Is it time for Random Thoughts - Part 4?

[WWGD]

Last summer I attended a local theater's rendition of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar". At one point there was this graffiti on one of the set walls:

WE ARE THE XCIX %!

I was the only one in the audience laughing .

Maybe because many in the audience were in the (top) I (Notice that I% = C-XCIX) % ).

 

[Danger]

they mean "unencumbered by the thought process" (I think)

Exactly, or as close as any translation can be.

Are you getting your Lisa girls mixed up

You obviously have no idea of how much attention I pay to women. I love the other one too, but given her location and the fact that her name is spelled with a "!" rather than a "b", I think that I can differentiate...

I was the only one in the audience laughing

You wouldn't have been if you had invited me...

 

[Danger]

Maybe because many in the audience were in the (top) I (Notice that I% = C-XCIX) % ).

I took that to mean that they were proud to not be in the Fox News crowd of multi-billionaires who should be fried in their own fat. That's admirable, and the means of expression was clever.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Wait for zoobyshoe's answer, I'm not sure if it will be funny or sad, but as I understand, it fits me pretty well.:D

Ps. The words are Latin, they mean "unencumbered by the thought process" (I think):)

"Impediti" seems to be the passive perfect plural. So, "We, You, or They, were not impeded (ratione) of thought". But it might also be the future tense, "We, You, Or They, will not be impeded (ratione) of thought."

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/go.php?D1=9&T1=impediō&H1=109

"Ratione" is the ablative of ratio. Ratio = "Reckoning, account, reason, judgement, consideration, system, manner, method" The ablative has manifold functions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablative_(Latin)

and I can't definitively sort out why it's used here, but the following prepositions take the ablative case:

• ab, a -from
• coram -in the presence of, before
• cum -with
• de -down from, from
• ex, e -out of, from
• in -in
• intus -within
• palam -openly in the presence of
• prae -in front of, before
• pro -before
• procul -far from
• simul together with, simultaneously with
• sine -without
• sub -under

None of these mean "by". Therefore, this phrase might actually mean something like: "We (You, They) were not impeded from the method of thought." Or, "We (You, They) will not be impeded from the method of thought." Like vowing not to let your thinking get cloudy. "Unimpeded by..." is certainly funnier, but choosing meanings based on which seems funnier might get you corrected by a Roman soldier with his gladius at your throat. Latin is exceptionally complex.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Last summer I attended a local theater's rendition of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar". At one point there was this graffiti on one of the set walls:

WE ARE THE XCIX %!

I was the only one in the audience laughing .

I'm afraid I wouldn't have gotten it either. I had to google "We are the 99%." just now to figure out the funny.

 

[RonL]

"Impediti" seems to be the passive perfect plural. So, "We, You, or They, were not impeded (ratione) of thought". But it might also be the future tense, "We, You, Or They, will not be impeded (ratione) of thought."

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/go.php?D1=9&T1=impediō&H1=109

"Ratione" is the ablative of ratio. Ratio = "Reckoning, account, reason, judgement, consideration, system, manner, method" The ablative has manifold functions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablative_(Latin)

and I can't definitively sort out why it's used here, but the following prepositions take the ablative case:

• ab, a -from
• coram -in the presence of, before
• cum -with
• de -down from, from
• ex, e -out of, from
• in -in
• intus -within
• palam -openly in the presence of
• prae -in front of, before
• pro -before
• procul -far from
• simul together with, simultaneously with
• sine -without
• sub -under

None of these mean "by". Therefore, this phrase might actually mean something like: "We (You, They) were not impeded from the method of thought." Or, "We (You, They) will not be impeded from the method of thought." Like vowing not to let your thinking get cloudy. "Unimpeded by..." is certainly funnier, but choosing meanings based on which seems funnier might get you corrected by a Roman soldier with his gladius at your throat. Latin is exceptionally complex.

Guess if I found myself in the last situation, I would probably say something like " I'm Spartacus and I'm not encumbered by the thought process" :D

 

[WWGD]

I always wondered why most pop songs don't use fancy words, specially in their titles. Never heard of a title of the sort: " rambunctious utilitarian subterfuge", nor " expeditious acerbic obfuscation" in a pop song.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I always wondered why most pop songs don't use fancy words, specially in their titles. Never heard of a title of the sort: " rambunctious utilitarian subterfuge", nor " expeditious acerbic obfuscation" in a pop song.

Try a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. You'll find a lyric like that here and there.

 

[Danger]

ablative of ratio

Isn't that still illegal in most southern US states?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Isn't that still illegal in most southern US states?

Hmm, no. You may be thinking of the accusative of rectus, which is rectum. I think that's still illegal in some states.

 

[Danger]

Hmm, no. You may be thinking of the accusative of rectus, which is rectum. I think that's still illegal in some states.

Oh, okay. It's really difficult to keep those terms straight some times...

 

[Enigman]

We knows.
(*cough* Venus *cough*)

Looking back at that...
http://usvsth3m.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/RgcK7rh.gif
That was terrible.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Oh, okay. It's really difficult to keep those terms straight some times...

Well, to keep them straight just remember "rectus" means "straight".

 

[Danger]

Well, to keep them straight just remember "rectus" means "straight".

Now that's just confusing...
Of course, that would explain why so many "right"-wing politicians and their followers seem to talk out of their... well, you know...

 

[DennisN]

Sometimes thread titles are really funny :
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/what-is-tau-baby-dont-hurt-me-dont-hurt-me-no-more.785251/
...and the thread starter must have thought of this song.

(Maybe it would be fun with a thread collecting the funniest thread titles, hmmm...)

 

[Danger]

(Maybe it would be fun with a thread collecting the funniest thread titles, hmmm...)

If irony counts as a factor, Franzbear surely must take the prize. His official title is "The Thread Killer Thread", premised around one's ability to stop a thread dead in its tracks with one ill-fated post, and it's probably about the longest thread that has ever existed here. Everybody tried to kill it. It think that it was Evo who eventually removed the feeding tube.

 

[DennisN]

If irony counts as a factor, Franzbear surely must take the prize. His official title is "The Thread Killer Thread", [...]

Yes, I have read some of that thread, quite fun :D. And also the thread where a guy asked for advice after he had welded a soda can to a rug, it was priceless! Yet, regarding thread titles, I know I have seen some fun gems. I remember a thread popping up probably in the physics sections (where I mostly lurk), and the thread title was simply something like "I don't understand", no more. I read the first post and it was also just e.g. "I don't understand". I wanted to reply, but I did not know what to write . But I think that thread disappeared quickly...

 

[Danger]

and the thread title was simply something like "I don't understand", no more. I read the first post and it was also just e.g. "I don't understand". I wanted to reply, but I did not know what to write . But I think that thread disappeared quickly...

Those show up a couple of times a day. Although they seem to just disappear, a Mentor has conversed with the poster to find out what is actually in question. Most of the time, it's a kid, and the question is either dealt with by the Mentor or transferred to the Homework section with a more descriptive title. No one is ever just turned away with no chance to learn (unless it's an obvious crackpot or someone outrageously rude).

 

[Medicol]

1. I'd be interested to know if and why MS would allow some kind of access that would allow people to avoid buying MSSQL ?
2. You want to move away from a open-standards-based programming interface (sql) to direct access to a proprietary format ?

 

[Lisa!]

Your photo is my desktop, remember? You could change her mind without breaking a sweat.
By the bye, one of my favourite tricks when I was desperate for sex was to disguise myself as a lesbian and hang out in gay bars. By the time she got me unwrapped at home and realized her mistake, it was too late...

Why don't you post a picture of your desktop?

 

[RonL]

Why don't you post a picture of your desktop?

Just a quick search, Danger, are one of these your desktop?

 

[Borek]

In the past there was a thread devoted to desktops. At the time Om's desktop had a picture of my wife.

Edit: actually there were several:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/whats-your-desktop-background.696228/
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/show-us-your-desktop.453218/
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/your-current-desktop-wallpaper.512892/

 

[Danger]

Why don't you post a picture of your desktop?

I don't know how.

Just a quick search, Danger, are one of these your desktop?

No... maybe I've got the wrong woman on mine. She doesn't look like yours. If I could find the damned thing here, I'd just link to it. I'm pretty sure that it's somewhere in the Member Photo thread, but I've just spent more than 10 minutes looking and can't find it. In mine, she's wearing a loose blue shirt and jeans, hair blowing in the breeze, standing on a gravel parking lot in front of a small log building and large green pipework, with a grassy hill in the background. She looks so much like my niece that it's spooky.

 

[RonL]

I don't know how.

No... maybe I've got the wrong woman on mine. She doesn't look like yours. If I could find the damned thing here, I'd just link to it. I'm pretty sure that it's somewhere in the Member Photo thread, but I've just spent more than 10 minutes looking and can't find it. In mine, she's wearing a loose blue shirt and jeans, hair blowing in the breeze, standing on a gravel parking lot in front of a small log building and large green pipework, with a grassy hill in the background. She looks so much like my niece that it's spooky.

You mean perfection, this one :D

Which leaves me in a quandary :w

They both deserve 5 star ratings

 

[dipole]

I always wondered why most pop songs don't use fancy words, specially in their titles. Never heard of a title of the sort: " rambunctious utilitarian subterfuge", nor " expeditious acerbic obfuscation" in a pop song.

Whenever I see your username, I think of the proverb "What would Jesus do?" except "What would Gibbs do?", which is a wise thing for a physicist to think about.

 

[OmCheeto]

In the past there was a thread devoted to desktops. At the time Om's desktop had a picture of my wife.

Edit: actually there were several:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/whats-your-desktop-background.696228/
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/show-us-your-desktop.453218/
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/your-current-desktop-wallpaper.512892/

3 desktops, as I recall.

I think you captured, in that moment, why, women, keep us around.

​

 

[Danger]

You mean perfection, this one :D

That is most assuredly the one. I had to consolidate all of my "Thumbdrive Download" folders on my desktop, which I used to transfer the contents of my old computer to this one, into one master folder so as not to interfere with her image.

 

[AnOldStudent]

It seems that all people named Mark are smart in computer programming.

 

[Borg]

This sums up why I never got on Facebook.

 

[AnOldStudent]

You mean perfection, this one :D

Which leaves me in a quandary :w

They both deserve 5 star ratings

Is she a trans-gendered person ? She looks like one.

 

[Borg]

Maybe you should get someone named Mark to write your program next time.

 

[AnOldStudent]

Maybe you should get someone named Mark to write your program next time.

Yes, exactly!

 

[Danger]

Is she a trans-gendered person ? She looks like one.

Not to me, she doesn't!

Not "mine", at least. And since she has committed parenthood, I'm pretty sure that she isn't. I seriously can't equate that second picture; it has to be a different woman. I've known a lot of people who can alter their appearance spectacularly, and I do prosthetic/special effects make-up as a hobby, but I just can't figure that being the same person.
Lisa... feel free to clear this up at any point...

 

[collinsmark]

Is she a trans-gendered person ? She looks like one.

!?!

I disagree. As a matter of fact, I'm having trouble expressing my disagreement. I don't even know what to say to that.

!??!.

<Gosh, now I hope you are in fact a bot. Seriously, that's just not right.>

[Edit: Btw, there is nothing wrong with being trans-gender. The point of my (this) post was only meant to communicate that in my opinion, the photographs depicted are not at all consistent with the quoted poster's claim. (Never-the-less, I find the quoted claim quite disagreeable in terms of accuracy, if I may be so bold.)]

 

[JorisL]

Whenever I see your username, I think of the proverb "What would Jesus do?" except "What would Gibbs do?", which is a wise thing for a physicist to think about.

If I'm not mistaken it means "What Would Gauss Do?" so you are close.

Isn't Gibbs the free energy used often in Chemistry? I rarely used any other than Helmholtz.

 

[DennisN]

We're going to have a new election here in Sweden (well, actually most likely, that is). I am so very tired of politics right now :(.

 

[Danger]

in my opinion, the photographs depicted are not at all consistent with the quoted poster's claim. (Never-the-less, I find the quoted claim quite disagreeable in terms of accuracy, if I may be so bold.)]

Dare I ask what the hell you're talking about? What poster's claim? I just remembered that at some point Lisa presented that photo and identified it as herself. Do you know something about her that we don't, such as her being a 6'6" Lithuanian lumberjack pretending to be a girl? Most of the people here are honest about their appearance. (Well, I know for sure that if I were going to fake it I wouldn't have submitted the picture that I did. I don't look exactly like that any more, but close enough to be recognized.)

Isn't Gibbs the free energy used often in Chemistry?

Maybe this is what separates the scientists from the mundanes... to me "What Would Gibbs Do?" is simply the standard go-to strategy for the characters on NCIS.

We're going to have a new election here in Sweden

Hey, I didn't know that there were Swedes in the house. I must thank your country for something that is currently making me happy. I've been thinking about starting a GD thread about "Awesome TV shows that you've never heard of". What prompted it is that last month Space started airing a Swedish series entitled "Real Humans". Jeez, but I love that show! The only thing that I don't like about it is that I have to watch it from the toilet because the high-def digital flatscreen 1 metre away from my face in the bathroom is the only TV I have on which I can read the subtitles. I almost think that I might prefer to have it dubbed into English.

 

[Medicol]

Hey, that saddens me!

 

[Danger]

Hey, that saddens me!

 

[collinsmark]

Do you know something about her that we don't, such as her being a 6'6" Lithuanian lumberjack pretending to be a girl?

What in the world !?? <I have no words.> ??!?

 

[Danger]

What in the world !?? <I have no words.> ??!?

Your post made no sense to me because it appeared that you were accusing Lisa of lying about that photo being an honest depiction of her. I simply saw no reason to doubt her and was asking why you would unless you knew her to be other than as represented.

 

[collinsmark]

Your post made no sense to me because it appeared that you were accusing Lisa of lying about that photo being an honest depiction of her. I simply saw no reason to doubt her and was asking why you would unless you knew her to be other than as represented.

Oh gosh no. I was disagreeing with a previous post of someone claiming that her picture appeared to be of a transgender person. (I quoted the other poster in my post. -- my point is that I disagree with the assessment.)

[Edit: by the way, there has been suspicion in this thread that the person I quoted earlier could be a bot. If so, it would stand to reason in this case.]

 

[Borg]

Oh gosh no. I was disagreeing with a previous post of someone claiming that her picture appeared to be of a transgender person. (I quoted the other poster in my post. -- my point is that I disagree with the assessment.)

[Edit: by the way, there has been suspicion in this thread that the person I quoted earlier could be a bot. If so, it would stand to reason in this case.]

I think that there's two of them running around this thread but I wouldn't want to "sadden them" by pointing them out again. Where is Evo's ban gun when we need it?!?

 

[Danger]

there has been suspicion in this thread that the person I quoted earlier could be a bot. If so, it would stand to reason in this case.

Until this accusation was brought up regarding the other one, I had never heard of a "bot", and I'm still astounded that such a thing might actually be among us. Once it was mentioned, I began to have very serious suspicions. For one thing, Medicol "likes" me more often than my neighbour's dog likes my leg. That's a bit disconcerting, and a lot of his/her/its posts seem random. Conversely, some of them seem a little too human. And Anoldstudent claims to be 95 years old in the member profile. I don't dispute the likelihood of that in general, since my family is very long-lived (my mother was a couple of weeks short of 97 when she bought the biscuit), and my oldest brother is still healthy as a horse at 83. My sister died last winter at 81, but that was due to COPD (which I share with her) and multiple heart attacks and strokes. Barring traumatic things like that, we just don't stop. What seemed incongruous about the age claim is that a lot of the tech-savvy communication just doesn't fit with that generation. I'm younger than that by a fair margin, but it's still pretty obvious to anyone reading that I didn't grow up in the computer age.

I think that there's two of them running around this thread

Would those be the 2 that I mentioned above?

 

[collinsmark]

I had never heard of a "bot", and I'm still astounded that such a thing might actually be among us.

They've been possible for awhile now, in nice forms such as Jabberwacky and many others (some, but not all, based on AIML). I imagine it wouldn't take too much get one to partake in an Internet forum.

By the way, that's completely different from my long-term goal to build an army of mayhem-bots.

[http://abstrusegoose.com/205]

 

[Danger]

army of mayhem-bots.

That little floaty psycho bears a strong resemblance to Dogbert. Did Scott Adams draw that thing?

 

[collinsmark]

That little floaty psycho bears a strong resemblance to Dogbert. Did Scott Adams draw that thing?

It's Abstruse Goose. I've come to learn that the author prefers to remain anonymous. It's one of my favorite online comics, but unfortunately, he hasn't been updating since summertime. Anyway, what's there is treasure.

 

[lisab]

I just remembered that at some point Lisa presented that photo and identified it as herself. Do you know something about her that we don't, such as her being a 6'6" Lithuanian lumberjack pretending to be a girl? Most of the people here are honest about their appearance. (Well, I know for sure that if I were going to fake it I wouldn't have submitted the picture that I did. I don't look exactly like that any more, but close enough to be recognized.)

Yes, that's me. The photo was taken about 5 years ago at the base of Crystal Mountain ski resort...summertime, of course!

Funny thing about that photo. It was the same one I used on a dating site, when I was single. It caught the attention of a pretty spectacular guy who is now my husband ;).

 

[Lisa!]

Not to me, she doesn't!

Not "mine", at least. And since she has committed parenthood, I'm pretty sure that she isn't. I seriously can't equate that second picture; it has to be a different woman. I've known a lot of people who can alter their appearance spectacularly, and I do prosthetic/special effects make-up as a hobby, but I just can't figure that being the same person.
Lisa... feel free to clear this up at any point...

hmmm...do you know Lisa Randall?

 

[Borek]

it wouldn't take too much get one to partake in an Internet forum

Mark V Shaney did it 30 years ago.