Could there be a Cardinal Richelieu II? Or perhaps, is the reason they need to be chaste. Only if the Pope is chosen from a cardinal why do they change their names and put a number at the end. So mabye Pope Francis, fine but shouldn't it have been Ordinal Benedict XVI?
I don't get religion at all.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 2:30 pm
by Isgrimnur
LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2019 2:27 pm
Did he write the Cardinal Rules of French?
The Académie française is the pre-eminent French council for matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII.
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The Académie is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language.
hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2019 12:59 pm
The only real rule to the English language is consistency. If it's used a lot, it eventually becomes correct.
Literally!
Virtually, irregardless of past cromulence.
I'm decimated!
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 2:47 pm
by LordMortis
Wait. was a he Cardinal or Minister? If he is a minister doesn't that make him ordained and therefore Ordinal Richylou I? Are you saying he is the source of all of my confusion?
hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2019 12:59 pm
The only real rule to the English language is consistency. If it's used a lot, it eventually becomes correct.
Literally!
Virtually, irregardless of past cromulence.
I'm decimated!
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 3:06 pm
by hepcat
LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2019 2:27 pm
Did he write the Cardinal Rules of French?
Could there be a Cardinal Richelieu II? Or perhaps, is the reason they need to be chaste. Only if the Pope is chosen from a cardinal why do they change their names and put a number at the end. So mabye Pope Francis, fine but shouldn't it have been Ordinal Benedict XVI?
I don't get religion at all.
No, he played for the Cardinals. The 2012 season, I think. But his OBP was pretty awful, so I believe he was sent down to the farm league at the end of the season. That or he became pope, I can't remember.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 3:10 pm
by LordMortis
hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2019 3:06 pm
No, he played for the Cardinals. The 2012 season, I think. But his OBP was pretty awful, so I believe he was sent down to the farm league at the end of the season. That or he became pope, I can't remember.
As you brought it up, if you play for the Cardinals, how do you play first, second, or third?
I thought that was how you got take in the Carnegie Haul. No. Never mind. that's just one practice wud'nit? If you find yourself continuing 'practice, practice' the next thing you know it's nothing but come-ons from the horse. I do declare!
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 3:46 pm
by LordMortis
It took my a bit but I see what you did there. You "Practice, practice, practice" was an allusion to the Pope on First, Saint Peter Lewis Cardinal. I may be slow, but I catch on. I can learn things.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 4:29 pm
by hepcat
I love that I can get that "just took acid" feel from reading your posts...without actually taking LSD!
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 4:33 pm
by LordMortis
hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2019 4:29 pm
I love that I can get that "just took acid" feel from reading your posts...without actually taking LSD!
You were the one telling me Paul Simon played his guitar in the National League. I was just trying to figure out how out there. Don't put this on me.
LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2019 2:27 pm
Did he write the Cardinal Rules of French?
The Académie française is the pre-eminent French council for matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII.
...
The Académie is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language.
The French Academy is *way* behind in their official dictionary of French. The latest edition is the 9th, begun in the 1980s, and as of 2011 they're only up to the letter Q.
French speakers (aside from hidebound conservatives) happily ignore the Academy's prescriptivism as they always have.
A new study using bomb radiocarbon dating describes a bigmouth buffalo that lived to a whopping 112 years, crushing the previous known maximum age for the species—26—by more than fourfold.
According to radiocarbon dating, when the bigmouth buffalo was born, World War I had not yet broken out in Europe. This makes it the oldest-known freshwater fish on Earth.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2019 3:57 pm
by Z-Corn
Bullshit. Sturgeon live longer than that.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2019 4:04 pm
by LawBeefaroni
Yeah, Orange Roughy can live to 80, maybe even longer.
I think it's a fresh water record.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2019 4:05 pm
by Isgrimnur
Z-Corn wrote: ↑Thu Aug 08, 2019 3:57 pm
Bullshit. Sturgeon live longer than that.
A new study using bomb radiocarbon dating describes a bigmouth buffalo that lived to a whopping 112 years, crushing the previous known maximum age for the species—26—by more than fourfold.
According to radiocarbon dating, when the bigmouth buffalo was born, World War I had not yet broken out in Europe. This makes it the oldest-known freshwater fish on Earth.
Not fish, but Greenland Sharks live a very long time.
This one, caught recently, might be older than the Protestant Reformation, making it the oldest vertebrate.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2019 7:54 pm
by Kraken
Sharks are cartilaginous fish.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 12:54 am
by Kraken
Cosmetologists and cosmologists are not the same thing. Stop confusing me. They probably don't even like one another.
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 8:52 am
by wonderpug
Kraken wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 12:54 am
Cosmetologists and cosmologists are not the same thing. Stop confusing me. They probably don't even like one another.
They're really useful for coating WWII era firearms for long term storage.
LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Thu Aug 08, 2019 4:04 pm
Yeah, Orange Roughy can live to 80, maybe even longer.
I think it's a fresh water record.
To 149 (confirmed so far), according to Wikipedia.
That's why I quit eating them.
Couldn't handle all those Quickenings?
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 12:15 pm
by Default
Merde!
Re: Random randomness
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 1:41 pm
by Holman
Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Aug 08, 2019 7:54 pm
Sharks are cartilaginous fish.
Of course they are. Don't know what my brain was thinking there, but I *had* had three beers.
I think somewhere in the past I got it into my head that sharks' long-term evolutionary stability has made them a radically different category from most other fish species.
