The correct way to Hijack a thread

George Somsel said:

Rosie Perera said:

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. ;-)

Rosie Perera said:

I was just being silly. Then again, maybe you were too. ;-)

Do you really need to ask.....

Now stop hijacking this thread....

Richard DeRuiter said:

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-|]

George Somsel said:

Matthew C Jones said:

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]

Matthew C Jones said:

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.

Damian McGrath said:

George Somsel said:

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?

George Somsel said:

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.

George Somsel said:

They just kept raising the taxes on them and voted themselves more perks.

Gives a new meaning to "Starbucks Taxation".

Russ Quinn said:

Speaking of Bob . . . Anybody seen him lately?

No. He Bobs in and out.

Dan Sheppard said:

No. He Bobs in and out.

(how was that Damian?)

You need a haircut George!

Damian McGrath said:

Richard DeRuiter said:

Two guys walk into a bar.

The third guy ducked.

Now that's the correct way to hijack a thread.....

AFLACK !!!

Dan Sheppard said:

Tom Blanchard said:

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:

• aargh
• aarrgh
• aarrghh

Therefore "Arrrhhggg" is not acceptable in Scrabble.

Matthew C Jones said:

How then does he know if he is coming or if he is going?

It is a North/South thing, like:

B

O

B

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!

Rosie Perera said:

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!

Matthew C Jones said:

Rosie Perera said:

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.

Matthew C Jones said:

Rosie Perera said:

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?

Joe Miller said:

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.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/30/william-shatner-reads-pal_n_247598.html

Joe Miller said:

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... ;-)

Damian McGrath said:

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)

Rosie Perera said:

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.

George Somsel said:

Russ Quinn said:

Rosie Perera said:

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.

How many seconds did that search take?

Did you find it quicker in L4 than you could have in L3?

I don't have the Collins dictionary in my library [:'(].

Why is this not a free resource in my L4 upgrade?????