That "News" Thread

[xHaZxMaTx]

She looks a lot like my English teacher.  Except for the whole showering herself in money, thing.

[Zedd]

Amber is one the quiet nerdy girls yet has chainchomp teethers

[King Of Hearts]

No socks!? Freeze!?

I say thee NAY!

We'll just have sweaty smelly feet!

[Zedd]

Socks look funny on Inu Yasha

[superluser]

Drive, George, drive! This one has a coat hanger!

It's been forever since I saw that Far Side.

[Angel]

(confused... until she saw "What the- Ketchup? We followed a ketchup trail for three miles?" one)

OHHHH! Far Side punchlines! Man, I haven't read those comics in forever!~

[RJ]

I believe most of those quotes came from the 'It Came from the Far Side' collection.

[xHaZxMaTx]

Luposilpaphobia: The fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor.

You spelled it wrong.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Luposilpaphobia: The fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor.

You spelled it wrong.

Sorry, Firefox's spellcheck doesn't have that word in it...

[Gabi]

Luposilpaphobia: The fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor.

You spelled it wrong.

Sorry, Firefox's spellcheck doesn't have that word in it...

You relying on an automatic spellchecker? Who would have thought so?

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Well, I don't have the book handy, and it wasn't me what put that particular entry up, so... Complaining about the spelling is all well and good, but if you don't provide the corrected spelling, what are we to do?

[bill]

Mock you. That's what we're to do.

[superluser]

Sorry, Firefox's spellcheck doesn't have that word in it...

I notice that there are a lot of words that Firefox spellcheck doesn't have.

In addition, my spelling is somewhere between American and British (I spell math, flavor, estrogen, but travelled, dialogue, grey), which means that Firefox says that I've spelt a lot of words wrong.

I seem to have found an en-gb dictionary, so that might change.

(Edit: they have!  Yay!)

[bill]

"In all cases where American and British spellings of words disagree, Australian spellings shall be used as a tiebreaker."

[RJ]

...

I'm just confused now.

[Zedd]

RJ...The more your confuzed...You feed Abel

[RJ]

That's not fair... people get confused more than they get surprised or panicked.

[Zedd]

But we love you anyhow

[xHaZxMaTx]

Well, I don't have the book handy, and it wasn't me what put that particular entry up, so... Complaining about the spelling is all well and good, but if you don't provide the corrected spelling, what are we to do?

Luposlipaphobia

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Danke, but Gabi mentioned it elsewhere, so I updated it for you. All better now? :-)

[Gabi]

It looks good to me.

My spelling is also a mix between British and American English, but that's because my native language is Argentinean Spanish.

[Tapewolf]

"The Mellotron is irrelevant - either that or we're just irreverent..."

Do you have any idea how much those things cost? 

[bill]

Apparently, "The Mellotron is irrelevant" is a response that Robert Fripp gave a fan who was asking if King Crimson would ever bring back the Mellotron. Talk about fan-friendly.

[Tapewolf]

Apparently, "The Mellotron is irrelevant" is a response that Robert Fripp gave a fan who was asking if King Crimson would ever bring back the Mellotron. Talk about fan-friendly.

My guess would have been Tony Banks who had a similar attitude, but yeah - I figured it was something along those lines.

For those who don't know what we're talking about, it's a sort of sound sampler made with 1962 technology.  Probably the most famous use is the flutes on 'Strawberry Fields Forever' by the Beatles, but the strings turn up all over the place.  They were originally recorded in 1952 in Harry Chamberlin's bedroom.

http://www.rlmusic.co.uk/mellotron/products.html

It's just occurred to me that I could actually afford one of those now 

[bill]

Also worth noting is Robert Fripp's habit of running away(!?) when asked for an autograph.

[ITOS]

Is there a phobia for fear of boxes?

[RJ]

Well there's Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Which would suggest there's a fear of symmetrical things somewhere as well...

[RJ]

I get those two things mixed up all the time

Symmetrophobia- Fear of symmetry.

Better.

[Gabi]

Llearchophobia- Fear of incompetence.

Now what was THAT for?