Re: Update

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Turning into someone's driveway is actually a very useful power in chases. They're coming after you--and then all they see is an extra driveway! Where'd he go?


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 12:22 PM
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Not when you're chasing, though...


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 12:31 PM
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I am obviously not in tune with the Grand Theft Auto world. I'll just link to this, then.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 12:41 PM
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For some reason I can't get this video to play in firefox (it works in IE), but it should be shown in all driver's ed classes.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 12:46 PM
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Having only twiddled with any of the GTA series (including the prequel based on the Italian job, old version), I have to ask: do they really have some homeboy walking down the street with an RPG in San Andreas or did they fake that up for the commercial?

ash

['Big fan of RPG's.']


Posted by: ash | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:00 PM
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I didn't take you for a gamer, Labs.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:01 PM
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Dang, now Ogged doesn't read the site. He's going the way of Unf.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:05 PM
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No, I remember that, I just chose to comment on it here. Is that ok, Matt?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:06 PM
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ogged cranky. Someone poke him again.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:09 PM
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*poke*


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:11 PM
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Cut it OUT, motherfucker!


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:13 PM
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Did the Tivo just reset? That seems anticlimactic.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:13 PM
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How was that?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:13 PM
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Uh, kidding at 11, if that wasn't clear. And 13 was supposed to be the follow-up.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:14 PM
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And 12 was supposed to be after 10.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:14 PM
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I'm appalled that you didn't ban SCMT from the site for his egregiously insensitive use of the sexist term "MRS degree", ogged. Sure, you reprimanded him, but we all know that that kind of nod-and-a-wink wrist-slapping in the face of truly hurtful language is just one more way that the patriarchy maintains its hegemony.

(How was that, poke-wise?)


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:15 PM
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I think I just put my peanut butter in your chocolate, ogged. NOW the Tivo has been reset, albeit accidentally.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:15 PM
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Damn. Typing too slow again.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:15 PM
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For PG:

My hedgie lies over the ocean

My hegdie lies over the sea

My hedgie lies over the ocean

Oh bring back my hegemony.

(14: Clear, no worries; 12: I'm ignoring you; in general: was 'poke' in 9 indicative?)


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:17 PM
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Chopper, I have no idea of what you're talking about in 17, but I will never be able to enjoy s'mores ever again. Thanks.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:19 PM
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We rename the animal Hegemonical Trevor.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:19 PM
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You put peanut butter on your s'mores? What are you, a commie?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:20 PM
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That's awesome, Matt.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:20 PM
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I especially like how the last line doesn't scan.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:20 PM
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Hey! Praise from the master!


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:21 PM
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Dammit, 24 hadn't posted yet.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:21 PM
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No, 24 is praise. Really.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:24 PM
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Matt: You're ignoring me? Why? Just because I implied that you let ogged ride your baloney pony?

SB: Not s'mores. Old Reese's Peanut Butter Cups commercial.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:25 PM
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What's wrong with the last line? It doesn't work if you pronounce "hegemony" correctly, but of course in these situations one lets pronunciation be subordinate to rhythm. HEgeMOny.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:26 PM
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28: But Ogged isn't my mother!


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:28 PM
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Yes, I know, but whenever I do that, DE gets on my case. So I was hoping to foster some writers-of-verse-that-annoys-DE cameraderie going.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:28 PM
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I used wrote too many verbs.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:29 PM
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Er, it would be counterproductive to say "'camaraderie'," wouldn't it? So I won't.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:30 PM
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I always assumed that was part of little dress-up games. ogged is the mommy, Matt is the baby, somebody has a boom-boom, and then even my mind doesn't want to take it any farther.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:30 PM
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Matt, you sly paralipsist, you.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:32 PM
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Well, in the comment that you linked to in 27, "w-lfs-n" sure is a funny way to spell "DE".


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:32 PM
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"Paralepsist", Bridge.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:33 PM
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I used a canonical element instead of quotienting by an equivalence class.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:34 PM
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Google sez:

paralepsis, 720 hits

paralipsis, 973 hits

Let's call it an acceptable variation.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:36 PM
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Very gentlemanly of you, SB.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:37 PM
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Even better, wikipedia includes "paraleipsis" as an alternate.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:39 PM
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Didn't we used to call that 'praeteritio'? I can't find the original Alameida post so I may be spelling it wrong. Or maybe I should've kept away from the blue acid.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:42 PM
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I wanted to use the agent form of praeteriteo, but I hadn't the slightest idea what it was. "Praeteriteodor"?


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:42 PM
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Dude, I'm not even going to mention the picture below that post.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:45 PM
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Wasn't that originally a picture of a star-nosed mole?


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:47 PM
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Praeterititor? On the supposition that the "eo" at the end is a basic verb (eo, ire, ivi/ii, itum) in front of which a bunch of stuff has been crammed.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 1:47 PM
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Ash, the RPG really is in the game, and you can walk down the street with it should you choose to do so. (You can't run with it, though, and it's tricky to aim.)


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 06- 6-05 2:05 PM
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