I figured I'd start this thread to talk about how to properly hijack a thread. That way we can make sure useless chatter is in a place we can all ignore. Please make sure all posts deal with the topic of hijacking threads.
Goodness, do you two really have to talk about irrelevant things when we're having such a cohesive thread here? Start a new thread for it. ROFLOL
Goodness, do you two really have to talk about irrelevant things when we're having such a cohesive thread here? Start a new thread for it.
ROFLOL
Good, you took that in the way I intended it. No "profound apologies" needed, Damian. This whole thread is silly. I was just being silly. Then again, maybe you were too. ;-)
What's that? Looks like a group hug!
I was just being silly. Then again, maybe you were too. ;-)
Do you really need to ask.....
Now stop hijacking this thread....
hint, HINT, HINT.
George, I believe Bob reads every post. I have no doubt that he is giving proper and due consideration to all the very meaningful and helpful suggestions that have been made on this thread.
Duggar Mom Gives Birth to Baby No. 19 - 3 Months Early
I was just hijacking Russ' thread. (In reality, God has given me 19 children, 6 of them He's taken back.)
You pro-this, pro-that people all lack humility, unlike me.
Being that I am the most humble person I know...
(does talking about ones-self constitute 'hijacking' a thread?)
you guys are a load of fun! I don't post too often, but I do enjoy reading the conversations! [8-|]
Come on, one more time. Bach had 20 (of course, his first wife died so they weren't all by one mother).
I was just hijacking Russ' thread. (In reality, God has given me 19 children, 6 of them He's taken back.) Come on, one more time. Bach had 20 (of course, his first wife died so they weren't all by one mother).
Really George. 19. (9 still living at home, 4 away from home and 6 in Heaven already.) + the two Grandbabies!
I have a Great-Great? Grandmother that had 22.
Susanna Wesley was the 25th child in her family and she had 19 of her own.
Some of us don't own TV sets. [S]
Who's gonna tell Damian it's supposed to be celebrate (not celibate)?
{wipes a tear from his eye}
Ok then, what were we sayin?
Really George. 19. (9 still living at home, 4 away from home and 6 in Heaven already.) + the two Grandbabies! I have a Great-Great? Grandmother that had 22. Susanna Wesley was the 25th child in her family and she had 19 of her own.
You're all slackers:
The world record for having the most number of children officially recorded is 69 by the first of two wives of Feodor Vassilyev (1707-1782), a peasant from Shuya, 150 miles east of Moscow. In 27 confinements, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets. The case was reported to Moscow by the Monastery of Nikolskiy on February 27, 1782. Only two of the children born to Mme. Vassilyev in the period c. 1725-1765 died in infancy. (WikiAnswers, Guiness Book of World Records (1998)).
I have a hard time believing she had no singletons in all of that. But maybe she had a genetic predisposition towards multiple births.
That way we can make sure useless chatter is in a place we can all ignore.
Philip,
Is your plan working?
hint, HINT, HINT. George, I believe Bob reads every post. I have no doubt that he is giving proper and due consideration to all the very meaningful and helpful suggestions that have been made on this thread.
Speaking of Bob . . . Anybody seen him lately?
That way we can make sure useless chatter is in a place we can all ignore. Philip, Is your plan working?
Well obviously we're not ignoring it. But this lets us get the silliness out of our systems so we don't hurl it on unsuspecting others in threads where they asked serious questions. And the number of posts thus far shows that between us we have a lot of silliness in our systems. "I'm not prepared to pursue my line of inquiry any further as I think this is getting too silly." (Monty Python, Parrot Sketch)
Is Wikipedia a blog or a forum? Isn't it a school for witches?
Is Wikipedia a blog or a forum?
Isn't it a school for witches?
"PED" is a suffix referring to "foot".
"WIKI" is obviously a reference to a Kiwi, made by a New Zealander with dyslexia.
So Wikipedia refers to a Kiwi under foot.
Wasn't there a Hebrew archaeologist (do a Logos search) who recently discovered the ruins of the castle of "Arrrhhggg" ? Or was that in England?
Checking my Marian Webber Dictionary in Logos 4, I see the following:
Arrrhhggg - n. def'n sound one makes when drinking a Big Gulp without taking a breath in between gulps.
They just kept raising the taxes on them and voted themselves more perks.
Gives a new meaning to "Starbucks Taxation".
No. He Bobs in and out.
Speaking of Bob . . . Anybody seen him lately? No. He Bobs in and out.
Thomas, quick! Another groan needed!
(how was that Damian?)
Now that you mention it, I wouldn't mind having a hamburger. How late are they open?
You need a haircut George!
Already, Lucy? I thank you for your concern, but just got one a little over 30,000 yrs ago.
Two guys walk into a bar. The third guy ducked. Now that's the correct way to hijack a thread.....
Two guys walk into a bar. The third guy ducked.
Two guys walk into a bar.
The third guy ducked.
Now that's the correct way to hijack a thread.....
AFLACK !!!
L4 is not L3. L4=L2+L2. Are you saying that L4 is among the unclean animals that went into the ark? I would never presume to know more than Bob.
L4 is not L3. L4=L2+L2. Are you saying that L4 is among the unclean animals that went into the ark?
L4 is not L3. L4=L2+L2.
Are you saying that L4 is among the unclean animals that went into the ark?
I would never presume to know more than Bob.
God spelled backwards is...
But Bob spelled backwards is...
BOB!!!
(I think a great riddle of the universe has just been solved!)
Wasn't there a Hebrew archaeologist (do a Logos search) who recently discovered the ruins of the castle of "Arrrhhggg" ? Or was that in England? Checking my Marian Webber Dictionary in Logos 4, I see the following: Arrrhhggg - n. def'n sound one makes when drinking a Big Gulp without taking a breath in between gulps.
According to my Scrabble lexicon (OWL2+LWL) the correct spelling is one of the following:
Therefore "Arrrhhggg" is not acceptable in Scrabble.
But Bob spelled backwards is... BOB!!!
How then does he know if he is coming or if he is going?
It is a North/South thing, like:
B
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But Bob spelled backwards is... BOB!!! How then does he know if he is coming or if he is going?
Hammer! I will have you know that this is a FAMILY oriented forum!
Oh, NO! I just realized that I'm only 600 posts shy of becoming a member of a club I don't think I really want to join!
I wrote a palindromic poem once, called "Going and Coming"
I wrote a poem once, called "Going and Coming"
That's all supposed to be centered. It looked fine in the editor, but once I posted it, the <div align=center> tag was ignored!
It’s really kind of lonely.
This lone line at the heart of the poem is so isolated in the busyness of the world that surrounds it.
Beautiful, symmetrical. Too bad it didn't center.
It’s really kind of lonely. This lone line at the heart of the poem is so isolated in the busyness of the world that surrounds it. Beautiful, symmetrical. Too bad it didn't center.
Thanks. I forgot to mention that it was a palindromic poem, in case people didn't notice on their own. I just went back and edited the post.
I saw it right away. I wrote lots of poetry as a kid. Some was symmetrical (8 stanzas, 8 lines/stanza, 8 meter/line, mathematically rhymed.)
Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks. I forgot to mention that it was a palindromic poem, in case people didn't notice on their own. I just went back and edited the post. I saw it right away. I wrote lots of poetry as a kid. Some was symmetrical (8 stanzas, 8 lines/stanza, 8 meter/line, mathematically rhymed.) Thanks for sharing it.
There was a great palindromic poem circulating on the Internet a while back, and now I can't remember it for the life of me. It was delivered as a video with the text scrolling. It started out with a negative sense -- despairing almost, if I recall. And then at the midpoint it turned around to hope, and when you unraveled everything in the first half of the poem it had the opposite meaning. It was really cool. I wish I could find it again. Tried looking on YouTube, but I didn't have the foggiest idea what to search for other than palindromic poem same forwards backwards, etc. Came up nil. Do you remember seeing a poem matching this description and do you remember anything more about it that might help me find it?
it was a palindromic poem
PS
Rosie don't tell the other readers, but on a serious note here is some of my own poetry. The first one is a Christmas tribute to the birth of my third son called "Twas the Night Before Baby" :-)
http://www.morethancake.org/category/poetry/page/6
I think it is kind of sweet that you write poetry about Sarah Palin (in a creepy sorta political way that is).
Sarah Palin writes poetry too: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/28/william-shatner-makes-pal_n_246034.htmlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/30/william-shatner-reads-pal_n_247598.html
Rosie don't tell the other readers, but on a serious note here is some of my own poetry. The first one is a Christmas tribute to the birth of my third son called "Twas the Night Before Baby" :-) http://www.morethancake.org/category/poetry/page/6
I like it! I won't tell the other readers... ;-)
Rosie,
Who's the man... I'm the man....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA
Theologically, that's not a great statement of one's greatness...except for one person :-)
Congrats on the star :-)
Theologically
.... who's talking theologically.... I'm talking existentially!
Once, I saw you'd accepted the offer, I knew that worthiness was not an issue
Rosie, Who's the man... I'm the man.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA
Yes! That's the one. You're da man! Ecce homo! (er...not that man)
I remembered only that I'd seen it through an RSS feed. The beauty of being able to search Google Reader....
I'm not a literature major so I'm not sure what palindromic means but did you notice that you repeated some lines?
I had a little trouble with copy and paste the other day so I thought I would point that out.
I wrote a palindromic poem once, called "Going and Coming" I'm not a literature major so I'm not sure what palindromic means but did you notice that you repeated some lines? I had a little trouble with copy and paste the other day so I thought I would point that out.
Here is the definition of "palindrome"
I wrote a palindromic poem once, called "Going and Coming" I'm not a literature major so I'm not sure what palindromic means but did you notice that you repeated some lines? I had a little trouble with copy and paste the other day so I thought I would point that out. Here is the definition of "palindrome" palindrome (ˈpælɪnˌdrǝʊm) n a word or phrase the letters of which, when taken in reverse order, give the same word or phrase, such as able was I ere I saw Elba [c17: from Greek palindromos running back again, from palin again + -drome] > palindromic (ˌpælɪnˈdrɒmɪk) adj Collins English dictionary. 2006. Previous ed.: 2005.; Formerly CIP. (8th ed., Complete & unabridged ed.). Glasgow: HarperCollins.
palindrome (ˈpælɪnˌdrǝʊm) n a word or phrase the letters of which, when taken in reverse order, give the same word or phrase, such as able was I ere I saw Elba [c17: from Greek palindromos running back again, from palin again + -drome] > palindromic (ˌpælɪnˈdrɒmɪk) adj
Collins English dictionary. 2006. Previous ed.: 2005.; Formerly CIP. (8th ed., Complete & unabridged ed.). Glasgow: HarperCollins.
How many seconds did that search take?
Did you find it quicker in L4 than you could have in L3?
How many seconds did that search take? Did you find it quicker in L4 than you could have in L3?
It took very little time. I knew I wanted a definition so I also knew I wanted a dictionary. I opened the library and typed in "collins e", hit enter, tabbed into the address box, entered "palindrome" and voila ! Incidentally, Also, I did it in L3 since I was reading something else in L4. I could have opened the dictionary in L4 and then closed it, but why should I do that when L3 is open. I just might use the dictionary again. A dictionary is a most useful tool. You can't discuss something intelligently if you don't understand what you're attempting to discuss. In the 7th grade I had a science teacher who, when asked regarding the meaning of something, always responded, "Look it up in the dictionary." That was good advice.
I don't have the Collins dictionary in my library [:'(].
Why is this not a free resource in my L4 upgrade?????
I don't have the Collins dictionary in my library . Why is this not a free resource in my L4 upgrade?????
I don't have the Collins dictionary in my library .
Indeed, why doesn't Logos simply give everything away without charge? What we need is free healthcare, free pensions, free housing, free childcare, government cheese. If they start doing that it won't be long at all before they'll be locking the doors permanently. What will you do then? [:@]
