Archonic's Archaic Acronymical Antidisestablishmentarianism Random banter 148

[Amiel]

But you are asking for acknowledgment of the original source; something which you had not done.

[Rawhide]

But you are asking for acknowledgment of the original source; something which you had not done.

I was not basing my words on any article.

[Amiel]

You were referencing a dictionary and webpage.

Citations[/URL]]A bibliographic citation is a reference to a book, article, web page, or other published item. Citations should supply sufficient detail to identify the item uniquely.

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* Web site: author(s), article and publication title where appropriate, as well as a URL, and a date when the site was accessed.

[Rawhide]

You were referencing a dictionary and webpage.

No, I was recalling and relaying something I learned a long time ago, unknown source. Something that would certainly not hold up in academia, but is fine for casual conversation. None of my words were based upon any article I had read proximately to posting that or any article that I could recall specifically.

[Amiel]

You can always argue that

[Rawhide]

You can always argue that

And this isn't academia.


But yes, please try to cite your sources wherever possible. Particularly when you have recently viewed the source. I was asking primarily as one of politeness, to you, the other posters, and the sources. But also to help you, and us, stay out of any trouble.

Politeness to you, because when someone (such as myself) discovers how closely your post resembles a published article, it undermines you.
Politeness to others, because they can verify the validity of your statement and do further research.
Politeness to the sources, because they are getting credit where credit is due.

I know it isn't always possible and this is not academia, but when it is and when you are doing something such as providing a summary, you should.

[Amiel]

So, back to lolcats?

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[Archonic Energy]

I know a good World War I poem.

It goes something like this:

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'The German Guns' by S. O. Baldrick

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

This is why i miss having the internet at home...

Private Baldrick: I could go on all night.
Captain blackadder: Not with a bayonet in your throat you couldn't!

[KuReshtin]

Ring around the rosey,
Black marks on neck from plague
A pocketful of posies.
Posies kept in pockets to ward off plague
ashes, ashes.
Burn the bodies
We all fall down.
Death

That's just the interpretation I heard. You seem more knowledgeable on the subject that I am though.

I know this is a late reply and that it sparked a bit of a discussion, but I thought I'd just throw this in as well:

QI is the fountain of all truth.

[Quincunx]

{{scrubbed}}

@V: In light of not violating the three post rule. . .(retroactively runs around in blind panic, screaming for mercy)

[Jack Squat]

I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced

EDIT: snippet of the article:

'Glee' Creator Ryan Murphy Eyes Redo Of 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' For Fox 2000

EXCLUSIVE: Glee creator Ryan Murphy just finished an episode of his hit show that is devoted to the camp classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. By the time it airs October 26, Murphy might be in a deal to direct the feature film remake. I'm told that he's being courted by Fox 2000 to direct a remake of the 1975 musical, which has grossed north of $100 million and is considered the longest running theatrical release in film history because it still packs the faithful into midnight shows. The project is taking shape at Fox 2000, with Peter Chernin producing along with Lou Adler.

[Thufir]

In light of not violating the three post rule. . .

You know that only applies to SMBG, right?

ION: Phonecalls can be annoying. Especially when someone calls and asks "Can I speak to Mr. [Thufir's Surname]?" Which one. There are three of us who live here.

[Dubious Pie]

QI is the fountain of all truth.

All glory to the hypnoQI.

[Gullara]

I know this is a late reply and that it sparked a bit of a discussion, but I thought I'd just throw this in as well:

QI is the fountain of all truth.

Well I guess I know now. I should track down my high school history teacher and tell him he was misinformed.

[Haruki-kun]

You know that only applies to SMBG, right?

ION: Phonecalls can be annoying. Especially when someone calls and asks "Can I speak to Mr. [Thufir's Surname]?" Which one. There are three of us who live here.

"No, you can't. He was biten by a radioactive moose and is now outside eating the neighbor's flowerbed."

[KuReshtin]

Well I guess I know now. I should track down my high school history teacher and tell him he was misinformed.

Wasn't really meant to further debunk your explanation.
It was more a handy reason to link to QI and hopefully derail someone from their everyday business. Yes, Archie, I know you already told me.

QI is teh win.

"No, you can't. He was biten by a radioactive moose and is now outside eating the neighbor's flowerbed."

My sister had one of those callers who were really persistent and didn't want to accept that I'd moved abroad the first times they asked for me.
in the end, my sister told them that I was 'no longer with us'.
They stopped calling after that.

[Cleverdan22]

Did not do project last night. Doing project now. Except not really, because I'm on here.

[Teddy]

My sister had one of those callers who were really persistent and didn't want to accept that I'd moved abroad the first times they asked for me.
in the end, my sister told them that I was 'no longer with us'.
They stopped calling after that.

Heh, just a few minutes ago, my father had to deal with a door to dorr sales(wo)man who were trying to push him into switching our electric company. She was really persistent, but after a while he managed to make her leave. Afterwards, I overheard he and mum saying something about being inured to them thanks to the Christmas magazines' season.

ION: What must have been an airplane flying really low passed over us just a short time ago. The noise was deafening here inside the house, but I couldn't see anything when I went out on the vestibule terrace, thanks to the low-hung rain clouds that have pestered us all day. I sure hope they weren't suffering from any serious problems up there...

[Haruki-kun]

My sister had one of those callers who were really persistent and didn't want to accept that I'd moved abroad the first times they asked for me.
in the end, my sister told them that I was 'no longer with us'.
They stopped calling after that.

Oh.... man, I should have done that. Last year I got one of those asking for someone I don't know.

You know, it's OK once or twice, but after that can't they just register that the number is wrong? I mean, seriously.... <.<

[Quincunx]

I kept getting a wrong number from outside the country. The voice was thick with drink, and angry. I looked at the country prefix, ever-so-carefully assembled the proper foreign phrase, and blurted it out on the third time the (ever more irate) caller called. The calls ended, and I was quite proud of myself--until my husband pointed out that +44 is the UK, and in all likelihood the caller was, in fact, speaking English.

Well I guess I know now. I should track down my high school history teacher and tell him he was misinformed.

If I may swish about in QI fashion, it is, as Kipling might phrase it, a source of unimpeachable inaccuracy. It loves to flaunt its academic credentials but never actually show its work, as it were. (unswishing) Yes, I'm enough of a nerdess to watch the after-quiz-show credits to see citations or the lack thereof. . .and to think I've been doing so since reasonably early Jeopardy! I have no life. (swoon upon convenient wicker fainting-couch) . . .Ok, perhaps not quite done with the swishing. I I I, me me me, miiiiiiiiiiiiiiii (windowpanes crack)!

"I think." Convenient tool, for the transformation of fact into undisputable opinion*, at the low cost of removing some power and force from the statement now suborned into a clause! So. I think that if you're going to go challenging anything other than the most easy-going of teachers, you might want to do a teensy bit more research than just taking the word of someone who watched an episode of a quiz show--and one that is using that title of "quiz show" as a veneer to actually be what the Brits call a panel show, where instead of inarguable facts (oh how I hate that adjective flip-flopping from one side to the other) you have four D-list celebrities bantering about their opinions.

*Not that people don't try to dispute the validity of holding the opinion, mind you, but no one can dispute that you hold the opinion. Watch some of the Discovery Channel's dodgier docu-tainment and listen to which ones use "I think" and "I believe" instead of fact.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Grrrr.
Iust got over Fresher's Flu (stupid fresher's infecting us all) and it iust so happened to decide to have a torrential downpour the only time I was outside all day for more than five minutes!
With no iacket on.
When I was going out to get groceries (and they didn't have what I wanted either).

Soaked. Right through.
I ended up lurking in the shop for about ten minutes hoping it would stop. And it did not. Granted, the rain slackened off, but it was still wet.
And it was about the time people were going to formal hall for dinner, so people were dressed quite smartly in suits and nice dresses and things.
I pity them. They were soaked through as well.

So now I'm coming down with another cough.
Growl.
Gonna go get my ginger and lemon tea.
*hacking cough*

[Gullara]

Grrrr.
Iust got over Fresher's Flu (stupid fresher's infecting us all) and it iust so happened to decide to have a torrential downpour the only time I was outside all day for more than five minutes!
With no iacket on.
When I was going out to get groceries (and they didn't have what I wanted either).

Soaked. Right through.
I ended up lurking in the shop for about ten minutes hoping it would stop. And it did not. Granted, the rain slackened off, but it was still wet.
And it was about the time people were going to formal hall for dinner, so people were dressed quite smartly in suits and nice dresses and things.
I pity them. They were soaked through as well.

So now I'm coming down with another cough.
Growl.
Gonna go get my ginger and lemon tea.
*hacking cough*

That's unpleasant. Reminds me of a time I was at work, and, I'm sure, the entire atmosphere suddenly decided to turn into water. You could barely here yourself think in the store. I believe it hailed too.

Thankfully it stopped before work was done. My coat was in the car.

[Quincunx]

I assure you, if you're out in hail-spitting the-sky-has-inverted rain, the coat doesn't help much. Leather, pleather, and brimmed hat, the first two of which are impervious to moisture (the third still needs to be field-tested after waxing, doubt I used enough wax), and I still staggered uphill like the metaphorical drowned rat. Too drained even to flop dramatically once I got to shelter, took all the energy I could muster just to peel off the impermeable layers and hang them in the tub to drip dry. Feeling like the naked animal just in regular, hailed-upon, saturated cold clothing, and hating every lock of cold soaked hair plastered onto my neck. That's hundreds of hatreds. Cold, stripped, defeated, fuming, unwarmed by the hatred--animal.

[Gullara]

I assure you, if you're out in hail-spitting the-sky-has-inverted rain, the coat doesn't help much. Leather, pleather, and brimmed hat, the first two of which are impervious to moisture (the third still needs to be field-tested after waxing, doubt I used enough wax), and I still staggered uphill like the metaphorical drowned rat. Too drained even to flop dramatically once I got to shelter, took all the energy I could muster just to peel off the impermeable layers and hang them in the tub to drip dry. Feeling like the naked animal just in regular, hailed-upon, saturated cold clothing, and hating every lock of cold soaked hair plastered onto my neck. That's hundreds of hatreds. Cold, stripped, defeated, fuming, unwarmed by the hatred--animal.

Probably true, but it was a short distance and a coat would stop most of the water over such a distance.

[Quincunx]

Ah, right. CAR. Missed that crucial word. (moment of blind, seething, this-still-isn't-warming-my-saturated-to-the-point-of-pasty-white-wrinkles-carcass ENVY )

. . .Yeah. Different if you have a car for the commute. Certainly. (. . .drip. . .drip. . .that inexplicable belly-button rivulet. . .drip. . .)

And where, I ask, is the justice in the quickest way to warm oneself being a hot shower? That's more water!

Physics is a cruel mistress--and it's boffing meteorology on the sly.

[CurlyKitGirl]

That's unpleasant. Reminds me of a time I was at work, and, I'm sure, the entire atmosphere suddenly decided to turn into water. You could barely here yourself think in the store. I believe it hailed too.

Thankfully it stopped before work was done. My coat was in the car.

Lucky for you. I only had to walk a half-mile round trip, but the roads had turned to rivers during that downpour.
It was raining up.

I assure you, if you're out in hail-spitting the-sky-has-inverted rain, the coat doesn't help much. Leather, pleather, and brimmed hat, the first two of which are impervious to moisture (the third still needs to be field-tested after waxing, doubt I used enough wax), and I still staggered uphill like the metaphorical drowned rat. Too drained even to flop dramatically once I got to shelter, took all the energy I could muster just to peel off the impermeable layers and hang them in the tub to drip dry. Feeling like the naked animal just in regular, hailed-upon, saturated cold clothing, and hating every lock of cold soaked hair plastered onto my neck. That's hundreds of hatreds. Cold, stripped, defeated, fuming, unwarmed by the hatred--animal.

I had that happen a few times. Once I was wearing the thickest coat in the entire house, and the rain got through in a few minutes. So I was overheated and soaking wet and cold all at once.

Today and most other times that happened? My less-than-£10 trainers (and they're usually cracked and holey as well), my lazy day iogging bottoms, a thing t-shirt and my fleecey super-absorbent top.
Rat tails hair dripping my down back, water pouring off my nose and blinding my glasses so I couldn't really see.
It was essentially showering with my clothes on. Nothing worse than having to strip off cold, wet clingy clothing in a chilly room. And my radiator's broken so they're all drip-drying very slowly in my bedroom because I share the bathroom with a fourth year physicist.
No way I'm hanging up my clobber in there.
And after I had my shower, the neighbour had his, but I can hear the shower plip plip blip plibbing away in the background, but I've only warmed up enough to be cosy and not-hating-the-world, so I can't be bothered to turn it off depiste it driving me to distraction.

And there's a cold snap on the way with possible 'wintery showers'. That's Britlander speak for very cold rain and potential sleet.
I think Camford's conspiring to kill me.
It's the only reasonable explanation.

[AtlanteanTroll]

We got the order forms for class rings today. (Even though we're only Sophmores, it's so we can pay with "lay a way.) And they have a ring in their that's $1,333.

I mean Jesus. Saying "Jesus" isn't against the rules is it?

[Quincunx]

. . .and the worst part is, by my back-of-the-envelope calculations, that's the same pricing structure they used *cough* years ago for my class's rings including solid low-karat gold, only increased by the relative expense of gold. The value of gold has remained inflated through changes of leadership, economy, and supply, so the solid rings of the past few years couldn't even be considered a good investment in raw material. Friggin' highway robbery. Can't even say that I wear mine nowadays, but then I went from eight rings to one.

[AtlanteanTroll]

. . .and the worst part is, by my back-of-the-envelope calculations, that's the same pricing structure they used *cough* years ago for my class's rings including solid low-karat gold, only increased by the relative expense of gold. The value of gold has remained inflated through changes of leadership, economy, and supply, so the solid rings of the past few years couldn't even be considered a good investment in raw material. Friggin' highway robbery. Can't even say that I wear mine nowadays, but then I went from eight rings to one.

Cheapest ring is $80 dollars, but the $1,300 one is suppose to be 18 Carat Gold.

[Quincunx]

Sheesh. I think ours topped out at 14k--that's what I got anyway, gold being relatively cheap at the time. Thought 18k was too soft to take the stamping and abuse of being such a tall setting.

Pardon my asking, but are you in a rich district or something, that they think there's a market for 18k?