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[WWGD]

And then you can extrapolate from pasta.
If you're saying "Past Data" and everyone thinks you're saying pasta, you may not be pronouncing correctly. Slow down ( Or pronounce Data as "Day-ta" , not Da-Ta). Most places have decaf version of usual drinks.

 

[fresh_42]

Yes, the ones with the pictures of the polar bears surfing on top of melting glaciers.

You should have said this earlier. Mine have this one on it:

 

[WWGD]

You should have said this earlier. Mine have this one on it:
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That is not what they meant when they said they wanted to see the logs...

 

[fresh_42]

That is not what they meant when they said they wanted to see the logs...

For them, Clyde has the appropriate answer!

 

[WWGD]

For them, Clyde has the appropriate answer!

Are those from the pasta?

 

[fresh_42]

Are those from the pasta?

No, from Clint Westlog.

 

[Ibix]

Travelling for work today and having lunch in a pub. It has a sign saying

I only drink on days that start with a T -
Tuesday
Thursday
Today
Tomorrow
Thaturday
Thunday

It's slightly annoying me that the days not being name-checked are Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so "today" and "tomorrow" double count at least one day.

I feel like a pint would make me feel better, but the afternoon is unlikely to go well if I do.

 

[fresh_42]

I feel like a pint would make me feel better, but the afternoon is unlikely to go well if I do.

Not as long as the sun is above the yard!

 

[Ibix]

sun is above the yard!

Yardarm, yer land-lubber.

It's amazing to me that we managed to get an empire if 11am was the time to start drinking. Presumably we did all our looting and plundering early in the mornings, when the hangovers made us extra cranky?

Edit: explains how we lost the empire, though.

 

[fresh_42]

Yardarm, yer land-lubber.

That comes when you rely on Wiki. Would you had understood "Rah"?

It's amazing to me that we managed to get an empire if 11am was the time to start drinking.

Reminds me of the pyramids.

Presumably we did all our looting and plundering early in the mornings, when the hangovers made us extra cranky?

Finally I understood where this song came from: Looting all over the world!

Edit: explains how we lost the empire, though.

Not really. I mean, how could you obtain the skills otherwise? And Ronnie is always better at his evening sessions than in the afternoon!

 

[Ibix]

That comes when you rely on Wiki. Would you had understood "Rah"?

That page actually has a section headed "sun above the yardarm"... The yard is the horizontal beam above the sail. The yardarm is the tip of the yard.

Rah, no, I don't recognise. Unless it's an alternate spelling of the Egyptian sun god?

Not really.

It would. "Drunk in charge of a country" should probably be an offence of some sort.

 

[WWGD]

Upcoming PF Insight: A gang banger is not (just?) a British type sausage.

 

[BillTre]

I have seen bumper stickers that say:
"God is my copilot", and
"Dog is my copilot" (Dog is God spelled backwards), but
now I have seen "Cod is my copilot" (on a pick-up with lots of fishing stickers).

 

[mrgrtt123]

I want to live in Mars, but who will take care of my border collie at home?

 

[russ_watters]

I want to live in Mars, but who will take care of my border collie at home?

Don't worry, it will be dead long before this is a problem.

 

[WWGD]

Melon collie will be your main problem!

 

[nuuskur]

happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear me-e, happy birthday to me

 

[WWGD]

Got six bags of groceries at the supermarket but I arrived home with only 4. I thought I had a few more years until senility :(.

 

[mrgrtt123]

happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear me-e, happy birthday to me

I hope that it's not just you that remembers it's your hatch day.

 

[nuuskur]

I hope that it's not just you that remembers it's your hatch day.

interesting terminology
my family knows, of course

 

[WWGD]

Got the same email this year. Pure poetry, all warmth: "Have a merry Christmas , or whatever it is you celebrate".

 

[Stephenk53]

Why do I always forget what I am about to post right before I post it

 

[WWGD]

Why do I always forget what I am about to post right before I post it

You need to remember what you forgot. Did you forget that?

 

[Ibix]

Why do I always forget what I am about to post right before I post it

Douglas Adams, of Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame, wrote a very short story about a man going to the lost property office and saying he's lost something... he doesn't remember what it was... but it wasn't a very good whatever it was... it was a bit like a sieve...

 

[Stephenk53]

You need to remember what you forgot. Did you forget that?

I totally forgot to remember what I forgot

 

[WWGD]

There is a guy called Juan Garcia in my building. He is the only Juan.(EDIT: Pronounce Juan: Who - Ann )

 

[WWGD]

Every time I venture out of Math, Physical "Exact" Sciences I feel like puling my hair. Precise definitions seem to disappear. How the #$% do we define a Latent Class? 300 videos in YouBoob on motivating the concept-- nothing wrong with that-- but no actual definition: Aaaaaargh... After 3 days I think I more or less figured it out.

 

[WWGD]

I think 'irregardless' has met it's match ( or at least close): 'unrelentless'.

 

[fresh_42]

One of my new favorites: "Please forget everything you have learned at school; because you did not learn it." (E. Landau) or one from Erdös: "You do not learn mathematics, you just get used to it."

 

[WWGD]

One of my new favorites: "Please forget everything you have learned at school; because you did not learn it." (E. Landau)

cc: @Stephenk53

 

[Ibix]

I think 'irregardless' has met it's match ( or at least close): 'unrelentless'.

People keep telling me to "hang fire". They mean "don't do this just yet, we might not need to do it at all". But that's what "hold fire", "hold on", or "hang on" mean. Presumably someone just completed the pattern. But a "hang fire" is a kind of weapons malfunction that's frequently fatal to the user: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_fire

It irritates me every time.

 

[Stephenk53]

One of my new favorites: "Please forget everything you have learned at school; because you did not learn it." (E. Landau) or one from Erdös: "You do not learn mathematics, you just get used to it."

That is so true, I’ve just started college and I already forgot a lot and I forgot what I even forgot

 

[WWGD]

That is so true, I’ve just started college and I already forgot a lot and I forgot what I even forgot

I'll remember that (last one on this, I promise.) regardless and hang fire unrelenlessly.But I could care less.

 

[fresh_42]

I'll remember that (last one on this, I promise.) regardless and hang fire unrelenlessly.But I could care less.

There have been more quotations on the site I got those from, e.g. Mathematics is music of the mind, music is the mathematics of the soul. (D. Charms (sic!))

Just saying, IAHFU.

 

[WWGD]

Just saying, IAHFU.

Gesundheit??

 

[fresh_42]

Gesundheit??

Thank you, regardless and hang fire unrelenlessly!

 

[WWGD]

Thank you, regardless and hang fire unrelenlessly!

How did you guess the motto in my family seal??

 

[fresh_42]

How did you guess the motto in my family seal??

I think I saw it somewhere on tv but can't remember ...

 

[WWGD]

I forgot my other rant ( no, it's not "Get off my lawn!") : the phrase " At a fraction of the cost" , which, strangely, assumes a fraction is a small number. How about 100/1, 20000/1, etc?

 

[WWGD]

Seems like Beijing Olympics will not be as much fun as expected:

https://shanghai.ist/2018/12/04/bei...lympics/?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral

EDIT: Of course here the joke is largely on me since most Chinese speak more/better English than I will ever speak Chinese; no mocking intended.

 

[fresh_42]

Seems like Beijing Olympics will not be as much fun as expected:

https://shanghai.ist/2018/12/04/bei...lympics/?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral

I thought they were famous for opium, since when is it crack?

 

[WWGD]

I thought they were famous for opium, since when is it crack?

It's worse than you think:

https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/...pular&mediatype=photography&phrase=butt crack

 

[WWGD]

Weird,
My shoe soles are wearing out unevenly. I tried to put my body weight evenly over each foot.
Let's see if this works in next ew weeks.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

Wife said "That's a bit half fetched." Probably meant "Far baked".

 

[DrGreg]

Wife said "That's a bit half fetched." Probably meant "Far baked".

For some reason, that reminds me of a story told by the late Humphrey Lyttelton, whose hobbies included bird watching. An interviewer once asked him:

"You're a bit of an orthinologist (sic), aren't you?"​

He couldn't think of a witty reply at the time, but on the way home it came to him:

"No, I'm more of a word botcher"​

 

[fresh_42]

Wife said "That's a bit half fetched." Probably meant "Far baked".

I like that one! It's like "not thought to the end". I see hundreds of applications!

 

[Bystander]

Wife said "That's a bit half fetched." Probably meant "Far baked".

You're married to "Mrs. Malaprop?"

 

[skyshrimp]

I have colonoscopy in the morning. Bends in the colon can make passing the scope uncomfortable and in some cases cause pain. Occasionally, the pain can be so severe that the procedure has to be stopped. There's a 1 in 100 chance of a perforation when removing large polyps which will need surgery

 

[Ibix]

That sounds... unpleasant. Hope it goes well.

 

[WWGD]

It makes more sense: hey there Delilah, not hey there saliva.And, to the guy in the table next to mine : it is dumkopf , not dumf*ck.