• (cs) in reply to Bim Job
    Bim Job:
    DaveK:
    Bim Job:
    Captcha: "There is a curse on the House of Moriarty..."
    And his name is Grytpype-Thinne!
    Nice rewrite, but it's actually The Hampstead Building Society.

    Don't point that moot at me.

    But it's a nice clean moot! I was up all night polishing it, using nothing but my own ear-wax and a penknife with an attachment for getting boy scouts out of horses' hooves!
  • Bim Job (unregistered) in reply to the beholder
    the beholder:
    Bim Job:
    Either way, I'm sure it wows them down at the Podunk baths.
    The fun is not in victory itself but in participating in - or at least watching - a great challenge. I liked some of your recent contributions too.

    You can enjoy yourself reading these quotations in Lucretius's book II*. I heard he was quite fond of Matt Groening's creations. Thus, here is another remarkable phrase: Ita erat quando hic adveni. Translation: It was that way when I got here.

    • Actually, that is Henry Beard's Latin for Everyday Occasions: Lingua Latina Omnibus
    Well, there are certainly worse ways to source a Latin quotation (horrible language); and it's very definitely more enjoyable than following up on some foolish misconstruction of an etymology (cf "Decade").

    Not too keen on Lucretius, any more than I am on Catullus (a spoilt pompous brat with bad breath and a penchant for mangling other people's best work, eg Sappho 31: Catullus 51). Frankly, I'm not too keen on semi house-trained aristocrats trying their hand at something they're not very good at:

    "Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire, et quod vides perisse perditum ducas."

    That was number eight, and the silly bastard still managed another hundred or so. Res ipsa loquitur. Or, as you would (justifiably) say,

    Dunuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur...

  • Bim Job (unregistered) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    Bim Job:
    DaveK:
    Bim Job:
    Captcha: "There is a curse on the House of Moriarty..."
    And his name is Grytpype-Thinne!
    Nice rewrite, but it's actually The Hampstead Building Society.

    Don't point that moot at me.

    But it's a nice clean moot! I was up all night polishing it, using nothing but my own ear-wax and a penknife with an attachment for getting boy scouts out of horses' hooves!
    "Eccles? Eccles? Is that you?"

    Enter Bottle, with cardboard knees and things; also lovely sossinges. Listeners may be wondering about what has become of Count Moriarty. The truth is, he WAS suddenly attacked by a soaking wet elephant.

    Nice to know that we're all on the same page, though.

    (Explosion, long drawn out fall of debris)

    Bluebottle: You rotten swines you! Arrgh arggh ho! You have deaded me, oh you swines! Look what you have done to my new Alan Ladd-type sports shirt. I'm gonna tell my dad on you, my dad's a blacksmith. Ah hi. Exits left, with shattered bonce, crepe hair and loose feet.

  • (cs) in reply to Bim Job
    Bim Job:
    DaveK:
    Bim Job:
    DaveK:
    Bim Job:
    Captcha: "There is a curse on the House of Moriarty..."
    And his name is Grytpype-Thinne!
    Nice rewrite, but it's actually The Hampstead Building Society.

    Don't point that moot at me.

    But it's a nice clean moot! I was up all night polishing it, using nothing but my own ear-wax and a penknife with an attachment for getting boy scouts out of horses' hooves!
    "Eccles? Eccles? Is that you?"

    Enter Bottle, with cardboard knees and things; also lovely sossinges. Listeners may be wondering about what has become of Count Moriarty. The truth is, he WAS suddenly attacked by a soaking wet elephant.

    Nice to know that we're all on the same page, though.

    (Explosion, long drawn out fall of debris)

    Bluebottle: You rotten swines you! Arrgh arggh ho! You have deaded me, oh you swines! Look what you have done to my new Alan Ladd-type sports shirt. I'm gonna tell my dad on you, my dad's a blacksmith. Ah hi. Exits left, with shattered bonce, crepe hair and loose feet.

    FX: wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeSPLASH!

    Little Jim: Heeeeeee fallen in da water!

  • (cs) in reply to Bim Job

    THREAD FORK!

    Bim Job:
    Captcha: "There is a curse on the House of Moriarty..."
    They call the Rising Sun?
  • (cs) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    THREAD FORK!
    Bim Job:
    Captcha: "There is a curse on the House of Moriarty..."
    They call the Dreaded Lurgy

    FTFY

  • P. Edant (unregistered) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    P. Edant:
    I don't care what Jimbo's big bag of trivia says. CSN isn't an acronym
    Well, sure. Not in English. But that just marks you out as someone who is irrationally attached to vowels in their words. Not all languages are like that (we can forgive the rendering of it in latin characters) so your assertion might be massively off the mark.

    However I continue to have no idea what it might have been referring to originally.

    If you can find me a language in which the word CSN exists, I'll concede that you "won", and award you over 9000 internets

  • Snoggums (unregistered) in reply to My Name?
    My Name?:
    Pol:
    Keep comments nice plesae...

    ...and, plesae, definitely no pointing out obvious typos!

    You dit it all worg! It must bee:

    ...and, plees, definitelie no poynting out obwiuos taipos!

    You're a cat arn't you?

  • Laughing Jack (unregistered) in reply to P. Edant
    P. Edant:
    If you can find me a language in which the word CSN exists, I'll concede that you "won", and award you over 9000 internets
    It's ONE MILLION INTERNETS, you cheapskate.
  • Ludwig (unregistered) in reply to P. Edant
    P. Edant:
    Herohtar:
    P. Edant:
    Not only is CSN not an acronym he's heard of, it's not an acronym at all. lrn2acronym
    Wikipedia disagrees.
    I don't care what Jimbo's big bag of trivia says. CSN isn't an acronym
    If you're referring to the lack of periods, that has only every been an optional typographic convention. It was never consistantly used in the past (consider "HMS"), and has largely fallen out of favour.

    English you see, is a living language (hence it's inconsistancy, but also it's expressiveness). This may cause anxiety attacks in certain programmers who chose the career out of an inability to relate to other people, but that's their problem.

  • Poor sap (unregistered)

    To solve the CSN riddle: CSN is the name of a kind of bug-tracking system that is used by SAP to process any sorts of messages. By ancient custom, system names consist of no more than three alphanumeric characters. So CSN is not an acronym but a proper name. To translate: The application is telling the user to open a bug report.

    TRWTF goes deeper, however: The programmer failed, among others, to specify a component for the bug report. SAP is a big company and there are lots of programs, reports, and whatnot. So, telling the user to "create a CSN" or something like that is not really useful.

    This kind of sloppiness is EXACTLY why Enterprise software sucks so badly...

  • (cs) in reply to Ludwig
    Ludwig:
    P. Edant:
    Herohtar:
    P. Edant:
    Not only is CSN not an acronym he's heard of, it's not an acronym at all. lrn2acronym
    Wikipedia disagrees.
    I don't care what Jimbo's big bag of trivia says. CSN isn't an acronym
    If you're referring to the lack of periods, that has only every been an optional typographic convention. It was never consistantly used in the past (consider "HMS"), and has largely fallen out of favour.
    I don't believe it's that. I rather believe Mrs. or Mr. Edant is one of those annoying people who have once heard a nitwit blabber about only pronounceable abbreviations formed by the initial letters of a sequence of words being acronyms, calling other such abbreviations initialisms (which word, interestingly, is unknown to all of my dictionaries as well as my spell-checker), and since then draw a completely misplaced feeling of superiority from 'correcting' others who use the word acronym in the also very common wider sense - in the most obnoxious way they can think of.
  • (cs) in reply to Poor sap
    Poor sap:
    TRWTF goes deeper, however: SAP is not really useful.
    Be concise. There's no need for more words.
  • P.E. Dant (unregistered) in reply to Ludwig
    Ludwig:
    P. Edant:
    Herohtar:
    P. Edant:
    Not only is CSN not an acronym he's heard of, it's not an acronym at all. lrn2acronym
    Wikipedia disagrees.
    I don't care what Jimbo's big bag of trivia says. CSN isn't an acronym
    If you're referring to the lack of periods, that has only every been an optional typographic convention. It was never consistantly used in the past (consider "HMS"), and has largely fallen out of favour.

    English you see, is a living language (hence it's inconsistancy, but also it's expressiveness). This may cause anxiety attacks in certain programmers who chose the career out of an inability to relate to other people, but that's their problem.

    What I think P. Edant -- pedant, get it? -- is referring to is not the lack of periods not making it an acronym, but that fact that CSN is not literally an acronyn, but an initialism. As any self-respecting pedant will tell you -- often without anyone actually asking -- an initialism is an acronym that is spoken as a word, like "laser". As in, CSN is pronounced "Cee Ess En", not "csn".

    Also, is English such a living language that it's OK to use "it's" and "its" interchangeably now? Who knew!

  • Ludwig (unregistered) in reply to P.E. Dant
    P.E. Dant:
    What I think P. Edant -- pedant, get it? ...
    Yes, both times. Pedentry isn't funny though. It's like straightening other people's ties in public.
    P.E. Dant:
    Also, is English such a living language that it's OK to use "it's" and "its" interchangeably now? Who knew!
    Oh noes! U haz dishcovered mi secretz! I is not a human, I is a lolcat!

    At least peoples liek catz.

  • Laughing Jack (unregistered) in reply to P.E. Dant
    P.E. Dant:
    Ludwig:
    English you see, is a living language (hence it's inconsistancy, but also it's expressiveness). This may cause anxiety attacks in certain programmers who chose the career out of an inability to relate to other people, but that's their problem.
    Also, is English such a living language that it's OK to use "it's" and "its" interchangeably now? Who knew!
    Take deep, slow breath's. The feeling of anxiety will pass.
  • P.E. Dant (unregistered) in reply to Laughing Jack

    Actually, if you added up all of the anxiety and anger felt by the pedants of the world, I think it would be only marginally more than the anxiety and anger of the anti-pedant get-a-life-you-losers / English-is-a-living-language crowd. Am I losing any sleep over the confusion over "it's" and "its"? No. I also don't usually point out the misuse unless someone is correcting someone else's grammar and they themselves confuse the two words. Then it's just too much to resist.

    In this particular case, I just thought it was funny that someone who was pointing out that English is a living language made a mistake that even proponents of the English-is-a-living-language argument wouldn't defend. I'd say that it was irony, but I wouldn't want to risk provoking the that's-not-irony-you-idiots! crowd. Now those guys are assholes.

  • Laughing Jack (unregistered) in reply to P.E. Dant
    P.E. Dant:
    Am I losing any sleep over the confusion over "it's" and "its"? No. I also don't usually point out the misuse unless someone is correcting someone else's grammar and they themselves confuse the two words. Then it's just too much to resist.
    That would be pretty funny. Unfortunately, Ludwig the Lolcat seem's to be again'st grammar pedantry, s'o pointing out their mi'stake doe'sn't work a's a joke a's well a's you might like, it ju'st come's acro's's a's further pedantry. That can be funny, but not in thi's ca'se.

    You s'eem to be taking thi's all very literaly. I don't think that's nece's'sarily the be'st approach. My remark about deep breath's for example was a humourou's device to draw attention to your pedentry (ca'sting you a's the s'traight man) rather than a s'eriou's s'ugge'stion that you s'uffer from anxiety in s'ocial s'ituation's. I would s'uggest a humourou's respon'se at thi's jucture, for example you could use your pedentry-to-date as the ba'si's for a joke by pointing out one of my s'pelling error's (I've left s'ome particularly appropriate one's) and ignoring the apostrophie's in this comment. Just keep it s'hort.

  • nanomagnetic (unregistered)

    The real joke of the first picture is that drink!

  • AntiQuercus (unregistered) in reply to chris

    This is mightily impressive! The dedication to getting the mail through includes transliterating across charsets. So was this the Russian postal service?

  • P. Edant (unregistered) in reply to Laughing Jack
    Laughing Jack:
    P. Edant:
    If you can find me a language in which the word CSN exists, I'll concede that you "won", and award you over 9000 internets
    It's ONE MILLION INTERNETS, you cheapskate.

    Isn't 1 million over 9000?

  • P. Edant (unregistered) in reply to Ludwig
    Ludwig:
    P. Edant:
    Herohtar:
    P. Edant:
    Not only is CSN not an acronym he's heard of, it's not an acronym at all. lrn2acronym
    Wikipedia disagrees.
    I don't care what Jimbo's big bag of trivia says. CSN isn't an acronym
    If you're referring to the lack of periods, that has only every been an optional typographic convention. It was never consistantly used in the past (consider "HMS"), and has largely fallen out of favour.

    English you see, is a living language (hence it's inconsistancy, but also it's expressiveness). This may cause anxiety attacks in certain programmers who chose the career out of an inability to relate to other people, but that's their problem.

    No, it's nothing to do with punctuation.

    ITT: people who are singularly unable to refrain from passive-aggressive ad hominem. Odd

  • P. Edant (unregistered) in reply to Ilya Ehrenburg
    Ilya Ehrenburg:
    Ludwig:
    P. Edant:
    Herohtar:
    P. Edant:
    Not only is CSN not an acronym he's heard of, it's not an acronym at all. lrn2acronym
    Wikipedia disagrees.
    I don't care what Jimbo's big bag of trivia says. CSN isn't an acronym
    If you're referring to the lack of periods, that has only every been an optional typographic convention. It was never consistantly used in the past (consider "HMS"), and has largely fallen out of favour.
    I don't believe it's that. I rather believe Mrs. or Mr. Edant is one of those annoying people who have once heard a nitwit blabber about only pronounceable abbreviations formed by the initial letters of a sequence of words being acronyms, calling other such abbreviations initialisms (which word, interestingly, is unknown to all of my dictionaries as well as my spell-checker), and since then draw a completely misplaced feeling of superiority from 'correcting' others who use the word acronym in the also very common wider sense - in the most obnoxious way they can think of.

    Response to mild, inoffensive correction, directed at someone else's post? Typically presumptuous e-psychiatrist deconstruction of the character of a total stranger, with the sole purpose of trying to upset them. Talk to me about obnoxious

  • P. Edant (unregistered) in reply to Ludwig
    Ludwig:
    P.E. Dant:
    What I think P. Edant -- pedant, get it? ...
    Yes, both times. Pedantry isn't funny though.

    I fixed your spelling error for you. You're welcome!

  • P. Edant (unregistered) in reply to Laughing Jack
    Laughing Jack:
    P.E. Dant:
    Am I losing any sleep over the confusion over "it's" and "its"? No. I also don't usually point out the misuse unless someone is correcting someone else's grammar and they themselves confuse the two words. Then it's just too much to resist.
    That would be pretty funny. Unfortunately, Ludwig the Lolcat seem's to be again'st grammar pedantry, s'o pointing out their mi'stake doe'sn't work a's a joke a's well a's you might like, it ju'st come's acro's's a's further pedantry. That can be funny, but not in thi's ca'se.

    You s'eem to be taking thi's all very literaly. I don't think that's nece's'sarily the be'st approach. My remark about deep breath's for example was a humourou's device to draw attention to your pedentry (ca'sting you a's the s'traight man) rather than a s'eriou's s'ugge'stion that you s'uffer from anxiety in s'ocial s'ituation's. I would s'uggest a humourou's respon'se at thi's jucture, for example you could use your pedentry-to-date as the ba'si's for a joke by pointing out one of my s'pelling error's (I've left s'ome particularly appropriate one's) and ignoring the apostrophie's in this comment. Just keep it s'hort.

    What''s a "jucture"?

  • Mrs D. Pointe (unregistered) in reply to Laughing Jack
    Laughing Jack:
    P.E. Dant:
    Am I losing any sleep over the confusion over "it's" and "its"? No. I also don't usually point out the misuse unless someone is correcting someone else's grammar and they themselves confuse the two words. Then it's just too much to resist.
    That would be pretty funny. Unfortunately, Ludwig the Lolcat seem's to be again'st grammar pedantry, s'o pointing out their mi'stake doe'sn't work a's a joke a's well a's you might like, it ju'st come's acro's's a's further pedantry. That can be funny, but not in thi's ca'se.

    You s'eem to be taking thi's all very literaly. I don't think that's nece's'sarily the be'st approach. My remark about deep breath's for example was a humourou's device to draw attention to your pedentry (ca'sting you a's the s'traight man) rather than a s'eriou's s'ugge'stion that you s'uffer from anxiety in s'ocial s'ituation's. I would s'uggest a humourou's respon'se at thi's jucture, for example you could use your pedentry-to-date as the ba'si's for a joke by pointing out one of my s'pelling error's (I've left s'ome particularly appropriate one's) and ignoring the apostrophie's in this comment. Just keep it s'hort.

    Good grief, were you not paying attention in school when they taught you about the apostrophe? You're fired!

  • Level 2 (unregistered)

    The Purple monkey dishwasher idea is great. This way you can be sure to get accurate error reports from your users.

    User: "I had this error, it said something about a purple monkey."

    Instead of: User: "I had this error." RF Technician: "What was the error number?" User: "I don't know."

  • Mayhem (unregistered) in reply to P. Edant
    P. Edant:
    Herohtar:
    P. Edant:
    Not only is CSN not an acronym he's heard of, it's not an acronym at all. lrn2acronym

    Wikipedia disagrees.

    I don't care what Jimbo's big bag of trivia says. CSN isn't an acronym

    To everything, turn turn turn, there is a CSN, turn turn turn ...

    augue: this joke makes my stomach churn?

    et sequiter ad nauseam spon

  • (cs) in reply to Nyquist
    Nyquist:
    DaveK:
    THREAD FORK!
    Bim Job:
    Captcha: "There is a curse on the House of Moriarty..."
    They call the Dreaded Lurgy

    FTFY

    Thank you very much! Here, try one of my purple monkey dishwashers; they're milder than those industrial baboon cleansers you've been smoking.
  • Mrs D. Pointe (unregistered) in reply to DaveK

    So is it the monkeys that are purple, or their dishwasher's?

  • (cs)

    The REAL WTF is in the dialog title. "Windows Internet Explorer"...

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Anna Krzysztof
    Anna Krzysztof:
    I guess I didn't have to pixelate my last name after all.
    Hello there Anna Krzysztof. Since I know your name and managed to figure out the blurred part of your address, can we be pen-pals? I just know we can, which is why I've anticipated your positive response and have posted my first three letters already. We're going to be the bestest of friends and it's great because I've always wanted to be friends with a Polish girl (to be honest, any girl). Anyway, we can share our life stories once you've replied to my letters, until then my new friend!
  • anon (unregistered) in reply to Laughing Jack
    Laughing Jack:
    P.E. Dant:
    Ludwig:
    English you see, is a living language (hence it's inconsistancy, but also it's expressiveness). This may cause anxiety attacks in certain programmers who chose the career out of an inability to relate to other people, but that's their problem.
    Also, is English such a living language that it's OK to use "it's" and "its" interchangeably now? Who knew!
    Take deep, slow breath's. The feeling of anxiety will pass.
    I see, the apostrophes were correct, so what you really meant was:
    Ludwig:
    English you see, is a living language (hence it's inconsistent, but also it's expressive).
  • (cs) in reply to Incourced
    Incourced:
    Ha:
    "cancled and tryied"

    occoured cencle plesae

    I just cancled and tryied agian That's Three-for-three!!!

  • Bim Job (unregistered) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    Nyquist:
    DaveK:
    THREAD FORK!
    Bim Job:
    Captcha: "There is a curse on the House of Moriarty..."
    They call the Dreaded Lurgy

    FTFY

    Thank you very much! Here, try one of my purple monkey dishwashers; they're milder than those industrial baboon cleansers you've been smoking.
    Rather in the manner of Mornington Crescent, you got to Little Jim before I could. Believe me, I tried. Obviously you're playing by the East Finchley rules.

    I sometimes wonder what Milligoon and Sykes would have made of this thread, though.

    P.Edant: Not only is CSN not an acronym he's heard of, it's not an acronym at all. lrn2acronym Bloodnok: Stop waving that acronym at me. Filth! Filth ... Aaaaaeaoughiuggh. Thank you, Gladys, and make a note in the mess-book. See you next Tuesday! Bluebottle: Eccles ... Eccles ... dere is a house in New Orleans ... Eccles: I know, Bottle, I know. I'm standin in it! FX: (Loud gurgling noise. George W Bush talking in strangulated hernia-type Texan accent at Pony Club meeting; speeding up to:) FX: Sploosh! Eccles: Werl ... I'm not standin in it any more. Bluebottle (agitated): I tole you that ball and chain was a bad idea!

    Well, that was where Little Jim was going to come in.

    Seagoon: Polish your nose with Ping and have a gorilla with me!

    PS I do not know, nor do I ever want to know, what an "industrial baboon cleanser" might be. Besides, I'm trying to give them up. Have a care, large bloated-type announcing gentleman, or I'll belt the back of that great fat greasy nut of yours.

  • Bim Job (unregistered) in reply to Ilya Ehrenburg
    Ilya Ehrenburg:
    Poor sap:
    TRWTF goes deeper, however: SAP is not really useful.
    Be concise. There's no need for more words.
    Unwarranted continuation would be otiose. Avoid, at all costs, not least the cost of further verbiage, the twin perils of circumlocution and periphrasis. Make it your personal quest to evade the temptation of blathering on and on and on and ...

    We interrupt this programme with a word from our sponsor, the Oxford English Dictionary:

    Footilitarian

    And there's more where that came from ... the OED: bringing you a wholesome cascade of utterly useless new words, each and every day!

    Be concise.

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Level 2
    Level 2:
    The Purple monkey dishwasher idea is great. This way you can be sure to get accurate error reports from your users.

    User: "I had this error, it said something about a purple monkey."

    Instead of: User: "I had this error." RF Technician: "What was the error number?" User: "I don't know."

    There's a fascinating idea there. I'm sure we've all had the problem of users being unable to communicate that the error was "polymorphic bifurcation error" or whatever. So why not instead make all the error messages use words that the users will easily be able to understand and repeat? Messages like "The truck has fallen into the ocean" or "Dragon out of steam". You could even have a system to it, like null pointer -> Robin Hood, SQL -> elf, etc.

    Yes, yes, I know, someone would complain that this was "unprofessional".

  • D. Travis North (unregistered) in reply to whatever
    whatever:
    FYI, "purple monkey dishwasher" is a Simpsons quote.
    And a classic at that. It was the episode where the teachers were on strike, and Bart was trying to keep them unhappy so that the strike would continue. He showed up at one of their rallies and whispered something into one of the teacher's ears - which then got passed up to Mrs. Kurbopel (sp?) ala whisper-down-the-lane.

    Simpsons - in its hey day, they were funny on so many levels.

  • meno (unregistered) in reply to P. Edant
    P. Edant:
    Ilya Ehrenburg:
    I don't believe it's that. I rather believe Mrs. or Mr. Edant is one of those annoying people who have once heard a nitwit blabber about only pronounceable abbreviations formed by the initial letters of a sequence of words being acronyms, calling other such abbreviations initialisms (which word, interestingly, is unknown to all of my dictionaries as well as my spell-checker), and since then draw a completely misplaced feeling of superiority from 'correcting' others who use the word acronym in the also very common wider sense - in the most obnoxious way they can think of.

    Response to mild, inoffensive correction, directed at someone else's post? Typically presumptuous e-psychiatrist deconstruction of the character of a total stranger, with the sole purpose of trying to upset them. Talk to me about obnoxious

    You're not really in a position to complain about obnoxious, passive agressive behaviour, given that you seem to take considerable pleasure in "straightening other people's ties in public" (lovely phrase, have to remember that one).

    Doubtless you're a smart fellow. You don't need to prove it by pissing people off.

  • Laughing Jack (unregistered) in reply to meno
    meno:
    Doubtless you're a smart fellow. You don't need to prove it by pissing people off.

    They're probably all mental. Programmers you know; hard time at highschool, head stuffed in the toilet, buckets of insecurities, just like me really. So long as they keep making me laugh though, I don't mind too much. It keeps me off the gin.

    You're hardly going to solve their problems on the internet, you might as well have a good time.

  • ChiefCrazyTalk (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    IronMensan:
    When did 2000 become the distant past? Last time I checked it was still less than a decade ago. Have been in hypersleep?

    "Distant past" is a relative term.

    We had a new employee who was in her twenties. I was trying to give her a quick history of what our department has been doing, and to put some tidbit in context, I commented, that we did such-and-such "when Reagan was president". She looked blank for a moment, then said, "Oh, yes, Reagan, we learned about him in history class." I then did some quick math in my head and realized that Reagan was elected before she was born.

    I once read a joke that said, You know you're getting old when the schools are now teaching as "ancient history" what you learned as "current events". I didn't expect it to actually happen to me.

    Don't feel bad, I still remember when Nixon was president.

  • syr (unregistered) in reply to ChiefCrazyTalk
    ChiefCrazyTalk:
    Jay:
    IronMensan:
    When did 2000 become the distant past? Last time I checked it was still less than a decade ago. Have been in hypersleep?

    "Distant past" is a relative term.

    We had a new employee who was in her twenties. I was trying to give her a quick history of what our department has been doing, and to put some tidbit in context, I commented, that we did such-and-such "when Reagan was president". She looked blank for a moment, then said, "Oh, yes, Reagan, we learned about him in history class." I then did some quick math in my head and realized that Reagan was elected before she was born.

    I once read a joke that said, You know you're getting old when the schools are now teaching as "ancient history" what you learned as "current events". I didn't expect it to actually happen to me.

    Don't feel bad, I still remember when Nixon was president.

    I think I've seen that movie too

  • P. Edant (unregistered) in reply to meno
    meno:
    P. Edant:
    Ilya Ehrenburg:
    I don't believe it's that. I rather believe Mrs. or Mr. Edant is one of those annoying people who have once heard a nitwit blabber about only pronounceable abbreviations formed by the initial letters of a sequence of words being acronyms, calling other such abbreviations initialisms (which word, interestingly, is unknown to all of my dictionaries as well as my spell-checker), and since then draw a completely misplaced feeling of superiority from 'correcting' others who use the word acronym in the also very common wider sense - in the most obnoxious way they can think of.

    Response to mild, inoffensive correction, directed at someone else's post? Typically presumptuous e-psychiatrist deconstruction of the character of a total stranger, with the sole purpose of trying to upset them. Talk to me about obnoxious

    You're not really in a position to complain about obnoxious, passive agressive behaviour, given that you seem to take considerable pleasure in "straightening other people's ties in public" (lovely phrase, have to remember that one).

    Doubtless you're a smart fellow. You don't need to prove it by pissing people off.

    And just exactly whose tie did I straighten? That's right: the perpetrator of the WTF being discussed. So why do I get singled out for The Wrath Of Lame? Why are you not flaming the site itself for drawing attention to this poor, defenseless idiot in the first place? Why do you not constantly berate ANYBODY making any comments on ANY of the stories on this site, where we come to make fun of others' mistakes? Why do you even bother to visit this site, where we come to make fun of others' mistakes, if you find such behaviour so abhorrent?

    Perhaps next time you go all "White Knight" on someone, you'd like to check up on exactly what you're protecting first.

  • P. Edant (unregistered)

    ITT: people who imagine they can detect "considerable pleasure" in another, from a few words on a website

  • AdT (unregistered)

    Oh please, where's the problem? Chris Martin just needs to write down the desired delivery date, wait a few years and send the package into the distant past.

    Likewise, Stephen can send a note to his former self instructing him not to eat pasta until he's taken this survey. Problem solved.

    And, sure, $0 a month may not sound like much but it really adds up over time...

  • meno (unregistered) in reply to P. Edant
    P. Edant:
    And just exactly whose tie did I straighten? That's right: the perpetrator of the WTF being discussed. So why do I get singled out for The Wrath Of Lame? Why are you not flaming the site itself for drawing attention to this poor, defenseless idiot in the first place? Why do you not constantly berate ANYBODY making any comments on ANY of the stories on this site, where we come to make fun of others' mistakes? Why do you even bother to visit this site, where we come to make fun of others' mistakes, if you find such behaviour so abhorrent?

    The "tie" phrase wasn't even coined until you'd turned your attention to the commentators who considered your pedentry juvenille, so like pedantic remarks in general, this is a red herring introduced to score points.

    Certainly there is plenty of passive (and naked) agression to go round, but let's just forget about the scoreboard shall we? After all, we're all anonymous here, the names are all disposible; none of this counts for anything. If it makes you feel better, I concede. I'm am wrong about everything and you are right. There.

    What intrigues me is your motivation, your understanding of the meta-dynamics of internet forum discussions, and your degree of self knowledge. I doubt many people are impressed by the pedentry, so why do you do it? Are you trying to appear even smarter than the other smart boys? Perhaps you can think about this and get back to me.

    You can analyse my motivation if you like. I'd be interested to see what you come up with.

  • Kerin (unregistered) in reply to Bim Job
    Bim Job:
    What is an "Expected Error," anyway?

    A handled one.

  • P. Edant (unregistered) in reply to meno
    meno:
    P. Edant:
    And just exactly whose tie did I straighten? That's right: the perpetrator of the WTF being discussed. So why do I get singled out for The Wrath Of Lame? Why are you not flaming the site itself for drawing attention to this poor, defenseless idiot in the first place? Why do you not constantly berate ANYBODY making any comments on ANY of the stories on this site, where we come to make fun of others' mistakes? Why do you even bother to visit this site, where we come to make fun of others' mistakes, if you find such behaviour so abhorrent?

    The "tie" phrase wasn't even coined until you'd turned your attention to the commentators who considered your pedentry juvenille, so like pedantic remarks in general, this is a red herring introduced to score points.

    Certainly there is plenty of passive (and naked) agression to go round, but let's just forget about the scoreboard shall we? After all, we're all anonymous here, the names are all disposible; none of this counts for anything. If it makes you feel better, I concede. I'm am wrong about everything and you are right. There.

    What intrigues me is your motivation, your understanding of the meta-dynamics of internet forum discussions, and your degree of self knowledge. I doubt many people are impressed by the pedentry, so why do you do it? Are you trying to appear even smarter than the other smart boys? Perhaps you can think about this and get back to me.

    You can analyse my motivation if you like. I'd be interested to see what you come up with.

    Yeeeees, motivation. On the one hand, there's someone making a comment about the story, on the comment page. On the other, there's a bunch of people who prefer to insult those whose comments they find not quite tuned to their own taste. I don't come here to impress people, my friend, I wonder what nerve was touched for you to introduce that aspect

  • meno (unregistered)

    Sorry. I dig hung dudes

  • (cs) in reply to P. Edant
    P. Edant:
    meno:
    P. Edant:
    And just exactly whose tie did I straighten? That's right: the perpetrator of the WTF being discussed. So why do I get singled out for The Wrath Of Lame? Why are you not flaming the site itself for drawing attention to this poor, defenseless idiot in the first place? Why do you not constantly berate ANYBODY making any comments on ANY of the stories on this site, where we come to make fun of others' mistakes? Why do you even bother to visit this site, where we come to make fun of others' mistakes, if you find such behaviour so abhorrent?

    The "tie" phrase wasn't even coined until you'd turned your attention to the commentators who considered your pedentry juvenille, so like pedantic remarks in general, this is a red herring introduced to score points.

    Certainly there is plenty of passive (and naked) agression to go round, but let's just forget about the scoreboard shall we? After all, we're all anonymous here, the names are all disposible; none of this counts for anything. If it makes you feel better, I concede. I'm am wrong about everything and you are right. There.

    What intrigues me is your motivation, your understanding of the meta-dynamics of internet forum discussions, and your degree of self knowledge. I doubt many people are impressed by the pedentry, so why do you do it? Are you trying to appear even smarter than the other smart boys? Perhaps you can think about this and get back to me.

    You can analyse my motivation if you like. I'd be interested to see what you come up with.

    Yeeeees, motivation. On the one hand, there's someone making a comment about the story, on the comment page. On the other, there's a bunch of people who prefer to insult those whose comments they find not quite tuned to their own taste. I don't come here to impress people, my friend, I wonder what nerve was touched for you to introduce that aspect

    Poor little lamb. All the mean bullies here are after you. You make the important observation

    P. Edant:
    Not only is CSN not an acronym he's heard of, it's not an acronym at all.
    and augment it by the humble suggestion
    P. Edant:
    lrn2acronym
    Then people start insulting you by providing links and quotations to show that CSN is actually an acronym (by one definition of the term). None of your posts
    P. Edant:
    I don't care what Jimbo's big bag of trivia says.
    P. Edant:
    If you can find me a language in which the word CSN exists, I'll concede that you "won", and award you over 9000 internets
    can be even remotely be considered aggressive, I'm sure. So I am also completely bewildered why the evil bullies may have decided to turn on you.

    Protip: Your credibility as a pedant would be higher if you acquired the habit of ending your sentences with a full stop.

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