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tchrist

9:00 PM

poor ewes

KitFox

Hmm.

RegDwighт

See, even tchrist is awake as soon as someone mentions money. And it's not even real money.

tchrist

> As 2014 looms, GOP using Weiner against Bill Clinton

Who writes these?

RegDwighт

Who used his wiener against Bill Clinton???

tchrist

The elefunt brigade.

RegDwighт

9:01 PM

I didn't realize Ms Lewinski was from Transsexual Transylvania.

tchrist

She’s changed.

KitFox

Is she hot now or something?

RegDwighт

Something.

tchrist

I think she’s fat now.

KitFox

Now?

RegDwighт

9:02 PM

Well, fat can be heated up.

KitFox

That implies a state change.

tchrist

At which point it becomes grease.

Robusto

Edible, beddable,
All of the Frenchies are
Cheezy and breezy and
Full of hot air.

If you should speak to one
Anglophonetically
Don't be surprised if they
Don't see you there.

2

RegDwighт

You can make Freedom fries with fat.

tchrist

Therefore, it has changed state.

RegDwighт

9:02 PM

@Robusto what language is that?

@KitFox yeah from Kansas to Minnesota.

tchrist

The language of angels, of course.

Robusto

@RegDwighт You need me to narrow it down to a language?

tchrist

I think Reg missed the double-dactyl fête.

KitFox

@Robusto applauds

RegDwighт

@Robusto I don't need you. Hurts to hear, I know.

Robusto

9:03 PM

@RegDwighт Your wanting me is enough, I guess.

KitFox

OMGOMGOMG are RegRob splitting up???

RegDwighт

@Robusto Glad we share an interest.

Mahnax

@KitFox sheds tear

tchrist

Like bread, it’s the only way to get a rise out of him.

RegDwighт

@KitFox OMGOMGOMG you're not paying attention to the Chathall or whatever it's called!

tchrist

9:04 PM

GOM is too close to GOP for my tasties.

RegDwighт

And I, for that matter, am not watching Community.

This is a sad world.

@tchrist GOMNOMNOMNOMNOM.

tchrist

Gnomic.

KitFox

@RegDwighт Sure I am. Shog's talking and stuff.

RegDwighт

@tchrist that's Russian for "little dwarf".

tchrist

And Stuff.

KitFox

9:05 PM

But the drama in EL&U chat!

RegDwighт

No, not just dwarf. Little dwarf.

Cerberus

@RegDwighт Uh what?

RegDwighт

The -ik is a diminutive suffix.

tchrist

@RegDwighт Naw, doitcher.

RegDwighт

@Cerberus wrong.

The answer is, over a billion.

tchrist

9:06 PM

It’s some Greek thing actually.

RegDwighт

500 million+, with two Is each, that's over 1 billion Is in total.

Cerberus

@RegDwighт Only that many? Not over 9000?

tchrist

> gnocchi gnome gnomed gnome-owl gnomic gnomical gnomide gnomish gnomist gnomologic gnomological gnomologist gnomology gnomometry gnomon gnomonic gnomonical gnomonically gnomonless gnomonological gnomonology -gnomy gnoscopine -gnosia gnosiological gnosiology gnosis -gnosis gnostic gnostical gnostically Gnosticism gnosticity gnosticize gnosticizing gnostology -gnosy gnotobiology gnotobiosis gnotobiotic gnotobiotics

RegDwighт

►

KitFox

OK, who set off the tchrist?

tchrist

9:07 PM

@RegDwighт No kitty porn in this chat.

KitFox

frowns That link is misbehaving.

RegDwighт

That's not kitty porn. That's Pavel Kashin.

tchrist

Is he a little dwarf?

RegDwighт

The song is about little dwarves.

It's an excellent song, too.

tchrist

Helvetic Confederation?

RegDwighт

9:09 PM

He groks songwriting.

tchrist

Definitely saved on the make-up budget.

Cerberus

@RegDwighт Not bad.

I obviously have no idea what he's singing.

RegDwighт

@Cerberus wait till you understand Russian.

Yeah.

Cerberus

waits

Is it time yet?

waits longer

How about now?

RegDwighт

I dunno. I would suppose when you understand it, you'd type understands. Have you typed understands yet?

Cerberus

9:11 PM

No...

waits

RegDwighт

Well.

tchrist

Isn’t the picture good enough?

Cerberus

And now?

RegDwighт

For something completely different.

tchrist

I’ve got a American friend who knows someone named Pavel, whom he insists on calling pa-VELL. I have no idea why.

Cerberus

9:12 PM

Isn't that how it's pronounced?

tchrist

Not PA-vl?

but pa-VELL?

Really?

RegDwighт

It's PAvell in every language including French.

If the French can do it, so can you.

tchrist

That’s what I thought!

I keep telling him it’s more like pebble than gazelle, but he won’t listen to me.

Cerberus

Really, stress on PA?

KitFox

Doesn't he watch Star Trek?

tchrist

9:14 PM

@KitFox I pointed that out, actually.

RegDwighт

Tell him how the pope was Pawl, and not Paúl.

KitFox

Pavel is one of those names that you eat.

tchrist

I tried to get him to said it more like hovel.

I failed.

Cerberus

Ah, right. Pavel is Paul, I forgot.

tchrist

Of course.

Robusto

9:15 PM

In Bizarro world, there is a French composer named Lessice Unravel.

RegDwighт

I have to ask, how does he pronounce cockpit?

Robusto

@RegDwighт The pit is silent.

Cerberus

Haha wtf.

RegDwighт

That's what I thinked.

tchrist

He probably pronounces it “gay bar”.

RegDwighт

9:17 PM

@tchrist sounds about right.

KitFox

Sure sounds like a gay bar.

Or a pilot hangout.

tchrist

I think the E fell off.

KitFox

Except that then they ought to have a plane on it.

tchrist

NOTE: A Gay Bar

Robusto

Well, if you have to say "Not a gay bar" on your sign, why don't you just change the frickin' sign?

RegDwighт

9:17 PM

@tchrist e-Cockpit? That's only online.

tchrist

No bare gays

RegDwighт

Oh that E.

tchrist

Not a gay bear

RegDwighт

I think that answers @Rob's question.

Robusto

Well, I remember seeing a pub in England called "The Bird in Hand" and wondering what the ramifications of that might be.

tchrist

9:18 PM

Aww

RegDwighт

@tchrist don't get all teary, it's shopped.

tchrist

@Robusto Ask your local mouton.

RegDwighт

tchrist

heh

RegDwighт

Actually here's a better illustration of Rob's point.

Robusto

9:20 PM

See? Not lying.

tchrist

Nice jesses.

RegDwighт

That looks like straight out of Blackadder.

Of whom I saw the last episode, which made me giddy indeed. Thanks Tom.

tchrist

Pretty plump pigeon.

Robusto

No rufter hood, though. Here's looking at you, kid.

tchrist

mews

RegDwighт

9:21 PM

@Robusto Schaue mir in die Augen, Kleines.

Robusto

@RegDwighт Ich sehe nichts als Übel.

tchrist

I can’t believe they’re just giving away houses. There must be some strings attached.

RegDwighт

I love German dubbing from that period. You can watch any episode of Star Trek TOS twice, once in German, once in English, and experience two completely different stories.

It's quite hilarious.

tchrist

@RegDwighт It was really quite fun, yeah. Welcome.

RegDwighт

They honestly don't give a shit wtf it is Kirk is actually saying. They have their own writers on pay.

Robusto

9:23 PM

Solche Vögel darf man nicht stören.

tchrist

What’s an austringer?

RegDwighт

A stranger from Austria.

MετάEd

@RegDwighт Really. It would be interesting to see how they handle the episode "Patterns Of Force". The Nazi episode.

Cerberus

> My sister-in-law wants to move to South America so she can be closer to her boyfriend. She does not want to take her two sons, 15-year-old Chris and 6-year-old Matt, with her. She assumed my husband and I would take them in...

RegDwighт

@MετάEd see, I've probably seen that one but I couldn't tell, as in German it's probably titled Santa's Socks.

Robusto

9:24 PM

Ausstreicher?

MετάEd

@tchrist I want to say that's like a falconer. But that's from poor memory.

RegDwighт

Oh the Nazi episode. Hm. Which Nazi episode?

tchrist

Santa has no ox, he has caribou!

MετάEd

@RegDwighт It's the "Patterns Of Force" episode called "Patterns Of Force".

Cerberus

Nazis in Austria?? Surely that's a mistake.

tchrist

9:25 PM

@MετάEd Yes: one who hunts with accipiters, in fact.

MετάEd

Not the other one.

Robusto

@Cerberus Someone get Kurt Waldheim on the phone. He'll refute that straightaway.

Cerberus

Who?

KitFox

@Cerberus What?

Cerberus

That.

tchrist

9:26 PM

Gorsh.

RegDwighт

They were denazified at that time. That's not the point. I'd expect them to handle the Nazi stuff just fine. It'd be completely strange, secondary stuff they'd be changing.

Cerberus

slate.com/articles/life/dear_prudence/2013/07/…

Robusto

Damn. There's a whole bunch of 'em.

RegDwighт

And it's not like they'd be changing it for lip sync reasons. No, really for no reason whatsoever.

KitFox

Oh Prudie. Of Course.

RegDwighт

9:28 PM

So you're back from the chathall?

MετάEd

@RegDwighт I think I learned that there are some special limitations on speech when it comes to references to the Nazi era. No idea what those might be.

RegDwighт

How's things?

How's Batman?

KitFox

Hush. I'm trying to do several things at once.

RegDwighт

@MετάEd not in comedy or art.

tchrist

@RegDwighт Pronounced chattel, no doubt.

RegDwighт

9:29 PM

You can't go around sporting a swastika or shouting Heil Hitler, but you can do so in a movie or a performance.

tchrist

What sport is there in that?

RegDwighт

@tchrist easy athletics, as they are called in Germany.

Leichtathletik

Laufen, Springen und Werfen stellen seit Urzeiten die natürlichen und grundlegenden Bewegungsabläufe der Menschen dar. Die Leichtathletik (frühere Bezeichnung auch Volksturnen) hat diese in feste Bahnen des Sports gelenkt und durch ein umfangreiches Regelwerk die individuelle Leistung exakt vergleichbar und messbar gemacht. Sie steht damit Pate für das Motto „Schneller, höher, weiter“ und bildet mit ihren Disziplinen das Herzstück der Olympischen Spiele. Breitensportliche Bedeutung jenseits des Leistungsanspruchs hat vor allem der Ausdauerlauf gewonnen. Wesen Die Leichtathletik ist e...

tchrist

Er, that’s Track&Field.

I think.

RegDwighт

It's funny how the Germans have Hard Athletics, but for you it's just athletics. Boasting much?

@tchrist and javelin and disk and pole vault...

tchrist

@RegDwighт Yes, exactly.

No parallel bars. No target practice of swastikas.

RegDwighт

9:33 PM

Crap. The Scottish love these so much.

Well. You can't have your chocolate bar and drink it, too.

And I really gotta go free up some space on my TV.

Lators or morrows.

KitFox

9:45 PM

@RegDwighт Caber toss?

Damn it. This is a really bad time to have a visual migraine.

Robusto

9:58 PM

Mahlzeit.

Cerberus

10:20 PM

Looks like Apple has lost the tablet war too, big time.

Down from 17.0 million sales to 14.6 million, while Android went up from 18.5 million to 34.6 million.

It is a bit scary, Android's total dominance...

MετάEd

@Cerberus Turns out Steve Jobs had been buying a tablet every three minutes for personal use.

Cerberus

@MετάEd OMG you've found out his secret! And yet he had plenty of money to spare.

Cerberus

10:55 PM

Yay, Bitcoins are on the rise again.

MετάEd

11:17 PM

Sometimes you see them in broad daylight.

Cerberus

11:39 PM

@MετάEd Haha wow.

tchrist

Did you see that the Galician train driver was on the “phone” chattering away and reading a “document” when he killed 79 people? When will the madness end? People don’t kill people: “phones” do.

In other news today, it was revealed that in a startling feat of modern-day alchemy, scientists have converted piss into teeth!

Cerberus

@tchrist Yes.

Weird.

Robusto

11:56 PM

@tchrist I've heard of milk teeth, but piss teeth?

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