Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 19:59, 9 May 2010

Your proposition may be good But let's have one thing understood Whatever it is, I'm against it! And even when you've changed it or condensed it I'm against it! --Groucho Marx in Horse Feathers

Ark-Hives
User talk:Baseball Bugs/Archive001 User talk:Baseball Bugs/Archive002 User talk:Baseball Bugs/Archive003 User talk:Baseball Bugs/Archive004 User talk:Baseball Bugs/Archive005 User talk:Baseball Bugs/Archive006 User talk:Baseball Bugs/Archive007 User talk:Baseball Bugs/Archive008 User talk:Baseball Bugs/Archive009 User talk:Baseball Bugs/Archive010

Transients welcome

Click here to LOG OUT: Special:Userlogout
NOTE: You will then be editing with your IP address exposed to the world.
So USE WITH CAUTION. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 07:19, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

• Next thing you know, someone using the Roadrunner ISP is gonna say something like this: "Meep, meep!". --ACME contributor: → Dave 09:03, 4 April 2010 (UTC) ←

de bait

Train leaving on Track Five for Anaheim, Azusa, and Cuc...

Genesis creation myth

What do you mean by "validity" of the myth ? It's been scientifically proven beyond reasonable doubt that the Earth is not 4000 years old. WP:NPOV doesn't mean we have to treat all positions as "equally valid". The word myth points the reader to the fact that the narrative is in fact symbolic structure, and not meant to be taken literally. Claritas (talk) 16:07, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Genesis does not necessarily say the earth is 4,000 years old. That's just one interpretation. No one has "proven" anything in regard to Genesis. And "myth" is understood by the average citizen to mean "fairy tale". Hence it's not appropriate as a title. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 16:21, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

I dream of horses @ 18:38, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

--I dream of horses @ 18:45, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Impostor

He's back again but you already knew, eh? What gives? --Dave 03:48, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Could Pioneercourthouse, could be Lightcurrent. Or some other bozo. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 03:53, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

• These fellas are really no-lifers. BTW, do you watch LLS with Craig Ferguson? --Dave 03:56, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

• If we could harness their wasted energy, we could light up Weehauken for a year. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 04:01, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

• How about lighting up the Antarctic/Arctic region during the long cold and dark months? Tsk tsk tsk... such wasted talent~! --Dave 04:05, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

• No, but I probably should. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 04:00, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

• For the record, I must say that he is funnier than his boss David Letterman. And as for the impostor, it is the exit door for him again... guess there won't be any bus ride this time, eh? ;P --Dave 04:05, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

• I don't recall what his pseudonym was last time, but it occurs to me that he might have a lot of variations on it, some of which he might have created already. It would be fun to head them off at the pass. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 04:08, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar of Good Humor

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		Awarded for making me laugh harder than I had ever laughed before while going through Recent Changes. Thanks! –Grondemar 15:43, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Soxwon (talk) 17:10, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

List of The Backyardigans episodes

I need your help. Please watch list the page for a week or so. 63.223.127.4 (talk) 01:54, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

I'm not familiar with the show. How would I know which version of the debated info is correct? ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 02:49, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Please just look after it for me for about a week. You will see the IP vandal changing small facts. This is an important article for me. 63.223.127.4 (talk) 15:15, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

fyi

I believe that issues such as the one I raise here are among your areas of expertise.--Epeefleche (talk) 07:03, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Take Five

Us both coming up with the same answer, within 5 minutes of each other, suggests that the "cloned from toenail clippings" theory was right. :-) StuRat (talk) 15:24, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Scary, ain't it? ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 19:01, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Man, that Time Out album was a killer. Still have it, in case I ever get around to digitizing eight feet of vinyl. One thing, though, is that the songs are hard to whistle. Blue Rondo à la Turk, for example, is in 9/8, with a 2-2-2-3 pattern. It's hard to not make that last 3 into a triplet and force the meter into 4/4. Lemme get out my banjo and try... PhGustaf (talk) 20:16, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

The Refdesk Barnstar Thanks for Take Five -- exactly what I needed! DRosenbach

photos

You wrote:

Then there needs to be a project to review all celeb photographs for "appropriateness" or "encyclopedic" value. Picking on one guy's photograph, when you've seen far worse, while leaving other "unflattering" photos intact, is itself inappropriate.

Maybe you are right. I'll think about this. I'm currently going by the theory that when a BLP subject comes after us and wants their biography taken down, our only sane public defense if we keep it has to include "look, the article meets super-high standards" which has to include the photography in it. We're less uptight with non-disputed articles. There's one right now (I won't say which) with quite an awful photo, but the subject is an active wikipedia editor and hasn't said anything about it, so I don't worry about it. 69.228.170.24 (talk) 12:14, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

FYI

Once again: Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Disruptive_editing_practices_of_User:Mk5384 -OberRanks (talk) 13:42, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Hey, I couldn't resist showing this to you. I almost fell out of my chair laughing. I love the line: "They need to be punished!" . -OberRanks (talk) 03:31, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Re Planet

Perhaps we should be glad element 92 wasn't named Uranusium, see name etymologies#U, & . I was thinking we could avoid that word by using thesymbol. But it looks like the south end of a cat heading north! ;-) --220.101.28.25 (talk) 04:02, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

There's an idea. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 20:03, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Copycat

Dave1185 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Wispanow (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Appreciate your opinion here~! Peeling away now... toodles~! --Dave 19:02, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

I just want Dave1185 to stop. Wispanow (talk) 19:04, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

• Wow... he's a great stalker, following me wherever I go! Can I report him for stalking me? --Dave 19:07, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

This is hardly disengaging... –xeno 19:11, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

• You know something? I agree~! Let's be on our merry way now and ignore the fiendish one, shall we? --Dave 19:16, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

• Just to be clear, I was talking about your coming to Bug's page to ask him to comment on an issue you said you were going to disengage from. –xeno 19:19, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

I gather this is a dispute about Boeing 737. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 20:10, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

• Not exactly... but he didn't stop at 737, instead he went on to User talk:BilCat and then mine to rant about his being templated for his mis-behaviour (Go take a look at his contribution history and talk page history, methinks you'll see the critical links there!). Just curious, is this still a disengagement or not? Because I really don't want Xeno to come harping at me later, you know? ;P --Dave 20:21, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

• Seems like he was irritated about being called out for edit warring. I can't say who's right factually, but he's been here for 3 years and should know better than to edit-war. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 20:27, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

• Thus, he is the Great Pretender... copycat-ing, harassing, stalking me and such. Does the above qualify as NPA? --Dave 20:33, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

• Great. Now I've got that song in my head. I'm missing where the copycatting is, though. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 20:38, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

• I knew it~! *lol* Well, he has thrice posted trollish remarks on my user page today, all of them were verbatim copies of warning templates/cautions I had left him for his own misdeed, and if those aren't copycat-ing, I don't know what is. Anyway, dumbness knows no boundary, like a certain "manhood" (reminds me of what Tim Allen's wife said to him as she motioned her hands over her ovaries, as mentioned in his book - Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man (1994) – ISBN 0-786-86134-7) talking to himself on his talk page right now. Bugs, why do we always get this sort of nutcase? (P.S.: Whats-the-name-of-that-volcano just blew its top~! Run for your life~!!!)--Dave 20:43, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

• User:Dave1185 will not stop with his trollish and harassing remarks!!! Lying about the chronology of edits, too. I want him to STOP HARASSMENT!!!! Wispanow (talk) 20:53, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

• You could do your part as well. :) ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 21:03, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Bugs, just to be clear... did we harass him or did he just came here to be harassed? I wonder if someone truly understands the definition of "harass". Anyway, I'm going to go "harass" my wife now... need to sleep~! ;P (BTW, this & this will tickle you pink!) --Dave 21:08, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure, but I note that he has been sent to take a 24-hour nap. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 21:23, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

• Get ready your cool, dry and pink socks, he's just been told to go for a One-week-all-expense-paid-for-vacation with socks thrown in. --Dave 06:29, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Your comments on Misplaced Pages talk:Reference desk

Several of your comments on Misplaced Pages talk:Reference desk were not at all helpful or beneficial to the discussion there - some of them could also be interpreted as personal attacks, and certainly not an assumption of good faith. Specifically, I am referring to all of your comments in the "Question Removed" section. These comments in particular:

• "The likewise-banned user Pioneercourthouse (which might be you, in fact) used to use the same childish argument - that somehow it was someone else's fault that he kept trolling." (AGF, NPA)
• "There is a way, but I don't want to discuss it here. The admins (or some of them) know what to do, if they choose to do so." - completely unhelpful, if you aren't going to answer a question, don't answer, don't tell people you aren't going to answer. Better yet, answer it.
• "LC is a cow. Cows spread manure. Which accounts for the theme and content of most of your edits. :)"
• "That reminds me, when are you getting out of Junior High School? Should be any year now."

Regardless of who you are talking to, it is expected that you continue to refrain from personal attacks and to not fan the flames of disruption by participating in it. Prodego 21:15, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

If you studied the recurring theme of his edits, you would understand the context. And since when does AGF apply to banned users? ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 21:19, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

• Not that one can remember how AGF can be extended to banned users, especially when I can recall jokers like User:Instantnood, User:ColourWolf & User:Grawp. *yawnz* Toodles~! --Dave 21:39, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

• I'm assuming Prodigo knows nothing about that mosquito. And it doesn't much matter to me. I'm assuming the ones that are more upset by the stuff he does will take some action once they finally get fed up. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 21:41, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

• I just had to say this before I go to bed... mosquito = (horse) gnat, remind you of anyone from long time back? Wasn't that bozo banned as well~? --Dave 21:56, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

• Oh, wow. I do recall that. Years ago, and unfortunately I did not make note of which user it was. It was funny, though. "He called me a horse gnat!" :'( ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 21:58, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

• IMO, a fittingly apt description for someone not unlike the fiendish one above. Good times~! --Dave 06:32, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

• Bugs, please read point number 18 & 48 of WP:OWB, the description fits like a glove for describing someone somewhere in here. What wisdom the elders has left us! -Dave 06:41, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

We should all chill a bit and remember that all the posters to bugs' talk page are perfectly nice people acting in good faith. Except when they occasionally kill you. PhGustaf (talk) 13:04, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes. I hate it when they do that. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 14:13, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Marxist Question

And one that's been bugging me for ages...

Did Margaret Dumont have a sense of humor and did she get the jokes? Soxwon (talk) 01:05, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Groucho always said she didn't, but I'm fairly certain he was just telling stories or at least exaggerating. Watch closely when he pulls one of his jokes, and how she typically has a momentarily "startled" take and then resumes the dialogue as if nothing happened. She couldn't have acted professionally in comedies without understanding the jokes. In fact, if you watch The Cocoanuts - which is really priceless in some ways because they were still trying to figure out how to make movies, and there's an "informal" feel to it - in some scenes, you can see Margaret seemingly laughing spontaneously at something Groucho said. FYI, the last time I checked, the entirety of The Cocoanuts was on youtube, in about 12 or 13 "episodes". ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 01:21, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

I think there were a couple of specific things Groucho cited as "evidence". One was during the final scene in Duck Soup where he says something about, "Fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did!" Supposedly, she asked him what that joke meant. The more general comment I heard him say in an interview was when they were doing the Broadway play that preceded the movie, and she asked about the audience, "Julie, what are they laughing at?" While I'm thinking Groucho exaggerated things, it's interesting that she basically called him by his real name (Julius) rather than by his public nickname of Groucho. Which makes me wonder if close friends called him Julius rather than Groucho (like Curly Howard was called by his real name, Jerry, or "Babe", by his inner circle). ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 01:26, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

It's difficult to imagine Dumont being as funny as she was for as long as she was without knowing pretty much what was going on. But meanwhile, sox, given the the Red Sox haven't peaked yet,

1. Who would have thought that Danny Ainge could channel Red Auerbach?
2. What would be a good way to keep the last five minutes of an important NBA game from lasting less than on hour?

PhGustaf (talk) 01:52, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

For the first one, this guy.

For the second, I believe a pay as you go system would work (every minute in real time after 4:59 gametime is 1,000 dollars taken from players and coaches. Soxwon (talk) 02:07, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

More apropos to Dumont: Gracie Allen was once asked whether Jack Benny was in fact cheap. She answered, "Am I stupid?" PhGustaf (talk) 02:53, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

ANI

I couldn't agree with you more! Briefly Verbose (talk) 23:29, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for writing. I needed an addition to my sock drawer. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 23:37, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

MK5384

Thanks for the note on my talk page.Mk5384 (talk) 03:50, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:WorldSeries1903-640-SEG-isolation2.JPG

Thank you for uploading File:WorldSeries1903-640-SEG-isolation2.JPG. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of that website's terms of use of its content. However, if the copyright holder is a party unaffiliated from the website's publisher, that copyright should also be acknowledged.

If you have uploaded other files, consider verifying that you have specified sources for those files as well. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged per Misplaced Pages's criteria for speedy deletion, F4. If the image is copyrighted and non-free, the image will be deleted 48 hours after 10:31, 1 May 2010 (UTC) per speedy deletion criterion F7. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 10:31, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Per your proposal

I'm way too dumb to create a barnstar, but if you like them, I've thought up a couple of userboxes...
User:Salvio giuliano/sandbox1User:Salvio giuliano/sandbox2


^___________________^ Salvio ( ) 15:07, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

American culture

Lots of countries have movies and sports. I'm not sure I understand the question. Appalachian culture, for instance, is indigenous American culture that exists nowhere else. --Tenebrae (talk) 05:35, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

I think if you go to you'll find that, except for a couple of anomalies that likely won't remain, the category contains general concepts like Uncle Sam, Roaring Twenties and American Dream. But what makes baseball fit this category more than basketball or football or skateboarding or any of a number of other sports? If every sport except cricket and soccer go into this category, then the category is so broad as to be meaningless. --Tenebrae (talk) 05:43, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Since you say at the top of your page that your comments may be satirical, I have the feeling you're pulling my leg. The category page gives this description: "This category is for articles about the customs and culture of the United States." If that includes s a customs or cultures that applies to many countries, then I'm not sure what the category is supposed to be about. If the category were French culture, I'd imagine it would include customs and cultures that were uniquely French. I think I'll stop now; I have a feeling you're having a laugh at my expense. --Tenebrae (talk) 05:50, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm not, but that's OK, you answered it. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 08:34, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Reference Desk Barnstar
		For your labors gone out there --Extra 999 (Contact + contribs) 10:55, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Joke of the day!

Wanna try your luck? --Dave 21:47, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

The user who cannot be blocked (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Otherwise known as "The Irony Man". ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 23:36, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Template policy discussion

You are invited to help consider a common template policy for all WP:SPORTS biography articles at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Sports#Template_policy_discussion.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 22:39, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Axmann8 question

Hi BB, I've been away - now I'm back!

I seem to recall you had dealings with Axmann8 and/or its socks? Is that correct? Assuming it is, would you mind taking a look at the contributions of 92.2.178.82 (talk · contribs)? Is this something you've seen before? The devotion to tagging indef'd users and editing sock puppet cats seems... odd, but I wanted to run it by someone smarter than me before raising it at ANI.

Cheers! TFOWR 19:05, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

I don't know what that guy's up to, but here 92.16.201.80 (talk · contribs) he admits to being on a dynamic IP. He's already on the radar of some admins. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 19:46, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

If it continues, we can semi-protect, and that will either force him to login or turn his attention elsewhere. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 19:48, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm taking it to WP:ANI if you have not already done so. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 19:54, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

I've not (gone to ANI) - I'm being a wee bit cautious only because I've been out of the saddle for a while. My instinct says you're spot on, though, and I dare say I'll drop by ANI shortly. Thanks for looking into this. Cheers, TFOWR 20:03, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

. Thanks Garanam (talk) 22:36, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Then again...The original Sockmaster(s), may be impersonating the imposters to gain the upper hand. It all gets very confusing. 68.28.104.236 (talk) 22:47, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

It's not really confusing. Actually, all of you are just one guy. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 22:59, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Yet another one bites the dust

Some bozo said that I'm a sock, twice, and was then sent to the cupboard... they really don't come any dirtier by the dozen anymore, eh? Sheeesh~! --Dave 16:37, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Was that so-called SPI a redlink from the get-go? ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 18:07, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Talkback example

{{Talkback|your username}}

Thanks for reverting...

...that IP edit. Sure seemed fishy. If you'd like to comment in that RfC, your feedback would be appreciated. — BQZip01 —  19:59, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

• American culture