The thousand post club

[neufer]

At their current rate, Bystander & Neufer will be members of the 10000 post club...Who will get there first???
At current posting rates, I'll put my money on Neufer

I was passed by bystander just about a year ago and I have been losing ground ever since. Over the last year bystander has been posting about 10 posts per day.

The only reason that I have a higher overall ppd is that I got a running start a year & a half after bystander joined (thereby waking a sleeping thoroughbred) .

[owlice]

neufer, thanks for that; very interesting. I had not heard of this before today. And what a weird sentence that last one is! Someone making a point, perhaps?

BMAONE23, are you kidding?! bystander passed neufer like neufer was sitting still! That "volunteer-required posting" thing, you know...

Not that I have any doubt they will both be members of the 10,000 post club! Just think bystander is going to beat everyone to that level.

[BMAONE23]

We

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[neufer]

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him

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Especially the moderators.

[geckzilla]

I can set post counts to 0 with a simple SQL command. It's been done before, once. With great power comes great responsibility... must... not... abuse...

[bystander]

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Who is the cool cat? and where is the lizard?

[owlice]

bystander, it's obvious: you are the cool cat, and the lizard is, as lizards typically are, on the other side of the tree.

[Beyond]

It's not obvious to me. All i have for pictures are small rectangles with X's in them.

[orin stepanek]

It's not obvious to me. All i have for pictures are small rectangles with X's in them.

I get the pictures; but there isn't any lizard. I didn't see any anyway. I guess they really are behind the tree.

[neufer]

I get the pictures; but there isn't any lizard. I didn't see any anyway.
I guess they really are behind the tree.

[c]Or else.... [/c]------------------------------------------------------------------------

• The Lizard and the Owl: An Etymological Pair
  in Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 5

<<Calliope's complex narrative of the Rape of Persephone in Om includes the metamorphoses of various characters whome Ceres encounters in the course of her search for her daughter. Two of these episodes-that of an unnamed boy transformed by Cerese into a lizard and of Ascalaphus transformed by Persephone into a screech owl- form a pair. Thematically the two episodes are linked by the fact taht both characters are metamorphosed in punishment for angering the goddesses by verbal misdemeanors.>>

• • Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 5
  
  While Ceres was a eating this, before hir gazing stood
  A hard faaste boy, a shrewde pert wag, that could no maners good:
  He laughed at hir and in scorne did call hir greedie gut.
  The Goddesse being wroth therewith, did on the Hotchpotch put
  The liquor ere that all was eate, and in his face it threw.
  Immediatly the skinne thereof became of speckled hew,
  And into legs his armes did turne: and in his altred hide
  A wrigling tayle streight to his limmes was added more beside.
  And to th'intent he should not have much powre to worken scathe,
  His bodie in a little roume togither knit she hathe.
  For as with pretie Lucerts he in facion doth agree:
  So than the Lucert somewhat lesse in every poynt is he.
  The poore old woman was amazde: and bitterly she wept:
  She durst not touche the uncouth worme, who into corners crept.
  And of the flecked spottes like starres that on his hide are set
  A name agreeing thereunto in Latine doth he get.
  It is our Swift whose skinne with gray and yellow specks is fret.
  .................................................
  For as she hapt one day
  In Plutos Ortyard rechlessely from place to place to stray,
  She gathering from a bowing tree a ripe Pownegarnet, tooke
  Seven kernels out and sucked them. None chaunst hereon to looke,
  Save onely one Ascalaphus whome Orphne, erst a Dame
  Among the other Elves of Hell not of the basest fame,
  Bare to hir husbande Acheron within hir duskie den.
  He sawe it, and by blabbing it ungraciously as then,
  Did let hir from returning thence. A grievous sigh the Queene
  Of Hell did fetch, and of that wight that had a witnesse beene
  Against hir made a cursed Birde. Upon his face she shead
  The water of the Phlegeton: and by and by his head
  Was nothing else but Beake and Downe, and mightie glaring eyes.
  Quight altred from himselfe betweene two yellow wings he flies.
  He groweth chiefly into head and hooked talants long
  And much adoe he hath to flaske his lazie wings among.
  The messenger of Morning was he made, a filthie fowle,
  A signe of mischiefe unto men, the sluggish skreching Owle.
  This person for his lavish tongue and telling tales might seeme
  To have deserved punishment. But what should men esteeme
  To be the verie cause why you, Acheloes daughters, weare
  Both feete and feathers like to Birdes, considering that you beare
  The upper partes of Maidens still? And commes it so to passe
  Bicause when Ladie Proserpine a gathering flowers was,
  Ye Meremaides kept hir companie? Whome after you had sought
  Through all the Earth in vaine, anon of purpose that your thought
  Might also to the Seas be knowen, ye wished that ye might
  Upon the waves with hovering wings at pleasure rule your flight,
  And had the Goddes to your request so pliant, that ye found
  With yellow feathers out of hand your bodies clothed round:
  Yet lest that pleasant tune of yours ordeyned to delight
  The hearing, and so high a gift of Musicke perish might
  For want of uttrance, humaine voyce to utter things at will
  And countnance of virginitie remained to you still.

[Beyond]

So much for the saying--You are what you eat.

[orin stepanek]

So much for the saying--You are what you eat.

Kind of like M&M's

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

[Beyond]

Wouldn't THAT be considered canabalism, in reverse

[owlice]

• • Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 5
  
  a filthie fowle

[neufer]

• • Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 5
  
  a filthie fowle

I think that you made out better than the uncouth worme.

(And don't play with your food!)

• • Troilus and Cressida Act 5, Scene 1
  
  THERSITES: To be a dog, a mule, a cat,
  • a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an owl,
    a puttock, or a herring without a roe,
    I would not care; but to be Menelaus,
    I would conspire against destiny.

[owlice]

I think that you made out better than the uncouth worme.

Ah, but no one considers you uncouth, neufer; how could they possibly?!

[emc]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/couth 1couth adj \ˈküth\
Definition of COUTH
: sophisticated, polished
Examples of COUTH
<he's remarkably couth for someone who grew up in a small town with limited cultural opportunities>
Origin of COUTH
back-formation from uncouth
First Known Use: 1896
Related to COUTH
Synonyms: accomplished, civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polished, refined
Antonyms: barbaric, barbarous, philistine, uncivilized, uncultured, ungenteel, unpolished, unrefined
Related Words: cerebral, highbrow, highbrowed, high-toned, intellectual, intellectualist, intellectualistic; bourgeois, middlebrow; educated, erudite, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-read; civil, courteous, mannerly, polite, well-bred; cosmopolitan, sophisticated, urbane; hypercivilized, overcivilized, oversophisticatedNear Antonyms: ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlettered; lowbrow, unintelligent; coarse, ill-bred, ill-mannered; backwoods, provincial, rustic (also rustical); inelegant, polyester, unsophisticated; boorish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, crude, uncouth, vulgar
[+]more[-]hide
Rhymes with COUTH
booth, crwth, routh, ruth, scouth, sleuth, sooth, tooth, truth, Truth, youth

[neufer]

I think that you made out better than the uncouth worme.

Ah, but no one considers you uncouth, neufer; how could they possibly?!

An ept remark.
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Uncouth, a. [OE. uncouth, AS. unc unknown, strange: un- (see Un- not)
+ c known, p. p. of cunnan to know.] Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant.
- [Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)]
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[Beyond]

I don't know if i couth stand any more of this. Guess i'll have to sit.

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