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[DennisN]

I once typed friends as fiends while writing up a speech, the guy who gave the speech raised a lot of eyebrows...
Good Morning Ladies, Gentlemen and all my dear FIENDS.
Can't think about it without laughing my head off. Serve him right for not writing his own speeches.

Reminds me of this little awkward thing: the Swedish word for trade union is fackförening (short: fack). It can lead to troublesome things:

http://www.thelocal.se/43556/20121001/ ("Fack Ett" would mean Trade Union One);

“Fack Ett? Seriously? It sounds like a joke. How many seconds will it take before the name is translated to f*** it?” said Niclas Lövkvist, CEO of PR company Agency to the paper.

 

[Enigman]

Reminds me of this little awkward thing: the Swedish word for trade union is fackförening (short: fack). It can lead to troublesome things:

http://www.thelocal.se/43556/20121001/ ("Fack Ett" would mean Trade Union One);

I would etymologize the F-word but Evo would probably shoot me with her ban-gun. (The etymologies are hilarious but sadly false.)
Google them up or read the book The F-Word by Jesse Sheidlower.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Does coasting into the gas station and right up to the pump count?

I ran out of gas frequently when I was in my 20s and didn't take care of crap. Once I got to the left turn lane to get into the gas station, but no further. Fortunately it was a semi-rural area where people are trusting and they lent me a gas can to fill up my car on the corner.

After that I always kept one in my car.

 

[Enigman]

@dkotschessaa- happy 500th post- exactly ten times of mine.

 

[dkotschessaa]

@dkotschessaa- happy 500th post- exactly ten times of mine.

Hey, cool!

I actually am surprised it is so low. I've been posting here about 3 years now. I used to rack up the numbers on forums much more quickly, but that was when I sat at a desk all day.

 

[OmCheeto]

I would etymologize the F-word but Evo would probably shoot me with her ban-gun. ...

You could always hide behind https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4488394#post4488394, Borek, and Fredrik.

hmmm...

Gad! Don't look!

It's a Martian thing!

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/me jumps back into bed and pulls the covers over his head

 

[Borek]

I actually am surprised it is so low. I've been posting here about 3 years now. I used to rack up the numbers on forums much more quickly, but that was when I sat at a desk all day.

Posts in GD don't count, only those from technical forums.

 

[Enigman]

Psalm 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of PF, I will fear no Evo(il): for thou (ye great G.B.) art with me; thy Borek and thy Fredrik they comfort me...
(Sorry about the plagiarism Om -imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.)
DISCLAIMER: To be read by only those who wouldn't ban me; are over 18 years of age and have the average intelligence needed to decode it.

Spoiler

F.*.*.*- Fornication Under the Consent of King
- For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge [In Nude]
- Forced Unnatural Carnal Knowledge
- Found Under Carnal Knowledge

-From wikipedia

 

[OmCheeto]

Psalm 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of PF, I will fear no Evo(il): for thou (ye great G.B.) art with me; thy Borek and thy Fredrik they comfort me...
(Sorry about the plagiarism Om -imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.)
DISCLAIMER: To be read by only those who wouldn't ban me; are over 18 years of age and have the average intelligence needed to decode it.

Spoiler

F.*.*.*- Fornication Under the Consent of King
- For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge [In Nude]
- Forced Unnatural Carnal Knowledge
- Found Under Carnal Knowledge

-From wikipedia

Dude, your post count just made me laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY6dIxQTaf8

Ok then, I'm off to the nudist beach.



ps. SORRY!

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[dkotschessaa]

Posts in GD don't count, only those from technical forums.

 

[Enigman]

Dude, your post count just made me laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY6dIxQTaf8

Ok then, I'm off to the nudist beach.


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The post count was unintentional; Honest!

p.s. sorry

Why? That just had me really laughing out loud.
You would be a good [STRIKE]fiend[/STRIKE] friend to have...

 

[zoobyshoe]

More pics of the Passion Fruit Flower. It's too unbelievable.

 

[phion]

I'll probably do it, but for now the answer is 42.

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

I just put together another CD for my car; this one contains more than an hour of Tchaikovsky's finest works. I just hope I don't do something stupid while driving and listening to the finale of the 1812 Overture.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I just put together another CD for my car; this one contains more than an hour of Tchaikovsky's finest works. I just hope I don't do something stupid while driving and listening to the finale of the 1812 Overture.

I dunno. The idea of strapping a canon to your car and driving around shooting it off in time with the 1812 is almost as good as dropping napalm from helicopters blaring Die Valkirie.

When they arrest you, you could sniff deep and say something like, "I love the smell of cordite in the morning..."

 

[zoobyshoe]

My neighbor from around the corner:

 

[Evo]

My neighbor from around the corner:

Awesome!

 

[lisab]

More pics of the Passion Fruit Flower. It's too unbelievable.

They look like Dr Seuss drew them.

 

[dlgoff]

Look out Buddy (my duck). The female was circling above while the male was perched on my power pole just waiting.

 

[Enigman]

My neighbor from around the corner:

@ thanks for the pic. -edited it a bit
Hope you don't mind, say hello to Torty from me.

 

[Borek]

Ignoring elephants is a misinformation, worth a ban.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Awesome!

Yeah. I wish all my neighbors with dogs would get tortoises instead.

They look like Dr Seuss drew them.

Hmmm...he used to live in La Jolla, a little north of here. That would explain them.

 

[zoobyshoe]

@ thanks for the pic. -edited it a bit
Hope you don't mind, say hello to Torty from me.

Interesting. What does it mean?

 

[AlephZero]

You would be a good [STRIKE]fiend[/STRIKE] friend to have...

Reminds me of a Turkish postdoc student ... apparently written Turkish is a completely phonetic language - if you can say the alphabet, you can read anything correctly. There are no "double letter" sounds - e.g. th is always pronounced as in "hot-house", not as in "this" or "that".

The post-doc was very fond of using numbered lists of points in his presentations. And the t-hird one in the list usually raised a smile...

 

[DennisN]

Oh no, I see the old obsolete Bohr model in the new Physics Forums logo . I...can't...breathe...help...I...am...suffocating...

 

[Enigman]

Ignoring elephants is a misinformation, worth a ban.

Ban 'A Brief History Of Time' first then me -Anyway Hawking's version is more popular than any hindu myths [Though I think he uses tortoises in the story...] and also including an elephant [or four, if you prefer] may have led to confusion...
( Want an elephant- just upload me a pic )

@zoobishoes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

 

[lisab]

Oh no, I see the old obsolete Bohr model in the new Physics Forums logo . I...can't...breathe...help...I...am...suffocating...

 

[Enigman]

Running out of gum and coffee-need to get some ASAP.

 

[inotyce]

My work seems to almost end here, I am still trying to move around to learn something new if any, to discover new bugs, etc. But everything would probably be around and around from now, there 'll be nothing really new with an old system to be upgraded. This is one of the reasons I personally am interested in changing my career from time to time. I need a fulltime job to work with one project for some months then change to another, which is really more interesting. Or trying to get drowsed with more than one project at the same time is what I may likely prefer... bored a little...

 

[zoobyshoe]

@zoobishoes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

In his travels among the Plains Indians in the 1830's, artist George Catlin met a shaman who told him the world was supported by a giant tortoise at each of the four cardinal compass points. The next day, the same shaman mentioned the Earth was resting on the back of one giant tortoise. Catlin stopped him and said, "Yesterday you told me it was FOUR giant tortoises." The shaman made a sour face and walked away.

It's interesting how many primitive peoples all over the world seem to have picked the tortoise to support it. Probably because it explains how the world could be so stable, usually, but also move sometimes, as in earthquakes.

 

[Enigman]

Actually, I think there was another version of the myth in Hindu mythology: Instead of Four tortoises it was four elephants which stood on a giant tortoises.
The Norse explanation is my favorite: Loki* the miscreant god was chained and locked in a cave with a snake kept over his head, the snake would drop his venom on Loki but fortunately for him his wife would catch the falling venom in a bowl but when the bowl got filled up a few drops of venom would fall on Loki while his wife emptied the bowl, Loki writhed in pain causing earthquakes.

*Yes, the guy from Avengers.

 

[Enigman]

One math nerd that you don't want to piss off

 

[Evo]

All of those tv commercials with cartoon characters singing and dancing about how awesome Blue Diamond Almond Milk is, so I broke down and paid almost $4 for a half gallon container.

I got it home, shook it up well, anticipating a wonderful taste of almonds, it's soy free and lactose free and...Flavor free!

Well, not completely flavor free, it tasted like someone had wrung out a piece of cardboard in a large vat of water, giving the water a slightly "off" taste. If someone had handed it to me without telling me what it was, I would have to say it was cold, dirty water.

I don't get it, why would anyone pay for this? I was going to use it on cereal, but it's just like water.

Would I recommend this to anyone? HELL NO!

And I'm requesting my money back, it's really that tasteless.

 

[inotyce]

All of those tv commercials with cartoon characters singing and dancing about how awesome Blue Diamond Almond Milk is, so I broke down and paid almost $4 for a half gallon container.

I got it home, shook it up well, anticipating a wonderful taste of almonds, it's soy free and lactose free and...Flavor free!

Well, not completely flavor free, it tasted like someone had wrung out a piece of cardboard in a large vat of water, giving the water a slightly "off" taste. If someone had handed it to me without telling me what it was, I would have to say it was cold, dirty water.

I don't get it, why would anyone pay for this? I was going to use it on cereal, but it's just like water.

Would I recommend this to anyone? HELL NO!

And I'm requesting my money back, it's really that tasteless.

I couldn't imagine more than that.
I'm going to save my *mind* for an oral test I 'll have to take tomorrow

 

[DennisN]

All of those tv commercials with cartoon characters singing and dancing about how awesome Blue Diamond Almond Milk is, so I broke down and paid almost $4 for a half gallon container.

Looks tasty to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUPCaoNuRSQ

 

[lisab]

All of those tv commercials with cartoon characters singing and dancing about how awesome Blue Diamond Almond Milk is, so I broke down and paid almost $4 for a half gallon container.

I got it home, shook it up well, anticipating a wonderful taste of almonds, it's soy free and lactose free and...Flavor free!

Well, not completely flavor free, it tasted like someone had wrung out a piece of cardboard in a large vat of water, giving the water a slightly "off" taste. If someone had handed it to me without telling me what it was, I would have to say it was cold, dirty water.

I don't get it, why would anyone pay for this? I was going to use it on cereal, but it's just like water.

Would I recommend this to anyone? HELL NO!

And I'm requesting my money back, it's really that tasteless.

Aw too bad, I love the stuff! But it's hard for me to digest, ironically. Did you get Original or...what's the other one, Vanilla?

 

[lisab]

big drops fall straight down
unexpected visitor
not in the forecast

 

[Borek]

big drops fall straight down
unexpected visitor
not in the forecast

You need a forecast to know it will be raining? I was under impression it is lack of rain that is worth of forecasting.

 

[ImATrackMan]

Wow. I leave for a few months and the site has a brand-new look. I like it!

 

[Evo]

Aw too bad, I love the stuff!

I thought you drank the almond silk (soy) stuff. I didn't try that because I tasted soy milk once.

Did you get Original or...what's the other one, Vanilla?

Original.

Ok, I just gave it another try.

No, I cannot drink this stuff. Maybe it's a medication I'm on affecting something in it. It has no aroma, and this time it tasted bad, as opposed to yesterday when it just tasted "not good". If you were near me, I'd give it to you.

 

[lisab]

Today, the outcome could have been:

• horrible,
• really, really bad, or
• bad but we can live with it.

All were equally likely. Turned out to be, bad but we can live with it. So, I'm happy.

 

[collinsmark]

Today, the outcome could have been:

• horrible,
• really, really bad, or
• bad but we can live with it.

All were equally likely. Turned out to be, bad but we can live with it. So, I'm happy.

Or, to go along with your earlier post today, you could rephrase that as,

turned out to be bad
but we can live with it so
I am quite happy​

 

[ChiralWaltz]

If you decide you are going to, please rain chocolate milk so I can Walden inversion my umbrella into a cup.

 

[lisab]

Or, to go along with your earlier post today, you could rephrase that as,

turned out to be bad
but we can live with it so
I am quite happy​

that's fantastic

 

[Evo]

I just love it when you have a bottle with 200 tiny pills in it and the cap won't come off until suddenly, it pops off and the pills go flying all over the room. Finally, you manage to pick all of the pills up and place them back into the bottle, then as you go to set it on the counter, it slips and falls and...

 

[drizzle]

Lol.

 

[inotyce]

what a good description! I like the phrase "all over the room" which is very imagery.

 

[zoobyshoe]

My diet has been unusual lately and today I inadvertently arrived at some deadly combination of food such that I found myself able to sustain unbelievable levels of thrust. I'm sure I was hovering 5 inches above the toilet for at least 2-3 seconds.

 

[Crake]

The new PF logo, in the top left corner. Shouldn't the atom be inside the baloon? It's pissing me off, as it is. Perhaps I'm a little OCD.

 

[Enigman]

The new PF logo, in the top left corner. Shouldn't the atom be inside the baloon? It's pissing me off, as it is. Perhaps I'm a little OCD.

Nope, this is better. Though it would be better to have a more non-discriminating; the logo's not really fair to all the biologists, computer geeks and mathematicians of the website. I personally would have made it a Promethean torch or a coat of arms with PF written on it and some latin which says something like Nullius in Verba or 'a nuclear physicist's favourite food is fission chips'.
Ah, well its physics forums after all...