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Cerberus

12:24 AM

Meh, that guy was just joking. A joke might not be a good answer, but is it really so bad?

Martha

It should've been posted as a comment in that case. Except he doesn't have the rep for that...

Cerberus

12:55 AM

You're probably right...

Robusto

4:00 AM

@Cerberus — I am of two minds on that. If a joke is all it is, it's non-responsive as an answer. And that's coming from someone has an extremely hard time resisting a joke. Put a joke in a comment, fine, but if you don't have the rep to make a comment, then keep your f@$%ing thoughts to yourself. Of course, if the joke is merely a flourish on an otherwise solid answer, then screw all those curmudgeons who can't take it. Let 'em riot!

►

advs89

I've never really understood why you should need rep. for commenting... It seems like the lesser of the two options (commenting vs. answering) and the bad ones are typically collapsed due to lack of +1's anyways.

If anything, I think answering should require rep. (which could be earned from asking questions). Although I do know that this all follows suit to the master SE, StackOverflow.

Cerberus

@Rob: Fair enough, he shouldn't have put that in an answer. But I was surprised to see that people took him seriously.

advs89

Or worse that he was downvoted 4 times.

I think -1 sends a strong enough message, personally.

Cerberus

@Advs: I understand your logic; but I think answering questions is what seduces many people into creating an account in many cases (as it did for me).

Now I must go to bed... good night!

advs89

haha sorry

good night

Achu

5:40 AM

Good Morning all

Prasanna

9:02 AM

Hi Guys

RegDwight

11:15 AM

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@advs89 Best porn site on this planet. Free 3-day trial!

@advs89 Click here to win $1,000,000!

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I hope you get the idea.

And as far as stupid jokes go — the threshold for leaving them as a comment is 50 points. You can get that for one solid answer within minutes. If you really, really, really, absolutely must post a stupid joke, then please, please, pretty please with cherry on top, post some quality content first. That is all we are asking for. Hardly an unreasonable request.

Robusto

11:32 AM

@RegDwight — Word.

RegDwight

Hello Robusto.

I am excited your macros are still working.

Robusto

You're easily excited then.

RegDwight

Long time, no invent a new one.

Robusto

When I make a macro, it stays invented.

RegDwight

@Robusto I am very easily excited. Especially by Americans in nurse drag.

Robusto

11:36 AM

My nurse's outfit is in the wash. I can put on the nun's habit if that will do it for you.

RegDwight

Oh, oh, ohhhhhhh!

Now we're talking!

Robusto

So did you build the Taj Mahal out of Lego blocks yet?

RegDwight

I actually don't own that one.

But I guess I could build it with the bricks I own. It just wouldn't be 100% the same color.

Robusto

Do you ever mix in Tyco blocks, or are you a purist?

RegDwight

Purist.

For the Taj Mahal, I'd need 208 of these in white.

And them's just decoration, really.

Likewise, the Eiffel Tower only has like 5 different bricks, but you need like 1000 of each.

Robusto

11:42 AM

Tyco blocks are cheaper and virtually indistinguishable from the snobby Danish brand.

Waiting ...

What, no reaction?

Or are you typing furiously?

RegDwight

They are not even available round here.

Robusto

A-ha! It's a conspiracy!

RegDwight

Of course. Merkel did it.

Robusto

The rich, capitalist Danes have squashed the competition, probably through payoffs and other underhanded activities.

RegDwight

Nah. There's a lot of competition. I even do see some around these parts. Just not from Tyco.

Robusto

11:45 AM

@RegDwight — Most of the Germans I talk to have nothing but bad things to say about Merkel.

RegDwight

Well it's always easy to elect first, bitch about later.

And Germans have bad things to say about virtually everything.

Which is not to say that I support Merkel or would have voted for her if I could.

But at least she has a PhD in physics. She's not a complete moron, you know.

Robusto

No. Only the Americans put those up for office. And only the Republicans do that.

RegDwight

Well, everybody has to specialize in something. :P

Seriously though, they'll have to try a bit harder to reach the levels of Belarus. Or Zimbabwe.

Robusto

I believe it's because of Richard Nixon, who was a very smart man. He screwed things up for himself, though, because he was a paranoiac. Also he defied his wealthy Republican masters. And ever since then, the Republicans have nominated mental midgets who could be counted on to stick to the script.

Artic

@RegDwight What did you mean?

RegDwight

11:52 AM

Oh-oh. Me stepped on toes? A Belorussian? Or a Zimbabwean?

Oh, I see. Гомель.

Artic

@RegDwight The Belorussian.

Robusto

First there was Ford, then Reagan (an actual B-movie actor who could be counted on to read his lines), then because Bush senior was VP at the time, they had to give him the nod (even though he was not dumb), but they made him take Dan Quayle (dumber than dirt) as his VP so DQ would be next in line, and then they got W. In the last election, they nominated McCain but made him take Sarah Palin as running mate! All because these people can be controlled.

What's wrong with White Russia?

RegDwight

Lukashenko.

Cerberus

@Reg: What, IE5.5 now available?? Why wasn't I told!?

Artic

@RegDwight And what is wrong with him?

RegDwight

11:56 AM

The last Dictator of Europe. Though the Great Berlusconi is very much on par.

Robusto

@Cerberus — We were trying to keep it from you.

@RegDwight let the cat out of the bag.

Cerberus

Jeez, now my poor FF computer has been exposed to who knows what for hours...

Artic

@RegDwight But the Europe is not going to get rid of the Last Dictator.

Cerberus

Berlusconi on par with Lukashenko? Nah. The Midget Wannabe Dictator doesn't have nearly as much power or the room to operate that exists in Belarus...

Artic

They have been playing with him for a long time.

Cerberus

11:58 AM

But he would like to be!

Yeah I don't think Lukashenko will be leaving until he loses Russian support.

RegDwight

Not happening any time soon. Border controls have just been loosened.

Cerberus

Can't say I am surprised.

Artic

Historically we were the buffer zone between Russia an Europe. Nothing have changed since.

Cerberus

The fact that she can't stand Sarkozy, Berlusconi, or Putin is enough for me to adore Merkel.

Robusto

@Cerberus — Berlusconi is so corrupt he makes this guy look honest:

Rod Blagojevich

Rod R. "Milorad" Blagojevich (; born December 10, 1956) is an American politician who served as the 40th Governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009. A Democrat, Blagojevich was a State Representative before being elected to the United States House of Representatives representing parts of Chicago. He was elected governor in 2002. Blagojevich was arrested on federal corruption charges including conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and solicitation of bribery December 9, 2008. The Justice Department complaint alleged that the governor conspired to commit several "pay to play" schemes, incl...

Cerberus

12:01 PM

@Artic: You are Belarussian? Cool.

Artic

@Cerberus Yeap. I'm proud.

Cerberus

@Berlusconi: Yes you are corrupt, my little friend!

@Artic: No I meant, it must be freezing over there...

Artic

Lukashenki is the shame.

Cerberus

Yeah. Perhaps the EU should try to woo him as she once did the dictator of Slovakia.

Artic

@Cerberus Not really.

The weather is fine.

But the economical situation is really hot.

Cerberus

12:05 PM

Really? Cool.

Artic

Have you heard about tortures in Belorussian jail?

RegDwight

No, actually. Linky please?

In the mean time, dupe alert.

1

Q: "talk to" vs "talk with"

Should I say I talked to Bob. or I talked with Bob.

2

Q: Is there any difference between "talk to someone" and "talk with someone"?

Well, the question is in the title. I always had the impression that "talk to someone" refers to situations when some information must be conveyed to someone else, while "talk with someone" refers to cases that involve a more complex two-sided interaction. E.g., I "talk to my colleague" to tell h...

verbs prepositions phrasal-verbs

Artic

bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12606265

Robusto

@RegDwight ... dupe.

RegDwight

@Robusto Yeah, I'm thinking about a merge, actually.

@Artic Thanks. Reading.

Cerberus

12:17 PM

Can bounties be awarded on meta questions?

I'd like a better solution for preventing and finding dupes.

RegDwight

@Cerberus They can on MSO.

Cerberus

OK.

RegDwight

I have no idea if it works on any of the SE2.0 sites. I kind of doubt it, since you only have ghost rep on those site's metas.

Cerberus

Yeah I thought so.

Robusto

1:41 PM

Joke alert:

2

Q: How to say 'give up dating with girls'

I give up dating with girls and stay in home.

meaning words

But, hey, I gave him an upvote. Answer too.

Cerberus

He may very well be dead serious!

Oh she.

Robusto

0

Q: Why do we call our lovers "baby"?

It is common in American English and culture to refer to one's lover or significant other as "baby" or "babe", for example: Come on baby, light my fire! 1 or I got you, I won't let go. I got you to love me so. I got you babe! 2 Where does this usage come from? What's the history behin...

etymology american-english endearment

Haven't we covered this before?

4

Q: What do you call your girlfriend/boyfriend to show you love her/him?

I know in every language there are a lot of ways and cute names to address your girlfriend or your boyfriend to show you love her/him. The names can be creative for any couple. These are some examples I've seen in movies: Come here, sweetheart. Relax baby, we're on holiday! Look, d...

word-choice common-expression endearment

Cerberus

Yeah it is related. But the new one asks about the origin of the term.

Rhodri

@Robusto It's not a bad question to launch a discussion of tenses from, actually

Cerberus

Hmm tenses?

Robusto

1:56 PM

I get tense when my lover calls me "baby" ... ?

Martha

I believe Rhodri was replying to the dating question, not the "baby" question.

(Interesting theme we have going here...)

Robusto

So, @Martha, was I right? Night elf resto druid?

Ah, I see your reply.

@Martha — I know the baby question was what got you in here. You thought he was talking about real babies. The kind with ears.

Martha

@Robusto Yeah, my computer gaming tends towards wordsplay.net rather than WoW.

@Robusto Ears? Where? Where? Oh. Dammit.

Robusto

Back in the day when PDAs were what we used instead of smart phones, I was for a month or so the World Champion at a game called Text Twist. I started a game once and I couldn't lose, so I kept playing, taking time out for meals and sleep etc. And then I saw that the high score was currently 11.5 million or something like that. So I kept going until I beat it by about 4K points and never played again. Someone came along later and bested my score, but by that time I had no interest left. Or time.

Rhodri

2:12 PM

@Martha Indeed, I'm just typing in some pontification to the dating question. Though it turns out that newborn babies do make you tense in exams. Who'd have thought it?

Martha

I've played Text Twist, but not on a PDA. I think Yahoo Games has it. Don't play it anymore because (1) I like Boggle better, and (2) the version on Yahoo only works in IE, and I ain't exposing my computer like that.

Robusto

@Martha — A wise policy. I never use IE except to test with it, and that represents the final and ugliest part of web development for me.

RegDwight

Is "stupid literalist" offensive?

4

Q: Why do so many newspapers use the word "Times" in their names?

It seems that the word itself doesn't mean news or newspapers, but many newspapers use it in their names. Is there a historic reason?

usage

Robusto

@RegDwight — It's the "literalist" part that rankles.

Martha

@RegDwight Yeah, I have to say it is. He could've phrased it as "don't be so literal" and gotten the point across just as well. (Though LOL @Robusto)

Rhodri

2:18 PM

@Robusto Well, if you take "stupid" as a qualifier not implied by "literalist"... :-)

Robusto

@Rhodri — I sure hope he meant "literalist" figuratively.

RegDwight

It now got flag-deleted anyway.

JPmiaou

2:54 PM

@Martha She's currently occupied with a piece of ledger-size card stock she got out of the trash. I'm a little worried, because it has a line of staples down the middle (I was testing the long-arm stapler on it).

Martha

Your daughter has an almost unhealthy interest in office supplies.

Or is it just paper that she's interested in?

JPmiaou

Paper, mostly. She's very tired, and has switched to sitting in my lap and bawling. And helping.

Robusto

Uh-oh, I sense we're getting baby-jacked again.

JPmiaou

@Robusto You're safe from pictures from my end anyway; I haven't had a chance to download the camera in weeks.

Martha

Aw, tell her to quit bawling and go to sleep instead.

Yeah, I know, easier said than done.

Maybe if she reads it here she'll obey it? :D

JPmiaou

2:59 PM

I'm gonna try walkabout for a bit.

Martha

In other news, WWFM is going a bit overboard on the Irish music.

Robusto

@JPmiaou — Our first baby would get to a state where he wouldn't fall asleep except in the car or a buggy. So we had to keep mobile to keep him sedated, which didn't make for very good parental sleep habits.

JPmiaou

@Robusto We've managed (so far) to satisfy her with laps around the house. We console ourselves that the walking is good for us.

@Martha I'm doing my part: I put on a green T-shirt.

Martha

I'm wearing the only green clothing I have, my green sweater, even though I already wore it this week.

Has Julianna succumbed to The Evil Sleep(TM) yet?

Artic

And who of you is Irish?

Martha

3:09 PM

Not me. It just gets... ubiquitous in the US.

I mean, if it's name days you're looking for, today is Gertrúd. Why doesn't anybody celebrate St. Gertrude's Day?

(Probably should call Gertrúd néni.)

JPmiaou

@Martha She gave in around the fifth lap.

I'm composing a reply to Csilla's inquiry about what books she should get.

How do you say "board book" in Hungarian?

Martha

Any chance of finding another copy of Kázmér?

Robusto

@Martha — Or St. Boniface Day!

Martha

Re: board book... uh... um... I got nothin'. Ask mother.

Rhodri

@Martha This lot certainly ought to celebrate St Gertrude's Day

stgertrude.org

Martha

3:14 PM

(If you call her, tell her I was wrong: today is Gertrúd néni's name day, not birth day.)

My calendar doesn't list Boniface for today.

@JPmiaou, Would "harmónika könyv" get across the board-book concept?

JPmiaou

I'm trying some online bookstores to see what they call it. (Sztaki came up empty.)

Hmm. Seems it might be "leporello" that I'm looking for. Found a German Wikipedia on it:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leporello_%28Heft%29

Robusto

3:29 PM

@Martha — No, St. Boniface's Day is June 5. But you don't see us descendants of the Fatherland running around wearing red, yellow and black and getting drunk and rowdy, do you? OK, well, at least not the color part anyway.

Martha

@Robusto You're right, we don't. And the drunk & rowdy part isn't any different on any other day.

n0nChun

@Robusto: No Love Lost ? :P

Robusto

@n0nChun — ?

n0nChun

Just asking if everything's cool !

RegDwight

3 hours ago, by Cerberus

Really? Cool.

3 hours ago, by Artic

But the economical situation is really hot.

n0nChun

3:44 PM

:D

Well, i'm a bit dissapointed.

disappointed

RegDwight

How come?

n0nChun

one of my questions got migrated to wrters.

writers

Robusto

@n0nChun — Everything? Seriously? Hmm ... let me check. That will take quite a while.

RegDwight

@n0nChun You can edit your stuff here. Hover over your message and click on the arrow that appears on the left-hand side.

n0nChun

there are hardly any people on that site.

RegDwight

3:46 PM

Everyone is on Writers! Except @Martha.

n0nChun

Umm, my question got only one response :|

Robusto

@n0nChun — One of my answers got migrated there as well. Join the club.

n0nChun

Answer? How come?

RegDwight

It was just too bad. Even for Robusto.

Rhodri

I'm almost afraid to ask

n0nChun

3:47 PM

BTW you guys are doing a wonderful job @ english.stack :)

Martha

@RegDwight :þ

n0nChun

what's that character?

RegDwight

@Martha Is that Rebecca with a hat on?

Mar 6 at 13:46, by RegDwight

Well, obviously, the difference between ф and с is a | and a ɔ. Or þ for short.

Robusto

@RegDwight — See? It didn't take long for your Stalinist tendencies to take over, did it?

Martha

@n0nChun It's the lowercase 'thorn'. Used in Old English, generally written as 'th' now.

n0nChun

3:49 PM

heehee

So did you just poke Reg with a thorn?

RegDwight

@Robusto I never pretended it would take long.

@n0nChun They poke me with all kinds of thorny stuffs here.

Robusto

@RegDwight — Well, fortunately Trotsky is alive and well and living in ... oh wait, he's not.

Ice-axe to the head. Ouch.

RegDwight

@Robusto Yes. I have superseded him. Problems?

n0nChun

How many of you watch cricket?

RegDwight

Seven.

n0nChun

3:51 PM

Do you even know what cricket is ? :P

RegDwight

Five of them do.

Robusto

@RegDwight — No, no, of course not, Tovarich Josef Vissarionovich .. heh heh!

n0nChun

England's almost out of the cup ;)

JPmiaou

Aren't crickets awfully small to watch? Or are they magnified somehow?

n0nChun

No, you just got to shrink yourself

Robusto

3:52 PM

@JPmiaou — They are only magnified in time. Crickets play these things called "test matches" that can go on for days.

RegDwight

2

Q: Why is a bad bowler called a 'pie-thrower'?

A poor bowler is called a 'pie-thrower' or a 'pie-chucker'. Does anyone know why this is so; particularly, why 'pie' was adopted for this phrase when it could have been just about anything?

usage

n0nChun

Umm ?

Robusto

@n0nChun — If you're not a native speaker, you can get lost pretty quickly in chat here. Most of what we say involves puns, jokes, slagging, indirection, and Stalinist edicts.

n0nChun

another upvote for robusto sigh :D

Robusto

0

Q: How to express exciting to know a girl ?

Is this OK? You couldn't know how existing I know you.

meaning words

Rhodri

3:55 PM

@n0nChun Which cup is it we're almost out of this time?

(Can you tell I'm not sporty?)

RegDwight

@Robusto I see your girl and raise you an email.

0

Q: What does "email exchange" mean?

What does "email exchange" mean?

email

Robusto

Wow, someone is desperate to date: "You couldn't know how existing I know you." That has to take some kind of prize.

n0nChun

@Robusto: yeah.
@Rhodri: Cricket World Cup

Robusto

I would rather have a girl than an email. Just saying.

n0nChun

@Robusto: American?

Robusto

3:56 PM

@n0nChun — What gave it away?

n0nChun

And you guys know each other in the real world too ?

Robusto

There is no real world. There is only cyberspace.

n0nChun

don't start a 1984 here

Rhodri

@RegDwight I was already stating the bloody obvious there, damn it

Robusto

@n0nChun — Chinese?

n0nChun

3:58 PM

Hah :D

Everyone thinks I am.

Chun is actually my nick

I'm Indian :)

RegDwight

Hahaha, stupid me answered the wrong question. I am laughing various body parts off right now.

Robusto

@RegDwight — Lego people can just replace body parts. They're interchangeable.

RegDwight

@Rhodri's answer is better anyhow.

@Robusto Yes, that's what I'm counting on. Otherwise I would be more careful.

What's with those pending edits? Does the editing tag make sense anyway?

Robusto

Seriously, the "exciting to know a girl" question is the big winner here. On so many levels.

n0nChun

Just check my comment there :P

Robusto

4:03 PM

I mean, it is perfect in its own way. Think about it.

n0nChun

;)

who the heck removed my comment!

RegDwight

@n0nChun Ctrl + R.

Or F5 or whatever.

@Robusto I actually misread "existing" as "exciting". (Not that that helped.)

n0nChun

Comments please!

RegDwight

@n0nChun Whatcha talkin' about?

n0nChun

I don't know if I understood that User's feelings ;)

Rhodri

4:08 PM

1

Q: Use quotation marks for internal monologue?

In a similar vein to my previous question on styling written quotes, should I use quotation marks for interior monologue in narrative writing? It is common to use italics to denote thoughts: This won't be easy, she thought. But I would use quotation marks in this scenario: "This won't ...

punctuation quotes quotations

Why are people so obsessed with marking out thoughts and written quotes?

@n0nChun I don't think that User gave us enough to go on!

RegDwight

Mar 9 at 3:45, by Kosmonaut

I read through this question a few times and now I feel like I don't understand English anymore.

n0nChun

Dinner time, ciao!

psmears

4:50 PM

@n0nChun Or "chow"? ;-)

Robusto

5:00 PM

@RegDwight: One of my Russian co-workers says he has "grievances" when he means he has problems with something.

He has "grievances" with his computer. I told him to take it up with the Intel local.

RegDwight

I'm trying to think of the Russian word he must be thinking of.

Cerberus

What's so strange about that? I regularly battle my computer.

I exhort it, scold it, kick it...

RegDwight

Good grievance, I have to go!

TTYL when I'm home.

Cerberus

Dag!

n0nChun

5:39 PM

@psmears sweet ;)

Robusto

6:04 PM

@n0nChun — Did you downvote my answer to your "girl" question?

Ah, must have been a mistake. Gone now. Never mind.

Martha

I think we need an 'archaic' tag, or something similar. People keep using old-english for questions that have nothing to do with Old English.

Oh, wait. There is an archaic tag. My bad.

psmears

@n0nChun Glad to be of service :). But it's only fair to warn you, that sort of behaviour usually gets one a "thwack" round here. I guess I was lucky this time...

Martha

Hmm, what? Oh! That! @psmears: THWACK!

psmears

@Martha Perhaps what's needed is a distinction between "Old English" and just "old English" in the tag name? :-/

Robusto

@psmears — Word.

psmears

6:09 PM

@n0nChun: See what I mean ;-)

Robusto

Or obsolete.

Hey, how do you make the tag box around the word in chat?

@Martha: /poke ^^

Cerberus

boo

Martha

Nope: [ tag:boo ] (without the spaces).

I believe this is the same as on the main site, btw.

Cerberus

Yay! Thank you.

Robusto

obsolete

Cerberus

6:12 PM

Yes it probably is.

Looks moderately pleasant.

Robusto

Or obsolete-word

Cerberus

Hehe.

Either one would be fine afaik.

Does anyone know how to do keys?

Martha

I'd go with the shorter option, with the longer as a synonym.

Cerberus

I think there is a special template for keys.

Martha

Keys?

Cerberus

6:14 PM

As in [tag:']+shift

Oh tags work only with actual words/letters; I have seen people do keyboard keys.

Martha

Yes, I've seen that too. No idea how to do it.

Robusto

We used to be able to create tags right on a question, right?

Martha

Isn't it still possible, if you have high enough rep?

Cerberus

Yes, can't we do that any more?

I suppose Rob wouldn't have enough rep then.

Robusto

I haven't tried in a while.

RegDwight

6:17 PM

<kbd>Shift</kbd>?

Nope.

Cerberus

[Please grant me: this key #$%^# Shift]?

Robusto

@Cerberus — No, that comes with the 100K package.

Cerberus

@Rob: Well you're nearly there.

RegDwight

What they don't tell you, you don't just get a painting of American Dad, you exchange it for your 100k rep and have to start all over again.

Martha

The <kbd>Shift</kbd> syntax apparently works in Markdown, but not in chat.

Robusto

6:19 PM

@RegDwight — Wow, that's harsh.

Literally adding insult to injury.

RegDwight

@Martha Yup. And it was highly controversial and even got killed temporarily because people would post castles.

Robusto

0

Q: Why "proximate" refers to centesimal?

I mean, when I read "proximate" I think about "proximity".. why does it refers exactly to the 3rd digit in a number?

etymology numbers

Today's puzzler.

Cerberus

Markdown is regular answers/questions formatting?

RegDwight

178

A: <kbd> elements are way intrusive

&nb...

Robusto

<tty>keyboard</tty>

Noop.

Martha

6:22 PM

@Cerberus Yes.

Cerberus

@Martha: Ah I just tested it and it works (as you said), yay.

Martha

@RegDwight I guess the oneboxing chokes on masonry.

RegDwight

@Martha Yeah.

Cerberus

Fab.

RegDwight

Is this a dupe?

0

Q: Is "yesterday night" acceptable?

I catch a lot of grief about this from family and friends, so I figured I'd settle the score once and for all. In verbal context (though not written), I tend to use the phrase ...yesterday night... rather than the last night. Is this grammatically correct, regardless of how uncommon it might be?

grammar

15

Q: Why "last night" and not "yesterday night"?

As from object, is there a rational reason for saying "last night" rather than "yesterday night", though you would say "yesterday morning" and "yesterday afternoon"?

usage time

Cerberus

6:29 PM

I say, yes, dupe.

Robusto

@RegDwight — Wie sagt man das auf Deutsch: Dieses Schloss ist aus Lego gebaut?

RegDwight

Ziemlich genau so sagt man das.

Robusto

Danke.

Cerberus

"Ziemlich genau" hah.

RegDwight

@Robusto As Germans of certain age reply, Titte.

Robusto

6:30 PM

They are udderly immature.

Cerberus

Haha.

RegDwight

Thwack! Geez, @Martha, pay some attentions plz.

Robusto

Wow, what a poor substitute for a Martha THWACK!

RegDwight

Yes, and I am SORRY, but what is a poor boy to do?

Martha

@RegDwight Sorry! Trying to get some work done here! Sheesh! (Oh, and @Robusto, THWACK!)

RegDwight

6:33 PM

There she goes!

Robusto

@RegDwight — here

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What a poor boy is to do.

RegDwight

Watching/listening already.

Robusto

@Martha — See? Very often the best man for the job is a woman. (Are you listening, @RegDwight?)

RegDwight

But actually I was thinking more along the lines of

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Cerberus

Women rule or should rule.

RegDwight

6:46 PM

Merkel is a woman.

Cerberus

Indeed!

So are Lizzy and Beatrix.

Robusto

Or you could take it in a completely different direction:

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RegDwight

@Cerberus And the first thing she did was roll back Schröder's Atomausstieg. Just sayin.

Cerberus

Well frankly I still support nuclear energy.

I still want more of it. But plants should be checked meticulously.

Robusto

A long as she didn't roll back Schrödinger's cat.

RegDwight

6:49 PM

@Cerberus Well, you don't have that nuclear waste lying next to your house, do you?

Cerberus

At least she rolled back Schröder's semi-corrupt affiliation with Putin.

RegDwight

@Cerberus Nah, that one never ended.

Schroeder is still on Gazprom's Board of Advisors or something.

Cerberus

@Reg: I will probably get cancer some day or other because of all the smog here in the capital.

@Reg: True. But at least SHE hates Putin as much as anyone should.

(I hope I haven't offended the Mafia minorities in countries all over the world.)

Robusto

Well, W. said he looked into Putin's eyes and saw his soul in there. What does that tell you?

Cerberus

W.? Bush?

Robusto

6:51 PM

The same.

Rhodri

That W needs glasses

Cerberus

I see.

Robusto

ihatethemedia.com/putin-bush-birthday-wishes

Martha

In other news, I just heard my niece say "awaba abawa". Quite distinctly. So there.

Robusto

@Martha — Baby-jack alert!

Cerberus

6:52 PM

I think we saw Putin's soul quite clearly when he had himself depicted as a crossover communist-fascist after he took his shift off and decided he was going to stand in a river or something.

Martha

]:-D

RegDwight

@Robusto Very nice, thanks. And it ain't even owned by Sony Musikunterhaltung.

Cerberus

Noo not the baby...

Robusto

This chat will dissolve into cuteness and sentimentality in 5 minutes. Clear the area!

Cerberus

Ah!! Jinx.

Martha

6:53 PM