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KitFox

19:00

How does that not rhyme?

Sheesh.

RegDwigнt

Well it doesn't in French.

KitFox

melon definitely easily rhymes with swellin.

RegDwigнt

More like swell on.

KitFox

melonswellinmelonswellinmelonswellin

Swell on? What are you, Gandalf?

It's not Mell On. It's melon.

RegDwigнt

Yeah, and Napoleon got beat by Wellongton. Raiiight.

KitFox

19:03

WTF? You trolling me?

Sorry, trollon me?

RegDwigнt

No. If I were, you wouldn't notice.

I am a artist.

KitFox

You is indeed.

Holy keyboard lag.

RegDwigнt

So Saturday was an AFOL Day.

oerkelens

@RegDwigнt I guess the question is: how do I pronounce "go tyu" :D

KitFox

Shall I record it tonight?

RegDwigнt

19:04

Wiki has recordings.

KitFox

omgomgomg! @Matt I should read all your limericks for asmr!

Matt Эллен

@KitFox yeah!

RegDwigнt

Who is asmr.

Sounds like some kind of vezir.

KitFox

You know.

Matt Эллен

a small mouse rodent

KitFox

19:05

Why you ask again?

RegDwigнt

"Dear Asmr," spake the Padishah.

oerkelens

@RegDwigнt I have recordings too. They are not useful in case of swellon melons

Johan Larsson

@MattЭллен have you seen the true facts series?

RegDwigнt

Cool grass blowing up the pass
Don't you know I'm feeling melon
I love your Roman nose, the way you curl your toes baby
Make me feel so melon.

Matt Эллен

@JohanLarsson is that the MS one?

RegDwigнt

19:06

Feb 20 at 16:46, by RegDwigнt

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Matt Эллен

if so, yes, I've seen a few of the vids

RegDwigнt

I'd rather watch untrue facts.

True facts is like everywhere. Borin.

Sorry, boron. Molten.

Johan Larsson

@MattЭллен the one about buttholes etc.

I can't deny I found it funny

Matt Эллен

@JohanLarsson oh!ze frank! yeah, I've seen those. I forgot it was called that :D

KitFox

I really don't want Google Glass. I wish YouTube would stop suggesting it to me.

RegDwigнt

19:09

Google Glass blowing up the pass
Don't you know I'm feeling melon.

KitFox

Holy crud, I am late for leaving.

RegDwigнt

@Mitch so you're saying red herring is basically chocolate.

Robusto

@KitFox I like yours better.

BTW, I thought your wimp.com link was hilarious.

KitFox

Thanks x2

Johan Larsson

It was a jinx post, I posted it before :)

oerkelens

19:11

the expert link was painful.

painfully recognizable

Robusto

Did we ever decide if there are untrue facts?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto So did 60.425 other people. You should like found a nation or somethin.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Bad luck for that odd 0.425 person, yeah?

I don't think he was trying 100%.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto take it up with your tube. I copypastaed.

Johan Larsson

@Robusto there are opinions stated as facts, they are bad.

RegDwigнt

19:12

To this day I still do not know how to parse "YouTube".

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Take it up with my tube? Did you just tell me to go fuck myself?

Matt Эллен

@JohanLarsson ha! I hadn't seen that one

RegDwigнt

@Robusto take it up to find out!

The International Phrasal Verb Day.

Robusto

There are phrasal verbs and nasal verbs. Also basal verbs.

RegDwigнt

So is it "You, Tube" as in "I, Robot", or is it more like "You over there! Tube now!"?

Robusto

19:14

@RegDwigнt It is YouTube as in the Tube for You.

Johan Larsson

@MattЭллен picked it at random, you writing rodent triggered it

Robusto

If it were John's Tube, they might call it JohnTube.

RegDwigнt

That should be "YourTube", then. Or in the parlance of the century, You'reTube.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt That's loser talk.

RegDwigнt

I can go loser still.

Matt Эллен

19:15

@RegDwigнt You tube

RegDwigнt

@MattЭллен no you tube.

Robusto

If it were my tube I might call it MeTube.

Now I'm getting all over semantic satiation just looking at the variations of tube.

oerkelens

@RegDwigнt Me Tarzan, you Tube?

RegDwigнt

MyTube was 1990. And Tube.me was Apple.

iTube is Apple and 1990.

Robusto

That's not 1990.

RegDwigнt

19:17

You only say that because you'd like to believe you're nowhere as old as you are.

Robusto

@tchrist I agree with the rest of these as well.

@RegDwigнt I'm not as old as I am. Take that, Yogi Berra.

RegDwigнt

I will take YourGiberra if you take MyTube.

Robusto

No Giberrish in chat.

RegDwigнt

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> from 1998 until 2003

Robusto

Yes. 1998, not 1990.

Thank you for proving my assertion.

RegDwigнt

19:19

It's the decade, YouSilly.

oerkelens

@Robusto After a certain age, people count in decades, not in years :)

RegDwigнt

I will have no of your ass urtions.

Robusto

Oh, since when do we round decades down?

RegDwigнt

Since rounding up gets you a different millennium.

oerkelens

Millenium started on 1/1/2001!

RegDwigнt

19:20

Blame Jesus.

@oerkelens not if you're Jewish or Chinese, no it did not.

Robusto

@oerkelens False! Once the high-order digit changed, we were in the new millenium.

oerkelens

First millennium started in year 1.

Robusto

That's loser talk.

RegDwigнt

Take it up with Jesus once more.

oerkelens

@Robusto So the first millennium was 999 years?

RegDwigнt

19:21

Sounds about right.

oerkelens

bit short for a millennium, no?

RegDwigнt

What's wrong with that?

They stole like 124 years from us in the middle.

Robusto

@oerkelens Just because we lost the year 0 doesn't mean it doesn't live on in our hearts.

RegDwigнt

And 13 days.

oerkelens

@Robusto Oh, yes it does. It is dead to me!

@RegDwigнt Not everyone has lost them. The Orthodox church still uses them to decide when Easter is :)

Robusto

19:23

People used to say "Whoa! It's not the nineties yet! It's only 1990!" To which I say, "Haha, you just said ninety!"

RegDwigнt

@oerkelens You have some deady issues right there.

oerkelens

@RegDwigнt If you only knew...

RegDwigнt

Oh but I do...

oerkelens

That is spooky

RegDwigнt

Jesus died for your sins, so you have to sin lest he died for nuthin.

Robusto

19:23

@oerkelens You let your emotions cloud your reason too much. Relax and live in the new millennium with the rest of the flying-car crowd.

oerkelens

True that

@Robusto I do. But I only started in 2001

RegDwigнt

That is so 1990.

Robusto

@oerkelens So you're still a whole year behind.

oerkelens

Fin de décade :)

Robusto

Plus look at all the bad shit that happened in 2001.

RegDwigнt

19:25

Dorsal fin de decade.

oerkelens

@Robusto That one year is just the obvious part

Robusto

How could you ever accept 2001 as your own personal millenium?

I may just ride off on my fin de siecle.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto yes! Lady Di died four years before that! And mum Teresa.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Glad that harpy is dead. Mother Teresa, I mean.

Fucking vulture.

oerkelens

@Robusto She did what to that vulture?

RegDwigнt

19:26

On the plus side, harpies have seven pedals. Match that with YouPiano.

Actually it might be eight.

I forget.

I guess Skryabin's piano had a chance to match that. But that's like so 1890.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt On the minus side, harpists hate accidentals. But the rest of us orchestral musicians know all too well that accidentals will happen.

@RegDwigнt You mean from the 1880s? I'm confused.

oerkelens

Harpons and melons... head's a swellon, I'm off for the night :)

RegDwigнt

@Robusto architects know that it's occidents that actually happen.

Robusto

You know where to send the royalty check.

RegDwigнt

Dec 25 '12 at 14:24, by RegDwighт

Here comes a candle to light you to bed, and here comes a chopper to chop off your head!

Robusto

19:29

You've been living in a German fairy tale for too long.

RegDwigнt

Why is your tale furry?

Robusto

Because it's old.

RegDwigнt

Apr 8 '11 at 18:07, by psmears

@Kosmonaut It was a source of much hilarity to us as children (growing up in the south of England) when my sister asked my father how to spell "furry", and he (from Liverpool) responded by asking, "Do you mean furry like a teddy bear, or a furry that grants wishes?"

Or from the south.

Robusto

I miss @psmears.

And @Kosmonaut.

RegDwigнt

Psmears for tears.

Robusto

19:30

The P is silent. Like in psychology.

RegDwigнt

You might need to talk to YourOlogist about that. Or plumber.

Robusto

Speaking of missing folks, what the hell happened to @cornbread?

@RegDwigнt Eau ewe kid. (That's two sheep jokes for the price of one.)

RegDwigнt

Cornbread ninja'd himself. @cornbreadninja麵包忍者

Robusto

Herself.

RegDwigнt

She ninja'd so hard, the S fell off.

Robusto

19:33

Actually, I guess a kid is not a sheep. It's a goat. Well, close enough for government work.

Cerberus

Hello.

Robusto

Asses to ashes, dust to dust—like.

Cerberus

Corny popped in the day before yesterday.

Robusto

Hello @Cerberus. Ready for another tip into the teapot?

Cerberus

Didn't explain her absence.

Robusto

19:39

When she comes back she'll need a note.

Cerberus

Any specific occasion?

Robusto

Old time's sake?

Cerberus

It's your pot.

Our pot's different here.

Robusto

Whoa, dude, you were totally carrying it.

Cerberus

Racist kettle!

Robusto

19:41

Zwart Pot.

Cerberus

Zwarte.

RegDwigнt

Better than Zwarte Piet.

Cerberus

Racist!

RegDwigнt

No, truist.

Robusto

Fuck your affixes.

RegDwigнt

19:42

What is it with people and speling these days.

Robusto

I decline to conjugate with you.

RegDwigнt

Mutuality was never a prerequisite.

Robusto

OK, malyshka.

RegDwigнt

YouAffix is a site Google should buy.

Then put it on everyone's faces and have said faces smashed in by people without affixes.

Robusto

See if you can get $1.6 billion for it.

RegDwigнt

19:43

I could before breakfast.

But then again I am good.

Robusto

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Best performances of Liszt I've ever heard.

Cerberus

Ohh...

RegDwigнt

Liszt is for masochists who think Skryabin is too easy.

Robusto

Most people just race through the coruscations. Campanella makes them music.

RegDwigнt

They race in flying cars, no less.

Robusto

19:51

Listen to the C# minor (No. 1).

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RegDwigнt

Whoa dude, 1:14? That's like a whole baseball inning. Who watches that.

Robusto

Just listen to the first one.

RegDwigнt

I am lisztening.

Cerberus

@Robusto It always amazes me how easy Italian is to understand. My French is far better than my Italian, and yet I can't really watch a film in French; but I could understand the gist of what this guy was saying.

Robusto

I could almost understand it.

Lots of it I got, but other parts not so much.

Cerberus

19:55

I kind of understand most sentences.

They just articulate more clearly than in French.

RegDwigнt

That's because French sucks at pronunciation. True story.

Jinx.

Cerberus

Heh.

'Tis true.

Robusto

Nah. They're just not fussy about whether anyone can understand them.

Cerberus

But why don't we ever get used to it?

And the Italians are?

Robusto

Yes.

Cerberus

19:56

Io credo che no!

Robusto

The Italians want you to know they think you're an asshole. The French just don't care.

Cerberus

Or whatever.

RegDwigнt

French is like Romanian with Polish pronunciation. And if the past century showed us anything, it's how much people care about Poland and Roma.

Cerberus

Hah.

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