The correct way to Hijack a thread
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George Somsel said:
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. ;-)
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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....
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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.
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Rosie Perera said:
I was just hijacking Russ' thread. (In reality, God has given me 19 children, 6 of them He's taken back.)
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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-|]
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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).
george
gfsomselיְמֵי־שְׁנוֹתֵינוּ בָהֶם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וְאִם בִּגְבוּרֹת שְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וְרָהְבָּם עָמָל וָאָוֶן
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George Somsel said:
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]
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He.. what... Did he just say that? HOOOHHHHAAAAA HAA LOLRichard DeRuiter said: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?
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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.
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Philip Spitzer said:
That way we can make sure useless chatter is in a place we can all ignore.
Philip,
Is your plan working?
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Damian McGrath said:
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?
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Russ Quinn said:
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)
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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.
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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.
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George Somsel said:
They just kept raising the taxes on them and voted themselves more perks.
Gives a new meaning to "Starbucks Taxation".
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Groan.Dan Sheppard said:Gives a new meaning to "Starbucks Taxation".
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Dan Sheppard said:
Now that you mention it, I wouldn't mind having a hamburger. How late are they open?
george
gfsomselיְמֵי־שְׁנוֹתֵינוּ בָהֶם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וְאִם בִּגְבוּרֹת שְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וְרָהְבָּם עָמָל וָאָוֶן
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You need a haircut George!
Longtime Logos user (more than $30,000 in purchases) - now a second class user because I won't pay them more every month or year.
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Alex Scott said:
You need a haircut George!
Already, Lucy? I thank you for your concern, but just got one a little over 30,000 yrs ago.
george
gfsomselיְמֵי־שְׁנוֹתֵינוּ בָהֶם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וְאִם בִּגְבוּרֹת שְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וְרָהְבָּם עָמָל וָאָוֶן
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Russ Quinn said:
God spelled backwards is...
But Bob spelled backwards is...
BOB!!!
(I think a great riddle of the universe has just been solved!)
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Dan Sheppard said:
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.
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David Paul said:
But Bob spelled backwards is...
BOB!!!
How then does he know if he is coming or if he is going?
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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
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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!
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Matthew C Jones said:
I wrote a palindromic poem once, called "Going and Coming"
Going and Coming
Going and coming,
I never know who I will meet
walking down the street.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell
whether I’m walking backwards or forwards;
I don’t even know anymore.
Everyone seems to be focused on their own journey.
I like to see people’s faces,
but when it’s raining,
sometimes I see the backs of folks.
It’s really kind of lonely.
Sometimes I see the backs of folks,
but when it’s raining,
I like to see people’s faces.
Everyone seems to be focused on their own journey.
I don’t even know anymore
whether I’m walking backwards or forwards;
sometimes it’s hard to tell.
Walking down the street,
I never know who I will meet
going and coming.
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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!
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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.
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Matthew C Jones said:
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.
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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.
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Matthew C Jones said:
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?
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I think it is kind of sweet that you write poetry about Sarah Palin (in a creepy sorta political way that is).Rosie Perera said: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" :-)
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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.htmlJoe 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... ;-)
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Rosie Perera said:
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?
Rosie,
Who's the man... I'm the man....
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Damian McGrath said:
Who's the man... I'm the man....
Theologically, that's not a great statement of one's greatness...except for one person :-)
Congrats on the star :-)
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Philip Spitzer said:
Theologically
.... who's talking theologically.... I'm talking existentially!
Philip Spitzer said:Congrats on the star :-)
Once, I saw you'd accepted the offer, I knew that worthiness was not an issue
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Rosie Perera said:
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....
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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.
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Russ Quinn said:
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) adjgeorge
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George Somsel said:
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?
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Russ Quinn said:
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.
george
gfsomselיְמֵי־שְׁנוֹתֵינוּ בָהֶם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וְאִם בִּגְבוּרֹת שְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וְרָהְבָּם עָמָל וָאָוֶן
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I don't have the Collins dictionary in my library [:'(].
Why is this not a free resource in my L4 upgrade?????
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Russ Quinn said:
I don't have the Collins dictionary in my library
.Why is this not a free resource in my L4 upgrade?????
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? [:@]
george
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