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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #875 on: April 22, 2016, 01:58:57 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #876 on: April 22, 2016, 02:03:42 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #877 on: April 22, 2016, 02:09:58 pm »
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Godwins Law actually states that in an online argument, the person who first compares their opposition to Hitler is indistinguishable from satire.

I can't tell if you're serious or not.

Hitler had the same problem.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #878 on: April 22, 2016, 02:20:07 pm »
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Godwins Law actually states that in an online argument, the person who first compares their opposition to Hitler is indistinguishable from satire.

I can't tell if you're serious or not.

Then you're a poe judge of character.
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« Reply #879 on: April 22, 2016, 02:36:16 pm »
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Godwins Law actually states that in an online argument, the person who first compares their opposition to Hitler is indistinguishable from satire.

I can't tell if you're serious or not.

Then you're a poe judge of character.

Help! I need someone to explain the joke for me.

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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #880 on: April 22, 2016, 02:39:01 pm »
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Godwins Law actually states that in an online argument, the person who first compares their opposition to Hitler is indistinguishable from satire.

I can't tell if you're serious or not.

Then you're a poe judge of character.

Help! I need someone to explain the joke for me.

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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #881 on: April 22, 2016, 02:56:43 pm »
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Don't post that! Ashersky will get mad you used anything from Nathan Fillion.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #882 on: April 22, 2016, 03:29:32 pm »
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So in other words, ss is getting annoyed that people are using the word "of" where the correct word is "have", presumably in phrases like "I could have done this" or "You should have done that". And I agree that as someone who tries to avoid grammatical errors it's annoying.

Everybody knows it's "coulda" and "shoulda".
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #883 on: April 22, 2016, 03:55:31 pm »
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So there's a website for Chief Learning Officer. It involves media. So naturally, it has a website called:
http://www.clomedia.com/

I nearly spat out my drink when I read that URL in my head.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #884 on: April 22, 2016, 04:35:26 pm »
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Don't post that! Ashersky will get mad you used anything from Nathan Fillion.

This is from that interview where Fillion is asked why anyone likes Firefly, and he had no answer, right?
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #885 on: April 22, 2016, 04:52:19 pm »
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This is from that interview where Fillion is asked why anyone likes Firefly, and he had no answer, right?

I like Firefly because it was by far the best designed tank during WWII.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #886 on: April 22, 2016, 05:11:06 pm »
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So there's a website for Chief Learning Officer. It involves media. So naturally, it has a website called:
http://www.clomedia.com/

I nearly spat out my drink when I read that URL in my head.

See Ell Oh Media. Cloh Media. Cloh me, dear?

I don't get it.

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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #887 on: April 22, 2016, 05:31:23 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #888 on: April 22, 2016, 05:59:58 pm »
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So there's a website for Chief Learning Officer. It involves media. So naturally, it has a website called:
http://www.clomedia.com/

I nearly spat out my drink when I read that URL in my head.

See Ell Oh Media. Cloh Media. Cloh me, dear?

I don't get it.

That's for the best.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #889 on: April 22, 2016, 10:59:00 pm »
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Man, Boite a Jeux is a serious pain in the ass compared to BGA.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #890 on: April 23, 2016, 06:30:15 pm »
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Don't post that! Ashersky will get mad you used anything from Nathan Fillion.

This is from that interview where Fillion is asked why anyone likes Firefly, and he had no answer, right?
Pretty sure this is from Castle.
...and Firefly is awesome, shut your face.   : P
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #891 on: April 25, 2016, 07:45:36 pm »
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Quick, someone write a film noir story.

Yes sir.

Titandrake sat in his office, smoking in the dark, waiting. The soft glow of the cigarette illuminated the pistol on his cluttered desk. A sudden knock startles Titandrake.
"Come in," he mumbles. The door opens, letting in the light, temporarily blinding Tidandrake. He could barely make out the glowing figure, but surely it must be some hot femme fatale who would surely lead Titandrake to his doom. He was wrong.

A ninja stood at the door, a sword drawn. Titandrake rushed for his weapon, but it was already too late. The ninja cut down Titandrake.
"You thought I was some hot deadly woman," the ninja said. "You thought wrong. I am a con man, who is also a ninja." Titandrake was bleeding heavily, gasping on the floor.
"Y-you... ConMan!"
"You should of been prepared."
"...Should have..."
Enraged, the Con Man Ninja slays TitanDrake.

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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #892 on: April 26, 2016, 04:16:15 am »
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I just saw the headline "Parents of Boys Missing at Sea Battle Over iPhone Discovered on Boat", and I'm fascinated by how many ways you can interpret it.

When I first read it, I thought the boys were missing at a sea battle.  After rereading it, I decided battle was a verb.  Okay, so the parents are battling.  They're battling over iPhone...does that mean they're having a battle via iPhone, or they're battling to decide the ownership of the iPhone?  And who/what was discovered on the boat?  Was it the iPhone, the boys, or the parents?  Or was it the sea battle?

Parents of (boys missing at sea) battle over (iPhone discovered on boat)
Parents of (boys missing at sea) battle over iPhone, and then are discovered on boat
Parents of (boys missing at "sea battle"), over iPhone, are discovered on boat
Parents of (boys missing at ("sea battle" over iPhone)) discovered on boat
Parents of (boys missing at ("sea battle" over (iPhone discovered on boat)))
Parents of (boys missing at ("sea battle" over iPhone) discovered on boat)
Parents of (boys missing at (("sea battle" over iPhone) discovered on boat))
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #893 on: April 26, 2016, 04:48:50 am »
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This was the most intuitive way to parse it to me:

Parents of (Boys Missing at Sea Battle) Over (iPhone Discovered on Boat)
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #894 on: April 26, 2016, 06:23:20 am »
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This was the most intuitive way to parse it to me:

Parents of (Boys Missing at Sea Battle) Over (iPhone Discovered on Boat)

I assume it is actually:

Parents of (Boys Missing at Sea) Battle Over (iPhone Discovered on Boat)

Incredibly, the boat and iPhone must have been found, so the boys went overboard?
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #895 on: April 26, 2016, 01:39:59 pm »
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This was the most intuitive way to parse it to me:

Parents of (Boys Missing at Sea Battle) Over (iPhone Discovered on Boat)

I don't understand how this or the  "sea battle" interpretations make much sense.  Parsing it that way leaves the headline without a verb.  What is the meaning you guys are reading into that?

Edit: Should have read scott's more carefully since they add punctuation, but they all seem far more awkward constructions than the very first one which ashersky also highlighted.  I guess headlines are often awkward though.  Then again, I don't think they tend to omit important commas.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #896 on: April 26, 2016, 01:57:39 pm »
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This was the most intuitive way to parse it to me:

Parents of (Boys Missing at Sea Battle) Over (iPhone Discovered on Boat)

I don't understand how this or the  "sea battle" interpretations make much sense.  Parsing it that way leaves the headline without a verb.  What is the meaning you guys are reading into that?

Edit: Should have read scott's more carefully since they add punctuation, but they all seem far more awkward constructions than the very first one which ashersky also highlighted.  I guess headlines are often awkward though.  Then again, I don't think they tend to omit important commas.

This is a "sea battle" interpretation. There are boys missing at sea battle. And then there's an iPhone discovered on boat. The article is (presumably a picture of) the parents of those boys (being) over that iPhone.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #897 on: April 26, 2016, 02:02:11 pm »
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The parents could be over a phone owned by boys lost in a sea battle.
The parents could be battling over a phone owned by boys lost at sea.
The boys could be lost at Sea Battle, the place.

That is really incredible headline. Like, why can't the parents share the darn phone anyways?
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« Reply #898 on: April 26, 2016, 02:04:48 pm »
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This was the most intuitive way to parse it to me:

Parents of (Boys Missing at Sea Battle) Over (iPhone Discovered on Boat)

I don't understand how this or the  "sea battle" interpretations make much sense.  Parsing it that way leaves the headline without a verb.  What is the meaning you guys are reading into that?

Edit: Should have read scott's more carefully since they add punctuation, but they all seem far more awkward constructions than the very first one which ashersky also highlighted.  I guess headlines are often awkward though.  Then again, I don't think they tend to omit important commas.

This is a "sea battle" interpretation. There are boys missing at sea battle. And then there's an iPhone discovered on boat. The article is (presumably a picture of) the parents of those boys (being) over that iPhone.

That makes sense for a picture caption, sure, but not a headline.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #899 on: April 26, 2016, 02:07:22 pm »
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That makes sense for a picture caption, sure, but not a headline.

Aren't a lot of headlines just picture captions anyway?
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