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[WWGD]

This teenage girl been taking incredibly vigorously on the phone for around an hour without signs of stopping. Problem is she is sitting next to me. Whatever! Or is it However!?

 

[WWGD]

Hmm...how can I put it to the person who wrote me an email telling me she had some money in an account in Ghana, and she ...? She said she is waiting for my reply. How should I reply: I suggest you get a comfortable chair , because it will be a long #$% wait?

 

[marlon]

Evo, i just realized something: when we first talked to each other on this forum, the iphone did not exist yet

Damn time sure does fly by fast, no?

 

[WWGD]

Evo, i just realized something: when we first talked to each other on this forum, the iphone did not exist yet

Damn time sure does fly by fast, no?

Yes, and we can have actual pictures and not just portraits for avatars ;).

 

[marlon]

WWGD, what does that stand for? Did we know each other here ?

Besides, that me in the pic

 

[WWGD]

WWGD, what does that stand for? Did we know each other here ?

Besides, that me in the pic

No, sorry, just trying to get in on the joke on modernization, since your avatar seems like a portrait :).

 

[marlon]

Sorry bro, i just tend to look “antique”
Ladies like that, so i have been told

 

[Evo]

Evo, i just realized something: when we first talked to each other on this forum, the iphone did not exist yet

Damn time sure does fly by fast, no?

Those were good times though.

 

[marlon]

Yeah, they were

Damn i just read that both marcus and arildno passed away in the last years
I both knew them here quite well
Marcus helped me out on LQG intro

 

[marlon]

Is astronuc still here? And Borek?

 

[Borek]

And Borek?

Still kicking.

 

[WWGD]

Still kicking.

Aka: "I am still standing, Yea, Yea, Yea".

 

[nsaspook]

Why we love firemen!

"Ever wonder what happens when a car is parked in front of a fire hydrant and a fire breaks out?"

https://twitter.com/AnaheimFire?ref...itorial/330f7012-3a8e-11e9-9c7e-3f92f52c2449/

 

[Ibix]

Just been listening to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, which I don't think I'd heard before. Can't believe how much he ripped off the Star Wars soundtrack. And the bits Tchaikovsky didn't take, that Holst joker put into Mars...

 

[fresh_42]

Just been listening to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, which I don't think I'd heard before. Can't believe how much he ripped off the Star Wars soundtrack. And the bits Tchaikovsky didn't take, that Holst joker put into Mars...

Yeah. Even Rubinstein said after he had seen his first piano that he had looted folk and other sources. So it seems quite typical for Tchaikovsky.

 

[WWGD]

Yeah. Even Rubinstein said after he had seen his first piano that he had looted folk and other sources. So it seems quite typical for Tchaikovsky.

Leonard Rubinstein was called Len Rubinstein . Now that I am learning Python, I just call him 9.

 

[WWGD]

Freshmeister: Did I beat you in obscurit-y in
my last post? (len(Bernstein)=9)

 

[Ibix]

Freshmeister: Did I beat you in obscurit-y in
my last post? (len(Bernstein)=9)

len("Bernstein")==9, to be precise.

 

[Borek]

Just been listening to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, which I don't think I'd heard before. Can't believe how much he ripped off the Star Wars soundtrack. And the bits Tchaikovsky didn't take, that Holst joker put into Mars...

Into Mars? Whenever I listen to Neptune I hear Tatooine.

 

[fresh_42]

Freshmeister: Did I beat you in obscurit-y in
my last post? (len(Bernstein)=9)

Indeed.

 

[Klystron]

If you-all find classical music confusingly derivative, take a peek at fine Art.

The post-Impressionists alone cause me endless confusion: Monet, Manet both influenced by Camille Corot (or was it Condorcet?). Vincent van Gogh was best buds with Paul Gauguin or was it Paul Cezanne? The we have Seurat, Serusier and Signac all utterly cool painters whose names I cannot pronounce. Luce, Lavall, Lautrec, and Lemmen. To add to the confusion, they paint portraits of each other and insert each other in crowd scenes.

Landscape by Camille Pissarro.

 

[fresh_42]

o add to the confusion, they paint portraits of each other and insert each other in crowd scenes.

I only want to know: what did Miró and Kandinsky take?

 

[WWGD]

len("Bernstein")==9, to be precise.

Isn't it Len('Benstein')==
Anyway, my jokes are bad enough as it is to make them technically correct. I leave that for the programming section and give myself license in this one.

 

[WWGD]

Wow. I was proud of my small proof that the product of 4 consecutive positive integers was never a perfect square. Then I heard Erdos et Al proved the product of consecutive positive integers _ is never a power of an integer_.

 

[Borek]

len("Bernstein")==9, to be precise.

Isn't it Len('Benstein')==

Actually in Python - both work OK.

That is, if works a bit better when you refer to him as Bernstein than Benstein, but let's not get too nitpicky.

 

[cosmik debris]

Isn't it Len('Benstein')==
Anyway, my jokes are bad enough as it is to make them technically correct. I leave that for the programming section and give myself license in this one.

Oh man, I finally got it. I thought it was some kind of Cockney rhyming slang.

Cheers

 

[WWGD]

Oh man, I finally got it. I thought it was some kind of Cockney rhyming slang.

Cheers

That's how "good" my jokes are :).

 

[WWGD]

Actually in Python - both work OK.

That is, if works a bit better when you refer to him as Bernstein than Benstein, but let's not get too nitpicky.

I want to win at all costs, so I will say len("Benstein") == 8

 

[Klystron]

Isn't it Len('Benstein')==
Anyway, my jokes are bad enough as it is to make them technically correct. I leave that for the programming section and give myself license in this one.

License freely given. I have read that the Gran Maestro made jokes about his own name. When reporters shouted "Mister Bern-steen" he would turn and shout "stine!. That's birn-stine!". Or perhaps it was the other way around; I can never remember.

 

[WWGD]

License freely given. I have read that the Gran Maestro made jokes about his own name. When reporters shouted "Mister Bern-steen" he would turn turn and shout "stine!. That's birn-stine!". Or perhaps it was the other way around; I can never remember.

Or we can make it otherwise: Let's convince Al Franken to hook up his daughter with Ben Stein's son...

Though for name's sake, I always wanted a congressional committee formed by Akaka, Sununu, Shalala: Akaka-Sununu-Shalala. Sounds more interesting than any other I have seen so far.

 

[Klystron]

Or we can make it otherwise: Let's convince Al Franken to hook up his daughter with Ben Stein's son...

Boo, BOO! Joke done to death.

Though for name's sake, I always wanted a congressional committee formed by Akaka, Sununu, Shalala: Akaka-Sununu-Shalala. Sounds more interesting than any other I have seen so far.

Ha-Hah! They need to sponsor a joint bill in congress.

 

[WWGD]

Or we can make it otherwise: Let's convince Al Franken to hook up his daughter with Ben Stein's son...

Though for name's sake, I always wanted a congressional committee formed by Akaka, Sununu, Shalala: Akaka-Sununu-Shalala. Sounds more interesting than any other I have seen so far.

Or just make a

Boo, BOO! Joke done to death.

How about Joel Osteen and someone with last name Frank?Ha-Hah! They need to sponsor a joint bill in congress.

How about one by Donna Brazzille, Neal Israel and Jeffrey Canada?

How about Joel Osteen and someone with last name Frank?

 

[Klystron]

I only want to know: what did Miró and Kandinsky take?

To be sure. You have spanned the continent from Spain to Mother Russia. I was self-limiting to one country, France, even one city, Paris, and one small school, post-Impressionism, and still the number of painters worthy of study remains staggering.

Comedic lore has John Cleese creating a character with a tag line loosely based on Joan Miró, "He's from Barcelona.".

 

[fresh_42]

A professor of mine was a Kandinsky fan, and I cannot help but think "the work of a four year old" if I see a Miró, even standing right in front of one in Madrid. I'm a big fan of dadaism, so I'm used to a certain quantity of absurdity (greetings to @WWGD), but Miró and to some extend Kandinsky, too, are just premature colorbook paintings to me - I don't get them. But I have a similar problem with Mozart, so it's probably my fault.

 

[fresh_42]

You have spanned the continent from Spain to Mother Russia.

2-3 hours of flight each, so still in my neighborhood!

 

[Klystron]

A professor of mine was a Kandinsky fan, and I cannot help but think "the work of a four year old" if I see a Miró, even standing right in front of one in Madrid. I'm a big fan of dadaism, so I'm used to a certain quantity of absurdity (greetings to @WWGD), but Miró and to some extend Kandinsky, too, are just premature colorbook paintings to me - I don't get them. But I have a similar problem with Mozart, so it's probably my fault.

I love old Wolfgang and I like to think I get 'modern art' but then I used to think I understood Cantor. So, who knows?

I would trade a week at MOMA for a few minutes admiring a Rembrandt or even Goya. New York City is at least a 5 hour flight for me. San Francisco and the De Young museum are a short hop away. I envy your location as I know Europe only from Art (conceding "Berlin Station" and "Suburra" as art).

 

[WWGD]

I love old Wolfgang and I like to think I get 'modern art' but then I used to think I understood Cantor. So, who knows?

I would trade a week at MOMA for a few minutes admiring a Rembrandt or even Goya. New York City is at least a 5 hour flight for me. San Francisco and the De Young museum are a short hop away. I envy your location as I know Europe only from Art (conceding "Berlin Station" and "Suburra" as art).

Are you based in Seattle or SF?

 

[Klystron]

Are you based in Seattle or SF?

I'm from the SF Bay Area. I have lived in the City, even volunteered as a docent at the De Young for a time. Great fun, first look at new exhibits plus free chocolate covered strawberries . Retired now; so, hardly any fun. To quote Monty Python, "You're no fun anymore!".

 

[fresh_42]

I would trade a week at MOMA for a few minutes admiring a Rembrandt or even Goya.

I remember that I once had the chance to see a Picasso and that I was very surprised that it made such a big difference to see an original compared to the many prints everywhere which we all know. Never would have imagined this, the more as I'm not really interested in paintings, i.e. it surprised me that even a cretin like me could recognize a difference.

 

[Klystron]

I remember that I once had the chance to see a Picasso and that I was very surprised that it made such a big difference to see an original compared to the many prints everywhere which we all know. Never would have imagined this, the more as I'm not really interested in paintings, i.e. it surprised me that even a cretin like me could recognize a difference.

Cubism struck me as grotesque until I realized the N-dimensional quality forgetting the 'flat' canvas. Old Pablo also sculpted, fired ceramics and built musical instruments. At my first college I designed and built some exotic wooden string instruments. Not really playable but look great hanging on the wall.

Totally agree with experiencing art in vivo. Gustav Mahler used to leave me cold until a girlfriend invited me to a live concert. You feel his music in your body, not just hear it.

 

[Rive]

In a forum I was common a few years ago we had a moderator with the nickname of 'Research Fellow of Advanced Trollistics'.
Unfortunately he gave up his studies...

 

[WWGD]

In a forum I was common a few years ago we had a moderator with the nickname of 'Research Fellow of Advanced Trollistics'.
Unfortunately he gave up his studies...

Only now he does Trollistic Logistics, which is Bombastic, Fantastic.

 

[WWGD]

In Helsinki's discos everyone gets a Lapp dance...

 

[nuuskur]

Kitty was put to sleep yesterday. The way I see it, he'd long used up his 9 lives. r.i.p

 

[fresh_42]

The woman at the gas station urged me to estimate her age after she claimed that smoking wouldn't make people look older. She shouldn't have asked. I said 40 for sure. She was 39.

 

[WWGD]

The woman at the gas station urged me to estimate her age after she claimed that smoking wouldn't make people look older. She shouldn't have asked. I said 40 for sure. She was 39.

I always go for "around 75 , right"? What can go wrong?

 

[fresh_42]

I always go for "around 75 , right"? What can go wrong?

You should have seen her nails! I just say Florence Griffith-Joyner.

 

[WWGD]

You should have seen her nails! I just say Florence Griffith-Joyner.

The runner? Oh, you mean those long, unruly fingernails? Just wondering now why they are called nails.

 

[nuuskur]

I always go for "around 75 , right"? What can go wrong?

I was asked that by a chainsmoker and due to my complete lack of tact I replied "45? give or take a few". She was 30 at the time. Oh well, she reaps what she sows, ey?

 

[WWGD]

A new exposition in German art, maybe some would like it: "Welcome to Bauhaus, you can take control now..." At least that is what Flo' said. Notce how he mispronounces and says "my house" instead.;).