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Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

My God. The drama. The almost dizzying intensity. The deep and lurking mystery. How much longer can this go on without someone rising up and putting a stop to it?

I mean, of course, as everyone knows, the goings on at the Chess match in Russia. Just exactly how long is the world going to stand by while this Russian menace, Vladimir Kramnik, continue to take potty breaks in the middle of his chess games? He is up to 50 a game.

The horror. The horror.

And now, they want them to both use the same toilet.

I just cannot imagine the cruelty.

[ 23. November 2006, 11:15: Message edited by: Sarkycow ]

Posted by Zorro (# 9156) on :

Is this a joke or something? I mean it's hardly outrageous, is it?

We don't know how long the games lasted either. If we're talking weeks, then it's not that shocking.

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

Who gives a shit?

Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

Lord, you two are twinkies.

Posted by Flausa (# 3466) on :

quote:
Mr Kramnik "takes his most significant decisions in a toilet"

Let's see ... who does that remind me of on the Ship.

Posted by Pheonix (# 2782) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Flausa:

quote:
Mr Kramnik "takes his most significant decisions in a toilet"
Let's see ... who does that remind me of on the Ship.

I'd have thought it would have been quicker and easier to think of those who didn't...

Posted by Zorro (# 9156) on :

quote:
Lord, you two are twinkies.

I know. That said, understanding this thread seems to be enough to guarantee you entry to MENSA.

Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Zorro:

quote:
Lord, you two are twinkies.
I know. That said, understanding this thread seems to be enough to guarantee you entry to MENSA.

Because you don't get it does not mean you are stupid. It means something else. Twinkie.

P

Posted by Zorro (# 9156) on :

My brain hurts.

Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :

Undo your shoe laces.

P

Posted by Zorro (# 9156) on :

Ha ha.

Posted by Mad Geo (# 2939) on :

Mensa to the third grade in 13 minutes.

Posted by Mousethief (# 953) on :

There aren't geniuses in the 3rd grade? Your ageism is showing.

Posted by Mad Geo (# 2939) on :

I can't help it if your old. [Biased]

Posted by Mousethief (# 953) on :

If my old what?

Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :

Ah so, my arch-nemesis, Tortuf, once again dares to violate the unspoken line in the sand. I've been silently tolerating your petty machinations long enough, you smack-talking buffoon. Because of your cruelty regarding this incredibly important match - a match that was supposed to unite the chess world! - you have finally succeeded in calling me out.

So be it. Pick your weapons, you barbed-hook-using "catch and release" fisherman.

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
the unspoken line in the sand.

Just out of curiosity, what would a spoken line in the sand sound like?

I take it the unvoiced suspicion (which, if voiced, would sound like 'Hmmmmmmmm') is that he has a computer in the bog and is looking up the answers.

Did you know, there was a chess master who sustained a broken leg as a result of playing?

Posted by cometchaser (# 10353) on :

kicked the table?

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

Nearly.

In his concentration, he had been sitting with his leg wound round the leg of his chair. When he realised he'd made the winning move, he leaped up in exultation - without, however, unwinding his leg.

Dangerous sport, chess.

Posted by Janine (# 3337) on :

Tell the dude to wear a catheter and strap on some Depends fer God's sake. And finish the bloody match so people watching can, like, have a life.

Posted by The Coot (# 220) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:

quote:
Originally posted by Zorro:

quote:
Lord, you two are twinkies.
I know. That said, understanding this thread seems to be enough to guarantee you entry to MENSA.
Because you don't get it does not mean you are stupid. It means something else. Twinkie.

Zorro-n00b is stupid also.

Posted by Posy (# 10858) on :

Would think the frequent toilet breaks are at least forestalling a re-run of Fischer-Spassky 1972. Spassky claimed inter alia that bad smells were emanating from Fischer's chair.

Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on :

Is RooK a King's RooK or a Queen's RooK? Where is Sine when you need him?

P

Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

No fair RooK, I was just taking a break from a visit to a college with the oldest. I could not reply because I was on the road.

Now that I am back, I see I will need to go fishing before replying to you. With barbless hooks. So there.

At least I won't use any little furry animals as bait. Probably.

Posted by Gort (# 6855) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Posy:
Would think the frequent toilet breaks are at least forestalling a re-run of Fischer-Spassky 1972. Spassky claimed inter alia that bad smells were emanating from Fischer's chair.

The Soviet delegation to the '72 match accused Fischer of far worse emanations from his chair than malodors. From Bobby Fischer's Pathetic Endgame - an interesting story of his descent into madness and paranoia:

quote:
... Distressed at their countryman's poor showing, members of the Soviet delegation began to make their own unreasonable demands, hoping to unnerve Fischer. They accused him of using a concealed device to interfere with Spassky's brain waves. The match was halted while police officers searched the playing hall. Fischer's chair was taken apart, light fixtures were dismantled, the entire auditorium was swept for suspicious electronic signals. Nothing was found. (In a subsequent investigation a Soviet chemist waved a plastic bag around the stage and then sealed it for lab analysis. The label affixed to the bag read "Air from stage.")

Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
Just out of curiosity, what would a spoken line in the sand sound like?

Gargfluggle ergle noillf ptchaarcrchwoff

Which is a friggin' site more interesting than the sound of Pawn to Queen Two.
[Roll Eyes]

Posted by Gort (# 6855) on :

It seems Mr. Fischer is now an Icelandic citizen having been granted asylum from US prosecution in March '05... this after nine months in Japanese detention. The Feds want him for violating trade sanctions against Yugoslavia in 1992! We'll get that creepy, old, bearded anti-semite eventually, even if it takes a crack unit of commandos under cover of darkness.

Let this be a lesson to you innocent children out there. Don't obsess over games of memory and strategy.

Posted by RuthW (# 13) on :

Pawn to Queen 2 seems impossible, actually, given that pawns all start in the second rank and can't move backward. To make that move the pawn would have to be coming back the other way after having been queened, in which case it wouldn't be a pawn any more. (A more experienced chess player may correct me, of course.)

Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :

No - you're quite correct. I was being subtly ironic ( [Roll Eyes]

though actually it's the title of an obscure New Zeland play about two gay guys who adopt a child).

So very well spotted! [Overused]

Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :

God. People who can exchange chess jokes fill me with jealousy.

Posted by Gort (# 6855) on :

Here ya go, Kelly. Don't feel left out.

Posted by Gwai (# 11076) on :

But now she needs to find some or it's not an exchange.

Posted by MrSponge2U (# 3076) on :

Maybe next time Mr. Kramnik needs to visit the toilet, his opponent can switch to using this chess set. Sometimes radical steps must be taken to preserve the dignity of this Sport of Kings.

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
God. People who can exchange chess jokes fill me with jealousy.

Did you hear the one about the Rook and the Bishop?

Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

Castling aside any other considerations, RooK, your unwarranted straight line attack left me feeling under siege. Simple chariot would dictate that you not make me a pawn in your little games.

I have spoken to my bishop about you and he says that I should pray for you every knight.

I just want you to know that you are in danger, mate.

Posted by cometchaser (# 10353) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
God. People who can exchange chess jokes fill me with jealousy.

ya'll know why us Episcopalians can't play chess, right?

Posted by Crackers & Goat Cheese (# 8783) on :

A question for all of you:
If this thread is all about playing Bridge, why isn't it in the Circus?
Seriously.

Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

Bridge?

This thread is all about RooK.

Did you know that RooK has been the driving force behind every single philatelic experience in the United States since June 12, 1987?

Posted by Janine (# 3337) on :

Every philatetic...

Yeesh! Does everything have to revolve around a guy's... First Issues?

Sometimes postage is just postage, y'know.

Posted by fabula rasa (# 11436) on :

quote:
Originally posted by cometchaser:
ya'll know why us Episcopalians can't play chess, right?

OK, comet, I'll bite.

Why can't Episcopalians play chess?

Posted by Huia (# 3473) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Zappa:
No - you're quite correct. I was being subtly ironic ( though actually it's the title of an obscure New Zeland play about two gay guys who adopt a child).

I knew it sounded familiar, I saw that play at Downstage years ago - by Joe Musaphia (sp) and starring him and ?Ray Henward.

But, knowing less than nothing about chess I thought Pawn to Queen 2 was a winning move [Hot and Hormonal]

Huia

Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

Back to important stuff.

Vladimir Kramnik has written an open letter to
Kirsan Iljumzhinov (FIDE President - quit asking) about the largest potty break scandal ever recorded. Details here. The agony Vladimir Kramnik has gone through led him to write this to get it out of his system. The words are not your usual pissing and moaning.

quote:
Clause 3.17.1., Schedule 2 of the contract: "All protests must be submitted in writing to the Appeals Committee not more than 2 hours after the relevant playing session."

The protest made by the Topalov Team were not made within this window after game 4 (27 September 2006) but only hit the FIDE Office and the Appeals Committee on the rest day (28 September 2006). Therefore the protests are not even relevant and should have been rejected by the Appeals Committee immediately.

How people can stand by and not light a candle about all this is just beyond me.

Vladimir should be flush with victory. Instead, he is having to paper over the entire mess.

BTW, it's all RooK's fault.

Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Tortuf:
Vladimir should be flush with victory. Instead, he is having to paper over the entire mess.

Shameless.

quote:
BTW, it's all RooK's fault.

Most things are.

Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :

I think you'll find that everything is my fault. The fact that very few of you can manage to notice that anything is my fault mostly just demonstrates how blithely oblivious to reality you are.

Nevertheless, I feel it is my duty to confront Tortuf about this outrageous indignity. Consider that my idiomatic connection to chess is clearly obvious, and that the rather shitty implications of this thread leave everybody, save only the dimmest of fools, reeling with contretemps and other euphemisms. You know what I mean, you sick bastard. If you had an iota of honour or respectability, you would flog yourself with chain of rusty razor blades. Not those cheap Gillette ones neither.

Posted by duchess (# 2764) on :

What a game for geeks.

Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :

...says the vendor of computer software. Care to try on definition #3 for size? It's probably stretchy enough to fit you.

Posted by cometchaser (# 10353) on :

quote:
Originally posted by fabula rasa:

quote:
Originally posted by cometchaser:
ya'll know why us Episcopalians can't play chess, right?
OK, comet, I'll bite.

Why can't Episcopalians play chess?

can't tell the difference between a Bishop and a Queen.

[Big Grin]

back to your... whatever we have going on here.

Posted by Pure as the Driven Yellow Snow (# 9397) on :

quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
I think you'll find that everything is my fault. The fact that very few of you can manage to notice that anything is my fault mostly just demonstrates how blithely oblivious to reality you are.

The problem of RooKodicy; The problem of good existing in a world where there is an all powerful evil being. Krapton clarifies the problem of Rookodicy with four statements.

RooK exists.
RooK is Evil.
RooK is all powerful.
Good exists.

There is an inherent contradiction between any three and the fourth statement. Atheism denies the first, believing RooK does not exist. Pantheism discounts the second, not accepting the evilness of RooK. Polytheism and Modern Naturalism deny the third and Idealism the fourth. Rookianity affirms all four denying logical contradiction yet manipulates one or more definitions allowing the necessary ambiguity to accept all the seemingly contradictory truths (1994:129).

Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :

I want your babies, PATDYS.

Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :

Oh, it's just an expression, for God's sake. Carry on with the highbrow insults.

Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Huia:

quote:
Originally posted by Zappa:
No - you're quite correct. I was being subtly ironic ( though actually it's the title of an obscure New Zeland play about two gay guys who adopt a child).

I knew it sounded familiar, I saw that play at Downstage years ago - by Joe Musaphia (sp) and starring him and ?Ray Henward.

But, knowing less than nothing about chess I thought Pawn to Queen 2 was a winning move

Huia

Correct. I have the script somewhere but I've misplaced it during the cataloging process.

Dinna fret, Kelly or Huia, I know nothing about chess. I used to know a little about New Zealand drama! There's a line in it somewhere that explains the impossibility of the move.

[ 01. October 2006, 07:30: Message edited by: Zappa ]

Posted by Barnabas62 (# 9110) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Flausa:

quote:
Mr Kramnik "takes his most significant decisions in a toilet"
Let's see ... who does that remind me of on the Ship.

You ought to hear my wife on this subject .....

Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :

quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
I think you'll find that everything is my fault. The fact that very few of you can manage to notice that anything is my fault mostly just demonstrates how blithely oblivious to reality you are.

Of course it's your fault. You rule all things, except those which Erin rules.

(Increases Rook's hourly dose of dark chocolate, to make him more mellow.)

PS--If you want to play with chess and reality, read "The Eight", by Katherine Neville. Exquisitely crafted novel, but very haunting. Chess players will love it. I don't play, but I know just enough to be aware of some of the deeper layers of what was going on.

Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :

Didn't Kafka write something about chess, too?

Posted by Barnabas62 (# 9110) on :

Main drag

Now I'm a real chess geek! Two different things may be going on.

1. Kramnic may gain advantage by promoting worry that somehow he has a hidden edge (access to powerful computer in "loo"). So he behaves to persuade Topalev that he is indeed cheating, or worse, threatening to cheat!

2. Topalev may believe Kramnic's behaviour is innocent, but seeking to gain advantage for himself, he over-reacts, thereby distracting Kramnic & team. This works well if the truth is simply that Kramnic is nervous/has an enlarged prostate etc.

3. But now this sideshow game is engaged! And now each may gain advantage by playing up to the other's assumed playing up! Wheels within wheels. (You dont have to be paranoid, but it helps ...)

This seems to be meat and drink to these events - there was a lot of it in Fischer-Spassky - but not just in the modern era. Here is a famous story about grandmaster Nimzowitsch.

quote:
During a tournament one day, Latvian chess master Aron Nimzowitsch complained that his opponent had laid an unlit cigar on the table beside the board. The director pointed out that the man was not in fact smoking. “Yes,” replied Nimzowitsch, “but he is threatening to smoke, and any fool knows that the threat is more powerful than the execution!”.

(I think he was playing the brilliant Lasker, who played the man probably better than any other chessplayer in history).

And there should be a "geek" smilie ... How about g [Eek!]

Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

Oh no, Kramnic is not pretending. He has a powerful computer hidden in his potty.

I have now uncovered secret papers where RooK and Kramnic were seen together on the beach at Yalta shortly before Kramnic began playing this tournament. My intelligence agents tell me that they were seen carrying a large toilet out of the Hotel Oreanda at 20:54 hours GMT on Friday, September 22, 2006. An enlarged photo of the toilet in question clearly shows that the flush lever is not only connected to the ball cock, it is connected to a tiny, but perceptible, blue tooth transceiver.

After hours of analysis of satellite interceptions of blue tooth transmissions in the Kalmykia region over the past week I can say, with great confidence, that Kramnic is flushing out morse code messages to RooK. Kramnic's Morse Code is pretty bad, and his English is worse. RooK, however, seems to have done well at his Russian language course at the CSIS.

Most of the transmissions are pretty basic, probably because of Kramnic's limited grasp of code. RooK gives Kramnic instruction on brilliant, daring, moves that are above Kramnic's usual pedestrian grasp of the game. Occasionally, though, RooK has threatened Kramnic with impalement via a rusty farm implement. These threats appear to be connected to times when Kramnic is not following direction well enough, or when he mucks up his code.

Posted by Posy (# 10858) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Barnabas62:

Here is a famous story about grandmaster Nimzowitsch:

quote:
During a tournament one day, Latvian chess master Aron Nimzowitsch complained that his opponent had laid an unlit cigar on the table beside the board. The director pointed out that the man was not in fact smoking. “Yes,” replied Nimzowitsch, “but he is threatening to smoke, and any fool knows that the threat is more powerful than the execution!”.

Yep. Never under-estimate the power of the threat. This is why in a five-minute game, announcing "Plan" before executing a three-move cheapo is good psychology as well as courtesy.

Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :

First of all, regarding my ultimate fault for, well, everything - that's just me being consistent. Unlike the rest of you simpering neurotics. I read your posts, and I see how it's all about you, for pretty much all of you. Except for when anything goes wrong. See that just makes you moral cowards. At least when I insist that it's all about me I actually follow through and accept the logical conclusion: it's all my fault.

Now shut the hell up, and test your individual flammabilities with blow torches.

Tortuf, you damned board-hagfish, why don't you just come clean with your machinations? Do you think people don't see how you are connecting Kramnik with Luther, and that like Luther Kramnik is communing directly with god while straining on the toilet? And, by crude proxy, suggesting that the entirety of christianity is really nothing more than some allegory for a chess game? You twisted bastard.

Perhaps you thought that I'd just sit idly by while you did this, because you know I don't give a damn about god. But it's not what you're saying that goads me, it's how you're villainously going about it. It's just wrong. And it pisses me off even more because I know that you know it's wrong. And you just sit there, waxing your mustache, while contemplating which orphanage to foreclose on next.

Posted by Flausa (# 3466) on :

Tortuf has a moustache?

Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :

But, of course he does.

Posted by cometchaser (# 10353) on :

quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
But, of course he does.

what a dream avatar!

Posted by Crackers & Goat Cheese (# 8783) on :

What a dream avatar for a lawyer!
Any lawyer!

Posted by Pure as the Driven Yellow Snow (# 9397) on :

quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
First of all, regarding my ultimate fault for, well, everything - that's just me being consistent. Unlike the rest of you simpering neurotics. I read your posts, and I see how it's all about you, for pretty much all of you. Except for when anything goes wrong. See that just makes you moral cowards. At least when I insist that it's all about me I actually follow through and accept the logical conclusion: it's all my fault.

But given that you have admitted everything is your fault, then the rest of us are blameless when things go wrong. It's logically consistant.

By the way, it's a bitch hammering the third nail in by yourself.

Posted by Gort (# 6855) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Pure as the Driven Yellow Snow:
By the way, it's a bitch hammering the third nail in by yourself.

Exactly. Which makes it difficult to sacrifice yourself without the help of others. Would an individual pounding himself to a crucifix, far removed from a public arena, have the same effect?

Posted by Janine (# 3337) on :

If a Savior crucifies Himself alone in a forest, does anyone actually hear the Substitutionary Atonement?

Posted by Bean Sidhe (# 11823) on :

Not till they check their credit card balance.

Posted by Pure as the Driven Yellow Snow (# 9397) on :

Aah the sacrifice, RooK's master plan .
Sacrifice your way to success.

I had always just assumed, he'd be sacrificing fluffy bunnies, not himself.

Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :

Whoa there, Denizens. Just because I admit that it's my fault in no way means that I'm meaning to subject myself to any sort of punitive measures. Atonement be damned, substitutionary or otherwise. (Pardon the irony.)

Posted by jlg (# 98) on :

quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
Tortuf, you damned board-hagfish, why don't you just come clean with your machinations? Do you think people don't see how you are connecting Kramnik with Luther, [....]

RooK, surely you aren't accusing Tortuf of being a Lutheran (closeted or otherwise)? I suspect that in Nashville, being a Lutheran could get a lawyer in a whole heap o' trouble, if you know what I mean.

Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

I'll have you know that I once evicted "We are the Magic of Toys" from their premises on December 23. Of course I have a waxed mustache that I twirl. That is standard equipment for a lawyer.

RooK, I am pleased and proud for you that you are accepting responsibility for everything that goes wrong. Because, as we all know, it is your fault.

I have not planned to insinuate the notion that the game of Christianity is nothing more than an allegory for chess. Au contraire, mon ami.

Gemeinschaft is but a faint analogy for Christianity and Gesellschaft is an apt analogy for playing chess.

Had you not been distracted by the bright, shiny, object passing by you when you took your philosophy class (Yes, I do know your grades in that class. Tch. Tch.) you would not have been trapped by the Cum Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc fallacy.

Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

The only Luther I know is Luther Vandross.

I have no knowledge of any German priests.

Posted by Pure as the Driven Yellow Snow (# 9397) on :

Ahh, sophistry. Can you deny knowing Lex Luthor, the nemesis of all that is good?

And I quote,
'In these early stories, Luthor comes across as a chess master -- sacrificing some pawns and losing some moves, but confident of his overall strategy.'

'Earlier, I described Luthor as a chess master. Make that a Seriously Twisted Chess Master (tm).'

I put it to you that you are suggesting RooK, with or without stigmata, is actually Lex Luthor.

Actually, reading his religious affiliation and goals here, I'm inclined to agree.

Posted by Moo (# 107) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Tortuf
..you would not have been trapped by the Cum Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc fallacy.

I always heard that as post hoc, propter hoc.

Moo

Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

Cum Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc is before Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc.

What I want to know is where the snarling watchdog of nihilist agnosticism has gone.

RooK, are you hiding there in the back corner, letting your pawns take the heat for you?

Posted by Moo (# 107) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Tortuf:
What I want to know is where the snarling watchdog of nihilist agnosticism has gone.

RooK, are you hiding there in the back corner, letting your pawns take the heat for you?

Isn't that what pawns are for?

Moo

Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

No. They are tasty little snacks steamed in beer and eaten with horseradish laden cocktail sauce.

Or is that prawns?

Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :

Heat? What heat? Of course your disgusting machinations can't be proven - weaselling around with the unprovable is how you've avoided being banned, how you trained to be a lawyer, and how you qualified as a board admin.

However, something not being provable and it not being true are hardly equivalent, otherwise this whole board would vanish in a wisp of stale trolling irony.

So answer us this: When did you stop torturing kittens? Was it before you were beating your wife, or during? Perhaps you should visit the toilet before responding - to give you time to flush the evidence.

Posted by Tortuf (# 3784) on :

I have no need to flush the evidence. Those e mails and chat sessions admitting to torturing kitten and beating my wife were written by someone who must have snuck onto my computer. Yes, that's it. There was someone who snuck onto my computer and made up those vile allegations while sending out messages under my name.

Now, let me be while I plan out how I'm going to evict that widow this morning in court.

Posted by Janine (# 3337) on :

Y'all don't hyperventilate. So long as he never flirted smuttily with same-sex teen pages via the 'Net, he's home free.

Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Janine:
Y'all don't hyperventilate. So long as he never flirted smuttily with same-sex teen pages via the 'Net, he's home free.

Way to ruin a perfectly innocent e-dual by interjecting your typically-retarded political regurgitations, Janine. Clearly, you mean that "so long as he never flirted smuttily with teen pages via the 'Net for years, with the knowledge of his party and peers, he won't feel compelled by irony to forfeit his job of protecting teens from online sexual predators once the public finds out". I can hardly wait to see what you and your ilk are instructed to regurgitate next.

Maybe, just maybe, you could do it on a more appropriate thread though, you contemptible sow.

Posted by duchess (# 2764) on :

quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
Whoa there, Denizens. Just because I admit that it's my fault in no way means that I'm meaning to subject myself to any sort of punitive measures. Atonement be damned, substitutionary or otherwise. (Pardon the irony.)

At least he's thought about it. *rubs hands*

Posted by Mousethief (# 953) on :

is an e-dual twice as good as an e-mono?

Posted by RooK (# 1852) on :

You can tell I love letting pedants make themselves look like dickheads by the way I intentionally include minor errors as bait in everything I post. Once again: all my fault.

Posted by Sine Nomine (# 66) on :

Tortuf, may I take this opportunity to say that the sign board outside your church this week is incredibly stupid? "Aspire to Inspire before you Expire."

I mean really. [Projectile]

Posted by sharkshooter (# 1589) on :

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Qb6!?

Posted by Crackers & Goat Cheese (# 8783) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
Tortuf, may I take this opportunity to say that the sign board outside your church this week is incredibly stupid? "Aspire to Inspire before you Expire."

I mean really.

Being a lawyer, no doubt he purloined that briiliant saying from another church.
Maybe one in Canada.
Or maybe one where Sine lives.

Posted by Crackers & Goat Cheese (# 8783) on :

quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
You can tell I love letting pedants make themselves look like dickheads by the way I intentionally include minor errors as bait in everything I post. Once again: all my fault.

Ummm - RooK?
Isn't intentionally including minor errors as bait in everything they post the normal daily behaviour of certain mythical creatures who live under bridges and have unsavory relationships with goats?

Posted by Sine Nomine (# 66) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Crackers & Goat Cheese:
Or maybe one where Sine lives.

I think not. Episcopalians don't do inspirational messages on their signs. We don't even really like to tell people what times the services are. Strangers might show up and sit in your pew or something.

Posted by Og: Thread Killer (# 3200) on :

Darn it People....I Can't Get This Song Out of My Head Now

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