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18:42 / 23.05.07

Wanker, bollocks, nob, pavement, football, Arsenal, colour, realise, etc.

wait... fanny=bum? I thought it was female bits?

yeah the extra 'u' or no 'u issue...

We use wanker and bollocks (when used) in the UK sense, no alternative usage I'm aware of. Oh and the same with nob if it isn't knob. I think you can thank Buffy for that.

yes football...Arsenal is a team not the stockpile of my relatives' guns...

rubber, yes, and jumpers I think we have different terms for those. To me a jumper is something you put a three year old in that's a bit like overalls. To you it's a sweater?

Pavement? Realise? WHAT'S HAPPENING?!?!?

Get Kali in here we need an authorized anglophile on the scene STAT!

18:48 / 23.05.07

(sorry)

...

We really don't look healthier than him at all, do we?

ONLY NICE THINGS

19:00 / 23.05.07

Get Kali in here we need an authorized anglophile on the scene STAT!

You actually have English people here, you realise?

19:04 / 23.05.07

Well, is that 'him' in the UK sense or the American?

Anyhow, www.plancenta.com does seem to be available. People would stop bugging me faster if I told them I was busy posting to placenta. Or the placenta headshop.

And, sadly, at least in California there are Americans using 'bollocks', who apparently have no clue what it means. It is, I was told last night (with nods of agreement from no less than two other people) a 'made up swear word, like darn or coot.' Despite them all being 'made up' words, and still having, y'know, actual meanings.

19:10 / 23.05.07

Coot?

Knickers!

19:19 / 23.05.07

Placenta's good. If a bit pink and gloopy.

I liked my garden idea, but I don't think it fits anymore, does it?

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

19:27 / 23.05.07

Let's make up a word that sounds good and has no known denotation and a different connotation for every person who hears it.

Like VADENOD. Or SILTABYN. That way there's nothing to complain about. We'll just vote on one we like the sound of.

On second thought, MASSOLIT is appealing right now...

I Id's idea here rocks supremely. A meanigless made up word would be completely problem free as far as I can see. I like the idea of the made up word maybe finishing with 'Lith' though - just to retain a bit of history and still legitimately be 'the Lith'. Maybe MASSOLITH, KLARGOLITH, SQUEMALITH, but really anything ending in Lith would be peachy.

19:47 / 23.05.07

Bummerlith ftw

20:00 / 23.05.07

It's an odd pub conversation.

"So, uh, what do you do in your spare time?"
"Oh, I hang around on an internet messageboard named after a cosmic hyperplacenta."
"Oh, how nice! Do they have kittens?"

Glenn Close But No Cigar

20:13 / 23.05.07

Anagrams could be good:

'Their Blab'

'Able Birth'

(Just occured to me that the latter actually hints at the placental (sp?) properties of GM's big red dot. No doubt this has already been discussed to death here, but it's a new one on me).

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20:15 / 23.05.07

MASSOLITH!

We'll have fans of Bulgakov flocking to us, though, going "Master and Margarita is the BEST NOVIL EVAR!!!1!0!!

!!! I am SUPREEM Rushan LITCRITD00D and I PWNZ0R J00!!!@#$%!@11!"

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

20:31 / 23.05.07

I just got a copy of that and now I feel all shallow and dirty. CURSE YOU ID.

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20:37 / 23.05.07

Oh, g0ds, you'll be one of Bulgakov's hordes of drooling fanidiots any day now I'm sure. Just last week I was at the 7-11 late at night and this pack of 14 year-old anarchist ravers came up and tried to tell me how Master and Margarita would break my head open to a vast new cosmic reality if I read it cover to cover while stoned and hanging upside down from something.

Most of 'em had cold compresses on their heads so it must have worked for them.

Seriously, I like M&M, it's my favorite piece of Russian literature. And if we were going to reference something that would have a following, at least it would be a different set.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

20:45 / 23.05.07

Well then:

Master and Margaritaville

That'll get us a nice duality right off the bat.

21:07 / 23.05.07

Id, that Bulgakov crack made me bite straight through the pizza and into my own teeth. I'd almost want to change it to Massolit[h] and get that troll, just for the novelty.

22:10 / 23.05.07

I think you can thank Buffy for that.

I think you can thank Spike for that.
Realise is realize over there isn't it, with all your crazy 'zees' where we have esses, and we have zeds where you have some zees. Pavement is sidewalk, innit.

22:13 / 23.05.07

"Fuck Barbelith", should be the name. That'll show him, that'll show them all we moved on.

Personally, I feel this idea has a lot of merit.

Glenn Close But No Cigar

22:25 / 23.05.07

Hmm, surely 'Make Love to Barbelith' would be more SFW?

22:27 / 23.05.07

Fork Barbelith

22:37 / 23.05.07

Hee, I looked up 'coot' as I knew it was a type of bird and something derogatory originally, but I couldn't remember what it was derogatory term for (old men apparently) it also refers to an amphibious vehicle... and... my favourite;

Coot - (Crystallographic Object Oriented Toolkit);

a molecular model building computer program used to solve crystallographic structures of proteins (and small molecules). - Courtesy of Wikipedia.

Closed for Business Time

22:46 / 23.05.07

Test Run.

As per here.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:00 / 23.05.07

I think you can thank Spike for that.

Leave the guy alone. Let him rest in peace, get some sleep, take his love and bury it in a hole six feet deep.

23:55 / 23.05.07

..and striving to veer back on topic that's my suggestion for the new name, that's what we should call the site.

Or maybe Spike/Baltar/slash.com.

00:05 / 24.05.07

You actually have English people here, you realise?

Yes, but what we need at this moment is someone who is steeped in both Americana and Britannica fortranslation purposes. No, not the book thing.

I think you can thank Spike for that.

As much as I'm a Spike junkie, didn't Giles add to the process as well?

00:11 / 24.05.07

That's the difference between Spike & Giles, right there- cojones.

00:13 / 24.05.07

...also the only two male English personalities found in Hollywood movies, posh or punk. I'm a Giles man myself, all I need is a library and a superpowered beautiful teenage girl to boss around and my dream will be realised!

00:19 / 24.05.07

what we need at this moment is someone who is steeped in both Americana and Britannica for translation purposes

I volunteer! Pick me! And it's 'English' by the way*, traditionally the Welsh, Scots and Irish (and Cornish) hate us more than Americans do, and you lot threw our tea in the sea. Bad show!
I mean to say, I can't translate into Gaelic or Welsh (and nobody can into Cornish) but I can do American to English.

*(Anglicana? No...)

00:34 / 24.05.07

I'm going to bed after realising I was lateshifting the thread. We should call the site LATESHIFT.

02:48 / 24.05.07

ONLY NICE THINGS

03:21 / 24.05.07

what we need at this moment is someone who is steeped in both Americana and Britannica for translation purposes

This may never happen again, but wasn't it Terry Pratchett/Douglas Adams/one of those ballocks who said that you can sit on an animal for a long time without knowing anything about it, whereas if an animal sits on you you learn quite a lot about it pretty quickly?

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06:05 / 24.05.07

Haus, are you suggesting that we find an English person to sit on XK and have XK sit on one of you? It's a creative suggestion, I admit, and there's no way of knowing if it'll work until we've tried it. I'm in favor.

ONLY NICE THINGS

06:15 / 24.05.07

Well, it's not _exactly_ the point I was making, but actually the more I think about it, the more indistinct and confused the point I was making seems to be, as if through a long tunnel in the dark.

Ex

06:56 / 24.05.07

A long reality tunnel? With an animal coming down it, who is going to sit on you.

You're very profound.

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:27 / 24.05.07

The animal is a walrus. It is STRETCHING THE REALITY TUNNEL. With its blubbery girth.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

07:29 / 24.05.07

How about just pronouncing it differently, or adding in a few more letters (which may have the same result)?

Say, Barrrbilithh, or Bar-b-lit(h)?

Oh Oh! I know - 84rb3l174.c0m.

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