Topic: The South Side Dive Bar

[Joel]

only here because i see i'm almost at 700
not that it means anything

Better hurry up, you've still got 15 to go.

[neil young]

14

[neil young]

not sure i want to use this as a stepping stone to OLD TIMER

[Klark Kent]

old man, look at my posts.  i;'m a lot like yoooooou.
-KK

[Terry in Australia]

Old timer? Pfffft! I was around before the goldrush!

[troppo]

pre eureka???
my god, i didnt realise the RAAF had a retirement plan that good

[nickjtc]

It's hard to believe that it is only 17 months since this thread started, thanks to burmashave.

[sandcastcb750]

Should the Shameless thread have term limits?

Washington wouldn't
Grant couldn't
Roosevelt shouldn't
Shameless............

[mark]

what post?

[BobbyR]

Should the Shameless thread have term limits?

YES!  Although, in keeping with the spirit of the thread, the limits will be minimums.

Madam Chairman    I propose as follows:

This thread must receive two or more shameless postings, per slacker involved with this undertaking, every twenty-four hours, at least four days per week, or the offending under-poster shall be forced to read this thread from the beginning.  As further punishment, they shall lose all priveleges of viewing the Babe thread for a period of twelve minutes.

All in favor, promptly ignore this post.

Those opposed, same sign.

 

Ok I have now posted again. I can be as shameless as any of ya.

[neil young]

I didnt say i was opposed to using this to get to 700

[Roach Carver]

My spoon is too big!

thats not what I heard 

[sandcastcb750]

Hey Fire, Speaking of madams........

Apparently, the Brazilian madam in NYC knew Eliot Spitzer a couple of years ago.

She got deported that evening he said he would resign, March 13

[333]

I love cats.  I just don't want to eat a whole one myself.

[mystic_1]

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[mystic_1]

elegant: adj.

[common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design.

[mystic_1]

hack

    [very common]

    1. n. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well.

    2. n. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed.  "Nice hack!"

    3. vt. To bear emotionally or physically. “I can't hack this heat!”

    4. vt. To work on something (typically a program). In an immediate sense: “What are you doing?” “I'm hacking TECO.” In a general (time-extended) sense: “What do you do around here?” “I hack TECO.” More generally, “I hack foo” is roughly equivalent to “foo is my major interest (or project)”. “I hack solid-state physics.” See Hacking X for Y.

    5. vt. To pull a prank on. See sense 2 and hacker (sense 5).

    6. vi. To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way. “Whatcha up to?” “Oh, just hacking.”

    7. n. Short for hacker.

    8. See nethack.

[mystic_1]

kluge: /klooj/

    [from the German ‘klug’, clever; poss. related to Polish & Russian ‘klucz’ (a key, a hint, a main point)]

    1. n. A Rube Goldberg (or Heath Robinson) device, whether in hardware or software.

    2. n. A clever programming trick intended to solve a particular nasty case in an expedient, if not clear, manner. Often used to repair bugs. Often involves ad-hockery and verges on being a crock.

    3. n. Something that works for the wrong reason.

    4. vt. To insert a kluge into a program. “I've kluged this routine to get around that weird bug, but there's probably a better way.”

    5. n. A feature that is implemented in a rude manner.

[mystic_1]

256 (two hundred [and] fifty-six, CCLVI) is the natural number following 255 and preceding 257.

In mathematics, 256 is a composite number, with the factorization 256 = 28, which makes it a power of two.

It is also equal to:

    * 16², the square of 16
    * 44
    * 4↑↑2 using Knuth's up-arrow notation

Two hundred fifty-six is also:

    * The number of characters in the new Braille 8-dot system.
    * The number of different values in one byte, which makes it the typical number of different values in each color channel of a digital color image (see color space encoding).
    * The number of columns in a standard Microsoft Excel worksheet.
    * The year AD 256 and 256 BC.
    * The Split-Screen Level in Pacman
    * The number of counties in Texas.
    * The number of characters in Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita.
    * An area code in Alabama.
    * The number of regular season football games in the NFL.
    * The frequency of Middle C in hertz under philosophical pitch.
    * The number of the Amarna letter (EA256), which, according to David Rohl, was written by Ishbosheth and contains mentions of King David, Jesse, and Joab.

[333]

Dweeb /noun


     37.  To use a dictionary to boost posts in a shameful manner.  Not really shameful as it doesn't take a rocket scientist to cut and paste drivel.  (see also: moron or maroon)

[mystic_1]

Dweeb /noun


     37.  To use a dictionary to boost posts in a shameful manner.  Not really shameful as it doesn't take a rocket scientist to cut and paste drivel.  (see also: moron or maroon)

There's a theme there, if you look.  I think the terms are ones easily transferred from that realm to this one.  Also, we're on page 256 so I thought a hacker-ish theme was appropriate.


Sorry of my drivel annoyed you


mystic_1

[mystic_1]

Also, from the original post:

# Pointlessness could be encouraged, instead of merely appreciated as is now the case.

# Members could post here without regard to coherence, sobriety or even intelligibility.

I like pie!



mystic_1

[333]

But you were coming dangerously close to making a point without something like.....

Shoehorn!!!

[neil young]

cant think off anything profound to say at the moment

[nickjtc]

Neither can I.

I took the new headlight shell that will be going on Sophie to the powder coaters the other day.