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Post by stepper on Apr 5, 2016 20:09:02 GMT -6
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Post by Phalon on Apr 6, 2016 5:51:25 GMT -6
cavern
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Post by stepper on Apr 6, 2016 16:44:40 GMT -6
vernal
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Post by Phalon on Apr 7, 2016 5:17:25 GMT -6
kernel
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Post by stepper on Apr 7, 2016 18:17:58 GMT -6
Wow. I didn’t know that you were familiar with computer type words other than the standard “Oh D@mn” and “Does anyone remember the number to Computer Guy?”
relent
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Post by Phalon on Apr 8, 2016 5:50:14 GMT -6
You know there is a kernel of truth in that statement. I also know "WTF!!! " and "Stupid-@ss *&%$*@, %$@!#&, piece of *&&^%$%% *&^". repent
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Post by stepper on Apr 8, 2016 19:09:52 GMT -6
That even sounds like a programmer, or someone who used Windows for their home operating system.
But if you talk like that, you'll find the need to repeat the repent.
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Post by Phalon on Apr 9, 2016 4:29:29 GMT -6
Pfft. To repent, especially a repeat repent, is to defeat the purpose of doing it in the first place.
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Post by stepper on Apr 9, 2016 15:23:12 GMT -6
Spoken loudly enough you could defeat the repeated repent as it would deafen all to what you are really saying.
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Post by Phalon on Apr 10, 2016 6:42:24 GMT -6
It would not only deafen those listening to what is being said, but to be spoken loudly and repeated too often is to deaden the meaning of the repent.
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Post by stepper on Apr 10, 2016 13:13:56 GMT -6
The idea that those listening would think the repeated repent could deafen them and deaden the meaning would be embarrassing and that would redden the face, don't 'cha think?
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Post by Phalon on Apr 11, 2016 5:10:33 GMT -6
Don't know if it would be embarrassing enough to redden the face; people who tend to loudly repent repeatedly enough so that their repeated repent becomes is meaninglessly deadened and enough to deafen all who hear, aren't the kind of people who pay attention to anyone but themselves. It is enough to madden those around them!
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Post by stepper on Apr 11, 2016 18:44:32 GMT -6
It would sadden me to think it is enough to madden anyone simply because it might be embarrassing enough to redden the face of people who tend loudly and repeatedly repent to the point that their repeated repent is deadened to those who would chose to deafen themselves because they are the kind of people who pay attention to no one but themselves.
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Post by Phalon on Apr 12, 2016 5:45:50 GMT -6
No. What is this sudden lack of attention to detail on your part? It cannot sadden you to think it is enough to madden anyone simply because it might be embarrassing enough to redden the face of people who tend to loudly and repeatedly repent to the point that their repeated repent is deadened to those who would choose to deafen themselves because they are the kind of people who pay attention to no one but themselves because people who tend to loudly and repeatedly repent to the point that their repeated repent is deadened to those who would choose to deafen themselves because they are the kind of people who pay attention to no one but themselves never get embarrassed enough to redden their faces.
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Post by stepper on Apr 12, 2016 19:21:13 GMT -6
You'll have many sodden tissues; tears from laughing at this string. Why? Because you know it is not "I" who have any sudden inattention problems. It does so sadden me to think it is enough to madden anyone simply because it might be embarrassing enough to redden the face of people who tend to loudly and repeatedly repent to the point that their repeated repent is deadened to those who would choose to deafen themselves because they are the kind of people who pay attention to no one but themselves. Your claim that people who tend to loudly and repeatedly repent to the point that their repeated repent is deadened to those who would choose to deafen themselves because they are the kind of people who pay attention to no one but themselves [and] never get embarrassed enough to redden their faces doesn't really add up because to avoid the reddening they must choose to repel the repent from their ears - and to do that they must first know the repeated repent reoccurs. Repeatedly.
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Post by Phalon on Apr 13, 2016 5:52:27 GMT -6
Ooo, a chance to use, literally, a new word I ran across fairly recently.
Nope. If you are saddened by the LSRRs',(Loudly Spoken Repent Repeaters), faces reddened from embarrassment, you are wasting your emotions, because one simply cannot get embarrassed if they think of no one but themselves; they never even give pause to sonder anyone within ear shot of their repeated repents.
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Post by stepper on Apr 13, 2016 18:17:06 GMT -6
For anyone who wants to take a shot at this:
Sonder n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
Good luck.
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So, I was wondering about your use of sonder up yonder. You were thinking I'd be overwhelmed by your creation and definition of a new syndrome, and hoping that LSRRs after so much collaboration by both of us, combined with my obvious pre-edutopian travels through academia, would cause me to fail to notice your use of sonder as a verb. In deed, one wonders how you were exposed to this word at all; but then, when I confirmed the definition, I experienced the serendipitous discovery of a possible explanation. Sipping coffee in the background - that'd explain it.
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Post by Phalon on Apr 14, 2016 6:24:17 GMT -6
A noun as a verb? Surely not. It cannot be!
I'll go for a walk, a run, or maybe a drive to ponder the lexicon; nouns as verbs - sheesh! Who woulda thought? While I walk, run, or drive, (I think a walk is best), I'll decide I need a drink...coffee, of course, at my favorite coffee shop. Upon leaving the shop, I'll window shop while walk my walk and drink my drink, and ponder if it is at all possible to use a noun as a verb. A thought will cross my mind; if someone thought it was not possible to use a noun as a verb, I cannot possibly walk a walk or drink a drink. So WTF am I doing? I'll sight something that will interrupt my wondering what I'm doing, and what a sight it is!
It's an LSRR! And look! He's got a strange look on his face. He's suddenly stopped mid-repeated repent (repent as a noun, not the verb it should be), and appears to actually see me, and realize people actually exist outside his own world of repeated repenting. His sonder is expressed by giving me a nod as we pass, and we go our own ways. But in that brief moment, he'll sonder the extra sipping coffee in the background of his life.
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Post by stepper on Apr 14, 2016 17:58:21 GMT -6
Some times I wonder how we get into these conversations.
When this happens, does it mean that someone is stepping on your last nerb?
While you ponder the lexicon, while you walk and sip your coffee, it will finally dawn on you that your sonder seems so much of a burden. That idiot LSRR! That strange look on his face – he was still lost in his own world of repeated repenting - it dominates his every thought – and all his nod meant was his subconscious was vaguely aware of the potential interruption of the one thing that dominates the mush that was once a brain. All this loud repenting because, because, when he was twelve he spilled the top scoop of his three scoop Neapolitan ice cream cone, and it was the chocolate!!! Oh! The world is so unfair!
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Post by Phalon on Apr 15, 2016 6:04:34 GMT -6
We do tend to wander all over the place sometimes, don't we?
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Post by stepper on Apr 15, 2016 19:26:26 GMT -6
I don't know about you, but it happens to me because I pander to my sense of humor. Besides, wandering can be fun. "Not all those who wander are lost. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien"
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Post by Phalon on Apr 16, 2016 4:27:26 GMT -6
gander
Speaking of which, whatever happened to your duck/geese visitors?
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Post by stepper on Apr 16, 2016 12:43:49 GMT -6
I haven't seen them in weeks. One evening they came by for dinner, and then disappeared. I was hoping they were moving in but it appears not.
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Post by Phalon on Apr 17, 2016 5:16:10 GMT -6
Maybe your place was their winter abode, and they've now flown somewhere else during the warmer weather? If that's the case, you'll probably see them again in late fall.
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Post by stepper on Apr 17, 2016 13:31:48 GMT -6
That's certainly possible, but I won't know until next winter if that's it. Until then I have to live with the possibility that having surveyed the neighborhood, they decided they wanted classier digs.
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Post by Phalon on Apr 18, 2016 5:45:39 GMT -6
I bet they'll return next season, just like the two mallards that come to the ravine every spring and stay for a short while (they're still here) before moving on to nest somewhere else. The pair of Canadian geese too, that for years have built their nest on the pond back at the nursery. They've returned again also, and I don't know why they choose this exact spot - they've never been successful in raising their babies.
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Post by stepper on Apr 18, 2016 16:10:19 GMT -6
I hope they come back for a visit. But I wonder why the geese keep selecting the same spot if they always fail. And, what happens? Something robs the nest?
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Post by Phalon on Apr 19, 2016 4:53:04 GMT -6
The nest is robbed most often - probably coyotes or raccoons, we think. There was only one year that I can remember that the goslings actually hatched; we saw them swimming in the pond, and a day or two later, they and the parents were gone. A couple of days is much too soon for the babies to fly away, I'd think, so we assumed an animal got the babies, and the parents left shortly after.
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Post by stepper on Apr 19, 2016 17:28:38 GMT -6
Sad - must be heart breaking to watch. Do you have fish in the pond or whatever? I ask because I saw a video where a fish took a duckling from underneath. I'm guessing it was a catfish but it could have been a large mouth bass. Still, small things like kittens, puppies, and goslings always stir some kind of protective instinct. No matter what's happening, I want them to win out.
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Post by Phalon on Apr 20, 2016 5:50:59 GMT -6
I'm honestly not sure there are fish in the pond; there used to be koi in it, but I believe the Blue herons ate them.
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