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1:00 AM
You have to watch that.
It's a classic.
 
I watched Byôsoku 5 senchimêtoru yesterday.
 
I watched the first thing in the Netflix genre list.
 
The most beautiful anime I've ever seen.
BTW, you seen Totoro now, @Kit?
 
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akihisa Ikeda. The story revolves around Tsukune Aono, a boy who accidentally gets enrolled in a school inhabited by monsters and demons. He quickly befriends Moka Akashiya, a vampire who soon develops an obsession with his blood, and later meets other girls who soon take a romantic liking to him. The manga began serialization in the August 2004 issue of Monthly Shonen Jump and ended on the June 2007 issue (one extra chapter was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump in September 2007), and sold ten volumes between October 2004 and O...
This is ... weird.
 
@RegDwighт Still not, but the librarian said she was going to order it for their collection.
 
1:01 AM
The hero's name, Tsukune, is spelled with the characters for moon and sound. You tell me why.
 
@Robusto That's like Twilight or what?
Sorry, the Twilight Saga.
 
@RegDwighт Actually, it’s upwards. It’s only downwards if you stand your head.
 
I don't know what that's like. I'm thinking the intended audience is pervy men and 13-year-old boys.
 
@tchrist how is that an if?
@Robusto so it is Twilight, but in gay.
Cuz the original Twilight is, I reckon, for pervy women and 13-year-old girls.
 
Well, this is weirder than gay.
 
1:02 AM
Nothing is weirder than gay.
 
@RegDwighт That is not a Snorri Sturluson–approved saga.
 
I think that is actually written in your Constitution.
 
user19161
Twilight is for losers like me.
 
Nonono. It's for paying losers.
 
@RegDwighт I thought Twitlit was a pervy androsexual thing.
 
1:03 AM
@tchrist We're all about Kris Kringle, not Heimskringla.
@tchrist Twatlit. FTFY.
 
user19161
I was in the cinema, and when TL removed his shirt, all the girls screamed...
 
The simple past of Twitlit is Twatlad. Think about it.
 
God, and now I can hear people smacking their lips.
 
user19161
I did not scream, for the record.
 
@tchrist God doesn't want to know that.
 
1:05 AM
Or other people’s, in Jasper’s case.
@RegDwighт And Happy Monday Thirsty to you, too.
 
Other people like Justin Beaver?
 
Justin Beaver just won't wax.
 
@Robusto No, only Jasps.
 
user19161
Ah, Justin Bieber! Yay!
 
Put your pants back on. Pulease.
 
1:06 AM
One of the Ys must be a G. Easy to mistgpe.
 
@tchrist Mandatum novum do vobis ut diligatis invicem sicut dilexi vos.
 
puts pants back on
 
Is that Latvian again?
 
@Robusto And why aren’t you answering all the lapsed-Catholicking questions?
 
@KitFox at least you have pants.
 
1:07 AM
@tchrist Because I'm post-Lapsarian?
 
Is that what post scriptum is a euphemism for?
 
user19161
Pants mean different things on different continents.
 
@RegDwighт You have to look post scrotum for the answer to that.
 
You had a lapse, you call it scriptum. It's a win-win.
 
Stop that.
 
1:08 AM
Jasper, stop tweening us with your nonsense.
 
Post scriptum is that gang sign the Crips use.
 
user19161
I am Captain Obvious aka Non Sequitur.
 
Bloods ftw.
 
Now he’s a nun.
 
@JasperLoy Hush, dear, grownups are talking.
 
1:09 AM
Dec 24 '12 at 14:39, by RegDwighт
I'm still looking for that marvellous song of theirs, of which I only remember one line. "I killed your mother, your sister, your dad."
 
Fly, you fools!
 
@RegDwighт Oh, they aren't mine.
Bake, motherfucker, bake. giggles
 
@KitFox Bong hit?
 
So you deprived someone of his God-given right and Robusto-given duty to put his pants on. That's not kosher of a mod.
 
She prefers to koshim.
 
1:12 AM
Jan 29 '11 at 19:51, by Kosmonaut
But it's die Bong!! :)
 
@RegDwighт That’s so wrong.
 
user19161
Yesterday I looked up Don Antonio to find that it is a cigar, just like Robusto.
 
@tchrist tell that to the cosmonaut for the owl is not listening.
 
You don't use words like that. St. Louise is listening.
 
I use all words like that.
 
1:13 AM
Let me get up on it, let me get up on it.
 
Just yesterday I used seven. Perhaps even eight.
 
Let me get up on it, let me let me.
Get up on it.
 
No slip till Brooklyn.
 
You can get down from the table now.
 
1:14 AM
Lap dances are extra.
 
Lapps don't dance.
 
@tchrist You can only get down from the table in US English. In British English you have to get on the table.
@Robusto this is Finnish, but not the end.
 
5 hours ago, by Robusto
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Dec 4 '12 at 13:52, by RegDwighт
Helsinki is hell.
 
1:15 AM
Who says there weren't pineapples before ELU?
 
user19161
Pineapples are not nice to eat. I prefer bananas.
 
> I do like-it too much.
 
@Robusto I like the pluffland part.
 
@Robusto I think Buddha said that. He was drunk though.
 
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@RegDwighт I think you are drunk! When did he say that?
 
1:17 AM
@RegDwighт I don't think Buddha was any weiser.
 
@JasperLoy At three o'clock.
 
user19161
Have I just been whooshed?
 
You were bjorn whooshed.
 
There are bears amongst us?
 
user19161
This chat is too deep for me. I am too shallow.
 
1:18 AM
Hai.
 
@Robusto that is funnier than any play on words in any actual Budweiser commercial, past, future, or paralleluniversly.
 
Thank you. I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
 
still thinks Reg is from Chicago
 
Actually I was studying Chicago skyscrapers yesterday.
 
user19161
Speaking of bananas, I just ate one.
 
1:19 AM
There you go.
gags
 
I could be your baby doll. I could be your doll, baby. I could be the thing you want, I could do it all for you.
 
@RegDwighт First Mies van der Rohe ever, I think.
 
@RegDwighт That was originally the Standard Oil building.
 
1:21 AM
 
@RegDwighт Wrigley!
 
user19161
I noticed that everyone's rep is increasing more slowly, must be due to ELL.
 
@RegDwighт That's been built since I left, I think.
 
@Robusto 311 South Wacker.
 
@Robusto She doesn’t rock like Gould, but she twinkles.
 
1:22 AM
@RegDwighт That's not supposed to be the First Nat'l Bank building, is it?
 
@Robusto Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower
 
@tchrist Yes. And at first I didn't like her rather romantic cadences, but they've grown on me.
@RegDwighт Also built since I left then.
 
@JasperLoy Your what hurts again?
 
Don't you have any Louis Sullivan? Frank Lloyd Wright? I. M. Pei? They're all seen in Chicago.
 
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1:23 AM
@tchrist My perineum.
 
@RegDwighт Ah, the Union Carbide building!
 
We did a field trip to the Sears Tower as a kid soon after it was built.
 
True story: I was on the 32nd floor of that building when they had a fire in a 2nd floor restaurant, and we had to go down the stairs, with black chemical smoke funneling up as through a chimney.
 
1:24 AM
@JasperLoy You are not supposed to leave it ineum.
Unless he sneezes.
 
@tchrist Yeah, it's now called the Aeon Flux Tower or some shit. It will always be the Sears Tower to me.
 
@Robusto Whatcha talkin’ ’bout, Willard?
 
@RegDwighт I should know that one.
 
Willis Tower (formerly named, and still commonly referred to as, Sears Tower) is a 108-story, 1,451-foot (442 m) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of its completion in 1973, it was the tallest building in the world, surpassing the World Trade Center towers in New York, and it held this rank for nearly 25 years. The Willis Tower is the tallest building in the United States and the seventh-tallest freestanding structure in the world. The skyscraper is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Chicago, and over one million people visit its observation deck each year. Named...
 
1:25 AM
 
@RegDwighт There's your John Hancock.
 
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@tchrist But anyway, that's true. It happens when I jump from a high place and land. Nobody really knows why. I did a google search and it is not clear what the problem is, but a few people in the world have the same problem it seems.
 
@RegDwighт Marina Towers!
 
@Robusto I call him Johnson Hancock.
 
@RegDwighт Cigna?
@RegDwighт Shut up or we cut off your chohnson.
 
1:26 AM
And her husband Cygnus.
 
@Robusto CNA Plaza.
Which is to say, I dunno.
 
@RegDwighт I should know this one, but I can't remember what it's called.
@RegDwighт Yes. I was close. Cigna and CNA are very similar-sounding.
 
@Robusto Chicago Board of Trade.
 
Oh, FFS. Of course.
 
1:27 AM
@RegDwighт You never see it from that angle. You only see it looking down La Salle Street, full frontal.
 
@tchrist I have that one of offer as well.
 
Sears Tower, of course.
 
@RegDwighт Wasn't that the one from the Blues Brothers?
 
user19161
Good night guys, have a Good Friday...
 
1:28 AM
Good night.
 
Nope.
 
And I think I only have one last one.
 
Maundy Thursday.
 
@KitFox Shut up! Shut up! La lala la la la la I can't hear you!
 
1:29 AM
@JasperLoy Later Jasper.
 
Off-by-one error. Classic.
 
See, now you'll never be able to do the 1st Nat'l Bank Building in LEGO. The curves are too subtle.
 
@Robusto What's that? Did I touch a nerve?
 
@Robusto I lived on La Salle Street till I turned 5.
 
The Honorable Richard J. Daly Plaza?
 
1:30 AM
@KitFox I hated the Blues Brothers. All they did was taint Chicago blues.
 
Hahaha.
I hadn't thought of it that way. Of course you would hate it.
 
And all that jazz.
 
Thanks for sharing the pics. They were pretty.
 
And very industrious.
 
1:31 AM
Now they call it Chase Tower, apparently.
 
Chevy Chase?
 
Chicago has the best architecture in North America. Period.
@RegDwighт Let's not say things we can't take back.
 
Skyscraper architecture, you mean.
 
I can take things back at a whim.
 
@Robusto You like this building?
 
1:32 AM
No, he's very unlike this building. He's a human. I guess.
 
@Cerberus You should see it up close. There's also a very beautiful mosaic by Marc Chagall in the plaza.
 
@RegDwighт But he seems to, or would like to, tower above us.
@Robusto OK.
 
@RegDwighт But ... but I am like that building. Why won't you people acknowledge that?
 
Chagall is Russian for "was on his way by foot".
 
@Robusto Does it stop looking like Lego up close?
 
1:33 AM
@Robusto to keep you entertained.
 
@Robusto So you're square. We already knew that.
 
Tall and strong and full of glass.
 
Another view.
 
I have squared my resistance. For a pucket full of mombles.
Such are premises!
@Robusto thank you for telling. We wouldn't have known.
 
1:35 AM
Some might even say, block-headed.
 
@RegDwighт All lies! In geste!
 
Steal the man.
 
@RegDwighт That's why we go over this stuff.
@RegDwighт But enough about the Boxer Rebellion.
 
He's what he wands to, here. And disregards the cest.
 
Mmm-hmm-hmm.
 
1:36 AM
So what would be an idiomatic onomatopoeia for the sound that comes after the Lielala in the refrain?
 
prefers the brief version
 
@RegDwighт Crash?
 
Lielala, crash, lielalalielalielala, lielala, crash?
 
Douge.
 
@tchrist Jasper prefers the Manties version.
 
1:37 AM
Parently.
 
@RegDwighт Yes. Crash. Or paraprosdokian. I misremember which.
 
@KitFox In Russian it would be like дыжь. Very fitting.
English seems to lack such a precise fit.
 
I made that up.
 
Well you were close.
 
1:38 AM
It sounded like the sound I made when I said it.
 
Close but no Robusto.
 
Dougie Howser.
 
@Robusto You meant paraparoxytonic.
 
@Cerberus That's not in Chicago.
 
1:38 AM
That's the Space Needle.
 
@Robusto It could be. We could just buy it and move it.
 
@Robusto I only know Caspar Howser.
 
Who'd want it?
 
@Robusto I was just countering your two towers with mineses.
 
@Robusto Again with the gay agenda!
 
1:39 AM
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@Cerberus You're Dutch, not Italian. Don't forget that.
 
@tchrist well he puts the gay in again.
 
I would say checkmate, but...I'll let you play some more.
@Robusto Oh, is that how it's going to be?
 
@RegDwighт Don't khatchaturian me talking about the Gayane Suite.
 
Oh! That reminds me. On my way to lunch today, there was a distinguished-looking man walking behind me, talking to a colleague in a beautiful Russian accent and using ridiculously perfect English with militaristic slang.
It made me think of Reg.
 
1:40 AM
Hahahahahahahaha.
I can't think of anyone less militaristic than Reg.
 
Except my English is not perfect and I have no Russian accent, beautiful or otherwise.
 
Past perfect, then.
 
No, just the expressions...um...something like "It's gives us air support."
 
No, more like pre perfect.
 
1:41 AM
Eiffel Tower.
 
@RegDwighт Shush. I'm talking about my fantasy version of you, not the real you.
 
Your fantasy version of me is on IMDb, we've been there.
 
@RegDwighт No, the real fantasy version of you, not that fantasy version of you.
 
The Chaos pyramide, in G sea.
 
1:43 AM
@Reg, I had the weirdest dream the other day that you’d just sent me mail. Like only 3–4 days ago. I actually couldn’t remember whether it was a dream or not.
 
Like snail mail mail or like ea mail mail?
Not that I was responsible for either.
 
email
No, I know. But I had to look to make sure I wasn’t forgetting it was a dream.
Odd.
 
Everything is a dream, it's just that you're not the dreamer.
La Sagrada Familia!
 
@RegDwighт impossible God is not a Deceiver -dc
 
God is an AC/DCeiver.
 
1:45 AM
On again off again?
 
Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap.
 
@tchrist That's the circle of life.
@KitFox That, too.
 
@tchrist No matabating in chat.
 
@Cerberus Get rid of those ugly rigs.
 
1:47 AM
The boats, you mean?
 
Look! Indoor plumbing!
 
Wow. That's deep.
 
So anyway. You've been great, but it's like three in the morning and I am still not finished making that crocodile. Or, as @Kit's phantasy version of me would say, doing that crocodile.
 
Anyway, I have to go now. Bioshock Infinite arrives tomorrow and I have to be well rested.
Laters.
 
Go sleep.
Buy.
Shop.
 
1:48 AM
 
A crocodile?
Interesting.
Good night, gentlemen.
Ohh that croc!
 
@Robusto Zwei Idioten, ein Gedanke.
 
Jawohl.
 
@RegDwighт Chomp!
 
@Cerberus I have also since uploaded my piglet and reindeer and pony.
 
1:49 AM
 
@RegDwighт What about the fox, though?
 
@RegDwighт You're telling me this as if I were your Flickr buddy or something! Oh, wait...
 
@KitFox on my list. Stuff takes time.
 
giggles, claps
 
1:50 AM
Aww you have designed those?
 
Now that I have three releases and a fourth in the making, that's a lot of red tape. Not much playing with bricks.
@Cerberus yes, and you're always the first one to see them, here in this chat.
 
Ohh we get the scoop!
This chatroom is the envy of the world.
 
My boss was very apologetic when he came to my office today. He started with "I know it's not the right way to do it, but..."
 
At least of the Lego-animal world.
woof
 
Why are you up so late, @Reg? Bricks?
 
1:53 AM
Yeah, the croc.
 
I'm excited about piglets now that I know they come in cute striped versions.
 
I made a bigger one at first, it turned out to be somewhat out of scale with my other animals. So I'm making a smaller one now.
 
Chomp!
 
That's the bigger one. The new one is shorter by four studs.
 
Chomp, chomp!
 
1:54 AM
Lego really is an art.
 
I went five studs at first, but that was too short.
 
Sorry. Gotta thing about chompy crocs.
 
He looked like Schnappi
 
Hee hee.
 
So you design these first on the computer?
Schnappi!!
 
1:55 AM
If you think of what the computer did for origami, just think what it does for Lego.
 
There's Schnappi in the back.
 
hört sich jetzt das kleine Krokodil an
 
And that's all the major iterations I went through.
Major, mind you. As in, worth keeping as a milestone for one reason or another.
 
OMG
 
It's the evolution of the crocodile in LEGO CAD.
 
1:57 AM
What’s the collective for crocodile army?
 
Must have taken hours, nay, days.
 
@tchrist You'll have to ask King K.Rule.
 
A bask or a float.
Alligators is a congregation.
 
Not sure I can tell whether it is gavial or a gator or a caiman or what's the other one gayvial or something.
 

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