Ask Anyone!

[The Laughing Man]

Your turn!

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Everything that follows is a result of what you see here.

[Zenlunatic]

Would Pepperbrain BeerLeader be the Yin to Saltheart Foamfollowers Yang?

[The Laughing Man]

on the surface your choice of words would appear to make perfect sense, relatively speaking, however: upon further investigation, it becomes clear that your analogies are perhaps misleading. You infer the brain is the Yin, and the heart is the Yang.

While "yin" would be dark, passive, downward, cold, contracting, and weak, "yang" would be bright, active, upward, hot, expanding, and strong.

According to our definition that does not appear to be accurate, unless you assert that you think like dark ice and feel like bright fire. Which would probably melt your brain; which you certainly can; which would mean yes, if you insist!

[Zenlunatic]

Actually, after a night of being BeerLeader, thinking like dark ice and feeling like bright fire just about sums it up. Thanks Esmer!

[sgt.null]

Could I just try to reattach the U shaped plug on to the board and
> reattach the heat-sink and see if it works?? Can anyone give me advice
> on attaching that Northbridge heatsink? Which thermal paste, epoxy etc
> should i use? and how?

[The Laughing Man]

Could I just try to reattach the U shaped plug on to the board and
> reattach the heat-sink and see if it works?? Can anyone give me advice
> on attaching that Northbridge heatsink? Which thermal paste, epoxy etc
> should i use? and how?

Yes and yes and yes. Yes; The highest quality, most expensive kind. Very carefully, in very small amounts, and wear a static wrist strap.

[emotional leper]

Would shelling out several hundred dollars to make a functioning replica of a firearm from an anime and spending maybe a hundred and fifty dollars and a hundred or so hours hand-stitching a costume and buying a pair of sunglasses from Japan and getting LASIK so that I have perfect vision all so I can change my name and adopt the persona of this character be considered a little too extreme, or should I stick with amputating two of my fingers and buying a nice piece of white gold jewelry?

[Loredoctor]

How can I be a better snob?

[The Laughing Man]

Would shelling out several hundred dollars to make a functioning replica of a firearm from an anime and spending maybe a hundred and fifty dollars and a hundred or so hours hand-stitching a costume and buying a pair of sunglasses from Japan and getting LASIK so that I have perfect vision all so I can change my name and adopt the persona of this character be considered a little too extreme, or should I stick with amputating two of my fingers and buying a nice piece of white gold jewelry?

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. ~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. ~Samuel Johnson

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya. ~Walter Kaufmann

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. ~Andre Gide

and finally:

You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~John Mason

especially you!

[The Laughing Man]

How can I be a better snob?

“The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.”
— J. Russell Lynes

required reading

[Loredoctor]

How can I be a better snob?

“The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.”
— J. Russell Lynes

Esmer, had I only known that the answer was beneath my finely-shaped nose . . . I salute you!

[emotional leper]

Esmer,

Why must you dash my hopes so expertly?

PS.

Was that a no, then, on my last question?

[Zenlunatic]

In theory, how many Sandgorgons would it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?

[The Laughing Man]

Esmer,

Why must you dash my hopes so expertly?

PS.

Was that a no, then, on my last question?

it's who I am; it's what I do.

PS

[The Laughing Man]

In theory, how many Sandgorgons would it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?

The last one left alive fighting for the tootsie pop. There can be only ONE.

[Montresor]

Can you spare a fiver?

[sgt.null]

Baal eller Baʿal (hebr. בָּעָל bāʿāl) var i gammel nærorientalsk religion en titel, der brugtes om en række guddomme, særligt sådanne som associeredes med frugtbarhed og succes. "Ba‘al" betyder egentlig "herre", og han regnedes ofte for en art gudernes fyrste?

[The Laughing Man]

Can you spare a fiver?

only if it's innocent.

[The Laughing Man]

Baal eller Baʿal (hebr. בָּעָל bāʿāl) var i gammel nærorientalsk religion en titel, der brugtes om en række guddomme, særligt sådanne som associeredes med frugtbarhed og succes. "Ba‘al" betyder egentlig "herre", og han regnedes ofte for en art gudernes fyrste?

I det fønikiske Karthago dyrkedes en overgud ved navn Ba‘al Hammon, der gerne identificeredes med den nordvestsemitiske guddom El og senere med den græske Kronos og den romerske Saturn. Hans guddommelige partner var månegudinden Tanit.

[sgt.null]

danke!