freenode #wikipedia

2008-04-17 18:06 < Working_Cat> CrazyChemGuy: theres lot of it out there thats not so. but i dont think goatse was ever supposed to be it.
2008-04-17 18:06 < Leslie_S> but his dick is so huge..
2008-04-17 18:06 < CrazyChemGuy> How, through user talk?
2008-04-17 18:06 < MBV2> ok that's enough
2008-04-17 18:06 < CrazyChemGuy> let's not discuss what's /in/ the picture
2008-04-17 18:07 < Working_Cat> yeah. lets drop the whole topic.
2008-04-17 18:07 < Working_Cat> whats a good dating site?
2008-04-17 18:07 < enok|walker> wikipedia
2008-04-17 18:07 < Working_Cat> the normal kinds of dating. not the put out on the first date kind.
2008-04-17 18:07 < Working_Cat> enok|walker: i wish it was.
2008-04-17 18:08 < SonicAD_> something's broken with shortcuts and while I've made a small effort I have no idea how to actually fix it
2008-04-17 18:08 < SonicAD_> see [[Wikipedia:Categorization]] for example
2008-04-17 18:08 < Leslie_S> i wish i was pretty
2008-04-17 18:08 < Leslie_S> ;/
2008-04-17 18:09 < enok|walker> I'm bored so I'm going to try to write a GA in 24 hours
2008-04-17 18:09 < CrazyChemGuy> I have something you can help with if you're bored!
2008-04-17 18:09 < CrazyChemGuy> I'm working on [[Aspirin]]
2008-04-17 18:10 < CrazyChemGuy> And am stumped as to what moret it could use to become a decent FAC
2008-04-17 18:10 < CrazyChemGuy> I opened a peer review but I think I've done most of the suggestions
2008-04-17 18:10 < CrazyChemGuy> (or somebody else has)
2008-04-17 18:12 < NotASpy> lucasbfr: you'll be pleased to hear that Wikiquote are refusing to protect templates like the one that was just vandalised.
2008-04-17 18:12 < lucasbfr> erf
2008-04-17 18:13 < enok|walker> classy
2008-04-17 18:13 < lucasbfr> and I saw it because someone was kind enough to send us an email asking if that what he was supposed to see...
2008-04-17 18:13 < CrazyChemGuy> What's the logic behind refusing to protect a widely used template?
2008-04-17 18:15 < Sceptre> enok|walker: I wrote an FA in 64
2008-04-17 18:15 < Sceptre> NotASpy: were I an admin, I'd protect it
2008-04-17 18:15 < NotASpy> lucasbfr: that's not good.
2008-04-17 18:15 < lucasbfr> NotASpy: no
2008-04-17 18:16 < miranda> is there a warning for people using excessive templates to warn someone
2008-04-17 18:16 < lucasbfr> a template? :P
2008-04-17 18:16 < lucasbfr> {{uw-omgthinkofthekittens}}
2008-04-17 18:16 < CrazyChemGuy> a template for using too many template?
2008-04-17 18:16 < NotASpy> lucasbfr: what's the ticket number ?
2008-04-17 18:16 < CrazyChemGuy> I think there actually is
2008-04-17 18:17 < CrazyChemGuy> I might have given one somewhere
2008-04-17 18:17 < NotASpy> CrazyChemGuy: {{indefblocked}} would be my choice.
2008-04-17 18:17 < lucasbfr> NotASpy: 2008041710040224
2008-04-17 18:17 < NotASpy> cheers.
2008-04-17 18:18 < lucasbfr> now that I know that was a template, I'm not that happy about my reply... anyway...
2008-04-17 18:22 < CrazyChemGuy> Found it!
2008-04-17 18:22 < CrazyChemGuy> miranda:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Uw-tempabuse
2008-04-17 18:22 < miranda> thanks
2008-04-17 18:22 < lucasbfr> I'm always worried when a crazy sscientist yells "Found it!" :)
2008-04-17 18:23 < donkdonk> I am dead serious about this petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/fixWiki/petition.html
2008-04-17 18:23 < lucasbfr> mmm, a template about template abuse, of the irony
2008-04-17 18:23 < miranda> yeah it's hard topic banning people
2008-04-17 18:26 < miranda> also is it necessary to remove redlinks?
2008-04-17 18:27 < CrazyChemGuy> Only if they link to an article that was deleted for a good reason or isnt likely to be created
2008-04-17 18:28 < miranda> or be created in the future
2008-04-17 18:28 < CrazyChemGuy> I hope that wasn't a rhetorical question, I'd feel dumb if it was...
2008-04-17 18:29 < CrazyChemGuy> Great, it was
2008-04-17 18:31 < miranda> where's the ANI search tool
2008-04-17 18:31 < miranda> no it wasn't
2008-04-17 18:34 < KrazyKat> donkdonk: I think that's a bad idea
2008-04-17 18:35 < KrazyKat> A better solution would be a template that would substitute different words based on the user agent's Accept-Language header
2008-04-17 18:35 < mavhk> better idea to allow multiple languages to be in the same article
2008-04-17 18:36 < mavhk> then again, wikipedia is built on cheap labo(u)r
2008-04-17 18:36 < CrazyChemGuy> The content lost by separating american-en and british-en would be a lot greater than the small gain of fixing the occasional change between spelling
2008-04-17 18:36 < KrazyKat> You could do something like {{lang|en-uk=humour|en-us=humor}}
2008-04-17 18:36 < mavhk> we just wait for a million humans to fix stuff instead of automating it
2008-04-17 18:36 < KrazyKat> This is why browsers have the accept-language header
2008-04-17 18:37 < denelson83> W T F ? ! ? ! http://www.flickr.com/photos/24850672@N03/2348224190/
2008-04-17 18:38 < mavhk> KrazyKat: http has lots of things, most of them ignored so much they're useless now, cf mimetypes
2008-04-17 18:38 < Messedrocker> denelson83, those eyes... keep my up every night
2008-04-17 18:38 < KrazyKat> mavhk: That doesn't even make sense
2008-04-17 18:38 < KrazyKat> All browsers send that header
2008-04-17 18:38 < denelson83> mavhk: Infinite monkey theorem?
2008-04-17 18:38 < KrazyKat> The usefullness doesn't depend on how many other sites use them
2008-04-17 18:39 < KrazyKat> Besides, lots of sites *do* use that header
2008-04-17 18:39 < KrazyKat> Go change your preferred language to German and see how much stuff changes
2008-04-17 18:39 < mavhk> which browsers have a ui to alter it easily?
2008-04-17 18:39 < KrazyKat> All of them
2008-04-17 18:40 < KrazyKat> It's in the basic options for Mozilla-based browsers, IE, Safari, and Opera
2008-04-17 18:41 < KrazyKat> And Lynx, for that matter
2008-04-17 18:41 < mavhk> assuming you want german for every site that offers it
2008-04-17 18:41 < enok|walker> !
2008-04-17 18:41 < KrazyKat> That's the point
2008-04-17 18:42 < KrazyKat> If German is your first language, you presumably want that when possible
2008-04-17 18:42 < mavhk> don't ask me, ask the germans
2008-04-17 18:42 < KrazyKat> Sigh
2008-04-17 18:43 < KrazyKat> I'm just saying that's what Wikimedia should go off
2008-04-17 18:43 < KrazyKat> When deciding whether to give en-us or en-gb
2008-04-17 18:43 < mavhk> so how would the german edit the english wp?
2008-04-17 18:43 < shimgray> it's... pointless, really
2008-04-17 18:44 < Working_Cat> denelson83: that thing work safe?
2008-04-17 18:44 < Mike_H> I'm going to Big Brother tryouts! :DD
2008-04-17 18:44 < shimgray> it's a vast amount of effort which doesn't actually benefit anyone, because the two dialects are entirely mutually intelligible; there's no difference bar orthography
2008-04-17 18:44 < KrazyKat> I think you are missing my point
2008-04-17 18:44 < bumm13> Mike_H: oh dear
2008-04-17 18:44 < shimgray> (and the occasional non-orthographic difference wouldn't be altered anyway. good luck sorting out "to table")
2008-04-17 18:45 < KrazyKat> I'm just saying you could implement a template
2008-04-17 18:45 * SynergeticMag yawns
2008-04-17 18:45 < mavhk> Mike_H: even I think you're too intelligent to get in
2008-04-17 18:45 < Working_Cat> maggot!!!
2008-04-17 18:45 < Working_Cat> wassup?
2008-04-17 18:45 < EggplantWizard> pAnAmA
2008-04-17 18:45 < SynergeticMag> working_cat!
2008-04-17 18:45 < Working_Cat> hi MessedRocker
2008-04-17 18:45 < KrazyKat> He took the {{lang|uk=lift|us=elevator}} to the fifth floor
2008-04-17 18:45 < SynergeticMag> man, both of my com's fried
2008-04-17 18:46 < SynergeticMag> both!
2008-04-17 18:46 < Working_Cat> SynergeticMag: what you been up to?
2008-04-17 18:46 < SynergeticMag> reading and working
2008-04-17 18:46 < KrazyKat> Then it would do an on-the-fly substitution when rendering
2008-04-17 18:46 < Working_Cat> heh... watched too much porn?
2008-04-17 18:46 < SynergeticMag> no it was music
2008-04-17 18:46 < Working_Cat> or just steamy home vids?
2008-04-17 18:46 < KrazyKat> Depending on your accept-language header
2008-04-17 18:46 < shimgray> KrazyKat: A template which would clutter up the text of every line it appears on, would be used dozens of times on an article, and would allow people who'd used a browser header in an entirely non-standard way to, er, see a word spelled differently.
2008-04-17 18:46 < SynergeticMag> the wifes doing
2008-04-17 18:46 < Working_Cat> ban her from using the computer
2008-04-17 18:47 < shimgray> does anyone actually have an accept-language header that specifies en-us or en-gb?
2008-04-17 18:47 < Mike_H> mavhk: I can try
2008-04-17 18:47 < KrazyKat> shimray: You have a point about the clutter, that's a reasonable argument
2008-04-17 18:47 < SynergeticMag> somehow, a music file was corrupt and killed the first com, then the second com died the very next
2008-04-17 18:47 < SynergeticMag> day
2008-04-17 18:47 < Working_Cat> heh
2008-04-17 18:47 < Working_Cat> epidemic
2008-04-17 18:47 < SynergeticMag> i can't ban her from this one, its a lease
2008-04-17 18:47 < SynergeticMag> to buy
2008-04-17 18:47 < Working_Cat> so what
2008-04-17 18:47 < SynergeticMag> shes on the lease :p
2008-04-17 18:47 < Working_Cat> lol ok
2008-04-17 18:47 < KrazyKat> shimray: But you're wrong about the browser being used in a non-standard way--that's exactly what that part of the HTTP spec was meant for
2008-04-17 18:47 < Working_Cat> put her on a leash then
2008-04-17 18:47 < SynergeticMag> i can kick her out...
2008-04-17 18:48 < SynergeticMag> she already on one
2008-04-17 18:48 < Working_Cat> though theres a chance that she might just enjoy it :P
2008-04-17 18:48 * Not_the_NSA leases wimt
2008-04-17 18:48 < KrazyKat> Alternate content depending on language pref
2008-04-17 18:48 < SynergeticMag> she's*
2008-04-17 18:48 < KrazyKat> Apache supports it out of the box
2008-04-17 18:48 < SynergeticMag> i tie her to lesbians
2008-04-17 18:48 < SynergeticMag> so she will
2008-04-17 18:49 < SynergeticMag> why so quite?
2008-04-17 18:49 < KrazyKat> Sorry, shimGray
2008-04-17 18:49 * EggplantWizard ties SynergeticMag to a lesbian
2008-04-17 18:49 < SynergeticMag> eggplantwizard: no use
2008-04-17 18:49 * SynergeticMag is just happy he has wikipedia back
2008-04-17 18:49 < shimgray> KrazyKat: Language, yes. And if people have it set, I bet you that the vast preponderance of them have it set as "=english"
2008-04-17 18:50 < shimgray> not as "=english_american"
2008-04-17 18:50 < KrazyKat> Nope
2008-04-17 18:50 < miranda> is there a search tool with ANI threads
2008-04-17 18:50 < SynergeticMag> yeah
2008-04-17 18:50 < miranda> plz link
2008-04-17 18:50 < Working_Cat> SynergeticMag: http://stats.fennecfoxen.org/freenode/wikipedia.html
2008-04-17 18:50 * Working_Cat huggles maggot
2008-04-17 18:51 < KrazyKat> shimgray: I've been logging that header for a long time
2008-04-17 18:51 < shimgray> anyhow, anything like this is fundamentally a tradeoff.
2008-04-17 18:51 < KrazyKat> It's rarely just "en"
2008-04-17 18:51 < KrazyKat> It's usually "en-us; en"
2008-04-17 18:51 < shimgray> hmm.
2008-04-17 18:51 < shimgray> still, I hold, it's a waste of time :-)
2008-04-17 18:51 < KrazyKat> Meaning, give me American English if you can, otherwise whatever English you have
2008-04-17 18:51 < SynergeticMag> miranda: i only know of a search for user's posting to an/ani
2008-04-17 18:51 < KrazyKat> It could be
2008-04-17 18:51 < miranda> yeah
2008-04-17 18:51 < SynergeticMag> miranda:http://tools.wikimedia.de/~eagle/archivesearch.php?search=%28%5C%7B%5C%7B%5B%5E%5B%5D*%5C%7C%7C%5B%5E%7C%3A%2FA-Za-z0-9%5D%7C%5E%29Werdna%5B%5EA-Za-z0-9%5D&useregex=1&where%5B%5D=enpedia_3rr&where%5B%5D=enpedia_an&where%5B%5D=enpedia_ani&where%5B%5D=enpedia_cn
2008-04-17 18:52 < KrazyKat> I still say it's a better idea than separate domains
2008-04-17 18:52 < shimgray> It's a vast commitment by us to mark up the text; it's an administrative nightmare to work with once it's accordingly marked up.
2008-04-17 18:52 < KrazyKat> Which was how this conversation started
2008-04-17 18:53 < White_Cat> http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html
2008-04-17 18:53 < SynergeticMag> somehow that didn't link right
2008-04-17 18:53 < White_Cat> fun
2008-04-17 18:53 < KrazyKat> But there'd be nothing stopping it from being introduced gradually
2008-04-17 18:53 < shimgray> KrazyKat: Taking a tooth out with a crowbar when it hurts is a better idea than taking it out with a shotgun. Doesn't mean it's a good idea :-)
2008-04-17 18:53 < SynergeticMag> working_cat: i wont click anymore links from here :)
2008-04-17 18:53 < KrazyKat> It's not like we'd have to do every article right away
2008-04-17 18:53 < shimgray> the thing is, we derive so *little* benefit from it.
2008-04-17 18:53 < KrazyKat> It'd be optional
2008-04-17 18:53 < SynergeticMag> not after that love boat thing last fortnight
2008-04-17 18:53 < miranda> :-( that doesn't work
2008-04-17 18:53 < KrazyKat> Only a few words would even apply
2008-04-17 18:53 < shimgray> "armor" and "armour" are just... well, different spellings. there's no-one who has trouble understanding them.
2008-04-17 18:54 < SynergeticMag> miranda: pm me
2008-04-17 18:54 < shimgray> we're not really making our articles any more accessible, any more informative, with this.
2008-04-17 18:54 < KrazyKat> Right
2008-04-17 18:54 < KrazyKat> It just would save some arguments
2008-04-17 18:54 < Working_Cat> what loveboat?
2008-04-17 18:54 < Working_Cat> SynergeticMag: its just the stats from this chan compiled by Fennec
2008-04-17 18:54 < KrazyKat> But I don't think it'd be *that* much of a hassle
2008-04-17 18:54 < KrazyKat> It's only a few words, after all
2008-04-17 18:54 < Working_Cat> SynergeticMag: its very much worth clicking
2008-04-17 18:55 < shimgray> KrazyKat: oh, we could add it everywhere easily enough. it's the editing articles afterwards that'd be ugly
2008-04-17 18:55 < Working_Cat> SynergeticMag: also, im at work, so no chance of me posting a weird link
2008-04-17 18:55 < shimgray> it's bad enough with <ref> templates everywhere, but random spelling templates in the middle of running text?
2008-04-17 18:56 < SynergeticMag> lol my quote is up there
2008-04-17 18:57 < White_Cat> SynergeticMag I am not Working_Cat
2008-04-17 18:57 < Working_Cat> "SynergeticMag talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 35 times! "
2008-04-17 18:57 < SynergeticMag> white_cat: ok
2008-04-17 18:58 < Working_Cat> White_Cat: i wouldnt wanna be you either.
2008-04-17 18:58 < SynergeticMag> i did?
2008-04-17 18:58 < White_Cat> infact I am very lazy
2008-04-17 18:58 < SynergeticMag> i mean i know i talk to myself alot but wow
2008-04-17 18:58 < Working_Cat> lol apparently
2008-04-17 18:58 < miranda> ok for topic bans, you don't move to CN right
2008-04-17 18:58 < miranda> you make a subpage...
2008-04-17 18:58 < miranda> on ANI
2008-04-17 18:58 < Working_Cat> White_Cat: btw why did you need to clarify that?
2008-04-17 18:59 < White_Cat> [2008-04-18 01:54:04] <SynergeticMag> working_cat: i wont click anymore links from here :)
2008-04-17 18:59 < SynergeticMag> ah
2008-04-17 18:59 < SynergeticMag> you damn love boat lover
2008-04-17 18:59 < Working_Cat> White_Cat: som?
2008-04-17 18:59 < Working_Cat> so?
2008-04-17 18:59 < SynergeticMag> i'll get you, and your dog too
2008-04-17 19:00 < Working_Cat> Also, SynergeticMag tells us what's up with 235 actions.
2008-04-17 19:00 < Working_Cat> self obsessed maggot :D
2008-04-17 19:01 < SynergeticMag> yes, i'm a self obsessed maggot, we don't get much love you know
2008-04-17 19:01 < Working_Cat> i KNOW you do ;)
2008-04-17 19:02 < KrazyKat> shimgray: Yeah, I suppose you're right
2008-04-17 19:02 < SynergeticMag> actually, i have no idea what that means
2008-04-17 19:02 < SynergeticMag> and i'm not lonely!
2008-04-17 19:02 < Working_Cat> SynergeticMag: dont worry, your secret is so not safe with me :D
2008-04-17 19:02 < SynergeticMag> heh
2008-04-17 19:02 < Working_Cat> SynergeticMag: thats what my point was.
2008-04-17 19:03 < SynergeticMag> so who wrote that?
2008-04-17 19:03 < Working_Cat> who wrote what?
2008-04-17 19:03 < SynergeticMag> SynergeticMag talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 35 times!
2008-04-17 19:03 < SynergeticMag> Another lonely one was Mike_H, who managed to hit 18 times.
2008-04-17 19:04 < Working_Cat> yeah
2008-04-17 19:04 < SynergeticMag> and i'm a he! no woman would call themselves a maggot
2008-04-17 19:04 < SynergeticMag> what did i say 5 times in a row, 35 times?
2008-04-17 19:04 < SynergeticMag> i wonder
2008-04-17 19:04 * SynergeticMag yawns
2008-04-17 19:04 < SynergeticMag> make that 36
2008-04-17 19:05 < Working_Cat> 35 was last week
2008-04-17 19:05 < SynergeticMag> ah
2008-04-17 19:05 < Working_Cat> SynergeticMag: yeah, i guess most of them are /me yawns and /me is a perv kinds
2008-04-17 19:06 < SynergeticMag> well no, i was offline last week
2008-04-17 19:06 < SynergeticMag> i'm not a perv
2008-04-17 19:06 < Working_Cat> i meant "till last week"
2008-04-17 19:06 < SynergeticMag> i just like oatmeal
2008-04-17 19:06 < Working_Cat> SynergeticMag: yes you are
2008-04-17 19:06 < Working_Cat> a bowl trashing, (lesbo loving) perv :P
2008-04-17 19:07 < SynergeticMag> i only love them for so long...
2008-04-17 19:08 < Working_Cat> bowls?
2008-04-17 19:08 < miranda> someone might want to protect List of cabals
2008-04-17 19:08 < miranda> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:List_of_cabals&action=history
2008-04-17 19:10 < SynergeticMag> let them fight over it
2008-04-17 19:11 < SynergeticMag> actually, theres no need to protect right now
2008-04-17 19:13 < miranda> SynergeticMag: WP:LAME
2008-04-17 19:13 < miranda> yeah
2008-04-17 19:13 < miranda> :-)
2008-04-17 19:14 < SynergeticMag> yeah, but with reverts days apart, it will likely be rejected, unless an admin steps in from an/ani
2008-04-17 19:15 < Working_Cat> that aint workin, thats the way you do it...
2008-04-17 19:16 * bumm13 remembers that song when it was new :x
2008-04-17 19:17 < Warpath> O_O
2008-04-17 19:20 * Sponge used to use that as the stock-truck anthem when he worked for an appliance store... We've got to move these, refridgerators, we've got to move these color tee-vees!" :)
2008-04-17 19:20 * Working_Cat thinks bumm13 is way too old
2008-04-17 19:21 * Working_Cat also wonders whats so much to install in microwave ovens :D
2008-04-17 19:21 < Sponge> over the counter/range models are a bitch...
2008-04-17 19:21 < Working_Cat> take outta box... place on counter... plug in... go!
2008-04-17 19:21 < Sponge> Lol, some.
2008-04-17 19:24 < bumm13> Working_Cat - you're just way too young! ;)
2008-04-17 19:24 < Working_Cat> bumm13: not really
2008-04-17 19:24 < bumm13> don't worry about the 80s, you didn't miss much
2008-04-17 19:24 < geniice> Gwyneth Dunwoody just died. And we have a pic. uploaded through the placeholder system http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Dunwoody.jpg&oldid=200043370
2008-04-17 19:25 < bumm13> oddly enough, things did seem somewhat simpler then (non-technology-wise)
2008-04-17 19:25 < Working_Cat> im old enough for highschool and freshmen gals to dig me :P
2008-04-17 19:25 < bumm13> heh
2008-04-17 19:25 * bumm13 clutches his cane
2008-04-17 19:25 < bumm13> I'm not old, just not "ancient"
2008-04-17 19:25 < Working_Cat> bumm13: you used to sing that song when your hips were made of bone?
2008-04-17 19:25 < bumm13> (ok, that made no sense)
2008-04-17 19:26 < geniice> hip replacement op
2008-04-17 19:26 < bumm13> nah, I never sang much
2008-04-17 19:26 < Working_Cat> you meant "not not"
2008-04-17 19:26 < Working_Cat> listened to
2008-04-17 19:26 < Working_Cat> whatever
2008-04-17 19:26 < bumm13> yeah, something like that
2008-04-17 19:26 < bumm13> I was only 5½ when that song came out
2008-04-17 19:26 < bumm13> we had a noticeably (by modern standards) rectangular silver-colored stereo
2008-04-17 19:27 < bumm13> with a simple, large-ish red LED display of the station frequency
2008-04-17 19:27 < bumm13> with the analog dial display with its backlighting
2008-04-17 19:27 < Working_Cat> bumm13: heh, i was ½
2008-04-17 19:27 < bumm13> (no "tuning buttons")
2008-04-17 19:27 < bumm13> in 1985?
2008-04-17 19:27 < Working_Cat> yeah
2008-04-17 19:28 < Working_Cat> jeez you ARE old
2008-04-17 19:28 < bumm13> ah, you're not that young ;)
2008-04-17 19:28 < Working_Cat> someones pushing 30 ;)
2008-04-17 19:28 < bumm13> it was a decent stereo for then, surprisingly
2008-04-17 19:28 < bumm13> considering it was a JCPenney brand :x
2008-04-17 19:28 < bumm13> it even had a walkman-type portable that docked in the stereo itself
2008-04-17 19:29 < bumm13> I was too dumb at first to realize that it was, indeed, a portable cassette player :x
2008-04-17 19:29 < bumm13> (nobody ever used it)
2008-04-17 19:30 < bumm13> my mom bought that stereo in 1984
2008-04-17 19:31 < Working_Cat> nice nice.
2008-04-17 19:31 < bumm13> I got a cast-off Atari 2600 in 1985 or so
2008-04-17 19:31 < Working_Cat> well, the Working_Cat shall sign off now.
2008-04-17 19:31 < bumm13> later
2008-04-17 19:31 * Working_Cat will be re-incarnated as another eviler kind of cat.
2008-04-17 19:31 < Working_Cat> in about 20 minutes :P
2008-04-17 19:31 < bumm13> _o/
2008-04-17 19:48 < ThePolecat> wow, the commander of the US Pacific fleet is younger than my dad and looks twenty years older.
2008-04-17 19:48 < bumm13> heh
2008-04-17 19:50 < ThePolecat> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_J._Keating
2008-04-17 19:50 < ggreer> what was sad is that I met a friend and some of his coworkers last night. one of them thought I was in junior high :(
2008-04-17 19:52 < Leslie_S> bah
2008-04-17 19:52 < Leslie_S> i went to takle some girl pills
2008-04-17 19:52 < Leslie_S> and...they dissapeared
2008-04-17 19:52 < Leslie_S> im not sure if i took them or lost them!
2008-04-17 19:52 < CrazyChemGuy> Nobody thinks I look 21. It's dissapointing. I feel your pain, ggreer.
2008-04-17 19:52 < CrazyChemGuy> If only I actually was 21, it wouldn't matter.
2008-04-17 19:53 < ggreer> I'm 23. nobody should think I'm in jr. high
2008-04-17 19:53 < bumm13> aww
2008-04-17 19:55 < SynergeticMag> off to work
2008-04-17 19:55 < White_Cat> ggreer trust me
2008-04-17 19:55 < White_Cat> no one thinks you are jr. high
2008-04-17 19:55 < White_Cat> such people have already met their demise
2008-04-17 19:55 < CrazyChemGuy> It's pretty easy to mistake ages. I thought a 22 year old at a party was about 16 last weekend
2008-04-17 19:56 < Leslie_S> CrazyChemGuy thats why we have clubs that card on entry
2008-04-17 19:56 < White_Cat> Leslie_S oh?
2008-04-17 19:56 < CrazyChemGuy> Leslie_S: Friends' houses, however, don't card.
2008-04-17 19:56 < Leslie_S> heh
2008-04-17 19:56 < ggreer> White_Cat: he didn't say it to my face, he asked my friend if I was in junior high (and he wasn't joking)
2008-04-17 19:56 < White_Cat> CrazyChemGuy sure they do
2008-04-17 19:56 < Leslie_S> yes, but it doesnt matter so much at a house
2008-04-17 19:56 < White_Cat> wait till the cops come
2008-04-17 19:57 < CrazyChemGuy> haha
2008-04-17 19:57 < Leslie_S> To be honest, im extremely insulted when im not carded
2008-04-17 19:57 < White_Cat> Leslie_S why?
2008-04-17 19:57 < CrazyChemGuy> White_Cat:Cops don't card the people that climb out the windows in the back
2008-04-17 19:57 < White_Cat> middle age crisis?
2008-04-17 19:57 < OverlordQ> we're a dry campus, that's why I love that our frat house is off-campus. +1
2008-04-17 19:57 < White_Cat> CrazyChemGuy depends
2008-04-17 19:57 < ggreer> hah
2008-04-17 19:57 < White_Cat> if it is SWAT
2008-04-17 19:57 < Leslie_S> White_Cat because youre supposed to card people unless they look like theyre over an arbitrary high age like 27
2008-04-17 19:58 < Leslie_S> thats what it is at walmart atleast, but i know the law is similar around here.
2008-04-17 19:58 < White_Cat> Leslie_S I dont know
2008-04-17 19:58 < White_Cat> I dont attend parties at all so I am not carded
2008-04-17 19:58 < Leslie_S> and infact, at a cash register at walmart, when you ring someone up for booze or ciggarettes, it will come up with
2008-04-17 19:58 < Leslie_S> DOES CUSTOMER LOOK OVER 27?
2008-04-17 19:58 < CrazyChemGuy> Leslie_S They could think you're /under/ 21, and just secretly want your buiseness. A lot of places sell to minors on that premise.
2008-04-17 19:58 < Leslie_S> and itll force them to card and enter the birthdate when they push no
2008-04-17 19:58 < Leslie_S> so if they skip carding you, they think youre over 27
2008-04-17 19:58 < Leslie_S> ;/
2008-04-17 19:59 < CrazyChemGuy> Could be a compliment in secret
2008-04-17 19:59 < CrazyChemGuy> They may think you're 20
2008-04-17 19:59 < White_Cat> Leslie_S or they think you arent worth carding
2008-04-17 19:59 < White_Cat> CrazyChemGuy umm
2008-04-17 19:59 < White_Cat> Leslie_S is our local expert on inner workings of walmart
2008-04-17 19:59 * ThePolecat thinks many Catholic priests join the miners' union in the mistaken belief that they are organize minors
2008-04-17 19:59 < CrazyChemGuy> We're talking /only/ about walmart?
2008-04-17 20:00 < Leslie_S> Crazytales the law is similar in my state to that walmart rule...
2008-04-17 20:00 < ThePolecat> *ing
2008-04-17 20:00 < White_Cat> CrazyChemGuy walmart does the absolute minimum law permits
2008-04-17 20:00 < White_Cat> so does meijers
2008-04-17 20:00 < CrazyChemGuy> One of the catholic preists at my friend's chruch has to drink juice instead of wine at communion because he's in AA, so, ThePolceat, maybe...
2008-04-17 20:01 < bumm13> heehee
2008-04-17 20:01 < White_Cat> CrazyChemGuy whoes juice?
2008-04-17 20:01 < CrazyChemGuy> church*
2008-04-17 20:01 < CrazyChemGuy> Grape juice White_Cat
2008-04-17 20:01 < White_Cat> I wonder if bush will nickname the Pope
2008-04-17 20:02 < White_Cat> Poppie
2008-04-17 20:02 < White_Cat> Poppoye
2008-04-17 20:02 < Messedrocker> pope-ozao
2008-04-17 20:02 < White_Cat> Bend-i-rict
2008-04-17 20:02 < White_Cat> Bend-i-reich
2008-04-17 20:03 < Messedrocker> The Guy In White
2008-04-17 20:03 < White_Cat> Heil Bend-i-reich!
2008-04-17 20:03 < White_Cat> Here come the man in white!
2008-04-17 20:03 < Lucifer_Cat> [[CPSC822]]
2008-04-17 20:08 < Lucifer_Cat> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPSC_822
2008-04-17 20:17 * ThePolecat listens to his tts engine reading what your excrement looks like when you've contracted typhoid
2008-04-17 20:18 < Lucifer_Cat> >_<
2008-04-17 20:18 < Lucifer_Cat> T fucking M I
2008-04-17 20:18 < ThePolecat> "we ate/we drank/and we were merry/and got typhoid and dysentery"
2008-04-17 20:18 < ThePolecat> as the great Tom Lehrer said
2008-04-17 20:21 < Alkivar> god i love florida
2008-04-17 20:21 < Alkivar> its a neverending barrel of laughs
2008-04-17 20:21 < Alkivar> http://www.tampabays10.com/news/watercooler/article.aspx?storyid=78458
2008-04-17 20:30 < Crazytales> Leslie_S: wait what?
2008-04-17 20:31 < Crazytales> oh, misdirected tab complete
2008-04-17 20:31 < Lucifer_Cat> "I find it shocking we'd tell people with metallic testicles on their bumpers that this is a violation,"
2008-04-17 20:31 < Lucifer_Cat> lol
2008-04-17 20:33 < Crazytales> o hai Leslie_S
2008-04-17 20:35 < CrazyChemGuy> uuuuuugggh
2008-04-17 20:36 < Crazytales> o hai CrazyChemGuy
2008-04-17 20:36 < CrazyChemGuy> I spent 10 minutes supporting an opinion on a talk page, typing this big comment, and when I hit it I got editconflicted- by another person on my side of the discussion, conceding that a certain paragraph should be deleted
2008-04-17 20:36 < CrazyChemGuy> Then, after that, there was this big consensus while I was typing. ><
2008-04-17 20:40 < cimon> "The Templars constructed a siege tower, which was burned down by the Egyptian soldiers inside Ascalon. The wind caught the flames and part of the walls of Ascalon burned down as well." - oops!
2008-04-17 20:41 < CrazyChemGuy> Does anyone think that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin#Mechanism_of_action couldn't stand as its own article?
2008-04-17 20:41 < CrazyChemGuy> With a little expansion?
2008-04-17 20:41 < ThePolecat> Isn't there a special section on Fark about Florida?
2008-04-17 20:41 < ThePolecat> Because so many absurdities spring from there?
2008-04-17 20:42 < CrazyChemGuy> wait what?
2008-04-17 20:42 < CrazyChemGuy> I don't see any mention of florida there
2008-04-17 20:44 < ThePolecat> Alkivar> god i love florida
2008-04-17 20:44 < ThePolecat> Alkivar> its a neverending barrel of laughs
2008-04-17 20:44 < ThePolecat> that.
2008-04-17 20:44 < Messedrocker> flolrida
2008-04-17 20:45 < Lucifer_Cat> fodorilla
2008-04-17 20:45 < ThePolecat> Fyodorida.
2008-04-17 20:45 < ThePolecat> Fyoderrida.
2008-04-17 20:45 < CrazyChemGuy> What would the best name for such an article be? [[Mechanism of action of aspirin]]?
2008-04-17 20:46 < Messedrocker> fLOLrida
2008-04-17 20:46 < Messedrocker> yes CrazyChemGuy
2008-04-17 20:47 < ThePolecat> CrazyChemGuy: the actual agent is too long to be linked from anything vaguely related.
2008-04-17 20:47 < CrazyChemGuy> I don't think I understand what you're saying, ThePoleCat
2008-04-17 20:48 < ThePolecat> well, [[Mechanism of action of acetyl salicylic acid]] or whatever it is in English is unwieldy
2008-04-17 20:49 < Leslie_S> so uh
2008-04-17 20:49 < Messedrocker> i thought it was just called acetylsalicyclic acid
2008-04-17 20:49 < Leslie_S> my roommate wants me to do the trucking thing
2008-04-17 20:49 < CrazyChemGuy> The main article is just called [[Aspirin]]
2008-04-17 20:49 < Lucifer_Cat> Leslie_S: and ure undecided?
2008-04-17 20:49 < ThePolecat> oh
2008-04-17 20:49 < CrazyChemGuy> There was a big debate over it but it was decided to have ASA redirect to aspirin
2008-04-17 20:49 < ThePolecat> fair enough.
2008-04-17 20:50 < CrazyChemGuy> So do you think [[Mechanism of action of aspirin]] would work, or is there some good way to shorten that?
2008-04-17 20:50 < ThePolecat> Action mechanism of aspirin?
2008-04-17 20:50 < ThePolecat> probably harder in English, it's a very agglutination-averse language
2008-04-17 20:52 < Lucifer_Cat> ThePolecat: stay away from my language, you german freak
2008-04-17 20:52 * ThePolecat will
2008-04-17 20:52 * Lucifer_Cat wonders whats the term for people who discriminate based on languages
2008-04-17 20:52 < Lucifer_Cat> we usually just call them "Indians"
2008-04-17 20:53 < Leslie_S> Lucifer_Cat i cant afford it!
2008-04-17 20:53 < Lucifer_Cat> Leslie_S: oh
2008-04-17 20:54 < Lucifer_Cat> i'd say a "liguist" but that sounds like a compliment
2008-04-17 20:54 < Lucifer_Cat> "langist" sounds stupid
2008-04-17 20:55 < Lucifer_Cat> "tonguist" sounds more like someone susceptible to lip locking
2008-04-17 20:59 * ThePolecat knows many people who speak fluent Latin and Greek but no useful language
2008-04-17 21:00 < abd_ul_jetnu> I know a guy who speaks fluent Greek
2008-04-17 21:00 < abd_ul_jetnu> he's from Greece
2008-04-17 21:00 < ThePolecat> Ancient Greek in this case.
2008-04-17 21:01 < abd_ul_jetnu> ah
2008-04-17 21:01 < abd_ul_jetnu> well, gotta go
2008-04-17 21:02 * Lucifer_Cat learnt the tengwar alphabet once :)
2008-04-17 21:02 < Golbez> anyone want to take a look at a new citation method I'm testing out?
2008-04-17 21:03 < Golbez> i need feedback!
2008-04-17 21:03 < Lucifer_Cat> we dont need no, new citations...
2008-04-17 21:03 * kmccoy points Golbez's microphone at a nearby speaker.
2008-04-17 21:03 < Golbez> compare http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Governors_of_Alabama&oldid=206387522
2008-04-17 21:03 < Golbez> with http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Governors_of_Alabama&oldid=205657318
2008-04-17 21:04 < Lucifer_Cat> we dont need no list control
2008-04-17 21:04 < Golbez> and which do you prefer !
2008-04-17 21:04 * kmccoy gives Golbez his desired feedback.
2008-04-17 21:04 < Golbez> (the citations at the very end, you'll see the difference)
2008-04-17 21:04 < Lucifer_Cat> no tag citations on the talk page
2008-04-17 21:05 < Golbez> hey, teacher, leave those tags alone.
2008-04-17 21:05 < Lucifer_Cat> Golbez leave them refs alone
2008-04-17 21:05 < Golbez> dang it
2008-04-17 21:05 < Lucifer_Cat> (Hey GOLBEZ leave them refs alone!!)
2008-04-17 21:06 < Golbez> so. any feedbacks? :)
2008-04-17 21:06 < Lucifer_Cat> all in all you're just a, another feed in the hole
2008-04-17 21:06 < Lucifer_Cat> ok lemme look at them
2008-04-17 21:06 < ThePolecat> YOU WON'T GET ANY PUDDING!
2008-04-17 21:07 < Golbez> i was inspired by [[Alcibiades]] to get rid of the constitutional link farm at the end of the governor list articles
2008-04-17 21:07 < Golbez> and just cite the sections
2008-04-17 21:08 < Lucifer_Cat> How can you have your pudding if you arent a cat
2008-04-17 21:08 < Lucifer_Cat> Golbez: i really cannot see what you are trying to show
2008-04-17 21:09 < Golbez> Lucifer_Cat- in one i link the constitutions in every link, in the other i split them off into their own section and just do a short cite to the appropriate section, sans link
2008-04-17 21:10 < Golbez> it matters to me :|
2008-04-17 21:10 < lazulilasher> ya, im having a hard time figuring out the difference? is it in the 1,2,3 refs or the a,b,c refs?
2008-04-17 21:10 < Golbez> i said at the END
2008-04-17 21:10 < Golbez> :(
2008-04-17 21:10 < Golbez> =p
2008-04-17 21:10 * Golbez calms.
2008-04-17 21:10 < Golbez> The citations at the very end. Hit 'end'.
2008-04-17 21:10 < Lucifer_Cat> Golbez: i see them
2008-04-17 21:11 < lazulilasher> ok...im looking again
2008-04-17 21:11 < Lucifer_Cat> well, from a noob user POV, no difference.
2008-04-17 21:11 < Golbez> fair enough
2008-04-17 21:11 < lazulilasher> oh ya....i prefer it...much mor eclear
2008-04-17 21:11 < lazulilasher> clear, i mean
2008-04-17 21:11 < Golbez> which way do you prefer
2008-04-17 21:11 < Golbez> the one with no links and the constitutions in a separate section?
2008-04-17 21:11 < lazulilasher> rev #.....22
2008-04-17 21:12 < lazulilasher> is that the right choice?
2008-04-17 21:12 < Golbez> woot thanks, i just needed someone else to justify my insanity
2008-04-17 21:12 < Golbez> thanks
2008-04-17 21:12 < Golbez> heh yes
2008-04-17 21:12 < lazulilasher> phew :)
2008-04-17 21:12 < ThePolecat> YES, YOU, BEHIND THE CAT-SHED, STAND STILL, LADDY!
2008-04-17 21:12 * ThePolecat admits to one count of non-sequitur
2008-04-17 21:12 < lazulilasher> it is good...i prefer clarity
2008-04-17 21:13 < Lucifer_Cat> lolcattery no less, the laddy fancies himself a cat!
2008-04-17 21:13 < Golbez> woot
2008-04-17 21:14 < ThePolecat> Off to bed.
2008-04-17 21:14 < ThePolecat> brb
2008-04-17 21:14 < ThePolecat> (yes, that's how short my sleep is)
2008-04-17 21:15 < Lucifer_Cat> lol
2008-04-17 21:25 < Lucifer_Cat> meowf
2008-04-17 21:30 < FastLizard4> omg afterdeath sox
2008-04-17 21:35 < Lucifer_Cat> wot?
2008-04-17 21:49 < Ceiling_Cat> hello kids
2008-04-17 21:50 < NoPegs> mooo!
2008-04-17 21:52 < Golbez> moo
2008-04-17 21:55 < ST47> Why Wikipedia is better than britannica: Our background image doesn't look as scary as theirs. http://www.britannica.com/nobelprize/article-43416
2008-04-17 21:56 < Messedrocker> ours is a giant picture of a book opening
2008-04-17 21:56 < Messedrocker> i mean that's neat
2008-04-17 21:56 < Messedrocker> theirs is some nazi or something
2008-04-17 21:57 * Lucifer_Cat offers the Nazi salute
2008-04-17 21:57 * NoPegs returns it...
2008-04-17 21:59 < Lucifer_Cat> Ceiling_Cat
2008-04-17 22:00 < Gracenotes> hm... suppose Wikipedia's background was Jimbo's eyes...
2008-04-17 22:00 < Messedrocker> Gracenotes, no one knows what it's like to be the bad man behind blue eyes
2008-04-17 22:00 < The359> to be the sad man
2008-04-17 22:00 < Lucifer_Cat> i know what its like to be the bad man behind brown eyes
2008-04-17 22:01 < Gracenotes> #bodyContent { background-image: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fd/Eyes_of_Jimbo.gif/100px-Eyes_of_Jimbo.gif) }
2008-04-17 22:02 < FastLizard4> hehe
2008-04-17 22:03 < FastLizard4> $wgReadOnly = ( 'Jimbo Wales is watching you...' );
2008-04-17 22:04 * Ceiling_Cat is drained
2008-04-17 22:04 < Gracenotes> or, the JS version: document.getElementById('bodyContent').style.backgroundImage='url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fd/Eyes_of_Jimbo.gif/100px-Eyes_of_Jimbo.gif)'
2008-04-17 22:04 < Gracenotes> seriously... this is so creepy...
2008-04-17 22:09 < Lucifer_Cat> Ceiling_Cat: meeting with the advisor>
2008-04-17 22:09 < Lucifer_Cat> ?
2008-04-17 22:09 < Krimpet> Gracenotes: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Animum/monobook.css&diff=191047084&oldid=188879918 :s
2008-04-17 22:11 < FastLizard4> heh
2008-04-17 22:11 < Lucifer_Cat> shame on you tastykake for doing that
2008-04-17 22:11 < Messedrocker> Say I had a #wikipedia log involving two people, and only one person agreed to release their statements. Would it be appropriate then that the person who did not agree on release is just censored
2008-04-17 22:11 < Messedrocker> as in
2008-04-17 22:11 < Messedrocker> <person 1> Blahdy blah!
2008-04-17 22:11 < Messedrocker> ***redaction***
2008-04-17 22:11 < Messedrocker> <person 1> true dat!
2008-04-17 22:12 < FastLizard4> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:FastLizard4/monobook.css and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:FastLizard4/monobook.js :P
2008-04-17 22:12 < Gracenotes> Krimpet: lol
2008-04-17 22:12 < Lucifer_Cat> Messedrocker: lol
2008-04-17 22:13 < Messedrocker> Anyways would I be able to publish logs so long as I did total redactions of all those who did not give consent?
2008-04-17 22:13 < Krimpet> Messedrocker: yeah, that should be fine
2008-04-17 22:13 < Messedrocker> no name, no statement. no anything
2008-04-17 22:16 * Ceiling_Cat cuddles with Krimpet
2008-04-17 22:21 * Werdna does so too
2008-04-17 22:23 * Lucifer_Cat claws Ceiling_Cat
2008-04-17 22:23 * Ceiling_Cat steals Lucifer_Cat's innocence
2008-04-17 22:23 * Ceiling_Cat cuddles with him afterwards
2008-04-17 22:24 < Lucifer_Cat> Ceiling_Cat: the clawing was in retaliation of you having done that when i was 16 :P
2008-04-17 22:24 < Werdna> Lucifer_Cat is 16?
2008-04-17 22:25 < Lucifer_Cat> was. i was a 16 y/o kitten at the time Ceiling_Cat made me a bitch
2008-04-17 22:26 * Werdna cuddles the indeterminately-gendered Lucifer_Cat
2008-04-17 22:26 * Ceiling_Cat cuddles Werdna+Lucifer_Cat
2008-04-17 22:27 < Ceiling_Cat> flyers/washington just ended their first overtime
2008-04-17 22:27 * Lucifer_Cat forgets his confused sexuality for the moment and cuddles with these two
2008-04-17 22:28 < Lucifer_Cat> heh, im flying to washington in a week :P
2008-04-17 22:28 < Lucifer_Cat> erm, month
2008-04-17 22:49 < ThePolecat> Uh, bien assssssssssseeeeez!
2008-04-17 22:50 < BoL|98> :?
2008-04-17 22:50 < BoL|98> :o
2008-04-17 22:51 * ThePolecat goes back to sleep
2008-04-17 22:51 < ThePolecat> later
2008-04-17 22:52 < Pilotguy> YELLOW
2008-04-17 22:55 < Growlxpiggy-> Yo
2008-04-17 22:59 < Kazul> I would just like tosay
2008-04-17 22:59 < Kazul> There is a channel here
2008-04-17 22:59 < Kazul> That is used to buy/sell illegal narcotics
2008-04-17 22:59 < Kazul> #drugsandbooze
2008-04-17 22:59 < Kazul> #drugsandbooze
2008-04-17 22:59 < Kazul> #drugsandbooze
2008-04-17 22:59 < Kazul> #drugsandbooze
2008-04-17 22:59 < Kazul> #drugsandbooze
2008-04-17 22:59 < Kazul> #drugsandbooze
2008-04-17 22:59 < Kazul> #drugsandbooze
2008-04-17 22:59 < Fennec> ...
2008-04-17 22:59 < nokmar> =P
2008-04-17 23:00 < Fennec> take it up with the adminz
2008-04-17 23:00 < privatemusings> dammit, I was gonna score some good stuff..... ;-)
2008-04-17 23:03 < Gracenotes> booze is narcotics?
2008-04-17 23:03 < Gracenotes> *a narcotic
2008-04-17 23:03 < Gracenotes> wow, the things you learn on the internet...
2008-04-17 23:03 < nokmar> lol
2008-04-17 23:07 < miranda> privatemusings: is the latest edition of not the wikipedia weekly out
2008-04-17 23:19 < uberpenguin> so, apparently you can get whiskey to lase
2008-04-17 23:19 < uberpenguin> one of the solid-state lighting researchers here, who is obviously Irish, shared this revelation with me
2008-04-17 23:22 < privatemusings> miranda: the last conversation is still online (same for a week or so) - another one scheduled for 17 hours or so... :-)
2008-04-17 23:22 < miranda> privatemusings: ok
2008-04-17 23:25 < privatemusings> fancy popping in?
2008-04-17 23:29 * Lucifer_Cat huggles privatemusings
2008-04-17 23:29 < privatemusings> g'day lucifer...
2008-04-17 23:30 < Lucifer_Cat> 17 hours? i wont be able to listen :(
2008-04-17 23:34 < privatemusings> those darn europeans!
2008-04-17 23:41 < Ceiling_Cat> wait, I'm confused
2008-04-17 23:41 < Ceiling_Cat> why was Clinton on Colbert's show for 30 seconds, then she left, now he's interviewing a freshman congressman
2008-04-17 23:42 < Ceiling_Cat> if she was on the show, why wasn't he interviewing her?
2008-04-17 23:42 < Fennec> dunno
2008-04-17 23:42 * Ceiling_Cat suspects she refused
2008-04-17 23:43 < Fennec> perhaps he's partisan and doesn't wish to degrade her campaign with his normal tactics, which involve a fair amount of shallow, substanceless mockery
2008-04-17 23:43 < Fennec> (and, to be granted, deep, insightful mockery occasionally, but)
2008-04-17 23:44 * Cream cuddles Ceiling_Cat
2008-04-17 23:44 * Lucifer_Cat creams Cream
2008-04-17 23:44 * Cream melts
2008-04-17 23:45 * Ceiling_Cat nibbles on cream
2008-04-17 23:45 < Lucifer_Cat> OMG!!! I HAVE CREAM ON MY HNDS
2008-04-17 23:45 < Lucifer_Cat> *hands
2008-04-17 23:45 < Lucifer_Cat> ohhhh the guilt
2008-04-17 23:46 < Fennec> You can't turn most politics into funny stuff without making fun of it. This is a problem for any attempt Colbert might make on the Democrats. After all, there's no secret who his biggest fans are...
2008-04-17 23:46 < Ceiling_Cat> Kreme - your talk page lacks all the pussies I put there
2008-04-17 23:46 < Ceiling_Cat> NEEDZ MAOR KATZ!
2008-04-17 23:47 < Kreme> I know
2008-04-17 23:47 < Kreme> put some :D
2008-04-17 23:47 < Kreme> It got archived
2008-04-17 23:47 < Fennec> (this also somewhat applies to why Rush does better when the Republicans are /out/ of power, though he's not aiming for 'funny')
2008-04-17 23:50 < Ceiling_Cat> So I got my master's thesis approved today
2008-04-17 23:50 < Ceiling_Cat> tomorrow I'll finish hot-footing it around, getting the remaining signatures
2008-04-17 23:50 < Lucifer_Cat> sweet
2008-04-17 23:51 < Lucifer_Cat> good luck with getting all th profs on the same day
2008-04-17 23:51 < Ceiling_Cat> it's not a phd, so really there's only one person who makes technical comments
2008-04-17 23:51 < Ceiling_Cat> the others (the dept. chair, the dean of the college of engineering, and the dean of the office of grad studies) are just rubber stamps
2008-04-17 23:52 < Cream> congrats :)
2008-04-17 23:52 < Lucifer_Cat> yeah, i had much the same situation, but i could never get all 3 signatures on the same day