Occasional Reader 4/4/2022 12:35:14 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 14:

The etymology of the word apparently hast to do possibly with both your people and my people:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/shamus

buzzsawmonkey 4/4/2022 12:37:58 PM

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In #14 Kosh's Shadow said: I don't know why detectives are sometimes called "shamus"

Well, the "shammes"---Yiddish for a "beadle"---is the guy who watches over a synagogue.  And there's a lot of Yiddish---and, in Hammett particularly, English/Irish/Cockney rhyming slang---incorporated into early-20th-century American fiction.

buzzsawmonkey 4/4/2022 12:39:04 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 15:

++++++++++++++

buzzsawmonkey 4/4/2022 1:10:32 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 13:

As I've said before, I appreciate your sentiments, but the problem is that I have absolutely no idea what it is I "know/don't know"; to me, this is merely the currency of everyday discussion, so I've no idea what would be of interest to others, nor what they do not know or might be interested in.

Occasional Reader 4/4/2022 1:17:56 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 18:

I think you are being too modest. Anyway, thank you for overlooking the obvious voice to text mistakes in my previous posts.

Occasional Reader 4/4/2022 1:27:48 PM

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I’m surprised I have not seen one of those “prove you’re not a robot“ tests yet (e.g. for Disqus logon) that goes something like:

Select all images that show: A tortoise laying on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to trun itself over, but it can’t; not without your help.   

lucius septimius 4/4/2022 1:28:08 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 20:

lucius septimius 4/4/2022 1:30:16 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 20:

Occasional Reader 4/4/2022 1:31:30 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 22:

Heh.  I’ve seen a similar thing done with “Bender”.

buzzsawmonkey 4/4/2022 1:53:20 PM

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In #23 Occasional Reader said: a similar thing done with “Bender”

I haven't been on one of those in a while...

Occasional Reader 4/4/2022 4:46:32 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 24:

make next weekend a lost weekend!

Kosh's Shadow 4/4/2022 5:18:16 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 24:

Bender the robot is fueled by alcohol. Watch his "not-bender" when he gives it up. Note the sign about "laptop dances"

Kosh's Shadow 4/4/2022 5:22:37 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 27:

Aww, the video cut off before the sign

buzzsawmonkey 4/4/2022 5:35:07 PM

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The Barcalounger Conservatives are yammering again...at WZ, at Insty, at PJM.  They're all yammering because it looks like Ketanji Brown Jackson will be confirmed (surprise!).  

They blame everyone in the world except themselves, while they wallow in their Barcaloungers and expect their Dream Conservative Government to be handed them on a silver platter.

Kosh's Shadow 4/4/2022 6:32:39 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 29:

Same as the people in some PJM comments who say they won't vote for Trump because he has some liberal positions. Great. Require absolute perfection but end up with the Dummicraps winning because you stayed home.

Kosh's Shadow 4/4/2022 7:04:31 PM

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vxbush 4/4/2022 6:42:01 AM

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Has inflation struck the daily breakfast image? Where are the giant spreads of food we used to have?

Breakfast Freedom Now!

JCM 4/4/2022 7:24:58 AM

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Yes, ma'am!

Triple chocolate and gluten free!

lucius septimius 4/4/2022 7:29:55 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 4/4/2022 7:54:05 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 3:

It sounds like the cleaning lady really cleaned up.

lucius septimius 4/4/2022 8:00:19 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 4:

She doesn't speak English, and I suspect she can't read - my sister left written notes which were obviously ignored.

Occasional Reader 4/4/2022 8:00:47 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w23oPQdnNH8

Seems appropriate.

buzzsawmonkey 4/4/2022 8:31:23 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 6:

******

NIAGARA FALLS!  Slowly I turned...inch by inch, step by step...

vxbush 4/4/2022 9:18:28 AM

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In #2 JCM said:

And gone, with delighted little murmurs filling the silence.

Occasional Reader 4/4/2022 9:45:38 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 7:

it is an underrated movie, in my opinion.

lucius septimius 4/4/2022 9:51:31 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 9:

It's great fun.

buzzsawmonkey 4/4/2022 10:03:06 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 10:

Not one, but two jokes in that link:  

1)  There are several Raymond Chandler stories where his detective, Philip Marlowe, makes coffee, and he, or someone else---like an inquiring homicide detective---discusses his coffee-making technique.  This scene is an obvious reference to those written scenes.

2)  There is a phrase that appears in a lot of early "hard-boiled" fiction; "Everything's eggs in the coffee."  This is a reference to the now-discarded practice of throwing some eggshells into the coffeepot for the purpose of clarifying the coffee---for some reason, eggshells were (at least supposed to) cause the particulate matter in coffee to precipitate out; "eggs in the coffee" was a synonym for "everything's fine/copacetic."

lucius septimius 4/4/2022 10:20:40 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 11:

When I think of eggshells I remember the series of Peanuts cartoons where Linus keeps forgetting to bring eggshells so they can make little igloos.

Occasional Reader 4/4/2022 11:12:02 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 11:

there really has to be someway for you to be able to teach the stuff; and monetize that teaching.

I do not know anyone who matches your level of knowledge of early 20th century American popular culture.

Kosh's Shadow 4/4/2022 12:26:33 PM

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In #11 buzzsawmonkey said: "hard-boiled" fiction

I don't know why detectives are sometimes called "shamus", but someone took that further with "Muktuk Wolfsbreath, Hard-Boiled Shaman" graphic fiction. Kept to at least some of the genre - dames is trouble.