The Chat Thread

[ibanezmonster]

Ever since I discovered Guitar Pro's capabilities of making pdfs (what, yesterday?), I'm creating my own music scores and following along with them. These are sorely needed, since I very much enjoy looking at scores while listening to them.

(i thought I could actually follow along to Meshuggah- yeah, right!) 





(though, sometimes, you get stuff like this, which makes you wonder if the person writing this out ever heard of the 12/8 time signature)




It's so cool to look at it like this- almost like a rock band being a chamber group.

[Lethevich]

An American-oriented question:

"gave it one star because even a poorly written book about the War Between the States is worth some review."

Is there a wider reason for him calling the civil war by that (Upper Case) name? Perhaps similar to the "War of Northern Aggression" thing that is bandied about? I suppose that I mean, does this writer have an agenda revealed by his choice of that title that I am not recognising, or is it just intentionally over-elaborate?

[snyprrr]

An American-oriented question:

"gave it one star because even a poorly written book about the War Between the States is worth some review."

Is there a wider reason for him calling the civil war by that (Upper Case) name? Perhaps similar to the "War of Northern Aggression" thing that is bandied about? I suppose that I mean, does this writer have an agenda revealed by his choice of that title that I am not recognising, or is it just intentionally over-elaborate?

Isn't it kinda late to be drinking coffee?

(Definitely trying to sound important!)

[Szykneij]

An American-oriented question:

"gave it one star because even a poorly written book about the War Between the States is worth some review."

Is there a wider reason for him calling the civil war by that (Upper Case) name? Perhaps similar to the "War of Northern Aggression" thing that is bandied about? I suppose that I mean, does this writer have an agenda revealed by his choice of that title that I am not recognising, or is it just intentionally over-elaborate?

"The War Between the States" is often used when referring to the U.S. Civil War. Wikipedia has a good article about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_the_American_Civil_War

The names "Civil War" and "War Between the States" have been used jointly in some formal contexts. For example, to mark the war's centenary in the 1960s, the state of Georgia created the "Georgia Civil War Centennial Commission Commemorating the War Between the States". In 1994, the U.S. Postal Service issued a series of commemorative stamps entitled "The Civil War / The War Between the States".

[Lethevich]

Danke!

[Karl Henning]

Kind of a drag that there are some who post in the Diner as if they thought that The Problem with GMG is that there just aren't enough religion-bashing threads.

Then, too, of course the holidays are approaching, and that brings the religion-hate in lots of people.  Guess they have to vent their scorn every now and again.  Still, it isn't as if that behavior is in the least admirable.

[Lethevich]

>buying Korean clothes due to price
>taking bets on how long they will take to fall apart

[Elgarian]

Kind of a drag that there are some who post in the Diner as if they thought that The Problem with GMG is that there just aren't enough religion-bashing threads.

Then, too, of course the holidays are approaching, and that brings the religion-hate in lots of people.  Guess they have to vent their scorn every now and again.  Still, it isn't as if that behavior is in the least admirable.

My GMG existence has been so Haydn-centric of late, that I haven't much noticed what's going on elsewhere. But yes, now I see. How many times do people want to beat each other up over the issue of whether the King of France is bald, I wonder? I suppose the aim is to cover all the bases.

Examples for future consideration:

Is the King of France bored by these discussions?
Does the Queen of France agree with him?
Does the King of France respect the religious views of the Queen of France?
Does the Queen of France believe in the existence of the King of France?
Is a belief in the existence of the King of France rational?

Plenty of scope there for venting one's spleen pointlessly against opposing views. Wake me up, Karl, if they need any more.

[ibanezmonster]

The King of France is raped by a gang of clowns each morning. However, it is a different gang each morning. If the average amount of clowns involved is 5-7 per morning, how many weeks does it take until he is raped by 100 clowns?

The King of France is interested in such questions, because it makes you calculate something precise with an imprecise amount of information. His philosophy of imprecision is entitled:

"Impr"

and it is pronounced "Imp." The answer is not the answer, yet the answer that is not the answer is the answer, and the answer is the answer.

The King of France also regularly likes to dress up like the Pink Pather whilst being raped, and goes door to door in the streets of Paris, handing out pictures to families so they can better understand the King of France. The families are much curious about the concept of Impr.

Sometimes, the King of France does this out in the streets of Paris as well, while drowning his self in a water fountain (he is immortal and can revive himself).  The families go out and watch for afternoon entertainment whilst eating lunch, as this is just one cultural hobby out of the many, which I won't even be going into detail...

[Elgarian]

It all seemed fine until I reached the last sentence, at which point I realised that what you were saying was completely irrational. Every schoolboy knows that neither the King of France, nor any of the families associated with him, eat lunch.

[ibanezmonster]

Ooops, just a small, forgetful mistake. What was it that they do in France? Didn't they have just one meal a day, called "brinner", that they always eat at midnight? Or am I mistaking them for the Madagascarians?

[Elgarian]

I think it's the other way round, Greg. The Madagascarians are mistaking you for the King of France. When you start encountering what we might call 'metaphysical lunch errors', don't say you weren't warned.

[knight66]

Louis the XIV ate lunch accompanied by many; yet he ate lunch alone.

Mike

[Elgarian]

Louis the XIV ate lunch accompanied by many; yet he ate lunch alone.

Warning! Warning! Metaphysical Lunch Error Alert!

[knight66]

Was it so?
It was so.
So it was.

Mike

[DavidRoss]

Why dinosaurs are extinct.

[knight66]

They are smaller than I had imagined.

Mike

[ibanezmonster]

Louis the XIV ate lunch accompanied by many; yet he ate lunch alone.

Mike

I had those types of metaphysical lunch errors throughout most of 11th grade and a little bit every now and then during the surrounding years.

But the real problem is not the metaphysical lunch errors, but the metaphysical component of the metaphysical aspect of the metaphysical lunch errors. You see, whoever the King of France, may be, whether or not he lives in Madagascar, is subject to much debate in the mind of Ubloobideega. That's the reason why.

[Karl Henning]

The Lunch of the Spheres

[ibanezmonster]

What does the King of France eat for lunch? An Escher Sandwichtaco Tesselation? Or does it eat him?
That's what Ubloobideega was wondering today.