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Thanks

Thanks for the welcome; I offten visit Santa Barbara and Gloeta on a monthly basis also. – Zntrip 01:48, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

My bad on the Bill Bellamy thing. Thanks, G. --MosquitoJeff 01:10, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

STUFFed and declined

Hey laufer, yeah i;m doing great, anyway what does STUFFed and declined mean? what was wrong with what i added? adn what does Wiki voted not to include it mean, does that mean we vote for adding stuff? Nikolce Kocovski 05:27, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes, we do sometimes vote on Fun Facts. Go to this page to find out a bit more. Here are the results of the vote for the item you're interested in. You can learn why people voted for and against the reference. Note that while this item is closed, there are other items still open; you may wish to vote on them. Hope that helps! Heimstern Läufer 05:35, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

German translation

Is the image of the normal homestar saying "I know can you believe it?" Tampo (^T/C) 02:20, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

It is, but Dot com has already answered this one. I'm already working on a new one, though. Keep checking back! Heimstern Läufer 02:23, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Pssst, try and make the new ones in the evenings, around... 10:00-11:00 Pacific time. ;) ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 02:32, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Like that's never happened before! ;-) Heimstern Läufer 03:04, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Stumped

I got nothin'. I tried translating one of the words, but that didn't help, so I tried another word, but that one wasn't any help either, so I just translated the whole phrase, and I still have no idea what it is. The translator gave "It was your improbably confused feeling for the world around you." I'm sure I'll kick myself when I see the answer. I suppose I should at least make a guess. How 'bout: "You total crap for crap." — It's dot com 20:40, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Hah! I finally found one you couldn't do! But I'm not giving away the answer yet. Maybe someone else will figure it out? You are on the right track with your first translation, but the answer you tried isn't correct. Keep try, everyone! Heimstern Läufer 20:43, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

(I was just kidding there with my first so-called guess. — It's dot com)

Got it. From TrogdorCon '97: "It was your unbelievably loose grasp on the world around you." Hooray for searching! — It's dot com 21:11, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Holy frickin CRAP! I just figured it out and got edit conflict'd! Salty^Talk! 21:11, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Somehow I knew you could get it with some time. I guess this counts as my most difficult one ever, eh? Heimstern Läufer 21:14, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Dangit! Why? WHY?!?!??! I said late at night! Night! Darned Saturday morning lumber mill shift... late by an hour. Oh well, maybe next time. I think you should max out number of wins at like 5 or something, then ban Dot com from the contest. =P ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 22:12, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

(Block log) 20:02, 5 February 2006 Heimstern Läufer blocked "User:It's dot com" from his German contest with an expiry time of infinite (He's done too freakin' many translations)

There, T-Bird, you happy now? :-) Dot com: Just kidding, man. You can keep on trangslatin'. :-) Heimstern Läufer 22:05, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

You got my hopes up for a second there. Until I read the second verse. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 22:07, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

German Quote Thingmabob

Hey Heimstern, do you mind if I do one on my page in Spanish? --אוקאלייליי (Ookelaylay)

Well, it's not like I have any authority to tell you not to! I like the way people are starting to imitate my style; I just hope it doesn't turn into another annoying fad. But anyway, I guess that's a go ahead. Heimstern Läufer 04:06, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Okay! Muchas Gracias Heimstern! --אוקאלייליי (Ookelaylay)

IRC

Hey, I know you can go on IRC (I just know) and, umm, I just got an IRC client, so, yeah. If you're on. Bluebry 01:03, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

4actor Zed

Haha, I figured somebody would swoop in there and "Americanize it". I don't really care, I just did that to see how long it would take for somebody to switch it. Just for the record, I don't actually say "Zed" at all. I remember learning the ABC's in kindergarden, with the teacher saying to all of us "No, not Zee, Zed!", trying to "Canadianize us". But around here I, as well as pretty much everybody else says "Zee", it's more the eastern Canada that do all the stereotypical "Zed, Aboot" crap. Living 5 minutes from the boarder, you pick up alot of Americanisms. Heck, I know the names of more presients than prime ministers. So to make a long story short, it was just an experiment, I hate being linked with Canadian stereotypes (not being a Canadian though, I love being Canadian), and I would have changed it back myself by tomorrow if nobody else did. Well that's my rant done, I'm gonna go get some sleep before my big exam tomorrow morn'. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 06:15, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Exam? Is that the "provincial" thing you were talking about? Anyway, I've actually often wondered if your being right by the US border might give you more Americanisms. I noticed that you wrote "favorite" on your page (in contrast to dear old Homestramy20, who always wrote "favourite"). But then, you seem to write "offence" when blocking, where I would write "offense". Perhaps your spelling is a bit of a mix of American and British styles? So, oddly enough, is mine. I tend to write "learnt" and "spelt" rather than the more American "learned" and "spelled". I also prefer the British style of putting periods outside quotation marks and I typically omit the Oxford comma, which is more common in Britain than here in the USA. I don't say Zed, but sometimes I wish I did. It sounds cooler. And keep loving being Canadian. I intend to keep loving being Californian. So that's my long rant. Talk atcha later. Heimstern Läufer 06:34, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I just saw your reaction to the remark about Canadian accents. No difference in accent between British Columbians and Washingtonians, eh? There are some definite differences between Californians and Oregonians (who in turn are more and less the same as Washingtonians), but mostly in word choice rather than pronunciation. In BC, do people usually refer to a carbonated drink as "soda", "pop" or something else? Heimstern Läufer 06:39, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Okay I lied, I didn't go to sleep. I watched Enterprise. But I'm going to bed now. In response to your questions however, here's pretty much the bottom line of accents as far as I percieve them. Accents are like the weather. It doesn't snow on one side of the border, and then change to rain on the other side. I'm pretty sure accents change slowly over distance, perhaps more suddenly from one isolated community to another. As for the spelling, I'm just a crappy speller, I switch often between the "American" versions of some words, and the "Canadian" versions of others. I know I always spell "color" without the u, but besides that word I'm not too aware of different ways of spelling things. I didn't really take a course on the correct way to spell "everything", if it's a plausible spelling that's what I go with until corrected. As for carbonated drink, "pop" is the oft' used term for it 'round these parts, I rarely hear "soda" or anything else. As far as punctuation, I really never think of which side of the quotation marks the punctuation is on. If it's in speech, I put it inside, if not, I put it out, basically it's just a case to case basis, without really following any hard fast "rules". The exam is the provincial exam (for English 12), and I haven't studied for it really at all. But I'll let you know how I do. Everybody I talk to say it's a cinch, which is why I've been cheating on my "lurker mode" as of late. Oh, and California is an awsome state. I spent a month down there once, our family bought a trailer, and me, my 3 siblings, and my parents spent a month driving down to Disneyland and back. Seaworld, some big zoo down there, the redwoods, Universal studios, even Tijiuana for a day, we saw it all. And I think it would be a great place to live. But I digress, it is now 11:38 up here, and I've got a test in the morn', so I'ma heading off to ye olde bede nowe. (Oh yea, sometimes I add useless e's to the ends of words, for a "random British" feel. There's really no explaining my writing style). ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 07:40, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

heh. Here in TX we say "Coke" even if we mean Pepsi, DP, Mountain Dew, etc. I think favourite looks better with a 'u' in it. csours 05:24, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I've always heard that Texans do that. It sounds very frustrating to me. How do you specify that you actually want a Coke, not a Sprite? And as for "pop", that is one of the most distinctly dialectic words you can say in California. People will ask if you're from the Northwest or the Midwest if you use that word here. "Soda" is the most normal word here. And I'll post a little more when I get back from church. Heimstern Läufer 02:39, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I've lived in Texas my whole life, and I never say it like that. Now, if somebody wants a cola (whether it be coke, pepsi, RC, etc) they most likely say Coke. Never does anyone say "cola". If they want a lemon-lime soda (sprite, Sierra Mist, and sometimes Mountain Dew and 7up), they say Sprite. I rarely hear anyone say "pop". Always soda or a brand name. Salty^Talk! 02:51, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

See, if you specifically want Coke, you want a "Coca-Cola." Except the second syllable can kind of get lost in there ("Co'Cola"). But around here in the NC piedmont, you want Pepsi instead. And yeah, like Strong Bad I think a lot of the British spellings are cooler, even though I don't use them. Particularly grey vs. gray; I had a very philosohpical discussion in high-school with a similarly artsily-fartsily-minded friend about how grey more accurately captured the ethos of grey-ness, where as "gray!" sounded like an Upper New Yorker trying to get your attention. —AbdiViklas 02:57, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

i never say "coke" like that personally either, but a lot of people do. they say pop, or soda pop in iowa (at least at my g'ma's house). i think grey just rhymes better... csours 05:24, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

"Grey" is British? That's odd, because I've always spelt it that way. As for "Coke" vs. "Coca-Cola", the latter word is very uncommon here in CA. It sounds a bit pretentious, as in "Why didn't you just say 'Coke'?" And I assure you that here, "Coke" pretty much always means Coca-Cola, not Pepsi (and definitely not Sierra Mist). People will know what you mean if you say "pop", but it sounds like an Oregonism (or possibly a Illinois...ism, depending on your viewpoint.

Now to respond to T-Bird's remarks about California. It sounds like you got a good sampling of our wonderful state! I'm assuming the zoo you're talking about must have been the San Diego Zoo. It's one of the world's most famous. I really need to go back to San Diego soon; believe it or not, I don't think I've been there in a decade. And you got to see Orange County and Los Angeles, both part of my beloved native metropolis. I'm so glad you saw the redwoods! Coastal NorCal is so different from the stereotypes of California! (So many people forget that there's more to us than L.A. and San Francisco.) So at some point you must have been on U.S. 101, whose sign I so proudly feature in my sig. Admittedly, though, Northern California is really not the same state as Southern (we have the same Governor and Legislature in Sacramento, but in other respects we might as well be two different states). But it's still a land I'm proud to call my own. I probably identify myself as a Californian as much as I identify myself as American. Anyway, I've got to finish some homework before tomorrow's bear of a seminar. Bis später! Heimstern Läufer 05:45, 8 February 2006 (UTC) <-- the sign for the 101!

sig question

so where do we talk 'bout stuff stuff? on the stuff page itself?, also have you ever voted for STUFF? csours 08:17, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

is the pic in my sig ok? it looked like it showed up ok on my own talk page, but when i looked at it other places it didnt... is this normal? is it ok? csours 09:24, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't really know our sig rules that well, but it looks fine to me. Have I ever voted in STUFF? Many times, man. Many times. Heimstern Läufer 02:20, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

i was trying to make a snide reference to the fact that it appears that you never vote for accept... but that fell on its face. and the sig question somehow resolved itself. it was hanging on the next line for a while in the STUFF box, but it isnt now, and it hasn't done it anywhere else csours 05:19, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, OK, I got it. It's not quite true that I never vote to accept items, but it certainly is true that I vote to decline probably about ten times as often. But you'll find I'm not the only one. Anyway, talk atcha later! Heimstern Läufer 05:26, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Spanish Quote

Congrats Heimstern!

GET OUTTA HERE, YOU LITTLE RUNT! {Freezes.} :-) Heimstern Läufer 06:12, 8 February 2006 (UTC) =D!--אוקאלייליי (Ookelaylay)