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Post by housesparrow on Dec 9, 2010 9:07:33 GMT
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Post by trubble on Dec 9, 2010 10:54:51 GMT
Is anyone proposing a new word for today? I'll be back in half an hour to check. Also, to add up yesterday's scores.
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Post by Weyland on Dec 9, 2010 11:04:33 GMT
Oh and Jean.. I see you on the MCL. A direct hit. My thread soon turned into a pile of shit. You've stumbled upon Yutani's Second Law of Messageboard Dynamics: All threads tend toward a state of maximum entropy.Recent research in this field has suggested a special-case Annexe to the Second Law: With the exception of Stub Crouch, where the best threads emerge from a state of maximum entropy. (Currently under peer review in saloon bars worldwide.) |
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Post by Weyland on Dec 9, 2010 11:24:13 GMT
Is anyone proposing a new word for today? I'll be back in half an hour to check. Also, to add up yesterday's scores. It's long past time this fine word was released into the wild and allowed to show what it can do. |
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Post by jean on Dec 9, 2010 11:49:20 GMT
My thread soon turned into a pile of shit. I attempted to take it to a higher plane with a quotation from the online OED. Unfortunately I did not post that until today, so it will not count for anything (sob!) pinkmelon.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=5867&page=1Here are my favourite examples: 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings xi. 1 But kynge Salomon loued many outlandish wemen.1639 J. Woodall Treat. Plague in Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) 364 The outlandish Angelica rootes are very good chewed in the mouth.and especially 1770 Trial W. Wemms 174 A motley rabble of saucy boys, negroes and molattoes, Irish teagues and out landish jack tarrs. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Dec 9, 2010 12:04:19 GMT
Is anyone proposing a new word for today? I'll be back in half an hour to check. Also, to add up yesterday's scores. cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, LOUD COUGH |
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Post by swl on Dec 9, 2010 12:19:54 GMT
That's a nasty cough you have there. Shouldn't you be tucked up in bed with a lozenge?
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Post by Weyland on Dec 9, 2010 12:30:34 GMT
Is anyone proposing a new word for today? I'll be back in half an hour to check. Also, to add up yesterday's scores. cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, LOUD COUGH Spit it out, Riot. What you're really trying to say is "FFS, Trubs, get your miserable Irish arse in gear." Don't deny it. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Dec 9, 2010 12:36:28 GMT
The precise configuration of the nature of my distress should be obvious.
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Post by Weyland on Dec 9, 2010 12:43:40 GMT
The precise configuration of the nature of my distress should be obvious. Indeed. More than a touch thixotropic, I dare say. |
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Post by jean on Dec 9, 2010 12:49:40 GMT
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Post by riotgrrl on Dec 9, 2010 12:53:22 GMT
Wow. There are people who spend their spare time arguing about grammar. Wow. Weyland, are you on there? It's your natural home!  |
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Post by Weyland on Dec 9, 2010 13:04:54 GMT
Wow. There are people who spend their spare time arguing about grammar. Wow. Weyland, are you on there? It's your natural home! Not for me, Riot. I'm tempted, but I like to preach, not argue. Some of the people on that thread are not very good at putting words together, or punctuation, or even typing. Hardly the handiest flaws to display when attempting to discuss precise points of language with people who give a skit about it. |
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Post by jean on Dec 9, 2010 13:15:12 GMT
Nonsense, Weyland! You know you'd be out of your depth in no time!
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Post by Weyland on Dec 9, 2010 13:25:24 GMT
Nonsense, Weyland! You know you'd be out of your depth in no time! I won't be drawn, Jean. It wouldn't be nice to go over there and stain the chandeliers with blood and snots. (Are you denying that some of the posters there have difficulties with presentation, not to say comprehension? Example: any thing. One school of thought has it that if you can't write, you can't think.) |
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Post by jean on Dec 9, 2010 13:31:40 GMT
Nonsense, Weyland! You know you'd be out of your depth in no time! I won't be drawn, Jean. It wouldn't be nice to go over there and stain the chandeliers with blood and snots. (Are you denying that some of the posters there have difficulties with presentation, not to say comprehension? Example: any thing. One school of thought has it that if you can't write, you can't think.)I can tell you who can think and who can't, Weyland. The OP was out of her depth before she started. Someone writing 'any thing ' instead of 'anything' doesn't tell you much, especially as you can't edit stuff on there. (Who was it, btw?) |
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Post by trubble on Dec 9, 2010 13:34:09 GMT
 'Pologies, Riotgrrl. First come, first served! How about configuration[glow=red,2,300][/glow] for tomorrow? it is. I have to admit to being relieved that you beat Weyland to it. His word was far too difficult for my thixotropic brain.  Now, how to score swl.... excellent play, but you can't score for using words the day before they are in play. Bonus points.... maybe...
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Post by Weyland on Dec 9, 2010 13:44:38 GMT
I can tell you who can think and who can't, Weyland. The OP was out of her depth before she started. Someone writing 'any thing ' instead of 'anything' doesn't tell you much, especially as you can't edit stuff on there. (Who was it, btw?) It was one Hurtgen. Her/his use of blanks is clumsy too. (You don't know how to search a thread?) |
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Post by Weyland on Dec 9, 2010 13:53:00 GMT
Is anyone proposing a new word for today? I'll be back in half an hour to check. Also, to add up yesterday's scores. COUGH! I hereby invoke the Freedom of Information Act and demand to know the scores. [As everybody knows, the Act applies retroactively to all British possessions down through the ages, including Aquitaine, Corfu, Ireland, and Sweet Rockall.] |
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Post by trubble on Dec 9, 2010 13:54:30 GMT
Anyone can add them up, they are all here in the thread....
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