Forum game: Questions!

[Deloria]

Online? You and Delling.

Germany?

[Yonkey]

Sure.

Mariska Hargitay?

[Nebel]

Yeah, but I prefer Christoper Melino 

Vincent D'Onofrio?

[PirateKingChris]

REALLY creepy in The Cell.

New computer?

[Suzie]

Not for me, not for a while!

What will you do after replying to this post?

[Yonkey]

Go to bed.

When's the last time you went downtown?

[hula_chick]

Yesterday

Do you like cats?

[Suzie]

Not anymore..

Do you like salmon?

[Delling]

Not particularly, but I sometimes delude myself into thinking that I do so that I can eat the smoked salmon spread at Einstein's Bros. Bagels.

Help! My stickler has a machete! Would someone help please? My stickler has a machete.

(Posted on: June 23, 2008, 12:34:19 PM)

Surprisingly, I missed this reply to my own question while replying to the answerer of my question.

Um I think if you just switch words around they're still made up of all the same things, so they just destroy each other.

Not so. By changing the order of words in what is essentially a compound noun, you change the base or head of the compound and so change the thing which chiefly gives its characteristics to the compound noun in question. (cf. the numerous compounds in Sanskrit)

*attempts analysis*

We have here two compounds which are in turn compounded, thusly:
[robot/zombie/dinosaur] [pirate/ninjas]
~or~
[dinosaur/robot/zombie] [ninja/pirates]

I have underlined the heads of each compound. The first is chiefly a "dinosaur ninja" but the dinosaur component combines features of robots and zombies (something like an undead cyborg T-Rex or velociraptor (it's not specific about the type of dinosaur)) while the second is presumably more humanoid with some features of a dinosaur and some robotic bits while also being the unholy undead. The first is not just any robotic undead dinosaur but also a ninja who also does piratey things while the second is not just a zombie infused with advanced robotics and dino DNA but also a pirate with some of the sneakiness/stealth/killing power of a ninja.

After conceptualizing the beasts at hand, I can't decide which one is more destructive. (This is an extension of something a friend of mine brought up once.)

Anyway, I have to thank PK because this rant has successfully put my inner stickler to sleep.

[PirateKingChris]

I think I've already helped enough. A sleeping stickler can't put a machete to much use.

What should be the first game I install onto the new computer?

[Suzie]

Huuuuuuuuummmmm... Minesweeper?

What's the coolest thing you've ever heard of?

[Nebel]

Tesla coils! I should build one.

Should I build a Tesla coil? Small one, ofcourse

[PirateKingChris]

Only if you're gonna build big ones to help take over the world....I'll help 

A pitcher hit a home run?

[Suzie]

I bet the home run is gonna sue!!

Don't you think?

[Shades2585]

I try not too. It tends to get me into trouble. 

Should I post a pirate pic I took at camp?

[Yonkey]

Definitely!

Do you like exercising?

[PirateKingChris]

No but I gotta start doing it more.

Has it been a year already since LAST June?!

[Delling]

Lol... it must have been... thanks again... *eyes sleeping stickler cuddling a stuffed apostrophe/comma and covered in blankets which are actually pages of grammar rules*

Do you think I could ease the machete out of his other hand?

[Suzie]

I hope!!

Is hope not the best thing in the world?

[tessspoon]

For sure.

Why'd it take two weeks for Kohl's to call me back about a job when they said it take 4 days? :/




Dictionary: audacity (ô-dăs'ĭ-tē):
2. Also a very cool, free audio editing program.



Sorry, just noticed that