English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Cerberus

00:01

I think that counts as "anything".

But I admire your ability to respond to my lines without reading them.

Mitch

Your words are so loud sometimes I have to cover my eyes to read them

Anonymous

@Cerberus That's how I respond to everything.

Cerberus

@snailboat A true child of our times!

Robusto

Mar 19 '11 at 14:56, by Robusto

My brother-in-law, who works for a Swiss company, says the Swiss are just like the Germans, only without the sense of humor.

Cerberus

...

Mitch

00:14

@Robusto haha

Robusto

@CowperKettle I'm doing my part. Yesterday I surpassed my 2017 total mileage, with 3 months left in the year. Last year I did 7,604 miles (12,237 km) and this year I am on track to break 10,000 (16,093 km).

Mitch

or rather. oh, I see.

Robusto

@Cerberus Enough with the elliptical remarks.

Cerberus

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Robusto

@Cerberus No dashing off quick comments in chat.

BTW, did everyone try saying "Ed had edited it" really fast? It sounds like edədedədədit ...

Cerberus

00:22

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@Robusto I tried it in my heads and they agreed.

Robusto

Also rather tough to say out loud. Even for a doggy.

@Cerberus What, you're having your period now?

Mitch

He's going with the flow

Robusto

That sounds bloody awful.

Cerberus

:

Robusto

@Cerberus We need to give you a colostomy.

Cerberus

00:26

I expected you to stoop that low.

Robusto

I am happy not to disappoint you.

Cerberus

Mitch's "flow" inspired me.

So Stairway to Heaven is apparently inspired (possibly indirectly) by Dido's Lament.

Mitch

Quit ragging on me

Robusto

@Cerberus I didn't think Led Zeppelin were that literate.

Cerberus

I did immediately recognise part of the melody when I was watching this video that compares Led Zeppelin's song to another modern song and Bach.

Before Dido was mentioned.

techdirt.com/articles/20180928/18021040739/…

Robusto

00:29

You can compare anything to anything.

Mitch

@Robusto They read Tolkien

So yeah I guess you're right

Robusto

As I say ...

Jinx.

Cerberus

@Robusto It's in this lawsuit.

Robusto

I'm familiar with the lawsuit, which failed.

Mitch

for breaking the law of good music

Cerberus

00:30

But I immediately thought of Dido's Lament when I listed to the beginning of the second video.

@Robusto It's been reopened...

Robusto

Whaaa ... ?

Cerberus

See link above.

Mitch

haha

StH is the best song in the entire world

maybe Ode to Joy is close

Cerberus

I think Dido's Lament is better.

God, it switched to Vivaldi, and I suddenly realised in how much of a Vivaldi mood I am.

Sometimes I find him too straightforward.

Mitch

I don't know Dido's lament. She sounds depressed

Cerberus

00:32

But not today.

@Mitch When I Am Laid In Earth.

You know that.

Jessye Norman, Dido's lament When I'm laid in earth DIDO AND AENEAS, H Purcell

►

Mitch

While I'm listening to that...

Speaking of colons, I just happened upon a picture of a tapeworm, in situ.

I mean, a total coincidence

pretty clear picture of the royal 'we'

See? Not as bad as you'd expect.

Cerberus

Wow, that's lovely.

But how can it be so...empty?

Mitch

insufflated

and very good bowel prep

Cerberus

Insufflated?

Mitch

that is, cleaned out (enema'd) and then pump with air

to give it some space

Cerberus

00:40

Wow.

I didn't know that was a thing.

Mitch

It' just the large colon. I don't think pumped air gets past the ileo-celiac sphincter (or what ever they call that) into the small intestine

I think it was a photo and not some really good rendering

Cerberus

Remarkable.

If only they could breed tapeworms that ate everything but vitamins and minerals.

Mitch

or oil in oil spills

or sequestered CO2

Robusto

@Cerberus The classical music wags of my youth called her "Just Enormous" ...

Cerberus

@Robusto In a good way, I presume?

She is great indeed.

Jasper Loy

00:46

My favourite soprana is Kiri Te Kanawa.

Robusto

@Cerberus In a catty, gay way, of course.

And Birgit Nilsson was "Beer-Gut Nilsson" ...

Mitch

tss...

sassy!

Cerberus

Now I'm listening to perhaps my favourite Baroque piece, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, the one with Jaroussky.

Robusto

And I balk at telling you what Montserrat Caballé was called ..

Mitch

I didn't recognize the Dido's Lament at all.

@Robusto Please don't balk

Cerberus

00:48

@Robusto I don't really know her, but by her pictures I can imagine that.

@Mitch Odd!

Robusto

"Monster-Twat" ...

Jasper Loy

In Cuius Animam, the tenor sings a high C sharp at the end, which sounds absolutely screechy.

Mitch

@Robusto Nice.

Robusto

The music scene is ruthless ...

Cerberus

Indeed.

Is Emöke Barath well known?

Mitch

00:49

@JasperLoy Is that Kiri Te Kanawa?

Jasper Loy

@Mitch No, a soprano is not a tenor. QED.

Mitch

Who are the young stars? Renee Fleming is getting up there.

Robusto

@Mitch She is the truck horn of sopranos.

Mitch

@JasperLoy Oh. I don't know anything about opera

Cerberus

Pergolesi - Stabat Mater (complete/full) - Nathalie Stutzmann

►

Mitch

00:50

Except Barber of Seville and Gianni Schicchi

Cerberus

If anyone knows of a better performance, I'll be glad to hear it.

Robusto

Nah, she's good. But not as good as Anna Moffo.

Compare:

Kiri te Kanawa - Ach, ich fühl's - Die Zauberflöte

►

Jasper Loy

@Mitch Neither do I. I am only a banana. But soprano, alto, tenor, bass are just the four voices you know in singing. Female high, female low, male high, male low.

Robusto

With:

Anna Moffo; "Ach, ich fühl's"; Die Zauberflöte; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

►

Mitch

@Robusto OMG you're just making up random names

Robusto

00:52

The latter is the perfect Mozart aria, perfectly performed.

Mitch

@JasperLoy mezzo-soprano, counter-tenor, piccolo trumpet

Jasper Loy

Hmm, I will now need to listen to this Anna Moffo.

Robusto

Don't forget basso profundo.

Jasper Loy

Those contrabasses sound inhuman.

Mitch

pfft it's just a bunch of weird foreign words at the same time as old people music

For perspective, note that I am watching 'Enter the Dragon' at this very moment

Robusto

00:56

Let be said that it is utterly sublime.

Mitch

and, you may nbe interested to know, it actually has a plot

a tenuous one, with lots of broken glass and bones

but still a plot

Cerberus

I like both ladies.

Jasper Loy

I like Maria, but I haven't found Maria yet.

Mitch

Maria Callas?

Robusto

@Cerberus Listen to that held note on Ruh' in "So wird Ruh' im Tode sein!" in both, and you'll hear the difference.

Unless I overestimated your abilities, that is.

Cerberus

01:01

Pah.

I need to be listening to Pergolesi at the moment.

Jasper Loy

@Robusto I read your comments on @RegDwigнt videos. You are a good commenter, lol.

Robusto

I'm a good everything, Jasper.

Jasper Loy

A good carrot.

It is very apt that your character means carrot and is also red in colour.

Mitch

@Robusto I can't tell. They both sound like they're barely holding back from screaming

Robusto

That's nonsense. THere's no screaming in either.

Mitch

01:06

Like cat's having sex on a blackboard

Jasper Loy

It is hard for the untrained ear or eye to differentiate shouting and singing.

Mitch

then chewing on aluminum foul

almost as bad as jazz

Robusto

No, it isn't either.

You're being deliberately obtuse, or boorish, or both.

Jasper Loy

Singing with a lot of force may sound and look like shouting when it is not.

Also, some singers have naturally lower ranges, so they need more effort to produce the high notes. But it is not because they have bad technique.

But I think the voice is a very delicate thing. Even if you don't sleep well the night before, you might not have a good voice to sing in a performance.

So even the greatest names in singing will have their bad days.

Mitch

and then gargle with tacks

Jasper Loy

01:11

If you listen to the three tenors in the Yokohama 2002 concert, they all sound unwell.

Mitch

sounds like a drawer of cutlery being dropped down a staircase

Cerberus

01:26

@Robusto I do indeed like Moffo's better.

Mitch

sounds like a the squeal of a car with slipped transmission running over a pig

Cerberus

Although I find it hard to pin it down on a specific note.

@Mitch Don't be a barbarian!

Mitch

@Cerberus haha

Cerberus

Don't laugh in such a barbaric fashion.

Mitch

snorgle

Cerberus

01:27

Better.

Mitch

thrbblt

Jasper Loy

In such fashion? In such a fashion? LOL

Mitch

squealing like a fashion model at a spaghetti-pizza buffet

Jasper Loy

Pizza? Piazza? LOL

Mitch

squealing like a birthday girl whose clown made balloon poodle just popped

KannE

01:40

@Mitch Congratulations...is that emoji a compound word...how would you tell?

Mitch

01:52

@KannE I don't know. Words and 💩, it's all a mess

man that's the only good word I know.

It'd be fun to stay but gotta bounce, as the kidses say these days

KannE

@JasperLoy True story: In the 80s, after the Huey Lewis incident, I found another paratrooper named Bob...I loved borrowing his Armani jackets...I hated to let them go. Those were really nice jackets.

KannE

02:28

@JasperLoy Oh, I just remembered...Bob moved back to Minnesota, had a daughter, and named her Marissa...so close, but yet so far...

@Mitch LOL! I'm going to try to read all the stuff I missed earlier. I type and read too slowly to really participate...in anything. GN.

CowperKettle

03:25

@Robusto WOW!

My mileage this year thus far is only 2500 kilometers

I don't feel well after longish rides. I covered 90 km over the weekend with my friends

Jasper Loy

@CowperKettle THat is amazing.

CowperKettle

Jasper Loy

@CowperKettle Is that the woman who loves you?

CowperKettle

@JasperLoy Haha ))

Jasper Loy

@CowperKettle I guess it means yes. You should consider it seriously, seriously.

CowperKettle

03:29

Jasper Loy

OMG, endless photos

CowperKettle

@JasperLoy I took some photos of her in a traditional Russian dress

Jasper Loy

@CowperKettle You know, no girl has ever loved me before, sad but true.

CowperKettle

@JasperLoy I'm very sorry!

Jasper Loy

@CowperKettle Well, I hope you and her will be happily married soon!

CowperKettle

03:32

@JasperLoy Thank you for your kind wishes!

She is a very good person.

KannE

03:53

@Robusto If you change tense (drop the "had"), you can sing it to the Muppets' Mahna Mahna music, but you may be able to scat the whole past perfect version during the improv interval... I'm not sure about Muppet jazz... Elmo probably knows.

Robusto

04:19

@CowperKettle I don't roll out of bed for anything under 80 km. That's my normal ride.

@KannE I haven't listened to Muppet jazz ... but I bet Bert and Ernie could help with that.

KannE

@Cerberus Oh, too straightforward, huh? Maybe that's why my son would only listen to Vivaldi...and not any other composers in the whole 'complete' set.

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KannE

@Mitch Wow, thanks, Johnny... Where were you when... "That umbrella is too 'insufflatable' to stick it up your..." Or, in case you're British--'That umbrella is too "insufflatable" to stick it up your...'--never mind. I'm going back to just commenting from now on.

@Robusto Or Animal? I can't remember all their names anymore...too many years ago.

Feeds

05:02

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Q: How would one greet a person on his/her birthday, especially when his/her father died yesterday?

How would one greet a person on his/her birthday, (at least some sort of greeting to acknowledge his/her birthday) especially when his/her father died yesterday.

Jasper Loy

@Robusto Wait. Do you mean you ride 80km on a bicycle or you run 80km on foot?

CowperKettle

@Robusto My normal ride starts from 0 km ))

Jasper Loy

05:19

@CowperKettle I just sent you an email. =)

CowperKettle

05:44

@JasperLoy I've subscribed to your channel

I do hope you get better

Feeds

06:21

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Q: Is there a word for completing a goal for somebody who can’t?

For example, if a person had a dreams to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, but fell ill before they could, and a family member completed the hike for them as proxy. What is, if any, the specific word for that?

single-word-requests

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09:30

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Q: Is there a word for an phenomenon where some one gets promoted two-five tier above their original rank regardless of the reason?

Is there a word for an phenomenon where some one gets promoted two-five tier above their original rank regardless of the reason (Preferably neutral word) Example 1 (Positive example): One student would be promoted say hypothetically from grade 3 directly to grade 5 or 6 (because of gauging his/h...

single-word-requests phrases expressions

Feeds

10:49

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Q: A word denoting the sound of turning pages

The two words (adjectives) I found in Yahoo Answers site, that perhaps (I am not sure) describe the sound of turning pages, when they rifled by the wind: fluttering and flapping. Other than those adjectives mentioned above, is there any noun or noun phrase that refer to the sound of turning page...

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Robusto

12:51

@JasperLoy I don't say "ride" if I mean "run" ...

Færd

Wise.

This doesn't look good.

I was planning to have a bet with @Cerberus on the result of Brasil's election, but things seem to be going decidedly ugly.

Cerberus

@Færd Nah.

That's just the first round.

Thank goodness they don't have a first-past-the-post system.

In the second round, Bolsonaro will lose.

Færd

Oh so glad to hear that.

@Cerberus How do you know?

Cerberus

At least according to current projections.

@Færd Because I saw recent poll results.

Of course nothing is certain.

Færd

Hmm.

Cerberus

12:59

But everyone who doesn't vote for him hates him.

Færd

So there's still room for wagering.

Cerberus

So they will vote for whoever will be second, in the second round.

Færd

Makes sense.

Cerberus

So I don't know what his chances are exactly, but I believe they are less than 50% to win the second round.

Færd

But he's rising in populaity.

Cerberus

13:01

In addition, I have seen results from other polls that show fewer votes for him than in your figures.

Færd

We don't know how far he can go.

Cerberus

Indeed not.

Færd

Oh.

Cerberus

But when are the elections? I believe very soon?

Færd

In about a week.

Oct 10th?

Cerberus

13:01

So we cannot be certain, but it's not as bad as you think.

Right.

Færd

I wonder how hard it is for Bolsonaro and his base to fix the election.

Cerberus

@Færd Fix? How would they attempt to do that?

www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2018/10/…

Færd

Or how easy. He seems unscrupulous enough to attempt things of that sort, within his capability.

The election fix that was orchestrated about ten years ago hear was a complex project.

But Brasil's system must be more democratic?

Cerberus

@Færd But what power does he have?

Not much, I should think?

@Færd What fix?

@Færd More democratic than what other country's? I'm confused.

plenglish.com/…

Færd

@Cerberus I don't know who in the government is behind him. Who runs elections there? Maybe they're aligned with him?

Cerberus

13:09

I don't think so.

He is from an extreme party.

Færd

@Cerberus Than Iran.

Cerberus

They aren't in government.

@Færd Ahh OK.

By the way, this site suggests that Bolsonaro would stand a good chance in the second round:

plenglish.com/…

Færd

Polls ...

Cerberus

Yeah.

user 2646

trump poll?

Cerberus

13:11

It would seem unlikely to me for an extreme candidate with fewer than one third of the votes to win a second round...but we cannot be sure.

The rise of the extreme Christians in Brazil (Pentecostal) is worrying regardless.

B. is one of them.

Færd

So does he have no footing in any center of power? In the military?

Cerberus

I don't believe so, and Brazil is pretty democratic.

But you could research him.

Færd

Strange.

Yes.

Cerberus

What is?

Færd

That he is only backed by popular support from extremists.

Cerberus

13:13

The problems seems to be that not only true extremists support him.

But, yes, the number of extreme Christians has risen considerbaly.

Færd

@Cerberus Who else does?

I'm researching him thru you, you see.

Cerberus

@user2646 Yeah, that showed how polls have a margin of error. But, for the first round, B. is so far off from winning 50% that it doesn't matter.

@Færd Well, slightly more moderate right-wingers.

user 2646

ok

Cerberus

And he is a populist, so perhaps some poor people in the countryside.

Færd

Right

user 2646

13:16

theft is rampant in brazil

Cerberus

Depends on what you compare it to...

user 2646

re: fields medal

Færd

Do you know of any decent news outlets or journalists or correspondents based in Brasil?

Cerberus

I don't remember, but no doubt they have several reliable newspapers.

Færd

I wish I could read theintercept.com/brasil .

Cerberus

13:19

You could use GT.

Færd

Our sources are usually warped enough already.

But yes, that's a choice.

Cerberus

So what do you want to know?

Wikipaedia will probably have a lot about B.?

Færd

I don't have a narrative of the situation there. Scraps of information only.

I want to make sense of the situation at large.

It shouldn't take too long to find good material. I'll manage.

Cerberus

If B. were to be elected, that could be dangerous.

But parliament might be able to control him like Trump.

Just as it impeached the previous president.

But she was an OK person, not a madman like B.

B. is, I think, more dangerous than Trump.

Maybe he's like an Ahmadinejad. But the forces opposing him and the position of parliament are probably stronger.

The state is probably quite a bit stronger than in Iran.

He could also be seen as a final convulsion from the people who supported the old military dictatorship.

Which transitioned into a democracy a few decades ago.

Mitch

@KannE sniff ... no one has called me Johnny since ...it brings back memories... of never.

I never liked madeleines. I remember once as a small child I burned my mouth on soup I had in the cold at a parade I couldn't see. We walked for miles on tired feet to stand and watch other people walk for miles on tired feet dressed in outlandish clothes they'd never wear again and didn't want to wear even then.

But that part of town we don't go to anymore. Parades still happen but what's the point? A hero doesn't do it for the parade, and the parade goers aren't heroic. A parade for a winning sports team is for the feeling of heroism, but somebody was going to win. A parade for a politician? The first step into office the hero should be convicted for the crime of just now being responsible. A march for rights for the underdog? Well-intentioned but that's marching to be martyred.

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Robusto

15:01

@Mitch Penny-ante Proust?

Mitch

@Robusto Exercises de Style

Mitch

15:32

@Robusto You wonder why I don't like opera? I'll tell you why I don't like opera. It all started with my mother.

It doesn't end well.

(lots of stuff happens)

There are things I've seen you couldn't imagine. Dirty bandaids floating in a public pool. A half-eaten lunch, chairs askew, back door wide open. Right turn on red without stopping.

It was in in all the newspapers for a week. And then it was not. Like it had never happened. One generation knew all about it, the next one nothing, like taking a turn at the stand of trees that was flattened to make a long driveway to a Walmart. No on…

I title this 'sigh'.

Or 'The Germans Don't Have a Word For This'

Captain Bohemian

what does "to serve a writ on sb" in thefreedictionary.com/writ mean?

Mitch

Or 'Giants in the Earth'

Or 'The Name of the Rose'

Eco supposedly chose the title to be not something in the book.

@CaptainBohemian It sounds legal. Like legal language.

'The man was served a subpoena to be a witness at the defamation case'

(a subpoena is a kind of writ I think)

oh wow my guess was right

'You serve a writ' means you formally gave a legal document (a writ) to someone (and that document orders them to do something, like appear in court).

That's just the weird way you say it.

You don't say 'I gave the writ to the witness'

You say 'I served the writ to the witness'

It's just how the legal language is for writ's and subpoena's and such.

Captain Bohemian

@Mitch it indeed sounds strange enough. Who, if not a law professional, would understand that kind of usage?

Mitch

15:48

lawyers and stuff have all sorts of weird words and turns of phrase.

It took me years of TV watching to figure out what 'plaintiff' means.

and 'objection sustained'. I could never tell if that was good or bad.

Captain Bohemian

is it used in a way like "the judge serves a writ on the car accident witness."?

Mitch

16:08

Yes, sort of, but since this is word choice semantics, that doesn't sound right because the judge doesn't do the serving (analogous to "The president executed the prisoner on knives")

"The lawyer served a writ to the witness" is correct (a lawyer is more likely to do the 'serving' and you serve something 'to' someone.

Captain Bohemian

@Mitch then when is "on" as in "to serve a writ on sb" used?

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Mitch

17:17

@CaptainBohemian My mistake, 'on' is the preposition you should use

RegDwigнt

17:30

@Robusto "team" is also an anagram of "aemt". Somehow people always miss that one.

Robusto

@tchrist Good job.

@RegDwigнt Why can't you put your obvious lack of talent for anagrams to better use?

Also, are there anagrams in Russian? Somehow I doubt it. Nobody has that much time on their hands.

Cerberus

@KannE Quite possibly! Don't you find him straightforward? I don't know this set.

Robusto

17:53

@Cerberus I can't imagine what you mean by "too straightforward."

Cerberus

Not subtle.

A little bit too "easy" on the ears.

Jasper Loy

I remember the first time I came to this chat, I said I thought Cerberus was an old man like Robusto.

Now it feels deja vu to see a column of Robustos and Cerberuses on the left.

Oh @Cerberus Office 2019 has just been released, if you are interested in getting it for your possible Windows 10.

Cerberus

I probably won't be, but thanks.

We make a fine column.

And now you are our pedestal.

Jasper Loy

Yes, unfortunately I have destroyed it.

After some begging, I now have 4 subscribers to my channel, lol. That will be an incentive for me not to delete my channel.

Robusto

@JasperLoy I don't know why you feel you have to be insulting.

@Cerberus One man's meat is another man's poisson.

Jasper Loy

18:01

The Poisson probability distribution.

@Robusto Old man reflects wisdom, so it was a compliment, lol.

Robusto

Not necessarily true, in either case.

Jasper Loy

It seems that Barrie England has vanished from the site, leaving only Captain America.

Actually, I have been talking to a Captain America in another room, lol.

I do hope Merriam-Webster publishes a new edition of the Collegiate Dictionary soon. The last edition was in 2003, 15 years ago.

It used to have a new edition every 10 years or so.

There is something nice about flipping through a paper dictionary and smelling the paper and looking at the beautiful fonts.

Oh it's October, so Halloween is coming, and the movie Halloween is coming too!

John Carpenter is a genius for composing the theme song.

A dwarf planet, named the Goblin, has just been discovered.

Cerberus

18:31

@Robusto I said "sometimes".

Jasper Loy

18:42

I just got a secret subscriber. Hmm...

@Cerberus Do you have a favourite English dictionary, other than OED?

Cerberus

Nope!

The OED will do.

Jasper Loy

Using golden.dict I was able to get the OED on my computer too.

It's pretty amazing that there is software to do any kind of thing these days.

Cerberus

Ah, yes, I use Goden Dictionary, too.

I have the OED in it and various other dictionaries.

Jasper Loy

All it needs is an index file.

Cerberus

I also have Golden Dictionary on my phone.

Jasper Loy

18:48

Is your phone Android?

I tried to get Windows phone, but it seems it has been discontinued here.

Looks like Microsoft wasn't as successful with their phones as Apple.

Cerberus

Yes, Android.

Jasper Loy

Almost all the computers and phones here have parts made in China.

It seems that everyone wants things made in China for various business reasons.

Even a Dell laptop charger says made in China on the sticker, lol.

And Oxford dictionaries say printed in China, lol.

Cerberus

19:06

Because it's cheap.

KannE

20:46

@Mitch It was just a joke, you know, the Johnny part. BTW, I went to a Santa parade when I was almost 2 y/o. I probably couldn't see it either because, reportedly, I tried to pick up a piece of used chewing gum, so my father snatched up my arm and dislocated my elbow. I don't remember that or the ER, but no one is allowed to lift anyone by their arms anymore in our family...like we're all Hall-of-Fame athletes, unaware of our own strength, and everyone has the elbows of a scrawny 2 y/o.

Mitch

@KannE Oh I figured. I'm just messing around.

But re chewing gum. Yeah little kids are like raccoons, they'll try to eat anything except the stuff you give them.

Re parades - hasn't anybody figured out priority viewing for kids at these things? Why is it always tall people at the front?

MetaEd

@Mitch Protects them from the clowns.

KannE

21:13

@Mitch Guess what our town does? Every fall, they have a parade for all the school kids. The band marches, the big kids walk, and the little kids are put on floats, in the center surrounded by adults, teachers and parents, so the little kids won't jump or fall off the floats. One year, I rode on one with my son, and he said, "I can't see; you're in my way. I'm missing the parade." Ha-ha, really...so I leaned back out of his way; I didn't unhinge his elbow or anything.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto oh but I do put my lack of talent to better use! I call it "composing". (I also call "worse" "better", but that's because I'm a fruit of a pine.)

On that note (haha, note, what hilarious pun), @Cerberus I will need your help with subtitling my next nonsense. Out tomorrow. You can watch the German subtitles and then tell me how to say it in proper Dutch rather than just Deutsch.

KannE

*fall off, not of...I wish I didn't care about easily recognized typos, but I do...so much.

RegDwigнt

21:32

@KannE you can edit your stuff in here by pressing the up arrow. You have a window of two minutes, I believe. After that you can still ping a mod and they'll fix it for you.

Like I did just now.

KannE

21:56

@Cerberus My parents were Deaf, so I think I missed the learning curve on music...but my son had hearing and attention problems when he was young, and the Vivaldi CDs were the only ones he took out of the huge (if not complete) set to keep for himself.

The set was something sold on QVC a long time ago. It was huge; I had to make payments, ha-ha, really.

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