League of Psychic Nutcases - So Begins the Holiday Season

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FREELANCERTEX

Friday, November 21, 2008 12:53 AM (P)

Beatrice: I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick; nobody marks you.

Benedick: What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?

Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die when she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? Courtesy itself must turn to disdain, if you come in her presence.

Benedick: Then courtesy is a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted; and would I could find it in my heart that I had not a hard heart, for, truly, I love none.

Beatrice: A dear happines to women; they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humor for that; I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.

Benedick: God keep your ladyship still in that mind! so some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face.

Beatrice: Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere such a face as yours were.

XD i memorized that for recitation in my shakespeare class XD best. exchange. ever.

though i hold that dogberry is the craziest son of a bitch ever. XD i recited one of his speeches too, right after the beatrice benedick one :P awesome.

I *love* that play

YINYANG

Friday, November 21, 2008 1:21 AM (P)

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

That's my favorite play.

FREELANCERTEX

Friday, November 21, 2008 1:22 AM (P)

midsummer night's dream, right?

YINYANG

Friday, November 21, 2008 1:25 AM (P)

Yeppers. I also like Twelfth Night.

FREELANCERTEX

Friday, November 21, 2008 1:26 AM (P)

my god, that took u like two seconds. stalking the thread much? :P silly

FREELANCERTEX

Friday, November 21, 2008 1:26 AM (P)

disregard

YINYANG

Friday, November 21, 2008 1:29 AM (P)

Yeah, well... twelfth is a funny word. So, nyeh.

TRAVELER

Friday, November 21, 2008 1:34 AM (P)

I think it is my favorite. First it is a comedy. And I like Shakespeare's comedies then how easily Beatrice and Benedick get fooled. I got the film with Denzel Washington.

I memorised Henry V's speech to his army before fighting the French. Don't ask me to quote it. My mind empties as fast as it is filled. I just know "band of brothers" because it is a title of a TV mini series on the 101st Airbourne Division.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

YINYANG

Friday, November 21, 2008 1:35 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by freelancertex:
disregard

Mu.

MSA

Friday, November 21, 2008 1:39 AM (P)

Pi???

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

YINYANG

Friday, November 21, 2008 1:40 AM (P)

1. mu

"Mu" is the correct answer to the classic trick question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?". Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer "yes" is wrong because it implies that you used to beat your wife and then stopped, but "no" is worse because it suggests that you have one and are still beating her. According to various Discordians and Douglas Hofstadter the correct answer is usually "mu", a Japanese word alleged to mean "Your question cannot be answered because it depends on incorrect assumptions".

Hackers tend to be sensitive to logical inadequacies in language, and many have adopted this suggestion with enthusiasm. The word "mu" is actually from Chinese, meaning "nothing"; it is used in mainstream Japanese in that sense, but native speakers do not recognise the Discordian question-denying use.

FREELANCERTEX

Friday, November 21, 2008 1:43 AM (P)

mu? wtf?

Quote:
Originally posted by Traveler: I think it is my favorite. First it is a comedy. And I like Shakespeare's comedies then how easily Beatrice and Benedick get fooled. I got the film with Denzel Washington.

I memorised Henry V's speech to his army before fighting the French. Don't ask me to quote it. My mind empties as fast as it is filled. I just know "band of brothers" because it is a title of a TV mini series on the 101st Airbourne Division.

yeah, its definitely my favorite, and i've seen the film. Kenneth Branaugh is obsessed XD

love that speech. my history teacher memorized it for our european studies class sophomore year in high school.

did you see carwood lipton (pretty sure it was him anyway) in the little interviews they had in the beginning of each band of brothers ep? i think it was like the last ep, where they had the interviews at the end, where he quoted that exact line in the Henry V "we happy (he says lucky) few, we band of brothers, for he today that sheds his blood with me today shall be my brother." good speech.

YINYANG

Friday, November 21, 2008 1:56 AM (P)

I learned "mu" this week. It is a fun word, that's wtf?

FREELANCERTEX

Friday, November 21, 2008 1:58 AM (P)

well wtf is it? its a letter i know that much, but a word?

YINYANG

Friday, November 21, 2008 1:59 AM (P)

::points up a few posts::

FREELANCERTEX

Friday, November 21, 2008 2:01 AM (P)

ah see u were tricky and posted to MsA before i could post my 'wtf' post :-P so u and she posted like two seconds before i could XD gotcha.

TRAVELER

Friday, November 21, 2008 2:12 AM (P)

It is like a Mobius strip. There is no end.
Mu: There is no answer.
Moot: Having no practical significance.

Is it me or does anyone else find it strange all these words begin with the letter M.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

YINYANG

Friday, November 21, 2008 3:13 AM (P)

No. M is tricky letter like that.

TRAVELER

Friday, November 21, 2008 3:30 AM (P)

Hello YinYang:

It looks like I will have another item to discuss with God when I meet him. Well; if I meet him. The chance of that happening gets less every day.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

FREELANCERTEX

Friday, November 21, 2008 4:20 AM (P)

*looks around* ..."mobius"?

YINYANG

Friday, November 21, 2008 5:01 AM (P)

It's a loop with no end. Like this:

Kind of similar to this (same artist):

TRAVELER

Friday, November 21, 2008 5:13 AM (P)

I've know about this loop, but just discovered its name as I was looking up moot. It startled me how it follows a similar logic. You can not reach the end just like you can not answer a "mu" question.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

FREELANCERTEX

Friday, November 21, 2008 4:34 PM (P)

O_O!!! scary picture of the ants >< seen the staircase one before.

MSA

Friday, November 21, 2008 6:32 PM (P)

ok generally mobius strips have fewer ants than that...

ah Escher:)

I love mu..it's is my new favorite word:)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

FREELANCERTEX

Friday, November 21, 2008 9:00 PM (P)

lol

escher? O_o

TRAVELER

Friday, November 21, 2008 10:24 PM (P)

Escher liked to sketch optical illusions like the stairway. Wikipedia has a couple of illustrations of his work.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

DAVESHAYNE

Friday, November 21, 2008 11:09 PM (P)

I keep threatening to write a scifi book called "Mobius Dick: Or The Great White Hole." Haven't gotten around to it yet. I know what the first line will be though, "Call me, Ishmael."

David

'Geeks can't admit that anything worthwhile was invented before 1981. Soon, "making cocoa" will be called "milk hacking."' - Lore Sjoberg

http://xkcd.com/386/

"Don't worry. Captain Hammer will save us." - Penny.

I has myspace - http://www.myspace.com/daveshayneforpresident

TRAVELER

Saturday, November 22, 2008 1:54 AM (P)

I keep trying to come up with something witty to say, but how do you follow "The Great White Hole".

Edit: Very carefully.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

DAVESHAYNE

Saturday, November 22, 2008 2:05 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by traveler:
how do you follow "The Great White Hole".

You jump in the next cab and say, "Follow that theoretical astrophysical phenomenon!"

David

'Geeks can't admit that anything worthwhile was invented before 1981. Soon, "making cocoa" will be called "milk hacking."' - Lore Sjoberg

http://xkcd.com/386/

"Don't worry. Captain Hammer will save us." - Penny.

I has myspace - http://www.myspace.com/daveshayneforpresident

TRAVELER

Saturday, November 22, 2008 2:46 AM (P)

Having taken cabs in Chicago I believe that is their normal procedure. I have actually had one cab driver act as a tour guide. Pointing out every woman that met his strict requirements.

With a finger pointing straight ahead he would exclaim,"Look at the number".

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

TRAVELER

Saturday, November 22, 2008 10:38 PM (P)

"Bump"

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Traveler

MSA

Sunday, November 23, 2008 1:21 AM (P)

Slump...

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

TRAVELER

Sunday, November 23, 2008 2:06 AM (P)

See your Slump and raise you a Grump.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

FREELANCERTEX

Sunday, November 23, 2008 4:06 AM (P)

Think it's time for another league? hm, i'll get to that tomorrow afternoon since the weekend slump has hit ><

DAVESHAYNE

Sunday, November 23, 2008 2:01 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by traveler:
See your Slump and raise you a Grump

Jump! Might as well jump.

David

'Geeks can't admit that anything worthwhile was invented before 1981. Soon, "making cocoa" will be called "milk hacking."' - Lore Sjoberg

http://xkcd.com/386/

"Don't worry. Captain Hammer will save us." - Penny.

I has myspace - http://www.myspace.com/daveshayneforpresident

YINYANG

Sunday, November 23, 2008 6:36 PM (P)

You should have a hump.

MSA

Sunday, November 23, 2008 7:19 PM (P)

thump...

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

DAVESHAYNE

Sunday, November 23, 2008 7:38 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
thump...

The garbage has been piling up. Perhaps we should drive to the dump. But not on Thanksgiving. The dump is closed on Thanksgiving.

David

'Geeks can't admit that anything worthwhile was invented before 1981. Soon, "making cocoa" will be called "milk hacking."' - Lore Sjoberg

http://xkcd.com/386/

"Don't worry. Captain Hammer will save us." - Penny.

I has myspace - http://www.myspace.com/daveshayneforpresident

YINYANG

Sunday, November 23, 2008 8:46 PM (P)

Alice's Restaurant?

DAVESHAYNE

Sunday, November 23, 2008 9:08 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by yinyang:
Alice's Restaurant?

"This song is called Alice's Restaurant
And it's about Alice
And the restaurant
But Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant
That's just the name of the song
And that's why I called the song Alice's Restaurant."

David

'Geeks can't admit that anything worthwhile was invented before 1981. Soon, "making cocoa" will be called "milk hacking."' - Lore Sjoberg

http://xkcd.com/386/

"Don't worry. Captain Hammer will save us." - Penny.

I has myspace - http://www.myspace.com/daveshayneforpresident

YINYANG

Sunday, November 23, 2008 9:37 PM (P)

Yay! I ♥ Alice's Restaurant.

TRAVELER

Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:03 PM (P)

Many moons since I have heard that song.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

TRAVELER

Monday, November 24, 2008 5:46 PM (P)

One small bump for man one giant bump for mankind.

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Traveler

FREELANCERTEX

Monday, November 24, 2008 6:06 PM (P)

wow, ok, din't know ppl actually posted here over the weekend XD hello all.

new league on the way.

TRAVELER

Monday, November 24, 2008 6:11 PM (P)

Okay Freelancertex:

It was floating to the bottom and I wanted in my selfish way to bring it to the surface.

I enjoy our random discussions here at the nutcases.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

FREELANCERTEX

Monday, November 24, 2008 6:15 PM (P)

haha, well here's a new place for randomness:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=2&t=35778

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