The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXVIII

[James Stuart]

Given James' explanation, I guess it's actually white people understanding the situation quite satisfactorily.

White people in Australia, anyway. We used to own it, so we know it. I don't know how it's treated elsewhere in the world.

 

[madviking]

really, they should just use the wallace line as the asia/oceania boundary

 

[James Stuart]

really, they should just use the wallace line as the asia/oceania boundary

The Continental boundaries were drawn before Wallace developed that.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Two more:

If a thing is too tiny to tie
In a knot, it is not something I
Would incline to define
As an instance of twine.
It's but midway there; it's but a twi.

How small can a thing be and be
A string? Modern physics says, "wee."
Under mesons and all,
The thing that's most small
Is a string, or so goes the theory.

I'm thinking of making limericks my signature posting style.

 

[Borachio]

There was a young poster called Grey,
Whose poems were good, so they say.
He could tangle a rhyme,
Make you gasp every time;
A marvel! That poster called Grey.

 

[bhsup]

\npqn/

^ What does that signify?

 

[shadowplay]

I think it's a hand horn symbol.

 

[bhsup]

You mean that idiotic thing people do at heavy metal concerts? If that's the case, Hygro loses one cool point.

Cool point easily won back, btw, if an ode to mayonnaise is performed.

 

[Borachio]

It can also signify ****oldry, btw.

 

[bhsup]

... And now I'm utterly confused. Why would adultery have a hand symbol??

 

[James Stuart]

... And now I'm utterly confused. Why would adultery have a hand symbol??

Because the other body parts are in use.

 

[Gori the Grey]

... And now I'm utterly confused. Why would adultery have a hand symbol??

Like the "Loser" L, you're signalling that someone else, at whom you direct it, is a ****hold.

Could I get a cool point for an ode on mayonnaise?

It's just that composing such a thing sounds fun.

I once wrote an ode on a half-eaten dish of sauerkraut.

 

[Borachio]

To indicate ****oldry it's been traditional to make out the ****olded one has horns.

I really have never figured out why growing horns should mean someone has been ****olded. It doesn't make much sense.

Horns are a symbol of the devil of course. So I guess it's a case of transference from the perpetrator to the victim.

 

[madviking]

I think it's a hand horn symbol.

i thought it was \nn/

 

[Borachio]

Could I get a cool point for an ode on mayonnaise?

It's just that composing such a thing sounds fun.

I once wrote an ode on a half-eaten dish of sauerkraut.

Could you write an ode, IN mayonnaise, on a half-eaten dish of sauerkraut?

 

[shadowplay]

i thought it was \nn/

but where's the bling?

 

[Gori the Grey]

Could you write an ode, IN mayonnaise, on a half-eaten dish of sauerkraut?

I suspect I could, but I don't know how I could post it. A mere picture of it would not suffice because somehow the point of the ode would be for the reader to eat it while reading it.

(Thanks for the tribute limerick, by the way.)

 

[Arakhor]

I really have never figured out why growing horns should mean someone has been ****olded. It doesn't make much sense.

Apparently it's an allusion to stags losing their antlers when defeated by another male.

 

[Borachio]

That makes some sense (if it's true that they do). But it's still backwards.

 

[madviking]

but where's the bling?

has metal coopted hip hop's love for bling?