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Mitch

12:00 AM

Ha ha! Like I would

Ha ha ! Like I would actually have a clue. It was in color if that helps.

KitFox

No.

Was The Doctor cute?

Was it Christopher Eccelston?

Mitch

58 secs ago, by Mitch

Ha ha ! Like I would actually have a clue. It was in color if that helps.

KitFox

You can't tell if a guy is cute?

sighs

Mitch

I thought the sidekick was cute. Does that narrow it down now?

tchrist

@KitFox Nope, never. That’s Cerb’s choice of words, not mine.

KitFox

12:02 AM

@Mitch Not really. Was it a woman?

Mitch

Don't take this the wrong way but ...hmm something tells me this is questionable tact...but do you happen to also like...

tchrist

@KitFox Surely anybody can tell whether anybody is cute. To pretend otherwise is lying to someone or other—perhaps to oneself.

@Rob decided to play through what parts of WTC#1 I know a bit of tonight. It really is fun the way things are so different, one to the next.

Puppies are cute.

And poody tats.

Robusto

@tchrist Yeah. I've been rocking the Italian Concerto again, since we were talking about it. I'm definitely rusty, but it shouldn't take more than a couple weeks to get it back under my fingers. God I love this piece.

Mitch

@KitFox yeah. she would have been hot had she been wearing something other than jeans and a hoodie. Consequently she was merely just very desirable.

user19161

Came at the right time.

KitFox

12:06 AM

@Mitch Was she blonde with an overly large and painted mouth?

tchrist

@Robusto I must be tripping: your just now mentioning sent it cascading through my brain as though I could hear it. Must because I’ve just been playing or something. Kinda odd.

user19161

@Robusto I did not know you speak to God.

Mitch

@KitFox I'm a dude, I don't remember details like that...I think what I just said was about as articulate and informative as it gets.

Robusto

@tchrist I have three fabulous recordings of it: Glenn Gould, Ralph Kirkpatrick, and Wanda Landowska. I can never decide which I like better.

tchrist

@Mitch Why do you say it when you mean you yourself? :)

Lemme check hm.

Mitch

12:08 AM

Oh...she was shorter than the 'Dr'

KitFox

So do I also like what?

user19161

Well, I am under the impression that every regular in this chat is bisexual.

KitFox

Hahahaha.

user19161

lol

Mitch

@tchrist no I meant it about what I -said-. Inside my head I am articulate and informative.

tchrist

12:09 AM

@Robusto I have Gould, Kirkpatrick, Dubrovka, and the Don Dorsey send-up.

@Mitch So is everyone else, I’m sure.

Mitch

@KitFox sorry, all this tweening has got me off track.

user19161

@Mitch I said it for you.

tchrist

@JasperLoy You just want them to all be available, you glutton!

user19161

@tchrist lol

tchrist

@Mitch Which track was that?

Mitch

12:10 AM

@tchrist No. No. I don't think so. Some people also have chaotic thoughts -inside- too.

user19161

But guys, really, for the 9000th time, I will tell you that I am hetero.

tchrist

@Mitch No, I meant that everyone else in your head is probably articulate, too.

Ladies.

Protesting.

Mucho.

Who can give me IPA for a typical Czech pronunciation of their cognate for Paul, “Pavel”?

Mitch

@tchrist I'll accept that. Ok, no, not everyone. Some of them are kind of silent.

KitFox

@Mitch It's making me crazy. You've got to tell me what other show you thought I might be into, but thought it might be insulting to ask!

Mitch

@tchrist I don't know. Who?

user19161

12:12 AM

@KitFox I like watching Gilmore Girls.

Mitch

@KitFox I was trying not to do that but it ended up being that way, and now I am pretty sure I will what's the word for it...not anger..not upset... oh yeah insult you.

OK out with it...the Twilight series.

KitFox

Hahahahahaha. Fuck no.

user19161

@Mitch Yes, I think Taylor Lautner is so cute.

Mitch

I found the Dr. Who dialog not as up to standard as the Twilight dialog/plot/etc.

KitFox

pfft

You have no class.

Mitch

12:14 AM

But...do I have a point?

KitFox

I have no idea.

tchrist

> Pavel Nedvěd (Czech pronunciation: [ˈpavɛl ˈnɛdvjɛt]

Hm.

Ok. They don’t reduce unstressed syllables I guess.

Mitch

I guess I'm just not entertained by stories about -made up- magic. Whereas Harry Potter is for real magic.

user19161

Harry Potter = HP = Hewlett Packard

KitFox

@Mitch Sure. It depends on what your looking for in your entertainment selections.

Mitch

12:17 AM

So, can you explain to me what is so good about Dr Who?

KitFox

No, I don't think so. Let me see if I can find a video clip that will though.

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tchrist

@Mitch In principio creavit Deus caelum et terram.

KitFox

@Mitch "The triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism"

Which is naturally unheard of in America, where the smart girls who wear glasses are always made fun of and never asked on dates.

Mitch

OK...IMDB'd it. Yes, the one I saw was with Christopher Eccleston. and no I really don't see what people see in him, looks = not much, character = execrable. And the sidekick (Rose?) turns out to be of course hot blond and big lipped, but she seemed quite ... as my wife would say... 'acceessible'.

I'm just being objective here.

KitFox

That was a particularly crappy season, IMHO.

David Tennant was a thousand times better.

Mitch

12:23 AM

without yet clicking on that link it looks from here like a Saturday Night Live spoof of ..something.

@KitFox But you actually think Eccleston is hot?

KitFox

Matt Smith is suitably goofy. I like him a lot, but I don't crush on him like Tennant.

@Mitch No.

tchrist

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KitFox

David Tennant was a playful, yet broody, romantic interest kind of Doctor. Matt Smith is a fun, playful, yet terrifying-undercurrent-of-power-don't-fuck-with-him, kind of Doctor.

Mitch

@tchrist oh yeah that was my other topic for the day...wtf it's the twenty first century and people still spend time in public even considering that stuff, two thousand year old campfire myths? Stuff to scare kids with and for old ladies to drink tea over and stupid teenagers to blow themselves up over?

Cerberus

Shrunk down an Arduino to the size of a finger-tip!

12:26 AM

That's his natural accent there.

For comparison.

Mitch

@KitFox ok finally saw it. it's not funny because I don't get it!

Robusto

@tchrist I don't know the latter two.

tchrist

@KitFox I just got that clip for ya.

KitFox

@Mitch I didn't say it was funny. It was the part with the phrase I was looking for.

tchrist

12:29 AM

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Mitch

Oh wow, that is David Tennant?

KitFox

8 mins ago, by KitFox

@Mitch "The triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism"

RegDwighт

@tchrist that's fascinating.

KitFox

@Mitch Yeah. He's frigging adorable.

tchrist

@RegDwighт Isn’t that cool!?

RegDwighт

12:30 AM

Some people have too much time.

Mitch

whoa media overload!

tchrist

The C#m fugue from book 2 has fricking butterfly animations.

RegDwighт

Oh, haven't seen that one. Hold on.

K WTF

tchrist

Butterflies.

RegDwighт

Them is not helping.

tchrist

12:32 AM

Super odd.

RegDwighт

Them is covering up important thing.

tchrist

I actually think they mean something.

RegDwighт

Eww, now they have become midgets. I mean, maggots.

Nature is gross. Gimme less nature and more Bach.

Robusto

Das stimmt.

tchrist

Chrysalides, or however you say that.

RegDwighт

12:35 AM

Die Natur ist nicht wohltemperiert.

Per definition.

tchrist

Hah.

RegDwighт

@tchrist I try to not say that. Whenever I can.

Tchrysalides.

tchrist

@RegDwighт Call ’em pupus. People’ll understand ja.

RegDwighт

I read in wiki the other day that you had another nick.

Something with something.

Don't remember a letter.

tchrist

@RegDwighт Who me? Thoth.

RegDwighт

12:36 AM

Yeah something.

tchrist

Long ago and far away, ’fore these chilluns was even hatchèd.

RegDwighт

I only know Thor.

KitFox

Owl-headed god.

tchrist

I was really into Zelazny’s Creatures of Light and Darkness as a kid. And it’s still cool.

KitFox

Or ibis? No, that was Horus, wasn't it?

tchrist

12:38 AM

Ibis.

Horus was a falcon or something.

KitFox

Oh that's right.

tchrist

Anubis the jackal.

RegDwighт

Horus is a horrible name. It reminds me of Bogus, which is a Whoopy Goldberg movie, which is horrible. Horrible.

tchrist

You should read the Zelazny. It is in print again.

@RegDwighт Horological.

KitFox

Sekhmet the lioness.

RegDwighт

12:40 AM

Nov 15 '12 at 16:20, by Robusto

@RegDwighт That's half of the joke. The other half is that she is famous for anything.

KitFox

What was the crocodile-headed god of the Nile? I can't remember his name.

tchrist

A black Goldberg is well, an odd variation.

RegDwighт

@KitFox Sekhmet was a planet in Jet Force Gemini, if memory serves me right.

tchrist

Sobek.

RegDwighт

Nov 15 '12 at 16:19, by RegDwighт

@tchrist It only just occurred to me that her last name is Jewish.

KitFox

12:41 AM

@RegDwighт Also the goddess of vengence.

tchrist

Nemesis.

KitFox

Well, you know, they say that Sammy Davis Jr was only part of the Rat Pack because he was their token Jew.

RegDwighт

@KitFox yeah my point being, all planets in Jet Force Gemini had very cryptic names, and nobody has ever figured even one of them out. Not even the devs. So TIL Sekhmet does mean something else.

tchrist

Oh, I think they all toked up.

user19161

@RegDwighт I see you are back to the owl.

KitFox

12:43 AM

@RegDwighт Well, that makes me feel cozy.

RegDwighт

@Robusto Double jeopardy was yet another horrible movie, this time without Whoopy, who'd have thunk.

@JasperLoy I have been for like this long.

KitFox

user19161

@RegDwighт I have not seen you in this chat for 9000 years.

tchrist

Robusto

@RegDwighт I was sufficiently aware not to see that.

RegDwighт

12:45 AM

Anyway, in lieu of Whoopy, Double Jeopardy had Ashley Judd. Judd. Which is like Jude. Which is not a Beatles song but German for jew. Coincidence? I think not!

It's judes all the way down.

tchrist

Herschel Schacter just died. He can say hello to them on the way down.

KitFox

I remember that from Band Of Brothers.

Robusto

Now I can never listen to Heil Jude again.

RegDwighт

@Robusto so was I, but only after the fact. Sometimes sufficiency is not sufficient; timing is important, too!

Robusto

What's the most important element of comedy?

Timing!

RegDwighт

12:46 AM

@Robusto well yes. Hey jew, don't make it bad.

tchrist

@RegDwighт That’s don’t take a bad.

RegDwighт

It's almost like Let the Mighty Igel Soar.

Robusto

Take a swan song, and make it bitter.

RegDwighт

That was yet another horrible movie. Black Swan.

This chat is horribly moving today.

Robusto

And yet I like Natalie Portman. But not with wing stubble. She sucks with wing stubble.

user19161

12:47 AM

@KitFox I just saw your blog and that you are nanowrimo winner.

KitFox

@JasperLoy blinks

RegDwighт

@Robusto Dude. I am, like, her biggest fan. Like, you know. But that movie. Goddamnit.

user19161

@KitFox Is there only one winner or many?

tchrist

@Robusto You prefer unshaven or unclipped?

RegDwighт

What's worse, it was directed by the same guy who made The Fountain, IIRC.

And The Fountain is like on my Top 10 Ever.

KitFox

12:48 AM

@JasperLoy Oh. Oh! No, you get the badge if you write more than 50,000 words in November. Anyone can earn it.

user19161

@KitFox Ah, but it's still a feat!

KitFox

Yes, thank you.

Robusto

@tchrist If you're going to 86 the wings, you have to do a full Brazilian. I'm just saying.

KitFox

makes notes about Brazilians

RegDwighт

Nov 29 '12 at 22:53, by RegDwighт

Brazilians are not funny.

user19161

12:50 AM

I don't like my leg hair.

RegDwighт

Make that note as well.

Robusto

Speaking of which, dreams are real, dammit.

KitFox

makes more notes about Brazilians

user19161

Perhaps I should do a waxing as well.

tchrist

SCREAMS

Robusto

12:50 AM

Jasper, nobody wants to see you waxed. Or unwaxed.

RegDwighт

Robusto

Just leave the wax alone and step out of the room.

RegDwighт

@tchrist well I don't need to tell you how horrible these movies were.

user19161

If an owl does waxing, it will have no more feathers.

tchrist

münches on stifling another scream

RegDwighт

12:52 AM

Funny how some things cannot be unseen, but nothing can't be unwaxed.

Count the litotae's. Count them.

Robusto

And that is the unvarnished truth.

tchrist

It’s remarkable what you can do with superglue and a merkin to fix what ails Jasper.

user19161

I am glad I have no chest hair though.

Robusto

C'mon, people, we can't unthink these thoughts. Can't we leave some things unsaid?

RegDwighт

Superglue, you say.

I apologize for the faux em dash.

Robusto

12:54 AM

HAC means wet, yes?

RegDwighт

No, that means "us".

That's not German, Rob. That's Russian. Make notes.

Robusto

OK, translation please. I read the Angela Merkel part just fine.

RegDwighт

Oh I thought you were making a translingual joke.

Robusto

They lost me at the caption.

Oh, that. Yes, I was.

But I don't understand the rest of it.

tchrist

Great, tranny to the rescue.

Robusto

12:56 AM

Except for "in Germany" ...

RegDwighт

"Angela Merkel: the very best superglue we have here, in Germany".

To preserve the word order.

Robusto

You know, I think it was funnier when I didn't understand what they were saying.

tchrist

Yow, superglued merkins galore.

RegDwighт

I don't think the text is the point.

With those demotivational posters, it never is.

Robusto

Then what the fuck are we doing here? Text is entirely the point in chat.

RegDwighт

12:57 AM

Anyone can write a crap caption to a great picture.

@Robusto you so backwards. I am videochatting right now. Shouting at the monitor. In 3D.

I just shouted, in 3D, "you are so backwards". That was fun. You must try.

KitFox

You're 3D videochatting and in here chatting?

user19161

I have never done videochatting.

tchrist

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user19161

Should try it out one of these days.

RegDwighт

@tchrist .sdrawkcab ton ,sdrawnwod s'tahT

Robusto

12:59 AM

OK, OK ... you know how I pride myself in knowing Japanese culture? Well, I never really watched any anime except Cowboy Bebop. Up until yesterday. I watched some anime because Netflix has a whole fucking genre devoted to it. And ... well, I'm back to Square One with my understanding of all things Japanese.

Them peoples is fuckin' weird.

KitFox

Did you watch Akira?

Robusto

No.

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