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Spare Oom

21:03

I'm out too.

RegDwight

Night!

Robusto

21:15

Keerist, are you guys still here? Don't you have anything useful to do?

RegDwight

Well, at least one Commie is still lurking, or so I'm told.

Robusto

Sounds like a Commie.

They lurk.

RegDwight

That's how they roll.

Robusto

@Kosmonaut — See, that's just the kind of thing a decent moderator ought to delete with fire. No, better yet, nuke from orbit.

@RegDwight That's right. They roll up for The Magical Misery Tour.

RegDwight

Don't worry, we're about to merge Kosmonaut with his evil twin.

TMMT?

Now that's a nice palindrome.

Robusto

21:21

@RegDwight — Wait, I thought Kosmonaut was the evil twin.

RegDwight

Yeah, I was just being nice. Don't worry, won't happen again.

Robusto

@Kosmonaut — They leave scars. Very dashing.

[Pause as @RegDwight looks up "dashing" in the dictionary, then heads for a Wikipedia reference.]

RegDwight

Huh? RegDwight is browsing SovMusic right now.

Robusto

Wow, all two of it?

RegDwight

March of Stalin's Air Force

Robusto

21:24

See, this is why we won the Cold War. An air force is supposed to fly, not march. Geez.

RegDwight

sovmusic.ru/m/ussr_eng.mp3

Robusto

Yeah, right. Like I'm going to download that virus to my computer. Nice try.

RegDwight

Viruses will be delivered directly to your backyard.

Links are safe.

Robusto

Why they sing in English?

RegDwight

I picked that one for you.

Robusto

21:29

Ah. The version of Russian that only uses English words.

RegDwight

Yes.

Apr 28 at 20:19, by RegDwight

Sarkozy admits French language a hoax after Wikileaks exposé

Robusto

Must be a Western dialect.

RegDwight

Wow they even have one in German...

I... I don't understand a single word.

Robusto

Well, that's very, uh ... stirring. That and KGB machine guns behind them were no doubt all it took to get the soldiers marching on to victory.

RegDwight

sovmusic.ru/m/ussr_g2.mp3

I don't understand a single phoneme.

Robusto

21:32

Choral works with orchestra are like that.

RegDwight

Ah wait, I understood something with "wir haben verstanden" at the beginning of the third couplet...

Robusto

I can't even understand a lot of choral works in English.

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Q: What's the difference between a 'Sourcer' and a 'Recruiter'?

In HR terms, what's the difference between a 'Sourcer' and a 'Recruiter'? Why is one preferred over the other?

RegDwight

O God, they even have one in Lithuanian.

And lo and behold, I understand every single phoneme.

Robusto

The difference is in the anagrams: "Sourcer" anagrams to "courser" and "Recruiter" anagrames to "truer rice".

RegDwight

And I speak like two and a half words worth of Lithuanian.

Apr 19 at 19:32, by Kosmonaut

You're an anagram.

Robusto

21:35

That's 2.5 more than I speak.

RegDwight

In fact, you're an anagram of U.S. ROBOT.

Robusto

anagrams => ars magna

RegDwight

According to our meta.

Robusto

@RegDwight — Busted.

Also "so to rub" ...

RegDwight

That explains a lot.

1 hour ago, by RegDwight

People rub stuff too often in this room.

Robusto

21:37

And "S.O.B. Tour"

RegDwight

And "root bus".

That's an awful misspelling of route.

Robusto

Also "sour bot"

You're a "dreg wight"

RegDwight

yesterday, by RegDwight

@Fx I would prefer RedDwarf, for obvious reasons.

Robusto

@Martha => "rat ham"

F'x => x'F ... OMG!!!

RegDwight

Kosmonaut is something about US Atom...

Robusto

21:40

Kosmonaut anagrams to "man tookus" — ROFLMAO!!!

Or "tookus man"

Or "Took us, man" — but that's not as funny.

RegDwight

Not bad.

That explains that comment of his that he cowardly deleted.

"@Robusto Sorry, I crap in my sleep sometimes."

psmears

RegDwight+Robusto => Outgrows bed girth

Robusto

That's what he said?

RegDwight

@Robusto Yes.

Mods can still see it, in fact.

Mr. Disappointment

-cleans up-

RegDwight

21:43

As they can see all of MrD's deleted stuff.

Robusto

psmears => "as sperm"

RegDwight

Well that one was obvious.

(Where's the second S?)

psmears

touché

Robusto

@RegDwight — Hey, he threw down on me first.

RegDwight

As long as he doesn't throw up on you.

Mr. Disappointment

21:45

@RegDwight That's fine, of course, just reflexes when I realised my stupidity had* overcome me, once again.

*I've contained it now, ...for now.

psmears

@RegDwight "as sperm" doesn't make it any better

RegDwight

@psmears It also doesn't make it any worse.

Robusto

Also, psmears is "Mr. Passé"

He is totally pwned now.

psmears

/resists urge to quote chat context from hours ago in apparent non-sequitur

RegDwight

You have your badge for today, relax.

psmears

21:47

@Robusto Just watch out. I have kittens and I'm prepared to use them.

MrHen

23 secs ago, by psmears

/resists urge to quote chat context from hours ago in apparent non-sequitur

Did I do it right?

Robusto

@psmears — You wouldn't. That would be breaking all kinds of rules.

RegDwight

MrHen anagrams to Commie Mutant Traitor from Texas.

MrHen

@RegDwight in Texas.

Robusto

Alain Pannetier => A "Le Nain" painter

Le Nain

The three Le Nain brothers were painters in 17th-century France: Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). They produced genre works, portraits and portrait miniatures. Lives and work The Le Nain brothers were born in Laon (Mathieu in 1607; Antoine and Louis were originally believed to have been born in 1588 and 1593, respectively, but those dates have since been disputed: they may have instead been born just before and just after 1600), and by 1630, all three lived in Paris. In 1648 the three brothers were received into the Académie d...

For those who don't get the reference.

RegDwight

21:49

Le nain geant is a nice book.

(No accents today, sorry.)

Robusto

Shit, I wish I could make money with anagrams. It's the only godlike power I possess.

RegDwight

paperbackswap.com/Le-Nain-Geant-Marc-Petit/book/2234025303

A very interesting book about those chess automatons.

The end was a bit disappointing and rather rushed, but apart from that, a good read.

MrHen

@RegDwight That's what she said?

RegDwight

You're doing it wrong.

(And that's what she really said.)

Robusto

No. What she really said was, "Is it in?"

RegDwight

21:53

Within you, without you...

MrHen

With or without you?

Robusto

Q. What are three words meaning "too small"? A. "Is it in?"

RegDwight

@MrHen Careful, U2 translates to instant kick in this room.

Robusto

@RegDwight — Is that directed to me?

MrHen

@RegDwight And by instant you mea-

RegDwight

21:54

Yes.

Robusto

BTW, @RegDwight, I have failboated The Discovery of Heaven severely.

So I gave it to my wife to read — and she reads anything — and she didn't last five pages.

RegDwight

Hm

I find this hard to believe.

I must check what the first five pages are.

Robusto

But then I gave her a copy of The Eight and she couldn't put it down. Seriously, she was reading it at, like, breakfast.

RegDwight

I think there's some preamble or something before the actual book begins.

@Robusto Still on my list.

Robusto

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Q: Adverb Game: Where language goes to die.

I played a game with a group of people in which: one person would leave the room an adverb would be decided with the remaining people the person would return and then ask people perform certain acts if asked to do somethign you would need to do it in the manner of the adverb chosen Things sta...

adverbs

Oh come on ...

RegDwight

22:00

Ehhh

Was ist das?

It's so strange my close skillz are paralyzed.

Na toll, und jetzt kommen die Flags.

Actually, I would like to see how fast this would get closed by the community.

Speaking of which, welcome to the 3k club, @Orbling!

Orbling, London, United Kingdom

3k 1 4 13

meaning word-choice phrases british-english slang idioms expressions

Oh. Too bad it shows 3k. Because the actual number is exactly 3000.

Alain Pannetier

@Robusto, congrats for my anagram, these painters are not so well known outside France (and even inside I must say).

Robusto

@AlainPannetier — C'est ne fait rien. [I think that's how it goes.]

Alain Pannetier

you probably mean "don't mention it".

Robusto

@RegDwight — So, what you're saying, if I understand you correctly, is that it would take more than three Orblings to be over 9000!

RegDwight

Hm. I'm holding The Discovery of Heaven right now. I can see how the prologue is not everybody's thing. (Though IIRC it was my thing when I was 15-odd.)

Robusto

22:10

@AlainPannetier — Was trying to say, "It's nothing."

Alain Pannetier

c'est rien

RegDwight

Have you tried skipping directly to the Family Feast?

The first chapter.

Robusto

@RegDwight — I have not.

RegDwight

Well, I won't coerce you, but...

Robusto

Partly it's because I've been working so hard lately. I haven't been reading anything. Just working, a little chat, a little video, and a little sleep. And damned little else.

RegDwight

22:11

I mean, I found the first chapter of Foucault's Pendulum boring, too.

Robusto

I will look again when I have a free brain.

RegDwight

I started reading at page 110 or something.

That's what I would always do as a child.

I hated the first chapters of the Three Musketeers, too.

Same about Robinson Crusoe.

Or Swift.

Robusto

When I was a kid I would get 6 books at a time from the library (the limit) and then I would read a chapter of each before deciding which to read first.

RegDwight

Apr 14 at 13:07, by RegDwight

In fact it might make some sense to take a pause before reading that one.

Robusto

Three Musketeers, Robinson Crusoe, Swift — liked, liked, liked.

I will take another go at it when I am fresh.

RegDwight

22:13

Yes, yes, and yes. But that didn't change my reading habits until very late in life.

Robusto

AFK.

Alain Pannetier

Good night all !

Night alls/owls should I probably say ;-)

kiamlaluno

OK; where is the second reply?

Somebody has hidden the second reply to not let me find it.

RegDwight

Huh?

I pay a short visit to the fridge, everyone's out, kiamlaluno's in.

And Dori, of course.

Actually, I just noticed the time...

Gonna make my rounds on other sites, then call it a day.

Hey @kiamlaluno, you wanna vote on this one?

kiamlaluno

@RegDwight I will do it, just if you tell me the answer.

RegDwight

22:24

Now I'm confused.

Which answer?

I'm secretive!

kiamlaluno

I thought visits to the refrigerator would be free.

RegDwight

God, I really have to go to bed, I just misread the title of this question as "What is a good software that allows on-the-fly pooping?"

kiamlaluno

@RegDwight The answer to the question! Did you give me the link for a online shop that sells bagels?

RegDwight

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Q: What is a good software that allows on-the-fly looping?

I would like to practice playing solo by looping and mixing on the go, especially with a guitar. For an example of that, if anyone knows KT Tunstall's performance of Black Horse and a Cherry Tree, in which she managed to loop the percussion and the supporting strums to free herself for the lea...

software

True story.

@kiamlaluno The answer is 42.

kiamlaluno

@RegDwight Is that how much you must pay a visit to the fridge?

RegDwight

22:27

Now if only they would finally tell you the answer to your Area51 question...

I have a Fanatic badge there, dammit.

kiamlaluno

On Area 51? When did you get it?

RegDwight

A while ago.

Like, months.

kiamlaluno

I asked about those badges, and the fact Area 51 doesn't report how much consecutive days you visited the site, but nothing.

RegDwight

I did notice that they removed that field from the user profile.

But I could never be bothered to ask why.

I have commented on Robert's answer to your question, actually.

kiamlaluno

Then, it was a relatively recent change.

RegDwight

22:31

It was approximately around the time they introduced the discussion zone.

Probably on the same day.

If memory serves me right.

kiamlaluno

@RegDwight They will not; I am not the 5th user in the rep hit parade.

That would explain the change; I guess that those badges have been removed the same day.

In that case, they should change date format for the activity log.

I read that somebody got that badge on April 29; I would take it means the month of this year.

RegDwight

Well, the badges are still there.

It's just that nobody is getting any new ones.

MrHen

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Q: Isn’t a word missing?

I’m　quoting a part of the article titled “Pakistan Sees Shared Intelligence Lapse” written by Alan Cowell in today’s (May 4) New York Time’s Asia Pacific section (online edition) simply by cut-and-pasting of the text: “After the meeting, Mr. Gilani that he did not believe the United States ...

words

Okay, that is too much for me.

I don't mind Yoichi questions... but this is just proofreading.

kiamlaluno

@RegDwight I do remember you can see the chat history, including the deleted posts. :-)

That is why I commented with "I will delete my post, so @RegDwight will not see I agreed with you." ;-)

@brilliant Because such questions are close to be proof-reading, IMO.

@MrHen Which is the missing word, anyway? ;-)

RegDwight

22:51

Okay, party people, I'm out!

kiamlaluno

@RegDwight Buh bye!

Next time I will pay a refrigerator visit for you.

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