airdrik wrote:Them's isn't hieroglyphs, them's is Japanese numerals
Â, bikkurishita! Â, sô desu ka, airdrik-san!
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airdrik wrote:Them's isn't hieroglyphs, them's is Japanese numerals
airdrik wrote:StratPlayer wrote:udscbt wrote:Spoiler:
Everybody makes mistakes, you don't need to worry. Unless you don't like to be burnt by the Inquisition, then you should worry.
This reminds me that once I started to recite the digits of Pi with "three point two... doh"一, it happens.
一: then I restarted and went through the first 120 or so digits without errors二
二: yes, I spent some of my time三 to learn a lot of useless digits of Pi that I will never use because I will never need that level of approximation
三四: sorry, I meant Time
四: I saw that footnotes are quite popoular, so I though: "Why not?"
Thanks.
And nice hieroglyphical footnotes.
Them's isn't hieroglyphs, them's is Japanese numerals
Tigerlion wrote:Well, I imagine as the game progresses, various people will be getting moody.
BoomFrog wrote:I still have no idea what town moody really looks like.
StratPlayer wrote:
And because it's a NewPage since the last one:
What is the airspeed velocity of these fully-laden ducks?
udscbt wrote:BlitzGirl wrote:I quickly hit my next signpost:Spoiler:Spoiler:
And then this happened:Spoiler:
This is all too much. I need to coma. Hopefully Pope Helper shows up somewhere in the thread between my present and your present, and we can forget this whole thing even came up.
After long meditation I declare thatifwhen Too-Many-Titles BlitzGirl catch up with the thread she will be recognized as Living Blessed because the success of her Holy Quest is clearly a miracle.
If, when that happen, she will still be infullat least partial possession of her faculties, that will be considered a second miracle and she will be cannonized as Living Saint.
Asthanius wrote:fhorn wrote:BlitzGirl wrote:...somewhere in the thread between my present and your present.....
PRESENTS?!!??!!! I didn't know there would be presents!
*happy dance*
Each of us has but one present to give: our presence.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the "present."
-Oogway
Latent22 wrote:(many helpful things)
StratPlayer wrote:HAL9000 wrote:Asthanius wrote:HAL9000 wrote:BlitzGirl wrote:Quest progress: 289 out of 341 pages.
The Scaffolding Continued. NP 521.
This is all too much. I need to coma. Hopefully Pope Helper shows up somewhere in the thread between my present and your present, and we can forget this whole thing even came up.
I don't know if Helper will come back, or will wish to retain their post (perhaps they have forsaken us, and use only the Book of Aubron). We shall elect a new Pope upon your arrival.
Until then, I, along with the others here in the present, Wait for It. And for you. Keep it up!
Is the method of electing a new Pope at all similar to the methods of the Catholic Church?
No, Timewaiter Pope selection is not based on the rhythm method at all. It's fairly irregular and spontaneous.
And the only smoke is due to friction...
SBN wrote:I think the characters may have gotten away from Randall. Doesn't happen to all authors, but it isn't hugely uncommon for authors to explain that their characters have done things they weren't supposed to do. He may now be just watching and waiting along with the rest of us. (Although, presumably somewhere ahead of us in Time.)
fhorn wrote:Caswallon wrote:*ducks flying vegetables*
Ducks flying vegetables? Really, now, this is getting ridiculous.
First of all, where would they even get pilots' licences???
Valarya wrote:<snip>
Blitzgirl.
Cardinal Tempus Viator of the Timewaiters
B.O.B.
First of the True Followers of Time's time
Most True Followerer
Sister in Waiting
First (and only) Knight of the Knights Temporal
Red Spiders Eyes
Ghost of PresentPix
Time Architect of Signposts
Reader
Omnilector of Time
Mome/Pope Nominee of the TimeWaiters
Living Blessed
Living Saint - to be granted based upon your Sanity when arriving to the Present
Lots of edits for format purposes...
StratPlayer wrote:Valarya wrote:Spoiler:
I fear we may be thrusting too much upon our esteemed BlitzGirl, traveler of Time.
She has inspired all of us and demonstrated an amazing ability to Wait for it. She has given us her poetic talent and provided us with retro-clarity as to the Madness that was our own, just a few short NewPages ago.
I must rescind my earlier suggestion as to her Pope/Mome-ship. Of course, she would be welcome to take this duty if she wished, but if she wishes to be but a Troubadour of Time, I fully support it. She doesn't need for us to be rabid Popearatzzi if she chooses instead to hold a more humble position in our present Time of Waiting.
Let her compose great odes and sonnets of her epic quest! Let her regale us with her word-wizardry! Let her enjoy the rest of the present as she sees fit, without pressure from us to give us more. She has endured much, witnessed much, and survived a harrowing travel through Time.
That should be more than enough.
Angelastic wrote:Does the Troubadour of Time play ocarina?
Eliram wrote:StratPlayer wrote:HAL9000 wrote:Asthanius wrote:HAL9000 wrote:BlitzGirl wrote:Quest progress: 289 out of 341 pages.
The Scaffolding Continued. NP 521.
This is all too much. I need to coma. Hopefully Pope Helper shows up somewhere in the thread between my present and your present, and we can forget this whole thing even came up.
I don't know if Helper will come back, or will wish to retain their post (perhaps they have forsaken us, and use only the Book of Aubron). We shall elect a new Pope upon your arrival.
Until then, I, along with the others here in the present, Wait for It. And for you. Keep it up!
Is the method of electing a new Pope at all similar to the methods of the Catholic Church?
No, Timewaiter Pope selection is not based on the rhythm method at all. It's fairly irregular and spontaneous.
And the only smoke is due to friction...
I suggest that he who writes the first post in each newpage will be proclaimed Pope for the period on that newpage. All through the page he/she will be referred to as "Pope BlitzGirl" (in example), and the title will also be kept as long as you directly quote a pope's post in a page when they are Pope.
StratPlayer wrote:airdrik wrote:Them's isn't hieroglyphs, them's is Japanese numerals
Â, bikkurishita! Â, sô desu ka, airdrik-san!
buffygirl wrote:I, Timewaiter Buffygirl, Cardinal of The One True Comic, do hereby nominate you, udscbt, for the position of Cardinal. -poof!- You're a peanut butter and jelly sandwich! Wait, that's not right - - -
bigcrag92 wrote:I Bigcrag92 being of soundish mind yada yada yada do ratify the cardinalship of udscbt nominated by buffygirl. may I and buffygirl be stuck down if we have erred in this decision.
bigcrag92 (continued...) wrote:by the power vested in me I now name you Cardinal peanut butter and jelly sandwich udscbt. arise my brethren
udscbt wrote:StratPlayer wrote:airdrik wrote:Them's isn't hieroglyphs, them's is Japanese numerals
Â, bikkurishita! Â, sô desu ka, airdrik-san!
Shouldn't there be a question mark?
<snip>
Flado wrote:Latent22 wrote:(many helpful things)
Thank you!
"semen" was somewhat to be expected; I was wondering more about the cancer and the babies - whether there was a link with the "meaning of Time" theories?
Valarya wrote:udscbt wrote:StratPlayer wrote:airdrik wrote:Them's isn't hieroglyphs, them's is Japanese numerals
Â, bikkurishita! Â, sô desu ka, airdrik-san!
Shouldn't there be a question mark?
<snip>
the -ka denotes that it's a question. you don't need questions marks in japanese.
buffygirl wrote:I, Timewaiter Buffygirl, Cardinal of The One True Comic, do hereby nominate you, udscbt, for the position of Cardinal. -poof!- You're a peanut butter and jelly sandwich! Wait, that's not right - - -
bigcrag92 wrote:I Bigcrag92 being of soundish mind yada yada yada do ratify the cardinalship of udscbt nominated by buffygirl. may I and buffygirl be stuck down if we have erred in this decision.
bigcrag92 (continued...) wrote:by the power vested in me I now name you Cardinal peanut butter and jelly sandwich udscbt. arise my brethren
Valarya wrote:udscbt wrote:StratPlayer wrote:airdrik wrote:Them's isn't hieroglyphs, them's is Japanese numerals
Â, bikkurishita! Â, sô desu ka, airdrik-san!
Shouldn't there be a question mark?
<snip>
the -ka denotes that it's a question. you don't need questions marks in japanese.
udscbt wrote:Oh, ok. I thought you needed both. It seems that I will improve my Japanese in this thread in addition to English (not that I can say much more than "Good morning, my name is udscbt" in Japanese).Spoiler:
histrion wrote:udscbt wrote:Valarya wrote:udscbt wrote:StratPlayer wrote:airdrik wrote:Them's isn't hieroglyphs, them's is Japanese numerals
Â, bikkurishita! Â, sô desu ka, airdrik-san!
Shouldn't there be a question mark?
<snip>
the -ka denotes that it's a question. you don't need questions marks in japanese.
Oh, ok. I thought you needed both. It seems that I will improve my Japanese in this thread in addition to English (not that I can say much more than "Good morning, my name is udscbt" in Japanese).
How is "udscbt" syllablized in Japanese?
Montov wrote:What is disgusting to eat, but not a problem to stand in?
Asthanius wrote:histrion wrote:How is "udscbt" syllablized in Japanese?
Very carefully.
I've always wanted to be able to do that
Montov wrote:What is disgusting to eat, but not a problem to stand in?
Montov wrote:What is disgusting to eat, but not a problem to stand in?
Asthanius wrote:Eliram wrote:StratPlayer wrote:HAL9000 wrote:Asthanius wrote:HAL9000 wrote:BlitzGirl wrote:Quest progress: 289 out of 341 pages.
The Scaffolding Continued. NP 521.
This is all too much. I need to coma. Hopefully Pope Helper shows up somewhere in the thread between my present and your present, and we can forget this whole thing even came up.
I don't know if Helper will come back, or will wish to retain their post (perhaps they have forsaken us, and use only the Book of Aubron). We shall elect a new Pope upon your arrival.
Until then, I, along with the others here in the present, Wait for It. And for you. Keep it up!
Is the method of electing a new Pope at all similar to the methods of the Catholic Church?
No, Timewaiter Pope selection is not based on the rhythm method at all. It's fairly irregular and spontaneous.
And the only smoke is due to friction...
I suggest that he who writes the first post in each newpage will be proclaimed Pope for the period on that newpage. All through the page he/she will be referred to as "Pope BlitzGirl" (in example), and the title will also be kept as long as you directly quote a pope's post in a page when they are Pope.
I feel like this can result in power abuse.
histrion wrote:udscbt wrote:Oh, ok. I thought you needed both. It seems that I will improve my Japanese in this thread in addition to English (not that I can say much more than "Good morning, my name is udscbt" in Japanese).Spoiler:
How is "udscbt" syllablized in Japanese?
buffygirl wrote:I, Timewaiter Buffygirl, Cardinal of The One True Comic, do hereby nominate you, udscbt, for the position of Cardinal. -poof!- You're a peanut butter and jelly sandwich! Wait, that's not right - - -
bigcrag92 wrote:I Bigcrag92 being of soundish mind yada yada yada do ratify the cardinalship of udscbt nominated by buffygirl. may I and buffygirl be stuck down if we have erred in this decision.
bigcrag92 (continued...) wrote:by the power vested in me I now name you Cardinal peanut butter and jelly sandwich udscbt. arise my brethren
“…how it would be nice if, for every sea waiting for us, there would be a river, for us. " - Alessandro Baricco, Ocean Sea
A wonderful stream is the river of Time
As it runs through the realms of tears,
With a faultless rhythm and musical rhyme,
And a broader sweep and a surge sublime,
And blends with the ocean of years.
Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years,
Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe
Are brackish with the salt of human tears!
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow
Claspest the limits of mortality!
And sick of prey, yet howling on for more,
Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore,
Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm,
Who shall put forth on thee,
Unfathomable sea?
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Time.
There is a black river
It passes by my window
And late at night
All dolled up like Christ
I walk the water
Between the piers
Singing
Oh
River of sorrow
River of time, river
River of sorrow
Don't swallow this time
For we all know the baby has expired
Long ago she was pulled from the mire
And no precious liar or well-wisher
Can return the love that was stolen
- River of Sorrow, Antony and the Johnsons
The past is lost in the
ocean of Time, even as the waters of our rivers fall into
the sea and are swallowed up ; but it is not annihilation,
only a stage in the inevitable universal law of rotation,
in virtue of which the life of this globe continues from
age to age. The shores of the ocean of Time are ever-
more strewn with the wreckage of life, yet ever, as we
wander sadly amid the mournful debris, we shall find,
if we look aright, the reassuring emblem of Hope.
- "The Magic Carpet", Edward Rimbault
histrion wrote:"Gunaxf gb gur Grzcbeny Vyyhzvangv, zl jbex cebqhpgvivgl unf qrpernfrq qenzngvpnyyl! Gunaxf, Rayvtugrarq Barf!"
buffygirl wrote:I, Timewaiter Buffygirl, Cardinal of The One True Comic, do hereby nominate you, udscbt, for the position of Cardinal. -poof!- You're a peanut butter and jelly sandwich! Wait, that's not right - - -
bigcrag92 wrote:I Bigcrag92 being of soundish mind yada yada yada do ratify the cardinalship of udscbt nominated by buffygirl. may I and buffygirl be stuck down if we have erred in this decision.
bigcrag92 (continued...) wrote:by the power vested in me I now name you Cardinal peanut butter and jelly sandwich udscbt. arise my brethren
cmyk wrote:How can I be so riveted to the Internet equivalent of watching grass grow?
mscha wrote:We can ignore reality; in fact, we'll have to, since only Randall knows what it is.
htom wrote:Have the mini-castles always been different sizes? Is this a (changing?) perspective thing, or just my old eyes?
histrion wrote:ETA: W00t! I'm POPE now, y'all!
Illud expecto, ergo sum.Magdiragdag wrote:I wait for it, therefore I am.
KarMann wrote:histrion wrote:ETA: W00t! I'm POPE now, y'all!
If we were to go with this rotating-Papacy business, what happens if something happens like e.g. histrion getting first post on a NewPage, then some n00b's post from the past gets approved, and suddenly htom has the first post on the NewPage?
Asthanius wrote:What happens if somebody with a position above Pope gets the top reply on a page? Do they get temporarily demoted, or does the Papacy go to the second reply?
cmyk wrote:How can I be so riveted to the Internet equivalent of watching grass grow?
mscha wrote:We can ignore reality; in fact, we'll have to, since only Randall knows what it is.
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