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Q: Special word for death anniversary

drparthaIs there a special word for a death anniversary. For exampl abirth anniversary would be a "birthday", but a death anniversary would be ?

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Q: Word that means relating to one's reputation

Murey TasrocI almost want to say reputational, which isn't a word. An example sentence would be: "... based on religious, moral, and reputational grounds, I cannot accept your offer." In this example accepting the mentioned offer might damage the speaker's reputation, violate his or her moral code, and vi...

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title, +2 more: gronkaffedenmark.com/nutralu-garcinia/ by oanicex on english.SE
 
 
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Q: Is there a slang word for blind person?

user286864Is there a slang word for a blind person? Something that is used as a vocative for a blind person that is derogatory or insulting.

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8:54 AM
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Q: What is the word for covered cleavage?

Jesse PinkmanIf someone wears tight skinny dress like yoga pants, what we see is an estimate of his/her assets but not the actual bare body part unlike cleavage? Then what exactly do we see?

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Mitch
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12:33 PM
@Robusto You sockpuppeted just to post that cleavage question didn't you. Just to prove a point about your 'boob' theory.
@MetaEd That didn't work.
 
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12:59 PM
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Q: Is there a word that describes both “providing” and “utilizing”?

jonrgroverI'm working on a personal 'Purpose Statement'. I would like to make it flow and be succinct. The statement is Purpose: To make software more meaningful by providing and utilizing my framework for embedding meaning in code. I would like to use just one word instead of 'providing and utilizing'. ...

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Robusto
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1:45 PM
@Mitch If I was going to have a sock puppet, I'd name it "Walter White" or "Heisenberg" — not Jesse Pinkman.
@Cerberus We're all trying to forget disco. And ABBA. Especially ABBA.
Oct 14 '15 at 11:25, by Robusto
I think it may be safe to say that ABBA is absolutely wrong.
Dec 7 '13 at 13:51, by Robusto
I'm fine with relegating ABBA to third- or fourth-best band out of Sweden whose name is a palindrome.
Nov 13 '15 at 13:09, by Robusto
@RegDwigнt Don't make me flag you. I thought we agreed that it is obscene to post ABBA videos in chat.
Apr 4 '11 at 13:38, by Robusto
@kiamlaluno @RegDwight uses ABBA to express those concepts. In fact, his whole life sounds like a Mamma Mia! YouTube mash-up.
 
Mitch
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2:20 PM
@Robusto Well played
But contrary to your (and my) expectations) 'your' boob question is almost a tumbleweed. (I voted to close but did not down vote, and there are only 23 visits after 3 hrs)
 
Mitch
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2:44 PM
@Robusto What is wrong with you?
 
Robusto
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@Mitch Don't make me tap the sign again:
59 mins ago, by Robusto
Nov 13 '15 at 13:09, by Robusto
@RegDwigнt Don't make me flag you. I thought we agreed that it is obscene to post ABBA videos in chat.
BTW, the satin pants were a terrible choice.
 
Robusto
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3:00 PM
Haha, I just rebutted a comment after only seven years:
@Andrey: I guess being born would be somewhere on that scale as well. — Robusto 1 min ago
Don't ask how I got there. It involves ABBA.
 
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s/ABBA/AᗺBA/ftfy
 
Faheem Mitha
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@Robusto I'm not sure what you have against ABBA. I've seen far worse things posted in chat. Including those terrible animated GIFs.
In case anyone wants to take a moment to fix this -
parter -> partner. — Faheem Mitha 3 mins ago
 
Mitch
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3:19 PM
@FaheemMitha I don't think you can blame AᗺBA. It's more MAMMA MIA's fault
 
MetaEd
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@FaheemMitha Ack. Something is wrong on the Internet. Fixed.
 
Faheem Mitha
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@MetaEd Thanks.
 
Mitch
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The musical that is
and the movie
 
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Q: What's a word for how someone supports themselves financially?

apdmI feel like there's a succint word for this but it's escaping me

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Mitch
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Meryl Streep, she has a lot of the blame on her shoulders too
 
Faheem Mitha
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3:22 PM
@Mitch Movie? That terrible Mamma Mia thing?
Worst use of ABBA music ever.
 
Mitch
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@FaheemMitha Yes, and the whole Eurovision thing
and sequins
 
Faheem Mitha
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@Mitch Eurovision thing?
 
Mitch
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@FaheemMitha Well, yeah, it's pretty obvious.
 
Faheem Mitha
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@Mitch It is? Not sure what you're referring to. Do you mean ABBA winning first lace with "Waterloo", or something else?
 
Mitch
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When ABBA won Eurovision in 1974 it kicked off the recent downhill slide into the decadence that is the European Union (the true inspiration of the insidiosity of the EU was really Schiller's Ode to Joy polarized by the its bastardization by Beethoven's 9th..sorry that's a longer story there that I won't get into now)
 
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3:26 PM
 
Mitch
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@MetaEd Thank you
 
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@FaheemMitha They are terrible, aren't they.
 
Faheem Mitha
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@MetaEd If you mean animated GIFs, yes they are.
@Mitch That's revisionist history.
 
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Anyway, back to ABBA. Eurovision is the common_ cultural unifcation method for the EU. An integral part of the EU constitution is that political (and also military) membership in the EU is predicated on entries in the Eurovision contest. Those countries that are trying to get in have to have entries in the most recent five years (they don't have to win, they just need to get past the cultural investigation).
And the important thing to note about all this is... have you seen any entries from the UK in the past 5 years? Exactly. Look it up.
 
Faheem Mitha
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@Mitch That's very creative.
 
Mitch
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3:31 PM
@FaheemMitha Shut your piehole. Your face is revisionist history.
 
Faheem Mitha
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@Mitch That's not very nice.
And I don't eat pie.
 
Mitch
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@FaheemMitha Again, with all due respect, I request that you shut your piehole.
 
Faheem Mitha
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@Mitch No pieholes here.
And I don't see any respect here, either.
 
Mitch
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@FaheemMitha Totally expected of you ABBA and EU haters
Anyway, back to facts.
Notice how both Israel and Morocco have had Eurovision entries in all of the past five years?
News has been filled with all sorts of irrelevant issues lately, so you haven't seen the underreported stories about both of those countries starting their application process to the EU.
 
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Q: Is there a word for the funny coincidence that sometimes happens..?

KatieWhen one person is thinking about another person and that other person happens to be thinking about the first person. I have had instances where I have reached out to someone or called someone and they say, "that's so weird I was just thinking of you!" Is there a word for that phenomenon?

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Robusto
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3:40 PM
@Mitch You need to check your calendar. Pi day was yesterday ...
 
Mitch
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I'm just telling you about things you can check for yourself in the public record. You don't have to have relationships with world leaders, like Princess Reuss (Frida to me) to see what is going on.
 
Robusto
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I don't need any more things to check for myself. I only want to deal with things that will check themselves. Why do you think I went into programming?
 
Mitch
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@FaheemMitha "Respect is for people with bad breath" - Benjamin Franklin (Little Richard's Almanac)
@Robusto Compiling and type checking is for babies
 
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@Mitch If someone who is bigoted about sex is a sexist, and about race is a racist, your problem with types must make you a typist.
Oh, and for the record I disapprove of Petrarchan sonnets. The reason? The rhyme scheme begins with abba. That feels like a conspiracy to me.
 
Mitch
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:4342717 Yes, that makes sense. But it also reminds me, the appropriate styling is Her Serene Highness Frida.
@Robusto haha. but that's just a coincidence
 
Robusto
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3:49 PM
Coincidence? I think not.
 
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There is a case to be made that it is a conspiracy, but I think the alternative theory, that it is the initials of the royal members of the group, is much more plausible and renders your theory, as potential but inchoate as it is, empty.
Think of all the people who would have to be involved to keep that conspiracy hidden. It's just not sustainable.
 
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What you see as inchoate I see as incipient and, if one may say so, inevitable.
 
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Like the coverup of the lifeforms found on the Mars landers. Very few people are needed to hide that. Just the guy at the controls of the video feed.
I mean the pre-biotic lifeforms. They're not exactly cells reproducing (and laughably nowhere near sentient (the pain-meter tests for sentience were used over and over just to make sure)). Chemicals were found that could (very plausibly) lead to chemical processes like the ATP-ADP energy production homeostasis. Some crystals that mimic but don't actually replicate like some proteins. So don't get all excited. It's not little green men, haha haha.
Oh, they did find some chlorophyll-like substance. but the energy infrastructure is just not there.
 
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They're not covering up UFOs anymore, btw.. They just relabeled them UAPs while no one was looking.
 
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@Mitch maybe they were too cool to care
 
Robusto
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4:05 PM
> “Reports from different services and agencies remain largely ignored and unevaluated inside their respective bureaucratic stovepipes,” wrote Mellon. “The current approach is equivalent to having the Army conduct a submarine search without the Navy.”
 
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Here's a thing. I always thought that there was a decision made early on in the formation of the group ABBA, that because both Frida and Agnetha were blondes that one of them, just for esthetic balance, would have to die their hair dark (I know, funny, huh). And Frida said she would do it or was chosen or something like that.
Is that the case? Or is Frida really not a blonde?
 
Robusto
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You're Frida think what you like.
 
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@Robusto I can't pronounce that
 
Robusto
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It's pronounced like "Italian."
 
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@Robusto What is that thing they say... aliens that we can't detect from astronomical observation created complicated travel tech to come to Earth for no other reason than to hide from us except in very rare spots on some screens?
 
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Q: A word for a wooden platform on the river bank used in the old times for fishing or laundry

Yevheniy8Is there a word for a small wooden platform on the river bank used in the old times for fishing or laundry (not for docking boats)?

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@Mitch Yes, that makes perfect sense to me. Cf. "cosmic joke" ...
 
M.A.R.
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4:35 PM
@Mitch hide and seek is fun, come on
 
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5:11 PM
@M.A.R. If you hide in a really good place and no one finds you, you win. I think.
 
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Q: A word that means I can open up a machine, look at its innards, and see/fix what's going on?

Tom SolbergAs in the title, what is a good word to describe (say) that I can easily "get under the hood" of a machine and see what's going on? E.g. "my 1955 Singer sewing machine is very __________, but my 2018 macbook pro is not"

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Q: What is the word for "the space left behind when a shape is removed"?

user287012What is the word for "the space left when a shape is removed from something", like for example, the gingerbread-man shape left in the dough after the gingerbread-man has been cut out of it? Its not the "counterfoil", or "the negative"....I seem to remember there being a specific word for it, what...

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9:10 PM
@Mitch can someone hide somewhere they can't find themselves?
Like in a black hole or something
So question; if you end up in a wormhole that's about to collapse, what happens to you?
 
MetaEd
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9:46 PM
@M.A.R. “Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, "Do I know you?”
“I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.”
“If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.”
There's three solutions for you.
 
Cerberus
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@Robusto Now I'm stuck listening to ABBA. Curse you!
 
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10:10 PM
@Cerberus Mamma mia.
 
Cerberus
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Quite so.
 
Mitch
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11:05 PM
@Cerberus The horror
Speaking of which...
Fallout can rain from the sky, sea-levels can rise to swallow up hundreds of millions, but the real injustice is CBS not putting STD on Netflix in the US
 
Mitch
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11:37 PM
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ You've probably seen the latest about Stephen Hawking's party for time travelers where he sent out the invitations at the end of the party, in an attempt to test if time travel is true or not.
 
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@Mitch I think I have heard about it
 
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What's so funny ...ha ha .ha... is that Hawking... snicker snort didn't realize but we knew about it the entire time. We were watching outside the window.
and intentionally didn't come in, just to make hi feel like he had won...
and we were about to come in at the very end and surprise him...
(I mean the removable skin sheaths would probably have disturbed him a little extra too)
but then the cops showed up, so we had to disappear.
(literally. the skin sheath thing happened because if the invisibility effect)
It would have been more fun to see Hawking's face, but it was worth it to ruin his party.
Which brings me to something really important...
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Q: Is it correct to say "I kindly request you to..."?

ThaleIsn't kindness already implied when you say "I request you to..."? When I say "I humbly request you to...", the word humbly helps me to label the state of my behavior during the request. On the other hand, what value does the word kindly add to the request?

adverbs politeness
 
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@Mitch I think he had the same face petty much every second
 
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how come this question has 378,548 views?
That seems...like a lot
 
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Holy sheet
 
Mitch
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11:43 PM
I don't think there are that many people in the world
 
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@Mitch yeah, there were like, 7000 people in the world
Everyone else was a zero
So what badge does the asker get?
"Interstellar-fame"?
"Martian-love"?
 
Mitch
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Interstellar overdrive
 
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Overdrives are overrated
 
Mitch
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haha. They are
 
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Q: Ch-ch-ch-changes: Left nav, responsive design, & themes

Joe FriendCh-ch-ch-changes are coming. As you've hopefully read in our various posts on Teams, we are in the midst of some major work. We're introducing a new product, Teams (née channels), and doing the requisite research and design thinking to get it right. In addition, early on we realized that we have ...

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Mitch
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11:51 PM
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I looked and 300K is a lot but there are some other questions in the 100's of thousands
 
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Maybe if ELU had less red, it'd feel less like burning your skin
 
Mitch
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but they have a tendency to be highly upvoted
 
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@Mitch that guy up there was being cool and modest
If he got the 300k aliens to upvote, ELU would have broken
Especially considering alien upvotes count twice
 
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@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I was really thinking with 300K somebody must have done some weird bot thing to auto-visit a lot
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ I think they've earned it
 
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Q: I want to downvote twice

user663031There are some questions or answers that are so stupid, thoughtless, or inane, that I want to downvote them twice, even if the second downvote costs 10 points. Has such a thing ever been proposed?

feature-request status-declined down-votes
 
Mitch
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11:55 PM
haha. so many sarcastic downvotes
 
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Ironic
 
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Spiteful
 

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