.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

See!

Except you are excused cuz native speaker ladeeda.

KitFox

I think maybe it was contagious —> coitus.

But I didn't see how the timing went.

That would be moar sensibel tho.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I was just going to say that the timing was as transcribed.

Each of us directly replied to other's comments.

When I said "contagious", he replied it must be cause it's Dr. Seuss after all.

KitFox

"Here one has a star and the other doesn't."
"I bet he will soon enough. It must be contagious."
"You mean coitus?"

Huh.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Hm. I can see your angle.

But that wasn't the timing at all.

We had long moved on to Suaer.

KitFox

11:40 PM

Maybe he was typing "It's Dr. Seuss after all" while you were typing "It must be contagious"?

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Doesn't really make sense.

He wouldn't reply "It's Dr. Seuss after all" to "I bet [the other one] will [have a star] soon enough."

KitFox

"Suaer" is "sour"?

@RegDwightѬſ道 He might. Maybe.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

@KitFox Kinda, yes. Seuss -> suess -> German for "sweet" -> German for "sour" -> sauer -> suaer.

KitFox

OK. I didn't check your links, but I thought I remembered that sueß was sweet.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Needless to say that Rob will know that in his sleep.

Wevs.

I have a nice picture of Rob in the process of tuning his qualia.

KitFox

11:45 PM

Haha.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

KitFox

Bwahaha.

I like you, @Reg. You have the loveliest pictures.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I strive.

KitFox

You succeed.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Don't you pressure me.

Now there's nowhere to go from here but down.

KitFox

11:47 PM

That was a statement, not a directive.

Maybe Rob was thinking of that Monty Python sketch.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

The German restaurant?

The famous German composer?

Neither has coitae's in it.

Maybe...

Ah yes.

gooooonne

Well I can only say that I like this video's title better than "funniest Monty Python sketch ever", which is what it's labeled elsewhere on YouTube.

KitFox

11:50 PM

Ah. "Saucy" I love that word.

tombull89

I have an odd feeling of deja vu - I may have reported this before but the "welcome" box for non-logged-in users has text overflowing at the bottom.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

Yeah.

Every time that gets reported with a different box, they just remove the box from the design.

tombull89

chuckle so it's not unknown then, okay.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

You'd be surprised how many boxen this site has in petto.

KitFox

Hmm. That one doesn't have "coitus" in it. Which was that then? Damn.

RegDwight Ѭſ道

11:54 PM

It does have intercourse.

KitFox

Erogenous zone.

tombull89

heh. The reason I'm here is I wanted to ask if "word identification" or asking if a term exists is allowed on the site - just a question that came up the other day and I'm not sure if this is okay here.

KitFox

You can ask in here.

tombull89

FaQ says Usage, word choice, and grammar which it could be...

RegDwight Ѭſ道

The line can be blurry.

tombull89

11:56 PM

Okay - is there a phrase to describe a relationship between a gay guy and straight girl, or gay guy and lesbian, to "appear" as they are a straight couple to "save face"?

KitFox

The straight one is a "beard."

tombull89

I think it might have come up in a Glee episode a few series back but I'm not a Gleek.

(If you want me to ask on the main site and it's okay for me to do so just say).

RegDwight Ѭſ道

I think it can make an interesting question, as this is not something you can just look up in a dictionary.

And if it was on Glee I suppose it must be an established term.