Unutterably Silly Countdown!

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by LazyScot

Though I've never really liked 29. Untrustworth. Full of lies. And it feels it shouldn't be a prime. I think it may have committed numbercide in the early days of the numerical equivalent of the big bang, when the primordial number soup was taking shape and before Sesame Street started transmission. Either that, or it's a hang over from when nine moved. I certainly wouldn't want to be wandering down a dark alley and bump into 29.

Ah Ha !

When 9 moved !

So where was it before it moved, was it before the 2; in that case it is really 92 ....

Or was it perhaps a denominator or numerator; hence 2/9 or 9/2 !


These and other peculiarities of this particular number shall be aired in a documentary to be shown this night next year on the day before yesterday is finished; at approximately 61 minutes past the hour of the prime cockerel. Narrated by Marc of Mont&c etc etc etc and his speaking friend .....

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by LazyScot

No, my cute, silly beanie-wearing monkey. (Why do I suddenly have a feeling of impending doom?)
GeoffC got it right.
29
Though I've never really liked 29. Untrustworth. Full of lies. And it feels it shouldn't be a prime. I think it may have committed numbercide in the early days of the numerical equivalent of the big bang, when the primordial number soup was taking shape and before Sesame Street started transmission. Either that, or it's a hang over from when nine moved. I certainly wouldn't want to be wandering down a dark alley and bump into 29.

So, that's 29, 29, and 29.

Which means we must be down to...

86.

Which is what I may need assistance from Adrian and perhaps a smallish hoard of black pajama-wearing, furry beasts to do to LazyScot, perhaps via the nearest fenêtre.

Cheers,
Marc (86ing stuff like a mad eejit)

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

I woke at 10:30am this morning, and it's now heading towards 11:30am and I should probably be considering getting out of bed. Maybe before 12:30pm. That's a good time, because if you add the hours and minutes together you get...

42.

i rest my case.

Originally Posted by LazyScot

No, my cute, silly beanie-wearing monkey. (Why do I suddenly have a feeling of impending doom?)

because you're actually a very perceptive and sensible scot, if a bit on the inactive side ?

GeoffC got it right.

29

Though I've never really liked 29. Untrustworth. Full of lies. And it feels it shouldn't be a prime. I think it may have committed numbercide in the early days of the numerical equivalent of the big bang, when the primordial number soup was taking shape and before Sesame Street started transmission. Either that, or it's a hang over from when nine moved. I certainly wouldn't want to be wandering down a dark alley and bump into 29.

i couldn't have said it better.

Originally Posted by montsnmags

So, that's 29, 29, and 29.

Which means we must be down to...

86.

Which is what I may need assistance from Adrian and perhaps a smallish hoard of black pajama-wearing, furry beasts to do to LazyScot, perhaps via the nearest fenêtre.

Cheers,
Marc (86ing stuff like a mad eejit)

"86 lazyscot" ? what does that mean ? how does it compare to eleventy-ing him ? should he be worried right now ? probably, if you're asking for assistance from adrian to do it... lazyscot, you might consider evasive action in the immediate future, i think...

[montsnmags]

86...a wonderful American term with odd origins and yet for some reason sounds right:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_(term)

So, LazyScot, if you could just hold your arms straight out from your sides so that me and Adrian can gain decent leverage, and if you could just move your legs apart a little to sort of fan your kilt a bit for easier access by the pajama'd ones...now, this is going to hurt you more than it hurts us. Much more. In fact, if you're an organised person you might just want to start screaming now to get it out of the way and leave you more time for the post-lift-and-separate-and-hoisted whimpering phase. Oh, look, someone's left a quad-trebuchet quartering device in this corner of the Llounge. That'll come in handy...

[GeoffC]

oh ! b**** .....

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

86...a wonderful American term with odd origins and yet for some reason sounds right:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_(term)

So, LazyScot, if you could just hold your arms straight out from your sides so that me and Adrian can gain decent leverage, and if you could just move your legs apart a little to sort of fan your kilt a bit for easier access by the pajama'd ones...now, this is going to hurt you more than it hurts us. Much more. In fact, if you're an organised person you might just want to start screaming now to get it out of the way and leave you more time for the post-lift-and-separate-and-hoisted whimpering phase. Oh, look, someone's left a quad-trebuchet quartering device in this corner of the Llounge. That'll come in handy...

thank you for the definition / etymology / other info.

now, we'll be having none of that, you two, just stay well away from lazy scot or i'll have to call in a favour with the PNS ! sheesh. just when you think you can safely leave the llounge-llamas alone without all hell breaking loose, and somebody leaves a quad-trebuchet lying around, and how can that *not* give people fancy ideas ?

[GeoffC]

says the cleaner of the crowbar .....

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

says the cleaner of the crowbar .....

well, exactly. i mean my god, if you think a crowbar makes a mess, you should see what happens when you start mucking about with a quad trebuchet ! and i've done enough cleaning lately, thank you very much. i never liked housework to begin with.

[GeoffC]

housework ?

pray what is this ?

is it some Parisian ritual that takes place each spring; or some dark satanic ritual performed each night within the cloistered Suite of the Moderators .... Does it cleanse the greens ?

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

housework ?

pray what is this ?

is it some Parisian ritual that takes place each spring; or some dark satanic ritual performed each night within the cloistered Suite of the Moderators .... Does it cleanse the greens ?

yes.


.

[GeoffC]

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

thank you for the definition / etymology / other info.
now, we'll be having none of that, you two, just stay well away from lazy scot or i'll have to call in a favour with the PNS ! sheesh. just when you think you can safely leave the llounge-llamas alone without all hell breaking loose, and somebody leaves a quad-trebuchet lying around, and how can that *not* give people fancy ideas ?

Well, just quietly, it was actually me that left it there. I was sure it'd be useful for something and to someone, and am just utterly surprised it was me.

But about calling in favours with the PNS...see, I don't think that works. I have somewhat of an influence over Adrian, and Adrian is somewhat of an ever-tolerated jester in the PNS court whose antics are catered too and for regardless of ludicrousityness, but the PNS owe allegiance only to entertainment and entropy (in the language of the PNS, they are the same word). Of course my own allegiance as High Gibbonate to you as Queen is as unwavering as any chief spiritual advisor to a gods-elected monarch, and Adrian would defenestrate his own grandmother for sniff of your controlled, maternal temper, and this effectively in most circumstances has your wishes sharing the same stream of altered consciousness as any dark matter the PNS involves itself in, but I'm unsure as to whether they would respond well to favours requested by balance sheet.

Of course, this is not for me to determine, and I offer it merely as advisory from my lowly, humble station upon the queenly footstool/ottoman/pouffe before your rocket-powered, armoured and armed pacifism-enforcement throne (Patent pending, Montsnmags Enterprises), but my informants...inform me that LazyScot's 86ing has been planned , budgeted, catered for and resourced by executive-level human (and otherkind) staff at Montsnmags Enterprises for some three financial quarters since next Tuesday fortnight, and that it has not only an inevitability but has already occurred in the last couple of minutes while I have been distracting...err, talking to you.

Cheers,
High Gibbonate & CEO Montsnmags Enterprises
"Conflict of interest? Schmonflict of schminterest! I want to defenestrate!"

[NormHart]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

86...a wonderful American term with odd origins and yet for some reason sounds right:

My God! Gore Vidal and Jerry Lewis?

It really is a small planet.

(and 86 divided by 2 is 43 which is another prime number as well as the life, the universe and everything plus 1)

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Well, just quietly, it was actually me that left it there. I was sure it'd be useful for something and to someone, and am just utterly surprised it was me.

But about calling in favours with the PNS...see, I don't think that works. I have somewhat of an influence over Adrian, and Adrian is somewhat of an ever-tolerated jester in the PNS court whose antics are catered too and for regardless of ludicrousityness, but the PNS owe allegiance only to entertainment and entropy (in the language of the PNS, they are the same word). Of course my own allegiance as High Gibbonate to you as Queen is as unwavering as any chief spiritual advisor to a gods-elected monarch, and Adrian would defenestrate his own grandmother for sniff of your controlled, maternal temper, and this effectively in most circumstances has your wishes sharing the same stream of altered consciousness as any dark matter the PNS involves itself in, but I'm unsure as to whether they would respond well to favours requested by balance sheet.

Of course, this is not for me to determine, and I offer it merely as advisory from my lowly, humble station upon the queenly footstool/ottoman/pouffe before your rocket-powered, armoured and armed pacifism-enforcement throne (Patent pending, Montsnmags Enterprises), but my informants...inform me that LazyScot's 86ing has been planned , budgeted, catered for and resourced by executive-level human (and otherkind) staff at Montsnmags Enterprises for some three financial quarters since next Tuesday fortnight, and that it has not only an inevitability but has already occurred in the last couple of minutes while I have been distracting...err, talking to you.

Cheers,
High Gibbonate & CEO Montsnmags Enterprises
"Conflict of interest? Schmonflict of schminterest! I want to defenestrate!"

nice try (seriously, bravo, that was great stuff !) but i took advantage of keeping you busy drafting that lovely example of prose to pop into my handy-dandy temporal dysjunction mechanism and retroactively modify the definition of "86" to mean "give a nice warm fuzzy hug to". see, i knew you'd react that way to me claiming to "call in a favour" with the PNS. ("call in a favour" )

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by NormHart

My God! Gore Vidal and Jerry Lewis?

It really is a small planet.

(and 86 divided by 2 is 43 which is another prime number as well as the life, the universe and everything plus 1)

yet another reason to make it into something less sinister !