Unutterably Silly Can you keep up with the polls?

[kazbates]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

watch out kaz, your credibility is slipping...

Credibility?!?! Hah! I laugh in the face of credibility! HAHAHAHAHA

The fact that they are having a small altercation where no blood has actually been drawn (yet) in no way mitigates my credibility. They are angels, I tell you, and would be an asset to the whole Parissian community.

I'm sure of it. . .really! heh heh

Come on, Z! Please take them! I really need a vacation!

[Who are you?]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

one experience does not a proverb make, pev. or, as we like to say proverbially, "one swallow* does not a springtime make."

*in the ornithological sense. it's more obvious in french.

I'm trying to imagine swallowing in the ornithological sense, but it's hard. Google says in French it's avaler dans le sens ornithologique, but I'm missing the obvious

[vivaldirules]

Originally Posted by Who are you?

I'm trying to imagine swallowing in the ornithological sense, but it's hard. Google says in French it's avaler dans le sens ornithologique, but I'm missing the obvious

I might be able to choke that one down.

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

anybody voting in favour of shums will have to answer to me (in the form of Adrian, who shares my views on the topic).
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...and Adrian is most certainly not of the pacifist mindset, unlike our Queen (she strictly abhors the practice of violence, getting others to do it for her, whereas Adrian doesn't "practice", having mastered the art millennia ago)

Originally Posted by kazbates

Shame on you, Zelda!! To help you get over this little phobia you have, I am graciously and magnanimously going to send you my children for the summer.
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Adrian just phoned me from Zelda's. The line was faulty, but I heard him say "Please tell Kaz to go ahead" and also "[something, something]...taste like chicken".

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

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have you never heard the (in)famous proverb, "the love of squirrels is the root of all evil" ?

I thought it was "Loving squirrels is rooting evil" (corollary: "and also bloody stupid if you value your googly bits")

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i thought it was to keep the toaster warm during long winter nights.

As warm as what though?

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

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one experience does not a proverb make, pev. or, as we like to say proverbially, "one swallow* does not a springtime make."

*in the ornithological sense. it's more obvious in french.

Coincidentally, the ZCD haiku-slogan:

Two swallows early
to rise, mount upon the bough -
Cherry blossoms fall

[pshrynk]

Cherry Blossoms. Is that what you kids are calling them these days?

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Who are you?

I'm trying to imagine swallowing in the ornithological sense, but it's hard. Google says in French it's avaler dans le sens ornithologique, but I'm missing the obvious

perhaps it's easier in context.

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

I might be able to choke that one down.

and in a totally unexpected manoeuvre, vr actually provides us with a non-dada translation !!! unheard of !!!

Originally Posted by montsnmags

...and Adrian is most certainly not of the pacifist mindset, unlike our Queen (she strictly abhors the practice of violence, getting others to do it for her, whereas Adrian doesn't "practice", having mastered the art millennia ago)

that's why we make such a good team.

Adrian just phoned me from Zelda's. The line was faulty, but I heard him say "Please tell Kaz to go ahead" and also "[something, something]...taste like chicken".

*ahem* i would just like to pre-emptively indicate that i know nothing of that phone call and was not even at home at the time, i spent all day... um... reading to old people, really far away from here. yeah. that's it. :halo:

I thought it was "Loving squirrels is rooting evil" (corollary: "and also bloody stupid if you value your googly bits")

tomayto, tomahto...

As warm as what though?

as a bug in a rug, obviously ! right ?

Coincidentally, the ZCD haiku-slogan:

Two swallows early
to rise, mount upon the bough -
Cherry blossoms fall

that's lovely. and totally unsuited to the zcd experience, of course, being entirely un-explosive.

[Wetdogeared]

Originally Posted by pshrynk

Fixed it. I think. I left my reading glasses at home this morning so some errors may have slipped in.

Are you sure you had your reading glasses on when you created this thread?
Should polls not be pools (as for otters) or possibly holes (as in sink)?

WDE (WadingDeepEnd)

[Jill74]

me too..

[GeoffC]

not another poll masquerading as a shum defrenestrator extraordinaire ? pppfffftttttt

[NormHart]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

oh, the significance of the number 42 goes far, far beyond the scope of the llounge. it's even bigger than all of mobileread ! (i know, you didn't think such a thing was possible, did you ?). perhaps this will help to enlighten you.

Ah Ha!!! Just as you are uninitiated in the ways of the Jedi I am uninitiated in the ways of the babble fish. All is clear to me now.

have you never heard the (in)famous proverb, "the love of squirrels is the root of all evil" ?

I will withdraw my 42 squirrelly ferreting tree rats in deference to your proverbial skill.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by NormHart

Ah Ha!!! Just as you are uninitiated in the ways of the Jedi I am uninitiated in the ways of the babble fish. All is clear to me now.

i'm glad to have cleared that up for you. (and i highly recommend reading the books. seriously. you will thank me.)

I will withdraw my 42 squirrelly ferreting tree rats in deference to your proverbial skill.

[NormHart]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i'm glad to have cleared that up for you. (and i highly recommend reading the books. seriously. you will thank me.)

I've tried and I don't.

I've read science fiction since I was seven years old, for over fifty years in fact. I have read thousands if not tens of thousands of science fiction books, many twice or more. But... But, I can not read those. I have no idea why, perhaps because they contain so many ideas I've see before better presented. The series seems facile to me, without something I can get my teeth into. Yes, Yes this is coming from someone that thinks the Star Wars movie trilogy is good stuff. Perhaps I'm the facile thing in the equation.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by NormHart

I've tried and I don't.

I've read science fiction since I was seven years old, for over fifty years in fact. I have read thousands if not tens of thousands of science fiction books, many twice or more. But... But, I can not read those. I have no idea why, perhaps because they contain so many ideas I've see before better presented. The series seems facile to me, without something I can get my teeth into. Yes, Yes this is coming from someone that thinks the Star Wars movie trilogy is good stuff. Perhaps I'm the facile thing in the equation.

hum ! interesting ! i don't think i've ever met anyone who didn't like the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy before ! i love it but i don't read it as science fiction, i read it as humour (i've got nothing against science fiction but it's not a genre i read much either), perhaps that makes a difference. personally i never get tired of douglas adams' writing although i think i may have a preference for the Dirk Gently series. have you tried those ? they are much less science fiction-y than the H2G2, so if that is what prevents you from enjoying the books it might not bother you here. the first one is called "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", the second one is "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" and they are really brilliant. heu, if you like that sort of thing, i mean.

[NormHart]

Ok this thread has gone crazy, mad, boring.

Call out the otters!

Send in the llamas!!

Release the Squirrels!!!

[GeoffC]

no i cannot keep up (slipping further and further behind)