Debunking Humor...

[MonkeeSage]

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I will call him Calvin(e).

 

[Mendel]

I will call him Calvin(e).

Her name is Bigtooth.

 

[JMartJr]

I am not sure if I want to seriously suggest this as an added feature of the site... maybe later, if things go on the way they have been going.... but for now let's suggest, over here, the following:

Whenever a post is made to MB featuring the word "orb" it is automatically altered to "distant dot or blob or something too indistinct to tell what shape it is."

I recognize that this might entail extra work for our Mr. West, to avoid "absorbing" becoming "absdistant dot or blob or something too indistinct to tell what shape it ising," and the like. But the potential loss of clarity in such cases would, I think, be more than adequately compensated by the clarity gained when people are no longer able to call every smudge or flying full-stop an "orb."

 

[Mendel]

I am not sure if I want to seriously suggest this as an added feature of the site... maybe later, if things go on the way they have been going.... but for now let's suggest, over here, the following:

Whenever a post is made to MB featuring the word "orb" it is automatically altered to "distant dot or blob or something too indistinct to tell what shape it is."

I recognize that this might entail extra work for our Mr. West, to avoid "absorbing" becoming "absdistant dot or blob or something too indistinct to tell what shape it ising," and the like. But the potential loss of clarity in such cases would, I think, be more than adequately compensated by the clarity gained when people are no longer able to call every smudge or flying full-stop an "orb."

God forbid there's a simple search-and-replace, morbidly absorbing syllables in its orbit.

 

[Leifer]

Trump claims any damage to the reflecting pool was an act of sabotage by vandals with knives.

Using my internal dad-joke calculator........Vandals + Knives = Stabotage

STABOTEURS !!!

 

[Todd Feinman]

Trump claims any damage to the reflecting pool was an act of sabotage by vandals with knives.

Using my internal dad-joke calculator........Vandals + Knives = Stabotage

STABOTEURS !!!

I'm more concerned about the damage to the East Wing.

 

[NoParty]

I'm more concerned about the damage to the East Wing.

"Damage" might be under-selling it, a bit.

 

[FatPhil]

I recognize that this might entail extra work for our Mr. West, to avoid "absorbing" becoming "absdistant dot or blob or something too indistinct to tell what shape it ising," and the like. But the potential loss of clarity in such cases would, I think, be more than adequately compensated by the clarity gained when people are no longer able to call every smudge or flying full-stop an "orb."

That was a problem solved in the 70s:
s/\borb\b/...

 

[JMartJr]

That was a problem solved in the 70s:
s/\borb\b/...

I have no idea what that means, but here is a picture of me with a spoon hanging on my nose, so I don't seem to be ignoring your post.

 

[MonkeeSage]

I have no idea what that means, but here is a picture of me with a spoon hanging on my nose, so I don't seem to be ignoring your post.

One of the original UNIX programs was a line-based text editor named "ed". The editor featured built in commands for operating on lines of text, one of which was Substitute, of the form "s/<original words/regex pattern>/<replacement words>/" (simplified form shown here). This command was split out to a stand alone utility named "sed" a few years later that could operate on text streams/files non-interactively, which used the same syntax (also later included in the vi/vim family of text editors). The "\b" escape sequence stands for word boundary. So in ed/sed/vi format "s/\borb\b/..." means substitute the word "orb" in the text.