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omphaloskepsis
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I cannot be bothered by my navel. There is nothing there to contemplate! I'm too busy with really important stuff.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Paronomasia
the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning.
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Now you're talking, but why pun-ish us by not giving a link ?
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I realize your mouth is a river unto Thy personalities, but, if you are going to sporge the Lounge with etymology, why not at least see if the word has ever been used here before (it has), and at least post something about the origins of the word.
The Greeks considered the navel (omphalos) the locus of the Soul in man, hence "omphaloskepsis" means, in a broad sense, introspection with perhaps a sub-text (using today's lingo) of "meditation."
The Omphalos, or navel-stone, at Delphi was considered a spiritual as well as geographic "center" of the Cosmos [^].
In order to redeem this emetic post, I offer the following thought:
"a river unto Thy personalities" is an example, in rhetoric, of a paraprosdokian, an "unexpected" finish to the use of a figure of speech [^].
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Time check: 5:55 AM. Can't sleep, so tried playing the guitar but my mind is thinking of bacon!
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Sing a song of bacon[^]
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Sing a Song of Bacon[^],
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty rashers,
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened,
My mouth began to drool;
I stuffed the whole thing in my gob,
And then I looked a fool.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Roadhog said: Say Bacon one more time!
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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: 5:55 AM ... playing the guitar
Your neighbours must love you. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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modified 4-Aug-16 18:49pm.
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Doesn't your phone have access to facebook?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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 I think someone missed his pet
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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He was talking about his computer, not his significant other, or is it the same? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Great subject line (the changed one, that is).
My RSS reader showed me I still had one unread post, but for the life of me I couldn't see it, because the bolded "-" looks exactly the same as the unbolded "-"...
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This is strange. This is the second post where there is just a dash (-) for the subject line and a dash in the text, but the responses are about a different post. What am I missing or are you guys just playing a prank on me? 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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That's a really strange heading, I know, but it leads nicely into the fact that JSOP has requested Video Articles[^] (or varticles). Being a person of low brow humour, I couldn't help but chuckle at the fact that it was close to farticles. Now, Chris has latched onto the thought that Featured Articles could be farticles.
This space for rent
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...and the 12 year olds within us rejoice.
(just deploying video-in-articles now)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: and the 12 year olds within us rejoice.
Much rejoicing! And frolicking even, I think.
frolick : to gambol merrily;
Yes, definitely. Let the gamboling begin. 
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: I couldn't help but chuckle at the fact that it was close to farticles.
I had the same exact thought too.
Jeremy Falcon
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farticling is always funny.
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