BMAONE23 wrote:
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) .
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 7:26 pm
by 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.
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 8:44 pm
by BMAONE23
We
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 8:44 pm
by BMAONE23
could
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 8:44 pm
by BMAONE23
pass
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 8:45 pm
by BMAONE23
him
this
way
but
then
everyone
would
be
upset
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:24 pm
by neufer
Starship Asterisk* Moderators
BMAONE23 wrote:
him
this
way
but
then
everyone
would
be
upset
Especially the moderators.
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 4:40 am
by 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...
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 7:09 pm
by bystander
neufer wrote:
Starship Asterisk* Moderators
Who is the cool cat? and where is the lizard?
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 7:12 pm
by 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.
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 12:33 am
by Beyond
It's not obvious to me. All i have for pictures are small rectangles with X's in them.
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 1:17 pm
by orin stepanek
Beyond wrote: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.
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:14 pm
by neufer
orin stepanek wrote:
I get the pictures; but there isn't any lizard. I didn't see any anyway.
I guess they really are behind the tree.
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.
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:09 pm
by Beyond
So much for the saying--You are what you eat.
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:55 pm
by orin stepanek
Beyond wrote:So much for the saying--You are what you eat.
Kind of like M&M's
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 4:00 am
by Beyond
Wouldn't THAT be considered canabalism, in reverse
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:34 am
by owlice
neufer wrote:
Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 5
a filthie fowle
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:19 am
by neufer
owlice wrote:
neufer wrote:
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.
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 11:23 am
by owlice
neufer wrote:
I think that you made out better than the uncouth worme.
Ah, but no one considers you uncouth, neufer; how could they possibly?!
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 11:34 am
by 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
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:20 pm
by neufer
owlice wrote:
neufer wrote:
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.
------------------------------------------
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)]
------------------------------------------
Re: The thousand post club
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:39 pm
by Beyond
I don't know if i couth stand any more of this. Guess i'll have to sit.
