I Am Going To Yurp.
Darla Vladschyk
I have never been to Yurp, despite my advanced age. In August, Vlad
and I are flying to London and boarding a ship ("Arrrr!") on which we
will cruise around like the wanna-be swells we are. Engerland,
Portugal, Spain, Italy, Corsica, France--- 2 weeks of swanning around
being waited on during the day and then dancing in the Whoop-Dee-Doo
Lounge (or whatever) in the evening. Moonlight strolls on the deck.
Music and champagne. I am transported with delight. Who wants a
postcard, eh?
-=D=-
plorkwort
Darla Vladschyk <Darl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Music and champagne. I am transported with delight. Who wants a
>postcard, eh?
memememe!
have a wonderful time!
plorkwort.
--
A girl and a boy bump into each other -- surely an accident.
A girl and a boy bump and her handkerchief drops -- surely another accident.
But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid -- *that had to mean something*.
-- S. Morganstern, "The Silent Gondoliers"
Matthew L. Martin
And here I was thinking I was going to learn a new verb.
Matthew (somewhat disappointed, but have fun anyway)
Kevin S. Wilson
<not...@notnow.never> wrote:
>Darla Vladschyk wrote:
>
>And here I was thinking I was going to learn a new verb.
>
Yeah, I thought the gal was going to hurl, too.
Chris McGonnell
Arrr! What's the name o' yer cruiser? Me 'n' the scurvy dogs in the
good ship "Yellowbeard" will gi' ye a warrrm welcome when ye hove to
in Corsica! Bring all yer valuables!
Roberts
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Jeremy D. Impson
> Arrr! What's the name o' yer cruiser? Me 'n' the scurvy dogs in the good
> ship "Yellowbeard" will gi' ye a warrrm welcome when ye hove to in
> Corsica! Bring all yer valuables!
The mental image, perhaps framed as a tourism advertisement, of a pirate
beseaching prospective ocean-goers to bring all their valuables is very
amusing to me.
--Jeremy
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Jack Curry
"Jeremy D. Impson" <jdim...@acm.spam.org> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.61.05...@monster.apt.net...
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Chris McGonnell wrote:
>
> > Arrr! What's the name o' yer cruiser? Me 'n' the scurvy dogs in the good
> > ship "Yellowbeard" will gi' ye a warrrm welcome when ye hove to in
> > Corsica! Bring all yer valuables!
>
> The mental image, perhaps framed as a tourism advertisement, of a pirate
> beseaching prospective ocean-goers to bring all their valuables is very
> amusing to me.
>
> --Jeremy
>
to bring all your money!" Goes along with "The Rules are different here"
(Yes, that really was a Florida tourism slogan for awhile) which always made
me think, "Fuck! What if I do some shit that's legal at home but it isn't
here and I didn't know?" Too bad Twinkie, we gonna Tase you anyhow.
Jack Curry
-Come to Florida, bring lawyers, guns and money-
Darla Vladschyk
<sme...@NOkey-net.net> wrote:
>Arrr! What's the name o' yer cruiser? Me 'n' the scurvy dogs in the
>good ship "Yellowbeard" will gi' ye a warrrm welcome when ye hove to
>in Corsica! Bring all yer valuables!
>
>Roberts
Oh no! Dread Pirate Roberts! <swoon> Whatever will become of me?!
Heh!
-=D=-
Nick Bensema
Walking tours in London are worth every pence.
--
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==== ======= ============== http://www.io.com/~nickb/
Phil Carmody
> Yurp is awesome.
>
> Walking tours in London are worth every pence.
Pence is the plural. Pen is the singular.
Phil
--
The answer to life's mystery is simple and direct:
Sex and death. -- Ian 'Lemmy' Kilminster.
Mark South
Dramamine. Lots of Dramamine.
Oh, you forgot to mention whether your cruise goes up the Rhône to Lac
Leman. 'Cos if it does I'll be hiding in the Alps.
PS Corsica IS France, just don't mention this to the Corsicans.
--
Mark South: World Citizen, Net Denizen
Darla Vladschyk
wrote:
>Yurp is awesome.
>
>Walking tours in London are worth every pence.
Thanks, Nick!
-=D=-
Darla Vladschyk
<mark...@null.invalid> wrote:
>Oh, you forgot to mention whether your cruise goes up the Rhône to Lac
>Leman. 'Cos if it does I'll be hiding in the Alps.
Donut worry, you are safe.
-=D=-
Mark South
I wuz joking, 'cos the low bridges would have sunk your ship long before
you made it this far up Le Rhône.
In re Nick's suggestion, there is an excellellellenenenent London walking
tour following the path of the old city walls. It's a couple of miles, at
a slow pace, manageable^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsurvivable even for our North
American cousins.
Chris McGonnell
At your age, maybe Miracle Max will think of something, involving
chocolate, of course.
Chris McGonnell
Safe? In the Alps? AVALAAANCHE!!!!!! Not to mention the feral
elephants, descendents of Hannibal's runaways!
Mark South
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:08:17 GMT, Darla Vladschyk wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:22:15 +0100, Mark South
>><mark...@null.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>Oh, you forgot to mention whether your cruise goes up the Rhône to Lac
>>>Leman. 'Cos if it does I'll be hiding in the Alps.
>>
>>Donut worry, you are safe.
>
> Safe? In the Alps? AVALAAANCHE!!!!!! Not to mention the feral
> elephants, descendents of Hannibal's runaways!
On the one hand, avalanches of feral elephants.
On the other, Darlaaaaaa!!!
Seems to be what you people so quaintly call a damn-skunk, or something.
Glenn Knickerbocker
> ni...@eris.io.com (Nick Bensema) writes:
> > Walking tours in London are worth every pence.
> Pence is the plural. Pen is the singular.
As in: London is built in hundreds of little circles, wrapped up in
progressively bigger circles. Each one is a pen that you'll take hours
to find your way out of.
ŹR
Darla Vladschyk
<sme...@NOkey-net.net> wrote:
>>Oh no! Dread Pirate Roberts! <swoon> Whatever will become of me?!
>
>At your age, maybe Miracle Max will think of something, involving
>chocolate, of course.
Shut UP you bitch.
-=D=-
Zixia
> I have never been to Yurp, despite my advanced age. In August, Vlad
> and I are flying to London and boarding a ship ("Arrrr!") on which we
> will cruise around like the wanna-be swells we are.
Sweet!
I'd promise to take you on a tour of London and introduce you to the
Queen, but I appear to have a slightly broken back right now, thanks
to a stupid woman driver. It had better heal by the time you're due
here, or I'll be cross.
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ITYM "witch".
Which witch is which is of course left as an exercise for the reader.
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Paula
So now I am going to have to hate you as well as Terri and her
horsies? Do you people have any idea how much time and energy it
takes to maintain such levels of hate and how little time and energy I
have? Dammit! Now I hate you even more. I hate when that happens.
--
Paula
"You are so wrong you'll likely never be right at any point in the future." Steve Christensen
Theresa Willis
wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:55:15 GMT, Darla Vladschyk
><Darl...@Gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I have never been to Yurp, despite my advanced age. In August, Vlad
>>and I are flying to London and boarding a ship ("Arrrr!") on which we
>>will cruise around like the wanna-be swells we are. Engerland,
>>Portugal, Spain, Italy, Corsica, France--- 2 weeks of swanning around
>>being waited on during the day and then dancing in the Whoop-Dee-Doo
>>Lounge (or whatever) in the evening. Moonlight strolls on the deck.
>>Music and champagne. I am transported with delight. Who wants a
>>postcard, eh?
>
>So now I am going to have to hate you as well as Terri and her
>horsies? Do you people have any idea how much time and energy it
>takes to maintain such levels of hate and how little time and energy I
>have? Dammit! Now I hate you even more. I hate when that happens.
Dear Paula:
I have been to Europe. Twice.
Mark Edwards
No cluons were harmed when Paula ! wrote:
> So now I am going to have to hate you as well as Terri and her
> horsies? Do you people have any idea how much time and energy it
> takes to maintain such levels of hate and how little time and energy
I
> have? Dammit! Now I hate you even more. I hate when that happens.
Just do what Louie does - bare your teeth, growl, and hate her with
the heat of a thousand suns.
Note: also works with Middle School students.
Mark Edwards
--
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Mark Edwards
No cluons were harmed when Theresa Willis ! wrote:
> Dear Paula:
>
> I have been to Europe. Twice.
Two thousand suns. See, it works.
Mark South
Dear Terri: I am IN Europe[1]. Every day.
[1] But not the EU, although I can see a piece of it over that way ------>
as I type, although I do have EU citizenship so I guess the EU is with me
wherever I am.
Jeremy D. Impson
Today.
Roy G. Ovrebo
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:40:28 +0000, Theresa Willis wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:34:23 GMT, Paula <mmmtob...@earthlink.ent>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:55:15 GMT, Darla Vladschyk
>>><Darl...@Gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have never been to Yurp, despite my advanced age. In August, Vlad
>>>>and I are flying to London and boarding a ship ("Arrrr!") on which we
>>>>will cruise around like the wanna-be swells we are. Engerland,
>>>>Portugal, Spain, Italy, Corsica, France--- 2 weeks of swanning around
>>>>being waited on during the day and then dancing in the Whoop-Dee-Doo
>>>>Lounge (or whatever) in the evening. Moonlight strolls on the deck.
>>>>Music and champagne. I am transported with delight. Who wants a
>>>>postcard, eh?
>>>
>>>So now I am going to have to hate you as well as Terri and her
>>>horsies? Do you people have any idea how much time and energy it
>>>takes to maintain such levels of hate and how little time and energy I
>>>have? Dammit! Now I hate you even more. I hate when that happens.
>>
>> Dear Paula:
>>
>> I have been to Europe. Twice.
>
> Dear Terri: I am IN Europe[1]. Every day.
So am I.
> [1] But not the EU,
Neither am I.
> although I can see a piece of it over that way ------>
> as I type, although I do have EU citizenship so I guess the EU is with me
> wherever I am.
You can't see the EU from Iceland, nor from the Faroe Islands.
So I'll guess you have to be in Norway, Liechtenstein, Andorra, the
Channel Islands or the Isle of Man. Unless I'm forgetting some place.
--
Roy
John D Salt
news:slrncv7r4g.5up...@sheepish.local:
[Snips]
> You can't see the EU from Iceland, nor from the Faroe
> Islands. So I'll guess you have to be in Norway,
> Liechtenstein, Andorra, the Channel Islands or the Isle of
> Man. Unless I'm forgetting some place.
San Marino?
All the best,
John.
Mark South
>>> Dear Paula:
>>>
>>> I have been to Europe. Twice.
>>
>> Dear Terri: I am IN Europe[1]. Every day.
>
> So am I.
Oh, I knew I wasn't the only one :-)
>> [1] But not the EU,
>
> Neither am I.
Going by your surname I would guess Norway, but for all my knowledge of
scandinavian names you could be from the Faroes or Iceland too.
>> although I can see a piece of it over that way ------> as I type,
OK, I confess I turned my monitor 15 degrees counterclockwise to type that.
>> although I do have EU citizenship so I guess the EU is with me wherever
>> I am.
>
> You can't see the EU from Iceland, nor from the Faroe Islands. So I'll
> guess you have to be in Norway, Liechtenstein, Andorra, the Channel
> Islands or the Isle of Man. Unless I'm forgetting some place.
You are, and glooooooge might have helped you, since I posted a BIG CLUE
in another group earlier today. But I'll be nice and tell you that I can
see a piece of France that's mentioned in a little-known book called
Frankenstein, and that we speak french here.
Roy G. Ovrebo
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:27:26 +0000, Roy G. Ovrebo wrote:
>
>>>> Dear Paula:
>>>>
>>>> I have been to Europe. Twice.
>>>
>>> Dear Terri: I am IN Europe[1]. Every day.
>>
>> So am I.
>
> Oh, I knew I wasn't the only one :-)
>
>>> [1] But not the EU,
>>
>> Neither am I.
>
> Going by your surname I would guess Norway, but for all my knowledge of
> scandinavian names you could be from the Faroes or Iceland too.
Good guess. There's a BIG CLUE in my e-mail address.
>>> although I can see a piece of it over that way ------> as I type,
>
> OK, I confess I turned my monitor 15 degrees counterclockwise to type that.
>
>>> although I do have EU citizenship so I guess the EU is with me wherever
>>> I am.
>>
>> You can't see the EU from Iceland, nor from the Faroe Islands. So I'll
>> guess you have to be in Norway, Liechtenstein, Andorra, the Channel
>> Islands or the Isle of Man. Unless I'm forgetting some place.
>
> You are, and glooooooge might have helped you, since I posted a BIG CLUE
> in another group earlier today. But I'll be nice and tell you that I can
> see a piece of France that's mentioned in a little-known book called
> Frankenstein, and that we speak french here.
Well, duh. I found it. In my defence, though, that country might as well
be a hole in the map. It isn't a member of _anything_.
--
Roy
Paula
<tdwi...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Dear Paula:
>
>I have been to Europe. Twice.
I don't care about that. I've been to Europe more often than you and
Darla combined. What pisses me off is people who are currently living
better lives than mine. So, I must hate Darla for heading off to
Europe while I am stuck here and you for your horsies and no one for
their past adventures.
Mark South
>>> You can't see the EU from Iceland, nor from the Faroe Islands. So I'll
>>> guess you have to be in Norway, Liechtenstein, Andorra, the Channel
>>> Islands or the Isle of Man. Unless I'm forgetting some place.
>>
>> You are, and glooooooge might have helped you, since I posted a BIG CLUE
>> in another group earlier today. But I'll be nice and tell you that I can
>> see a piece of France that's mentioned in a little-known book called
>> Frankenstein, and that we speak french here.
>
> Well, duh. I found it. In my defence, though, that country might as well
> be a hole in the map. It isn't a member of _anything_.
Well, we don't let anyone else join our clubs, no. That would lower the
tone, and that would never do.
Theresa Willis
<bloody....@bluezone.no> wrote:
>Mark South <mark...@null.invalid> wrote:
>> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:40:28 +0000, Theresa Willis wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:34:23 GMT, Paula <mmmtob...@earthlink.ent>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>So now I am going to have to hate you as well as Terri and her
>>>>horsies? Do you people have any idea how much time and energy it
>>>>takes to maintain such levels of hate and how little time and energy I
>>>>have? Dammit! Now I hate you even more. I hate when that happens.
>>>
>>> Dear Paula:
>>>
>>> I have been to Europe. Twice.
>>
>> Dear Terri: I am IN Europe[1]. Every day.
>
>So am I.
>
Yeah, but as non-Americans, you are just part of the scenery, so, you
know, BIG DEAL.
Tom Kraemer
> Well, duh. I found it. In my defence, though, that country might as well
> be a hole in the map. It isn't a member of _anything_.
I told you it was Grand Fenwick!! Why don't people LISTEN?!?!
--
One Apple every eight hours keeps three Doctors away.
-B. Kliban
Darla Vladschyk
>I'd promise to take you on a tour of London and introduce you to the
>Queen, but I appear to have a slightly broken back right now, thanks
>to a stupid woman driver. It had better heal by the time you're due
>here, or I'll be cross.
Yes you'd bettah, because we are taking an extry weekend in Englandia
when the cruise is over just so's to meet up with you and John Salt,
if he'll have us. Keep the weekend of August 27-28 clear, bucko!
-=D=-
Darla Vladschyk
wrote:
>So now I am going to have to hate you as well as Terri and her
>horsies? ...
No, just ax your Dad to bring you along to Yurp!
-=D=-
Darla Vladschyk
wrote:
>... What pisses me off is people who are currently living
>better lives than mine. ...
Yeah well lissen up grrfren: You may have buttcrack plumbers livin'
in your house, and cabinets that don't match up right, but you ALSO
got two beautiful lovin' little girls, and that makes your life better
than mine FOREVER.
You WIN. So there.
-=D=-
Paula
Last I heard, my dad was planning to go to Argentina with my brother,
not Yurp with you and Vlad. Dammit! If I've told him once, I've told
him a million times to never take off the tin foil hat!
Mark South
> Yeah, but as non-Americans, you are the people who laugh at us for being
> so astoundingly gauche, so, you know, WE'RE REALLY SORRY.
IFYPFY.
Nick Bensema
Mark South <mark...@null.invalid> wrote:
>In re Nick's suggestion, there is an excellellellenenenent London walking
>tour following the path of the old city walls. It's a couple of miles, at
>a slow pace, manageable^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsurvivable even for our North
>American cousins.
Actually, when you land at the airport, there will be a giant
pamphlet booth somewhere that even a visually-impaired person will
notice it, with lots of little white pamphlets, each of which
describes dozens of walking tours leaving at various points throughout
the city, mostly originating from Tube stations or nearby landmarks.
There are also pub walks, which I plan to try next time. It'll
also point you in the right direction of a place that does
English-language walks in Paris, of which there are slightly fewer.
--
Nick Bensema <ni...@io.com> AIM: NBensema
==== ======= ============== http://www.io.com/~nickb/
John D Salt
news:mfp8v094at06obqms...@4ax.com:
[Snips]
> and cabinets that don't match up right,
Furniture is supposed to match?
Why wasn't I told?
All the best,
John.
Mark South
> In article <pan.2005.01.21....@null.invalid>,
> Mark South <mark...@null.invalid> wrote:
>>In re Nick's suggestion, there is an excellellellenenenent London walking
>>tour following the path of the old city walls. It's a couple of miles, at
>>a slow pace, manageable^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsurvivable even for our North
>>American cousins.
>
> Actually, when you land at the airport, there will be a giant
> pamphlet booth somewhere that even a visually-impaired person will
> notice it, with lots of little white pamphlets, each of which
> describes dozens of walking tours leaving at various points throughout
> the city, mostly originating from Tube stations or nearby landmarks.
> There are also pub walks, which I plan to try next time. It'll
> also point you in the right direction of a place that does
> English-language walks in Paris, of which there are slightly fewer.
Not sure there are any good places to park their cruise ship in Paris, the
Seine being a bit shallow most places.
Nick Bensema
Doesn't Chrid still live thereabouts?
And aren't there any more London Kibologists? There was one who
couldn't make it last time I was there.
Darla Vladschyk
wrote:
>Actually, when you land at the airport, there will be a giant
>pamphlet booth somewhere that even a visually-impaired person will
>notice it, with lots of little white pamphlets, each of which
>describes dozens of walking tours leaving at various points throughout
>the city, mostly originating from Tube stations or nearby landmarks.
>There are also pub walks, which I plan to try next time. It'll
>also point you in the right direction of a place that does
>English-language walks in Paris, of which there are slightly fewer.
Great! Thanks, Nick, we'll look for it/them.
-=D=-
Darla Vladschyk
wrote:
>Doesn't Chrid still live thereabouts?
>
>And aren't there any more London Kibologists? There was one who
>couldn't make it last time I was there.
We would love to meet up with whomever is available that weekend for
good brew and maybe some fish & chips or pizza or tripe or whatever
you lot eat over there.
Make me a list!
-=D=-
Paula
wrote:
>Darla Vladschyk <Darl...@Gmail.com> wrote in
>news:mfp8v094at06obqms...@4ax.com:
>
>[Snips]
>> and cabinets that don't match up right,
>
>Furniture is supposed to match?
>
>Why wasn't I told?
My dear, sweet Gokmop, we are talking cabinetry here, not just any
furniture. This is base cabinetry, no less. Another words, if the
cabinets do not match up right, you might spill your port every time
you set it down for a minute. Now do you see the huge problem we are
talking here?
--
Paula
"Or if you really want to meet me just take the NJT to 78, take 78 to 24, take 24 until it runs out, and then just drive around listening for the sound of quietly smoldering rage." Ben Allard
Zixia
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:53:09 -0600, ni...@eris.io.com (Nick Bensema)
> wrote:
>
>>Doesn't Chrid still live thereabouts?
Chrid is still about and would no doubt be jollied in to coming up to
foggy old London town for a drink and a pie.
> We would love to meet up with whomever is available that weekend for
> good brew and maybe some fish & chips or pizza or tripe or whatever
> you lot eat over there.
Jellied eels, perhaps. Or curry. Curried jelly eels?
> Make me a list!
Uh, okie:
10 PEOPLE I WOULD LIKE TO SEE CHOKE ON A PIE
1. Ben Allard.
2.
Hmm, I didn't really think this idea through.
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Darla Vladschyk <Darl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>We would love to meet up with whomever is available that weekend for
>good brew and maybe some fish & chips or pizza or tripe or whatever
>you lot eat over there.
BANGERS AND MASH!
And probably a Guinness too, even htough that's Irish. I had something more
English there, but it wasn't one of those warm beers, if I recall correctly.
John D Salt
news:rgdbv0tfuc5p2cb8g...@4ax.com:
[Snips]
> My dear, sweet Gokmop, we are talking cabinetry here, not
> just any furniture. This is base cabinetry, no less.
> Another words, if the cabinets do not match up right, you
> might spill your port every time you set it down for a
> minute. Now do you see the huge problem we are talking
> here?
Cor crikey, that sounds serious.
So are these "base cabinets" used to support some kind of
tabletop? I am not familiar with the use of other port-drinking
surfaces. But I am wondering if you could arrange to have at
each corner a lower cabinet than the one at the next corner to
the right, in the style of an Escher picture, so that you could
mount your decanter on a set of wheels and have it pass itself to
the left without need of human intervention.
No more embarrassing "Do you know the Bishop of Exeter?" moments
for inattentive imbibers. Another triumph of American ingenuity
and Anglo-British collaboration.
All the best,
John.
Andrew Pearson
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:53:09 -0600, n...@eris.io.com (Nick Bensema)
> wrote:
> >And aren't there any more London Kibologists? There was one who
> >couldn't make it last time I was there.
> We would love to meet up with whomever is available that weekend for
> good brew and maybe some fish & chips or pizza or tripe or whatever
> you lot eat over there.
> Make me a list!
Darla, I take that you & Vlad will be doing the sensible thing and
taking a leisurely 800 kilometre stroll from Paris across to
Luxembourg?
--
Andrew Pearson: "Exactly what the web needs less of"
Steve Christensen
> Quoth the Darla Vladschyk:
>> Make me a list!
>
> Uh, okie:
>
> 10 PEOPLE I WOULD LIKE TO SEE CHOKE ON A PIE
>
> 1. Ben Allard.
> 2.
It is so obvious you are the cad behind Good King Joffrey's poisoning
-Steve
--
So if you people can't figure out what my birthday is based on subtle
hints and vague statements made at random intervals then I'm beginning
to think that you really don't care. -- Dean Lenort, a.r.k.
Glenn Knickerbocker
> 10 PEOPLE I WOULD LIKE TO SEE CHOKE ON A PIE
I'm sure you would like to see me choke on a Cornish pasty, or at least
try, wouldn't you? If we ever make it back to London, you should make
sure to provide us with plenty of them, just in case.
ŹR
Darla Vladschyk
wrote:
>BANGERS AND MASH!
Sorry, I am a married woman!
-=D=-
Darla Vladschyk
wrote:
>Darla, I take that you & Vlad will be doing the sensible thing and
>taking a leisurely 800 kilometre stroll from Paris across to
>Luxembourg?
No Paris this time. Paris next summer, along with Germany and Austria
and assorted other places. Luxembourg is certainly do-able.
-=D=-
Paula
wrote:
>So are these "base cabinets" used to support some kind of
>tabletop? I am not familiar with the use of other port-drinking
>surfaces. But I am wondering if you could arrange to have at
>each corner a lower cabinet than the one at the next corner to
>the right, in the style of an Escher picture, so that you could
>mount your decanter on a set of wheels and have it pass itself to
>the left without need of human intervention.
The usual way to do these base cabinets is to have a counter top set
upon them. However, it will no doubt be several more months of
buttcrack asshat madcap adventure before that is accomplished.
Counter top surfaces generally prefer matched up and level surfaces to
sit on, so the not matching up is combining with the general lazy ass
and head up the assedness of the cabinet people to delay things
interminably. I don't know about this Escher cabinet idea. Sounds
like something that would attract a bunch of nerds to come hang out in
my kitchen looking to be fed and entertained and stuff.
James Kibo Parry
>
> John D Salt (jdsalt_AT_gotadsl.co.uk) wrote:
> >
> > So are these "base cabinets" used to support some kind of
> > tabletop? I am not familiar with the use of other port-drinking
> > surfaces. But I am wondering if you could arrange to have at
> > each corner a lower cabinet than the one at the next corner to
> > the right, in the style of an Escher picture, so that you could
> > mount your decanter on a set of wheels and have it pass itself to
> > the left without need of human intervention.
>
> The usual way to do these base cabinets is to have a counter top set
> upon them. However, it will no doubt be several more months of
> buttcrack asshat madcap adventure before that is accomplished.
> Counter top surfaces generally prefer matched up and level surfaces to
> sit on, so the not matching up is combining with the general lazy ass
> and head up the assedness of the cabinet people to delay things
> interminably. I don't know about this Escher cabinet idea. Sounds
> like something that would attract a bunch of nerds to come hang out in
> my kitchen looking to be fed and entertained and stuff.
Hey, cool, let me know when you get the cabinets and nerds installed
because I want to come over and point at both of them and laugh.
I love Escher, but I'm tired of seeing the same three or four prints
over and over. The guy did a lot of purty pictures and they're all
good, but 75% of the time when someone has an Escher print on their
wall it's "Relativity" or "Metamorphosis" or "Ascending and Descending".
What's wrong with the ones with the scary planaria? Everybody enjoys
cross-eyed flatworms!
If you do go with the Escher cabinets, you might consider deforming
each of them non-destructively (through the awesome power of wood-warping)
so that each of your cabinets encloses the one to its right, all the
way around the room until the first cabinet contains itself, so that
you can have lots of fun trying to figure out how to get your food
out of the intransigently intransitive cabinets.
You could use them to store your intransitive dice. Suppose you have
three six-sided dice, with these numbers on the faces:
die A: 6 3 3 3 3 3
die B: 5 5 5 2 2 2
die C: 4 4 4 4 4 1
If you were to roll A and B, A would beat B most of the time.
And B would beat C most of the time. But C beats A most of the time!
The spots on each die add up to 21, just like any other die, giving
each of the three dice the same average value (3.5) but...
A beats B 58% of the time, B beats C 58% of the time, and yet C beats A
a whopping 69% of the time. It's mathenoxiously disturbifying!
And of course while it would be physically impossible to make each
of your cabinets completely contain the next one in the loop, you
could do like the dice and make the first cabinet contain at least
51% of the second one, which would contain 51% of the third one,
which would contain 51% of the fourth one, which would contain 51% of
the first one, so while this construction would not be impossible,
still, most of the time when you stuck your arm in instead of coming
out with a can of beans you'd be sucked into eternal oblivion in
Dimension X, where X is a number simultaneously greater than 11 but
less than 7. The casinos there suck.
-- K.
I hear Gary Gygax
once invented an
eleven-sided die,
but it was a failure
because nobody wanted
to play with a die
where all eleven
faces said "YOU'RE
A DORK."
Talysman the Ur-Beatle
news:kibo-25010...@10.0.1.2:
> I hear Gary Gygax
> once invented an
> eleven-sided die,
> but it was a failure
> because nobody wanted
> to play with a die
> where all eleven
> faces said "YOU'RE
> A DORK."
does it make me nerdier than you to say "it's LOU ZOCCHI, not GARY GYGAX!"?
--
Talysman the Ur-Beatle, STRAWGRASPER
James Kibo Parry
>
> James "Kibo" Parry (ki...@world.std.com) wrote:
> >
> > I hear Gary Gygax once invented an eleven-sided die,
> > but it was a failure because nobody wanted to play with a die
> > where all eleven faces said "YOU'RE A DORK."
>
> does it make me nerdier than you to say "it's LOU ZOCCHI, not GARY GYGAX!"?
Yes, because I don't know who that is or whether you get free Crazy Bread
with every order of louzocchi.
Oh, wait! You mean the guy who developed the hundred-sided Zocchihedral dice!
I met him once, and you're still the biggest nerd in this sentence.
By the way, who's Gary Gygax? Is he just Wil Wheaton with different
initials? Or was that Hugh Hefner? I'm confused by your extreme nerdiness.
-- K.
I bet you get your salsa
from NEW YORK CITY!
Ben Allard
> Quoth the Darla Vladschyk:
>
>> Make me a list!
>
> Uh, okie:
>
> 10 PEOPLE I WOULD LIKE TO SEE CHOKE ON A PIE
>
> 1. Ben Allard.
> 2.
>
> Hmm, I didn't really think this idea through.
That's not the only thing you didn't think through! Of course, you
weren't to know your thermite bomb wouldn't seal Baron von Usbeck's
fourth and fifth escape tunnels, since your arctic survey team
COMPLETELY FAILED TO DETECT THEM! I've warned you time and again
never to send a Swede to do a man's work!
Oh such revenge I planned, piloting the late Baron's gyropod back to
Novgorod. But the affliction of your insidious robocancer forestalled
any such thoughts on my part, forcing me to ditch in the French Alps.
(BTW, please send my warmest regards to the lovely Thalia, and thank
her for that extraordinary cocktail she served me. I don't think I'll
ever forget it, or her.)
Where explosives failed, your cyberplague nearly did me in. Stranded
in Nice's frigid wasteland, I finally felt the flux vitae depart my
emaciated, betumored husk. At the last moment I was able, by calling
upon the occult teachings and deep reserves of mystical chi energy
imparted to me by my former tibetan masters, to impress my fading
consciousness upon the Helsinki ant supercolony WHERE I have been
TRAPPED to this day! Indeed, I have been reduced to this one method
of communication remaining to me, sacrificing individual members of my
mind-body to be shorted out in the transistors of the circuit boards
of the news servers of some GOD-FORSAKEN german free university to
have ANY contact with the outside world AT ALL!
But, my dear Philip, please don't think these small trials have
distracted me from our unfinished business. But I would be loathe to
reveal too much of what awaits you. Simply put, it's to be hoped that
you've laid in an ample supply of penicillin aboard your yacht! And
you may wish to avoid any MAGNESIUM refineries in the coming months,
IF YOU CAN!!
AH HA-HA hahaha, HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
--
Ben
Hydrogen. A light, colorless gas which, given sufficient time, turns
into dildos.
- Doctroid Doctroid Holmes, on the universe's slowest marital aid
Matthew L. Martin
No sex please, We're British.
Matthew
--
Thermodynamics and/or Golf for dummies: There is a game
You can't win
You can't break even
You can't get out of the game
Matthew L. Martin
>
> I love Escher, but I'm tired of seeing the same three or four prints
> over and over. The guy did a lot of purty pictures and they're all
> good, but 75% of the time when someone has an Escher print on their
> wall it's "Relativity" or "Metamorphosis" or "Ascending and Descending".
> What's wrong with the ones with the scary planaria? Everybody enjoys
> cross-eyed flatworms!
>
I have more than 4 escher patterns on ties. I don't have any of the above.
Kevin S. Wilson
wrote:
> I don't know about this Escher cabinet idea. Sounds
>like something that would attract a bunch of nerds to come hang out in
>my kitchen looking to be fed and entertained and stuff.
Why would you need the Escher cabinet to make that happen? You already
have bQQbies.
Tim Serpas
>You could use them to store your intransitive dice. Suppose you have
>three six-sided dice, with these numbers on the faces:
>
> die A: 6 3 3 3 3 3
>
> die B: 5 5 5 2 2 2
>
> die C: 4 4 4 4 4 1
I should send this over to RPG.net and dare them to use this
for a task resolution system.
Wretch
Chris McGonnell
>I bet you get your salsa
>from NEW YORK CITY!
Well, hell yeah, the hottest salsa in the world is made by Dominicans
in New York, not by wimps in Tejas!
--
Chris McG.
Harming humanity since 1951.
"Hmmm... my let hand is SWILSON!" -- oTTo
David
> What's wrong with the ones with the scary planaria? Everybody enjoys
> cross-eyed flatworms!
Some of us are related to them!
D.
--
"Winter is i-cumin in, Lhude sing goddamn!"
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Eb Oesch
> Yurp is awesome.
>
> Walking tours in London are worth every pence.
Europe sucks -- trust me, I've been to a few small patches of it.
Everywhere sucks. Also, you start life as a microscopic nothing, and
then the decay sets in. But I'd hate to be thought of as a spoilsport
-- it makes people pay less attention, so the spoiling doesn't work as
well. Of course it's not very effective to begin with. Schadenfreude,
like necromancy, is inefficient. There is a big loss when converting a
negative into a positive -- the forces of darkness have to take their
cut, for example. But it's the only game in town, so I work hard at it.
Anyhow, I trust everyone will pack their trunks exclusively with
Hawaiian shirts, because American tourists have an image to uphold, and
because it's our duty to bring a little cheer to the miserable pit that
is the rest of the world. Even if the Americans are sort of Canadian,
that's no excuse to leave the floral prints behind -- with American
tourists abroad all pretending to be Canadian, I expect Canadians to
return the favor.
James Kibo Parry
>
> Europe sucks -- trust me, I've been to a few small patches of it.
Hey, it's good that Europe sucks. Because if it didn't, the United States
would still just be buffalo and deer and bears and Indians dancing around
happily in all the empty space. And I'm way too pale to be an Indian,
so I'd probably wind up living in Finland, where I'd be constantly
nauseated by the smell of lutefisk wafting across the Norwegian border.
So it's good that Europe sucks because that means I can live in the
United States and not Europe.
> Everywhere sucks. Also, you start life as a microscopic nothing, and
> then the decay sets in.
I think the original SimCity was the only good one in the series.
This new SimEurope combined with SimPlankton is even more boring
than plain SimPlankton was.
> But I'd hate to be thought of as a spoilsport -- it makes people pay
> less attention, so the spoiling doesn't work as well. Of course it's
> not very effective to begin with. Schadenfreude, like necromancy, is
> inefficient.
But Europe also invented schadenfreude. And if Europe didn't exist,
every time someone stubbed their toe, America would come to a halt
because we'd all be going "AWWWW! YOUR POOR TOE!" so I'm glad we have
actual schadenfreude so that when someone stubs their toe, we all
go "HAW HAW! YOUR TOE HURTS NOW!" and go back to working, but extra-
efficiently because we're all happy that someone's toe broke.
-- K.
Also, "Europe" is a dopey
name for a continent.
However, "America" is such a
cool name that they named _two_
continents after our country.
Mark South
> Also, "Europe" is a dopey
> name for a continent.
It's named after a hawt chyk who was popular with the gods.
> However, "America" is such a
> cool name that they named _two_
> continents after our country.
Whereas that's named after a fat spaniard with a beard who stayed home on
the sofa and just claimed the credit for doing the opposite.
So you have explained why Europe is all hot chicks and America is all
sweaty fat guys with beards.
--
Mark South: World Citizen, Net Denizen