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Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1443
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 7:37 am: | |
Of #'s 4, 12 and 36, which one took you the longest, and how long did it take you? I just want to know if these #'s are truly hard or if I just suck at this game! |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1449
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 9:07 am: | |
I played Gargantua about 6 month ago and stopped after 5 games have won. Will try your other numbers, but i have to read the rules first again.
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Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1450
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 9:47 am: | |
Had time for #12:
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Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1444
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, July 30, 2010 - 7:16 am: | |
Markus, being on holiday has definitely sharpened your skills. All 3 of those games took me over 20 minutes to win! |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5483
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, July 30, 2010 - 7:42 am: | |
I won #4 in 8 mins 23 Ken. An observation re the times would be that they have no relevance as you can turn off the "kings only" option which would make the game very much easier and faster to win. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1445
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, July 30, 2010 - 7:38 pm: | |
Thanks for pointing that out, Richard. I guess I should have specified Goodsol 101 where you don't have the option of turning off the Kings Only option! |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5489
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 4:00 am: | |
Apologies Ken.It should have been obvious. I guess that I've still to catch up with some sleep after our travels.
I'll stick to my guns about times being fairly irrelevant though. Anyone could slaughter Markus's times by winning the games under a different name before playing them for real with the moves already written down. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1457
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 5:30 am: | |
Ken, don't ask, how i did it in february so fast. It came out. When i would have played #12 without knowing it is a harder one, i am sure it would have taken me more time. But i knew it and so i was extremely carefully what i did.
BTW # 36 is the hardest of those three. Got stuck with a problem getting a black 7 to win it. Maybe i have to start from the start again. Time so far: about 15 minutes. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5491
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 6:42 am: | |
Don't give up guys.
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Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1458
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 7:05 am: | |
You know Richard, i don't give up, but i am at time more in the cherry tree than behind the computer. The advantage is the home made cherry schnaps (?) after that.
I think i will find today eves again time to try it. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1459
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 7:17 am: | |
Nice one.
(It wasn't 15 minutes, but 20 minutes already plus 10 minutes to find the black 7 i needed.) |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1446
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 9:00 am: | |
Markus, that's a good point about knowing ahead of time that the game is difficult. I'm glad that I'm not the only one who had trouble with #36. Markus, I'll ask you my question about time (since Richard doesn't care), in PGS 101 do you play with autoplay on or off? Obviously if if you KNOW it is an easy one, you play with it on so that the cards fly up to the foundations. But if it is a difficult one and you play with it on and you can't win it right away, then you have to go back to the beginning and play it again with the autoplay off and pay more attention to the game. So if your goal is the quickest time possible, what is your strategy? |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1460
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 11:10 am: | |
I am always playing with Autoplay on. I usually do always all possible moves, trying to uncover the bigger piles first, when you have two possibilities. When i got stuck, then i try to find the problem and then i use the undo button back to a position where i guess doing another move maybe helps me to win it then.
E.g. (for example (is the shortening right?)) in #36 i had the problem at the end to get an black 7. All tries didn't work. So i went back nearly to the start of the game where i put a 7S (not 100% sure) from the stock onto a 8D in one of the bigger piles. Then i waited till i could use the hidden 7C which was hidden in the last pile. With that it was after that much easier, but still with some small problems.
I am more working with undo and redo moves then turning Autoplay off. I turn it off, when i have to put cards back down from the foundation piles onto a tableau pile.
BTW Ken, i was just looking for another game. I don't like the Klondike mode games, but maybe i will try to catch you again. (In Egypt i am at 240, still waiting for you.) |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1461
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 11:11 am: | |
Richard, what's your time for #36? |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5494
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 11:31 am: | |
I didn't really time it Markus and I played it in PGS. Somewhere between 15 and 20 minutes would be my best guess. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1463
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 12:48 pm: | |
Ken, i just saw, that i was 0.2 s faster than you with #5. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1447
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 2:51 pm: | |
I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1448
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 2:56 pm: | |
BTW, Markus, since you are playing PGS 101 in Germany, obviously it is in German. (Is Donnerstag Saturday?) But then why does it say "Today"? |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5496
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 3:04 pm: | |
If it says "today" then it will always be correct. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1449
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 3:10 pm: | |
But shouldn't it be today in German?
(And to clarify, because Richard you're like butter, you always need clarification, the word "today", not the actual day!) |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5497
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 3:21 pm: | |
Maybe the software used Google translator?
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Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1464
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 3:41 pm: | |
today is not a german word. When the translator did not know the right word he put out the same word.
Monday Montag
Tuesday Dienstag
Wednesday Mittwoch
Thursday Donnerstag
Friday Freitag
Saturday Samstag
Sunday Sonntag
Today heute
It says today, because i played it today on Saturday. #12 i played 2 days ago. The time is showing is my Mac-time in the computer. When i am playing tomorrow another game, then the today will change into saturday. Hope i could explain everything understandably (?). Maybe it is a little bit different in PGSME. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1465
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 3:43 pm: | |
And Richard, the program is all in English. When i am right, there is no german version. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1466
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 4:04 pm: | |
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Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5498
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 4:30 pm: | |
We did notice that some of the words are in German and some are in English. Ken pointed out correctly that it is an illogical mixture. We would have expected "today" and "yesterday" to have been in German too.
I was going to say that Ken is like Heather Mills at times, and doesn't know when I'm pulling legs. I WAS going to say that........but I changed my mind. (You can just ignore it). |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1214
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 4:46 pm: | |
Do you know Heather Mills? Oh wait, it's too late to get an introduction to Sir Paul isn't it? |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1450
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 5:49 pm: | |
Richard, I knew and I was pulling YOUR leg in return.
(Does that mean that poor Heather doesn't have a leg to stand on?) |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5500
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 6:27 pm: | |
Probably Ken, but I've been pretty legless myself on occasion. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1216
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 7:15 pm: | |
I thought you had a "hollow leg", Richard. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1452
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 11:29 pm: | |
Yes he does, and it comes in handy when there is a long line for the loo! (How's that for alliteration?) |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1467
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2010 - 1:42 am: | |
Richard, i didn't recognize so far, that it is truly in two languages. It seems, that i am in 3 languages so common, that i read it without thinking what language i read.
When i was in Germany then i sometimes tried to talk to my father in Estonian. I have to put in a switch into my mind for different languages. Otherwise it will lead to chaos.  |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5503
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2010 - 4:35 am: | |
Ken, Drunks drink draught and greedily gulp gallons.Bladders become bloated. Locate loos leglessly. People pass xxss and proceed to process plenty more. Now THAT'S alliteration.
Markus, We appreciate how difficult it must be switching between three languages all of the time. It's remarkable. You are far more confident with English now. I'm surprised that you don't get flummoxed and get yourself into a right kerfuffle. Let's see what the translator makes of that sentence.
(My mother used the final word quite frequently). |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1468
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2010 - 4:41 am: | |
KERFUFFLE/kəˈfʌf(ə)l/
A commotion or fuss.
You will most commonly come across this wonderfully expressive word in Britain and the British Commonwealth countries (though the White House spokesman Ari Fleischer used it in January this year). It is rather informal, though it often appears in newspapers. One of the odder things about it is that it changed its first letter in quite recent times. Up to the 1960s, it was written in all sorts of ways — curfuffle, carfuffle, cafuffle, cafoufle, even gefuffle (a clear indication that its main means of transmission was in speech, being too rarely written down to have established a standard spelling). But in that decade it suddenly became much more popular and settled on the current kerfuffle. Lexicographers suspect the change came in response to the way that a number of imitative words were spelled, like kerplop and kerplunk.
In those cases, the initial ker– adds emphasis, as it does in other words, perhaps onomatopoeic but perhaps also borrowing the first syllable of crash. But we know kerfuffle was originally Scots and it’s thought that its first part came from Scots Gaelic car, to twist or bend. The second bit is more of a puzzle: there is a Scots verb fuffle (now known only in local dialect), to throw into disorder, dishevel, or ruffle. No obvious origin for it is known and experts suspect it was an imitative word. It is probably linked with Scots fuff, to emit puffs of smoke or steam, definitely imitative, which in the late eighteenth century also had a sense of going off in a huff or flying into a temper.
Some specialists think kerfuffle is also related to the Irish cior thual, confusion or disorder. It seems to be a minority opinion, though. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1469
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2010 - 4:46 am: | |
BTW i am often enough getting confused, especially when you are using your special vocabulary.
And i am using my dictionary more seldom.
And as you can guess: the online translator got entangled (!) with your kerfuffle. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1470
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2010 - 4:47 am: | |
Do you know the following homepage?
www.flummoxed.org |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5504
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2010 - 5:36 am: | |
Sadly many brilliant old Scottish words are being heard less and less frequently. I like to try and keep words alive.
Your translator may have got entangled, but you managed to define it well.
Liz and I were debating the meaning of boorach or boorachie recently. Online sites disagree with what it means in Doric regions. We maintain it is a tight (crammed) group of people in a huddle, frequently discussing something secretively or furtively. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1219
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2010 - 5:58 am: | |
I got thoroughly confused reading your recent posts guys. The main thing I'm confused about is why Markus' stats are in English and German. I'm sure you explained it, Markus, but I didn't understand. BTW, I don't remember Ari Fleischer using that word, although I'm sure he did. I probably didn't know what he was talking about and just disregarded it. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1454
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2010 - 9:47 am: | |
Markus, don't be worried about not understanding what Richard says, nobody else (including us English-born speakers) understand him either! |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5512
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2010 - 10:29 am: | |
You should have attended school more often Ken. Once a week is not enough. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1474
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2010 - 10:39 am: | |
That wouldn't help. I am still at school. Without success. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1805
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2010 - 1:37 pm: | |
I am in Hyperfuffle most of the time. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5516
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2010 - 1:42 pm: | |
We look forward to the photos then Mike. Do they have a golf course? |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1480
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2010 - 1:46 pm: | |
Why didn't i met you there? Oh, i forgot, it's too crowdy (?) of forum people. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5518
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2010 - 2:21 pm: | |
I don't think it would be too crowded, unless it was with people from some other forum, or people from The Dark Side, aka Facebook. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1482
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Monday, August 02, 2010 - 11:51 am: | |
Ken, maybe my last three games are making you happy? But maybe not.
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Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1455
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 02, 2010 - 8:36 pm: | |
Markus, Here are my times:
#28 12:49
#29 6:09
#30 6:01
My bad trio was 36, 37, and 38. How did you do on those?
#36 24:45
#37 20:48
#38 24:00 |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1487
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2010 - 1:19 am: | |
BTW i got you, and Mike got us. And i got one under 4 minutes. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1456
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2010 - 7:32 am: | |
It looks like you guys will pull ahead of me because I'm going to visit my parents this weekend. It's my dad's 78th birthday! |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1489
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2010 - 7:40 am: | |
Happy birthday from Estonia too. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5522
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2010 - 8:50 am: | |
Couldn't they have come to visit you? It's been ages since they did that. Maybe you should bring them back with you as a birthday treat. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1806
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2010 - 3:33 pm: | |
I'll wait until you get back. Have fun. It's a bit of a bicycle ride though isn't it? |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1457
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2010 - 6:16 pm: | |
They'll be back for their annual winter visit soon enough, Richard! |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5523
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2010 - 6:44 pm: | |
A bit like the migration of the Snow Geese, except that it's snow joke? |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1807
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2010 - 11:11 pm: | |
It's "snow joke". Ha. I get it. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1458
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 2:14 am: | |
Don't encourage him, Mike... |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1808
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 4:28 pm: | |
He needs no encouragement. As Celine Dion say's it will go on and on and on". |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5525
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 5:18 pm: | |
I was looking for a clip of Mrs.Doyle from the comedy TV series "Father Ted". Her punch line is "Oh go on,go on,go on,go on,go on go on,go on". I couldn't find a good example but found this one. It's hilarious........but......
ABSOLUTELY NOT FOR KATHY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLTnacYvvg4
It may get blocked outside the UK by the original TV company. I hope not. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1225
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 10:12 pm: | |
Thanks for the warning Richard. I remember watching Father Ted years ago, and I think I remember Mrs. Doyle, but I don't remember her punch line. Anyway, I think I'll pass on your example. Trying to stay good for a change. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1492
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Friday, August 06, 2010 - 8:46 am: | |
Richard, great clip!!!
But as you said: NOT for Kathy. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5537
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 06, 2010 - 9:27 am: | |
Ha! You are certainly expanding your English vocabulary Markus! |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1495
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Friday, August 06, 2010 - 11:56 am: | |
Your f..... bastardy (... ... ... ) right.
Sorry, i forgot: NOT FOR KATHY |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1233
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 06, 2010 - 3:25 pm: | |
That's okay, Markus. I didn't understand what you said anyway. So no harm done. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1500
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, August 07, 2010 - 11:10 am: | |
I got you all !!! I am waiting for you Mike and Ken, but not for long. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5559
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 07, 2010 - 1:36 pm: | |
Here is the clip I wanted originally. You can watch this one Kathy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w0ZyfkukUs&feature =related |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1505
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, August 07, 2010 - 2:24 pm: | |
Richard, i am glad you didn't find this one first. The other "i liked more" (?). |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5563
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 07, 2010 - 4:48 pm: | |
Yes I liked it more too. It was a brilliant show and we get occasional repeats on TV usually fairly late at night. Father Jack is the most outrageous character. I don't know how they got away with some of the script. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5565
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 07, 2010 - 5:53 pm: | |
This U.S. comedian was on TV again tonight. I then found the exact same show on Youtube. It may give you an insight into the British mindset and perhaps our sense of humour. You may even land up understanding ME!
Kathy, the worst language in it would be the phrase "Taking the pxss".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuq8ZU2Uf_0 |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1246
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 07, 2010 - 9:19 pm: | |
I must have missed your point, Richard. Maybe I'm used to his kind of comedy and thought it was just business as usual. He wasn't bad and I laughed several times, although I have to admit I never heard of him before. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 1509
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, August 08, 2010 - 12:17 am: | |
Richard, what do you think of "Calvin and Hobbes"?
And when i am remember right then there is a cartoon with a cow which shows the British black sense of humour. Do you know something about that? |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
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Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1818
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 08, 2010 - 12:27 am: | |
Black Udder. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1253
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 08, 2010 - 4:27 am: | |
Mike, as you said before, I think Richard's sense of humor is rubbing off on you, and it's frightening. (Please reply if you were really serious about "Black Udder".) |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5568
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 08, 2010 - 5:01 am: | |
The point I was making about the video clip is that the Brits DO "take the pxss" out of everything as the comedian pointed out. Watch it again. BTW he appears regularly on UK TV. So does Rich Hall. Some American comedians practically live here now. We get a LOT of comedy on TV.
Ah Markus! Calvin & Hobbes! They appear in the Daily Express every day. They are excellent! The paper itself is far less excellent. It always has scare monger headlines. We buy it for the cryptic crossword. I've been doing that one for decades.
I've not heard of the cartoon cow but Black Udder does sound like a likely title. Have you heifer heard such a witty name?
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Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1254
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 08, 2010 - 5:05 am: | |
I don't understand what "take the pxss out of everything" means. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
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Username: Markus
Post Number: 1515
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, August 08, 2010 - 5:08 am: | |
No. I have to search a little. When i studied there were a girl half irish (or american) half german and she had some cartoons with deep black british humour.
BTW i don't would read the translated Calvin and Hobbes. They are much better in the original English version. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 5572
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 08, 2010 - 5:20 am: | |
"To take the piss is an expression meaning to mock, tease, ridicule or scoff. Take the mickey (or variations) are euphemistic ways of conveying this expression where the word may be vulgar".
(You can Google anything you don't understand). |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
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Post Number: 1517
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| | Posted on Sunday, August 08, 2010 - 5:27 am: | |
Maybe they were reprinted versions of the cartoons from W. K. Haselden. But they are not black enough as i remember. Here an example:
You can watch them all at:http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/search/cartoon_item/cow?page=1
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Mike Butler (Butler77)
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Post Number: 1822
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 08, 2010 - 12:59 pm: | |
markus made the comment about the cow cartoon and the dark side of British humor. Instead of Black Adder I said Black Udder. Sometimes when you have to explain it, it is not funny at all. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
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Post Number: 1522
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| | Posted on Sunday, August 08, 2010 - 1:28 pm: | |
Mike, for me you didn't need explain it.
BTW did you know, that Rowan Atkinson was also in a James Bond film? |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
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Post Number: 1823
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 08, 2010 - 1:34 pm: | |
Yes I did know that. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 5581
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 08, 2010 - 1:38 pm: | |
I actually thought you were being serious Mike. Black Udder would have been a brilliant title. Maybe we should write a screen play. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
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Post Number: 1536
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 4:14 pm: | |
For all who are looking for harder ones: a lot of people would give #91 a loss.
Ken that was the hardest one so far.
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Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
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Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1471
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 6:10 pm: | |
Thanks, Markus, I'll give it a go! |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 5610
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 6:40 pm: | |
It's a honey Ken. I've just played it.
You can add about 10 minutes onto the time in my snip. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
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Post Number: 1538
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 12:48 am: | |
I am glad to have found you two (ToE and G) nice ones yesterday Richard. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 5611
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 4:08 am: | |
Great games Markus! |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
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Post Number: 1539
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| | Posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 5:58 am: | |
And i am glad to got them solved before i had to ask if they are really not winnable. :-) |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
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Post Number: 1479
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 14, 2010 - 5:41 pm: | |
Markus, I finally got around to playing Gargantua #91. It took me 8:38. What is that old saying about rather being lucky than good? |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 5664
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| | Posted on Saturday, August 14, 2010 - 6:51 pm: | |
Ken, Have you been getting tips from anyone? |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
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Post Number: 1480
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 14, 2010 - 7:20 pm: | |
No, I fully expected to be at my computer for a long time. I was singing along to my stereo "Build me a Buttercup" and all of a sudden, like a vision, the solution appeared to me. I felt like I was in Lourdes or Medjugorje! |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
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Post Number: 1835
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| | Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 12:35 am: | |
How about #99? |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
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Post Number: 1559
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| | Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 2:39 am: | |
Good Question, i am still working on it, but have had no time to play at all, but it is far from easy. If Ken do this also under 10 minutes, ... |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
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Post Number: 1481
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 4:54 am: | |
No such luck, Markus. Mike found a good one! So far my best score is 55 with only 8 in the waste. Where is Richard? It is too early to be at the pub. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
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Post Number: 1482
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| | Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 5:05 am: | |
Got it! And it only took me 31:38. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 5666
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 6:26 am: | |
It's Sunday Ken. I rarely drink at weekends unless we're away from home.
I had about 15 minutes at your game and came back to the forum to ask Markus if he really meant to type "under 10 minutes" !!!! No chance. Now that you've won it I'll give up. I'm playing the new games in the Beta Test. There is a game there that refuses to surrender. Surely we are not to get another "unwinnable" to add to the list! |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
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| | Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 10:26 am: | |
Kathy will be happy to hear that you respect the Sabbath! |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Post Number: 1290
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 12:01 pm: | |
Yes. Now if I can only get him to cut down on his visits to the pub. He's like Dr. Jeckyl (before pub) and Mr. Hyde (after pub). |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 5670
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| | Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 1:50 pm: | |
It's ironic that there is a long historical connection between alcohol and the church. There was alleged to have been wine at the Last Supper. This has endured to this day with taking Communion with bread and wine.
Some Monasteries and Abbeys had on-site breweries etc. It is not that long ago that people started drinking water. Before that, men, woman and children drank only 8eer. The brewing killed the bacteria that made the water dangerous to drink. Just think of me as a traditionalist. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
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| | Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 3:26 pm: | |
"Some Monasteries and Abbeys had on-site breweries etc."
Had? They still do!!!
"Before that, men, woman and children drank only 8eer."
Why you put woman in singular and man AND children in plural? |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
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| | Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 3:30 pm: | |
BTW i like Richard more "The Pub After". |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
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| | Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 3:44 pm: | |
Ken, well done with #99. Your 55 with only 8 in the waste is a little bit known by me, bit as i said, i havnt had taim to try closer, hics.
(We have, hics, a birthday party of my daughter and all wanted to taist my self made tscherry-hics-schnaps, hics.) |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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| | Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 4:22 pm: | |
Rab C.Nesbitt's visit to Buckfast Abbey. You are unlikely to understand the half of it though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1eWC4YT44Q
Only one woman...........I am a monogamist. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 5:11 pm: | |
Yeah, Markus, but it's not you he usually yells at after the pub; it's either me, or my politics, or the church, etc. BTW, Richard, I take wine with Communion at Mass but I don't come home "smashed" and start in on you or your ideas. It's not alcohol I object to; it's the abuse of alcohol. But I'm prejudiced. My father was an alcoholic, so I tend to see things in a different light. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 5674
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| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 4:23 am: | |
And what excuse would you offer for the above unprovoked attack? Sobriety? |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 5:04 am: | |
8eer, called hqt by the ancients and zythus by the Greeks, was a very important Egyptian drink. It was a drink for adults and children alike. It was the staple drink of the poor (wages were sometimes paid in 8eer), it was a drink of the rich and wealthy, and a drink offered to the gods and placed in the tombs of the dead. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
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Post Number: 1570
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| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 5:36 am: | |
"The process of brewing 8eer grew tremendously during the rise of Christianity. This was primarily because of the roles that monks had in the production of 8eer. Monasteries were some of the first organizations to brew 8eer as a trade. Monks built breweries as part of their efforts to provide food, shelter and drink to various travelers and pilgrims"
A large number of Christian saints are patrons of brewing. Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Luke the Evangelist, and Saint Nicholas all are considered to be patrons of brewing".
Emperor Charlemagne, the ruler of the Christian kingdom around 770 AD considered 8eer to be an important part of living, and is often thought to have trained Christian brewers himself. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Post Number: 1295
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 7:53 am: | |
I didn't mean to attack you, Richard. It's your own business if you want to overdrink or whatever. I simply react strongly to it because of my father's alcoholism. I even have flashbacks when I come across someone who is drunk either in person or on TV. The doctor says it's a form of post-traumatic stress syndrome. When Markus said he prefers you after you come home from the pub, all I could think of was as a little girl having to go and get my dad at the tavern and bringing him home. I'm sure you can understand. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 5676
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 9:47 am: | |
Kathy,There is rarely any simple comparison between black and white (and I'm not talking about race). There are so many shades of grey in between. Compare Christianity to Islam. Good and bad in both. The Taliban don't drink but that doesn't make them the good guys. That said, many people in Afghanistan prefer them to us. Partaking of a few beers does not necessarily make you a bad person. Even alcoholics can be very decent people. I am in the fortunate position that I can do without alcohol quite easily. I frequently do. Quite often it is Liz who suggests we go to the bar, because "you haven't had a 8eer for ages".
I don't envy you having had to go and fetch your father like you did. That must have been horrible. Most families have someone in their recent history who has been quite similar to him. You have to appreciate that it is an illness. He didn't choose to be like that. I've not had a 8eer since thursday. That's pretty reasonable.
BTW,I don't like drunks either. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Post Number: 1297
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 12:49 pm: | |
I do appreciate that alcoholism is an illness, and I forgave my father a long time ago. Still, memories stay in the subconscious, and when something triggers them, there really isn't much you can do about it. I try, but sometimes the flashbacks I get are pretty bad. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
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Post Number: 1837
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 3:24 pm: | |
Richard. When you sober up look for my email.
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Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 5678
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 3:46 pm: | |
Are you trying to give me a complex? Has it reached the stage that I can't even remember going to the pub?
Got your email. Have a nice Debbie-free break. Will respond at some point. It's about half way down the pile marked "Of little importance". You've gone UP in the world Mike. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
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Post Number: 1839
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 6:15 pm: | |
At leaast I am on the move up. 
Here's another one for Thomas or Gregg. Does the forum program offer the ability to add more smileys. Just wondering because I am so happy at the moment. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
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Post Number: 1840
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| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 6:17 pm: | |
BTW. #99 took me 2 and 1/2 hrs. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Post Number: 1298
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 8:21 pm: | |
Mike, what are you so happy about? Or is it a secret? It doesn't matter. I'm glad someone's happy. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
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Post Number: 1484
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 9:07 pm: | |
I believe it was Abraham Lincoln who said, "People are as happy as they make up their minds to be".
Food for thought? |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Post Number: 1299
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 9:55 pm: | |
I think you misunderstood me, Ken. I wasn't bemoaning the fact that I'm not happy. I was genuinely happy that Mike was or anybody else for that matter. I have to stop posting messages. Everyone lately seems to be twisting my words around. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
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Post Number: 1841
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 10:28 pm: | |
Never mind. I changed my mind. I am on the verge of being happy. All it will take is to see someone slip on a banana peel.
Volunteers? |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Post Number: 1300
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010 - 10:47 pm: | |
If it makes you happy, Mike. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
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Post Number: 1485
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 1:03 am: | |
Kathy, now you're twisting MY words around! Did I say it was you that was unhappy? My point was that ANYBODY who is unhappy has nobody to blame but themselves! |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Post Number: 1301
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 4:11 am: | |
Ken, can't we at least blame circumstances? BTW, although I'm not happy, I am at peace with God. But you tell me, yesterday my sister's dog whom I raised for over 12 years and loved died, I'm suffering from constant pain, poverty, loss of my own dog last October, etc. Do you expect me to be happy? I'm strong but not that strong. I expect happiness in the next life. And how can anyone be happy when there are so many people suffering in the world? Remember "No man is an island ..." Everyone's suffering affects every man not just themselves. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 5680
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 5:01 am: | |
Sorry Ken, but I also have to disagree with your statement that "anybody who is unhappy has nobody to blame but themselves". In one word...."Pakistan".
I was ashamed of myself. It took 24 hours before I donated to their relief fund. I told myself that they are an Islamic nation and home to many terrorists. Why should Christians help them? Then I reminded myself that Pakistan has lost more citizens and suffered more at the hands of terrorists than any other country in the world. What is happening in Pakistan just now is likely to be the biggest humanitarian disaster of all time, even dwarfing the tsunami.
The answer to why Christians should help them is "BECAUSE we are Christians". |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 5681
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 5:07 am: | |
BTW, I was happy to see President Obama and family swimming in the Gulf of Mexico. He is finally trying to undo some of the damage his big mouth has done by blowing everything out of all proportion. It's finally dawned on him the HE was damaging the lives of fellow Americans. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1302
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 5:09 am: | |
What a profound statement. You said it all. I only wish I had the money to give to those in need. I try to make up for it by giving myself to others in need according to their circumstances. You probably won't believe this, but when I'm out in the "world", I laugh, I help others laugh, I listen to their pain, and I try not to let them see my pain. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 5682
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 5:12 am: | |
To Mike. If you're happy and you know it clap your hands.
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Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
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Post Number: 1486
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 7:40 am: | |
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Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 5683
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 7:50 am: | |
Your protesters picture made me laugh Ken. That is the kind of humour I like. I'd be willing to bet that Kathy laughed too.
Is that a new cap you've got Mike?
Kathy, remember the parable of the Widow's Mite. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Post Number: 1304
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 8:08 am: | |
Yes, I laughed. My how you've grown, Mike. I'm embarrassed. I know of the parable but can't think of it off hand, so I will do as you always tell me to and look it up. Has it anything to do with the widow giving her last coin ....? |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Post Number: 1305
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 8:12 am: | |
P.S. It's almost time for my bus to pick me up for the center, so I will look it up when I get back this afternoon. Now, I have to contend with all the old men who think I'm really something. Do you think maybe they've only got one good eye like me too? |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 5685
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 8:26 am: | |
You've nailed the parable OK Kathy. We must each do what we can.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In some parts of the world huge fat women are considered to be the most desirable. In other countries, size zero is the goal. In Japan in particular, the old are venerated. We should all be happy that people are not repelled by us no matter what we look like.
PS, Don't sit in front of Mike on the bus.
Mike...You behave yourself. Just because Debbie has disappeared for a few days doesn't mean that you can behave like a Lothario. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
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Post Number: 1842
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 9:37 am: | |
If you're happy and you know it clap your hands. I have a couple of jokes to made here. But I can't. Anyway to answer Richard, I have a golf tournament on Thursday. I must remain celibate. Something about strength and concentration. Not only a shock to the system. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Post Number: 5686
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 9:43 am: | |
Good luck with the golf Mike. Make hay whilst the sun shines.
(I have refrained from making any jokes about your putter). |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
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Post Number: 1843
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 10:02 am: | |
Speaking of golf. Martin Kaymer from Germany won the PGA championship. How about that Markus. The PGA is one of the big major tournaments. I have no idea what the reaction was in Germany. Probably won't do much for Estonian golf though. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
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Username: Markus
Post Number: 1578
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 10:18 am: | |
Mike, i know that Bernhard Langer was once the first German winning it. He was also #1. Meanwhile Alexander Cejka was the best i knew so far. Martin Kaymer is a new name for me.
BTW was it the PGS championship who they get afterwards the green jacket?
Another btw, what's your handicap or are you a professional in golf? |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1306
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 12:51 pm: | |
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you get the green jacket when you win the Master's Tournament. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
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Post Number: 1844
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 1:11 pm: | |
Darn. Can't correct you Kathy. I play to a 21 handicap. So no where near professional. At one time I was an 11 handicap. But I could not win anything at the handicap. Plus I am older now and I do not hit the ball as far. Martin Kaymer is very new on the professional scene. It is still to early to tell if he will have as long a career and Langer. But he seems like a very nice guy. |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
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Username: Markus
Post Number: 1579
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 1:55 pm: | |
I just saw, that he won in an "shoot out" (?) and a bogey at the last hole (after a par and a birdie first). Damned that his opponent Bubba Watson (a birdie and a par first) made a double bogey.
One of our relatives in Sweden has a handicap of 9. 11, not that bad.
You cannot hit the ball anymore as far as you want? Why don't you use a longer driver as some of the professionals do? |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
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Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1846
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 5:15 pm: | |
Because age and a bad back will not let me make the swing I once did. A longer driver would be of little use to me. I wish it would work. To go through all the mechanics it takes to make a good golf swing would take me forever. Almost like trying to explain what the problem is in Sea Towers. Glen knows. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
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Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5690
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 6:13 pm: | |
No longer the king of the swingers eh Mike? |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1310
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 9:24 pm: | |
Mike, if you can find anybody that can explain the problem in Sea Towers, please forward them to me. I never thought such a simple game was so complicated. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
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Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1847
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 10:26 pm: | |
It's not to my knowledge. From reading the posts I think it is just a mtatter of how certain cards and stacks can be moved. Also there may have been some ambiguity (sp) in the rules. Really nothing for you to worry about. If it looks like a move can be made and it doesn't work try moving the cards/card by picking them up and not just using the left/right click mouse option. Also in regards to your thinking of me and Barry Manilow. I have worked on his show several times. So that might have triggered the idea. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1312
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 11:08 pm: | |
If what you say is true, Mike, then "I am speechless. I am without speech." (I heard that in a movie recently. It would be a good trivia question, but I can't remember the movie.")
I never had trouble with Sea Towers before all this discussion. In my opinion, it is "much ado about nothing". |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
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Username: Markus
Post Number: 1580
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 1:00 am: | |
Kathy, there is no serious trouble with ST. It is just about speeding up some moves and the discussion (between Glen and Thomas) is now on programmers level. Just play it and enjoy it. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1313
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 4:40 am: | |
I'll do that, Markus. They're looking at it in a whole different light than I am, and I mistakenly thought I was playing it wrong. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
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Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1314
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 4:42 am: | |
I remember where it heard that quote, Mike. It wasn't from a movie. It was from Seinfeld. See, I just had to sleep on it. I'll ask Richard though if you ever worked with Barry Manilow. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5692
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 5:06 am: | |
Mike helped with Barry's plastic surgery. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1848
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 11:53 am: | |
And a fine job I did too. I set up and took down his show a number of times. Then followed him with a spotlight during the show. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5694
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 11:55 am: | |
You were Barry's stalker? |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1849
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 12:05 pm: | |
Everybody needs one. I thought about starting a business for hollywood people who don't have them. Mike's Professional Stalking Service.
One problem I have with block. (besides it not being winnable) Is that cards are played to the aces right away. So you are not really given a choice which one of a pair you want to play. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5698
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 9:49 am: | |
I have issues with Block too, (Not the bloke who stalks Barry The Nose).
It would be no exaggeration to say that I have viewed about 40,000 deals of Block. Mostly I just ignore them and move to another one. Despite that I have actually played over 5,000. 22 is my top score. Until I made the suggestion in the Beta test it was not possible to see the suit of Face Cards, granted you knew what colour they were. Thomas accepted my suggestion and separated them by another 2mm.
Mike has noticed that no matter if autoplay is on or off, the deals are presented to you as a fait accompli. You cannot undo the tableau and select a different series of moves. The software selects which of the cards it takes onto the foundations. In some instances there is a choice, let's say two twos of hearts were present. We all know that autoplay does not necessarily make the best choice. The other "beef" is that there have been occasions that ten or so cards have been moved to the foundations automatically from the deal. If there is no other move available, that score of 10 will not be recorded in the stats. They record only games in which the player has made a move. Don't get me wrong, I'll be losing no sleep over this. The situation is the same for everyone, but I am sometimes left with that frustrating "what if?" feeling. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1850
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 4:22 pm: | |
Well if we change the formula for the way the cards play out to 2+2=5 it would solve the problem. Sorry Glen. I just had to say it.  |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 5700
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 4:41 pm: | |
It's time Debbie was home again. Put you in your place. You are far too happy. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 1851
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 6:13 pm: | |
I would really be happy had I played a bit better today. But I did help the team on a number of holes. Awaiting the final scores. |
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