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unheimlich manoeuvre
14:22 / 25.07.03
cholister
bird - eun or eunlaith
song - amhran, oran or dan
starling - druid or druid-dubh

go on name bird
 
 
that
15:16 / 25.07.03
Ah, bless you. Much appreciated.
 
 
Abigail Blue
00:27 / 27.07.03
Does one pronounce the 'za' in 'zazen'? Anyone?

It's kind of urgent, so any help is appreciated...
 
 
Saint Keggers
05:02 / 27.07.03
Does anyone know of a program that will let me edit MP3s? I have a live version of a song and I want to get rid of the conversation that bookends it. (its Monday monday monday by Tegan and Sara live on CBCs Play, if anyone even remotely cared)
 
 
Maygan
00:09 / 28.07.03
Hello everybody!

How may I know do I log in as Hellappraiser, Radio free Bridgeport or Harts'nMines? I've been trying to do this for centuries ever since I got my rename by Q, Flux deputy mayor.

By the way, If I don't have a USB port on my PC, could I get an USB adapter to plug into the com port?
 
 
Mazarine
00:10 / 28.07.03
Question for costuming/sewing Barbelithers:

Does anyone know where I can find/purchase a pattern for an Inverness cloak, which would fit a man, aprox. 5'8", 150 lbs?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
02:16 / 28.07.03
You'd need to buy something like this to convert USB to serial.
 
 
Jub
10:32 / 29.07.03
Has anyone ever put chocolate in their chilli whilst cooking, and was it any good?
 
 
waxy dan
10:38 / 29.07.03
Yup, all the time.
It's delicious, but only in small amounts otherwise it dulls the flavour. I usually shave a few bits off a dairy milk. Most people use dark chocolate, but I prefer the normal stuff.
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
10:42 / 29.07.03
I was made some chocolate chilli at the weekend, from a recipe provided I believe by our very own Xoc. It was very nice indeed.
 
 
Jub
10:46 / 29.07.03
cool thanks guys, I'll add it bit by bit and keep testing.
 
 
waxy dan
12:17 / 29.07.03
Is there anywhere in London that you can buy buffalo-grass (it's a herby-thing used to flavour vodka)?
 
 
grant
21:13 / 29.07.03
Question for costuming/sewing Barbelithers:

Does anyone know where I can find/purchase a pattern for an Inverness cloak, which would fit a man, aprox. 5'8", 150 lbs?

Well, that depends. An opera cloak you'll find here or in this book.


An Inverness coat, which looks like an opera cloak but has sleeves, you'll find here or here (scroll down halfway) or something might turn up here.


Apparently, it's also called an "Inverness cloak," but nearly nothing turns up with that as a search term. Go figure.
 
 
Linus Dunce
21:34 / 29.07.03
waxy dan -- dunno, but you might try Borough Market on a Sunday. If you can't find the BG, you can console yourself with an afternoon drink in one of the bars round there.
 
 
Mazarine
21:46 / 29.07.03
Many thanks, dear Grant.
 
 
Saveloy
10:34 / 30.07.03
Is there a word for "expressing disapproval of someone's behaviour or actions by shouting at them or speaking to them in a rude or contemptuous manner when a nice, polite, civilised conversation could have been had instead and probably would have produced better results, too"? If there isn't a word for that, could someone make one up, please? I'd also like a word to describe the sort of person who does that sort of thing rather more often than they ought to.
 
 
Mazarine
10:40 / 30.07.03
I'd also like a word to describe the sort of person who does that sort of thing rather more often than they ought to.

Family, sugar.

As for the verb, the first one that pops into my head is lambasting, but it sort of lacks the notion that civility would've worked.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
12:07 / 30.07.03
Inverness cloaks: also known as ulsters. Try googling that or searching on ebay, and also try charity shops, home of all that is old and good. Or David Saxby's Old Hat, gentlemen's vintage emporium.
 
 
Mr Messy
13:07 / 30.07.03
Can anyone tell me how to stop WORD from changing its language to English US every 5 mins. It is so infuriating. I've tried setting Eng UK as default language- no effect. Is there something I'm missing.
This is all happening on work computer - Office 2000.
 
 
Baz Auckland
13:31 / 30.07.03
If you haven't started a new document since, you probably have to 'select all' or highlight everything you've written in your file, THEN change the language to English (UK).
 
 
Mr Messy
14:21 / 30.07.03
My God it worked. And it was so wasy. Baz you are a beauty.
 
 
Mr Messy
14:21 / 30.07.03
easy even.
 
 
pomegranate
14:26 / 30.07.03
how do you pronouce "futile"? i say "feud-al", but i've heard it pronounced "few-tile." which is right?
 
 
pomegranate
14:27 / 30.07.03
er, which is right in the states, in case there's a difference.
 
 
grant
14:39 / 30.07.03
I think the Borg and Davros alike said that resistance would be "few-TILE," not "FEW-dull."

For what that's worth.
 
 
pomegranate
17:19 / 30.07.03
grant owns this thread. someone resurrect the "pride of barbelith" awards thread and give him one for all the help he's given. we all bow at the feet of almighty grant, as well as his employer for allowing him the time for all this.
 
 
grant
17:21 / 30.07.03
For the sake of all that is holy, don't mention a thing to my employers. All they know is that I'm "researching leads."
 
 
Linus Dunce
18:51 / 30.07.03
Mr Messy, if it happens again -- I had a problem with this at work not so long ago so I went and removed the US keyboard from the list of options via the Windows control panel. That worked. Permanently. But I think I remember finding out later the source of the problem (sorry I can't check it here because I'm at home and down-version) was that there's a keyboard shortcut to switch languages (maybe alt-shift?) that can easily be entered accidentally.
 
 
Saveloy
16:15 / 31.07.03
Mazarine:

"Family, sugar."

Heh heh, spot on. The incident that prompted me to wonder about this involved my brother acting like a beligerent teenager and talking to our mother like she was an idiotic child.

"As for the verb, the first one that pops into my head is lambasting, but it sort of lacks the notion that civility would've worked."

Yeah, I think I need something that suggests 'bad tempered". Thanks for having a crack at it though.
 
 
unheimlich manoeuvre
16:27 / 11.08.03
hello... err could someone please tell me what kitsch means?
it keeps getting dropped in the BiP knitting thread...
 
 
pomegranate
17:10 / 11.08.03
kitsch is...er, ok. it means umm, something tacky, usually, but you often love it for being tacky. oftentimes it's something cloyingly cute/sweet, too.
like dorky pencil holders shaped like the state of texas, those corn-on-the-cob holders that look like little corn-on-the-cobs, etc.
i'm sure dictionary.com can do it better than i can:
Sentimentality or vulgar, often pretentious bad taste, especially in the arts

ok then.
oh, and i think it might've been originally yiddish but made its way into the general, Gentile vocabulary.
 
 
Jub
18:21 / 11.08.03
....and remember, not all kitsch is cool.
 
 
■
18:44 / 11.08.03
Something that has just started bothering me after a year or two of low-level buzzing. Is Hattie Hayridge the same person as Linda Smith after a typecast-breaking namechange or something? Anyone ever seen them in the same room?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
00:35 / 12.08.03
PDF on origin of kitsch.

It's German, originally, meant to designate "cheap stuff" by Munich art dealers. It's come to mean tacky these days, though, I think... cheap and nasty with a sort of ginchy charm.
 
 
that
13:27 / 15.08.03
Anyone know where I can find a decent, sizeable online list of colour names, with *or* without examples of what that colour actually looks like? Proper names, like azure and aquamarine and sienna, not paint company names like Fuckwit Fuschia or whatever.
 
  

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