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• 10 days ago vega said:
  Howdy! Never thought I'd be noticed, there in a corner of Wordie happily playing with my toys (ahem, words) by my contented self... *gryn* Many thanks for the generous compliment on my profile.
• 15 days ago reesetee said:
  I'd wager the sender would decline to be a bear if he/she heard about that part.
• 16 days ago chained_bear said:
  Thanks, oroboros! I actually saw that somewhere... but I think it is negligent in not mentioning tappens. Seriously.... I mean... tappens...
  
  Seriously.
• 16 days ago oroboros said:
  Hey c_b! This was in my inbox this morning and I thought I'd pass it along to you. Interesting that tappen somehow escaped mention. Hope it's never had your eyetracks on it before.
  
  I want to be a bear......
  
  If you're a bear, you get to hibernate. You do nothing but sleep for six months. I could deal with that.
  
  Before you hibernate, you're supposed to eat yourself stupid. I could deal with that too.
  
  If you're a bear, you birth your children (who are the size of walnuts) while you are sleeping and wake to partially grown, cute, cuddly cubs. I could definitely deal with that.
  
  If you're a mama bear, everyone knows you mean business. You swat anyone who bothers your cubs. If your cubs get out of line, you swat them too. I could deal with that.
  
  If you're a bear, your mate EXPECTS you to wake up growling. He EXPECTS that you will have hairy legs and excess body fat.
  
  Yup...... I want to be a bear!
  
• 2 months ago ruzuzu said:
  Wait. Bears... monkeys.... Um, anyway, did you see that another of your lists was chosen as list of the day?
• 3 months ago oroboros said:
  Hey! I think c_b's awesome too! A bit distracted these days with a new lil monkey, but still awesome...
• 3 months ago ruzuzu said:
  Thanks! I discovered Wordie.org only a month before "the change." But what a month it was!
  
  Edit: I can't even remember what life was like before I discovered all the fun to be had here. And I'm very glad you're back.
• 3 months ago chained_bear said:
  What? Er... thanks! You too! (P.S. I've been meaning to ask: did I know you on Wordie.org? By a different name perhaps?)
• 3 months ago ruzuzu said:
  Hello, Chained_Bear, I just wanted to stop by to say that you're totally awesome. Because, well, you're totally awesome.
• 3 months ago abraxaszugzwang said:
  Heya C_B! Congrats on the cub! I'll try to check in more often if you'll do the same.
• 3 months ago chained_bear said:
  Indeed!! :)
• 3 months ago bilby said:
  For lovers of both drumming and pants.
• 3 months ago bilby said:
  Flattering photo, leatherbutt :-P
• 3 months ago abraxaszugzwang said:
  Hellooooooo.
• 4 months ago super-clarice said:
  What happened to wordie??
• 4 months ago chained_bear said:
  Put some clothes on! Sheesh... some bears...
• 4 months ago reesetee said:
  Aww. Poor critter.
• 4 months ago frogapplause said:
  BEAR WITHOUT FUR
  
• 4 months ago chained_bear said:
  "Spawn Harder" does sound painful, in addition to somewhat nonsensical... :)
• 4 months ago reesetee said:
  Or Spawn 2.0: More ornery than the last one. ;-)
• 4 months ago prolagus said:
  "Spawn II: Unchained Cub"
• 4 months ago pterodactyl said:
  "Spawn II" is a catchy name, but it clearly needs a subtitle. For example:

  "Spawn II: The Sequel"
  
  "Spawn II: This Time It's Personal"
  
  "Spawn II: Spawn Harder"
  
  "Spawn II: Electric Boogaloo"

  
  
• 4 months ago chained_bear said:
  *wipes tear* Shucks... thanks y'all. It's been surreal, and a rather difficult week to say the least, but Spawn II is a great joy. :)
  
  I loves me my Wordie felicitations.
• 4 months ago mollusque said:
  Congratulations on becoming paraphyletic (again)!
• 4 months ago telofy said:
  Has (s)he already a Wordie account? Anyway, another bunch of felicitations!
• 4 months ago bilby said:
  Boy or girl? Congratulations!
• 5 months ago sionnach said:
  Felicitaciones, c_b! Thanks for informing us about the wonders of Proctofoam. As always, you continue to enrich our world.
• 5 months ago yarb said:
  Good job on the sprogging, c_b!
• 5 months ago reesetee said:
  Welcome back! And a worthy addition it is!
  
  *terrified*
• 5 months ago chained_bear said:
  thanks, reesetee. It's been busy. But I had to come visit and add Proctofoam. It was too good not to share.
• 5 months ago reesetee said:
  Congrats, c_b, on the new little cub! :-D
• 6 months ago gangerh said:
  I played with your name. 
  
• 6 months ago chained_bear said:
  Ha! That's cute! Thanks, frog. :)
• 6 months ago frogapplause said:
  
• 7 months ago chained_bear said:
  No, no, please! Donkeys are pretty cute.
  
  Besides, I'm registered Democrat, so it's okay. :)
• 7 months ago frogapplause said:
  Oh, no! I just realized I wrote donkey under the bear animal cracker. A chained_donkey is not worthy of your goodness!
• 7 months ago bilby said:
  Nice work on the front page! I'd doff my cap but still looking for one big enough to fit the ears in *grumbles*
• 7 months ago chained_bear said:
  Thanks oroboros... Usually I go off to some websites that list them and copy/paste from there, but I wish I could remember the keyboard shortcuts as they're much quicker.
• 7 months ago oroboros said:
  C_b. If you don't want to remember/type in numbers, just run the "charmap" program on your PC (don't know about Apple) and you can select/copy the symbols there. It's a little like looking for a needle in a haystack 'tho, sometimes.
  
  Here's some I copied for instance: ێϊǼ♥♫▒ﯓ
  
• 7 months ago chained_bear said:
  No, I think I just used Alt+ some number keys. Wish I could remember what they were... Wait. Is that "charmap"? Then yes.
  
• 7 months ago oroboros said:
  Thanks c_b! I'll put on my thinking cap and add some place nicknames to your list. BTW, I noticed the keyboard shortcuts you "found" a couple of months ago. Did you use "charmap" or what?
• 8 months ago chained_bear said:
  I had no idea that was out there. Or that Hamtramck has more than two syllables. WTF?, as they say.
• 8 months ago sionnach said:
  Maybe you are thinking of this list, c_b?
  
  Hamtramck
• 8 months ago pattisue said:
  Thanks, chained_bear. I'm sort of feeling my way through, and realized my error after the fact. Right now I'm looking for a way to delete that.
• 9 months ago reesetee said:
  *loves the idea of clams crawling up mangrove trees*
• 9 months ago chained_bear said:
  Thanks moll. :) I knew you'd have a ton of info for me.
• 9 months ago mollusque said:
  Hi c_b! Clams can indeed locomote. Scallops can clap their valves together to produce little jets of water that let them swim. Ephippodonta have the valves permanently open and crawl along on their foot. Divariscintilla yoyo hangs from the walls of stomatopod burrows and bobs up and down. Phlyctaenachlamys lysiosquillina probably does the same. Enigmonia have a hole in the bottom valve through which they stick the foot to crawl up mangrove trees.
• 10 months ago reesetee said:
  God help us.
• 10 months ago chained_bear said:
  Just found keyboard shortcuts!!
  ☺ ☻ ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ • ◘ ○ ◙ ♂ ♀ ♪ ♫ ☼ ► ◄ ↕ ╞ ¶ §
  ▬ ↨ ↑ ↓ → �? ∟ ↔ ▲ ▼
  Whoopee!!
• 10 months ago reesetee said:
  And I doubt you'd be off selling it....
• 10 months ago chained_bear said:
  Well, except for the color, it could well be Pooh's arse. It is definitely not my arse, however, as mine is wider.
• 10 months ago bilby said:
  As these exclusive pictures from inside La Bandicuterie reveal, I recently bought myself one of these. According to the label it is a 'back rest support'. Indeed, wonderful it is for those balmy evenings reading in bed. But I can't help feeling that, regardless of angle, it does bear (!) a passing resemblance to the bottom half of Winnie the Pooh. Hence I have come to refer to my new bedtime companion as a bear's arse.
• 10 months ago chained_bear said:
  GAH!!!
  Signed, Someone Who Just Wrote an Attack Letter to Her Internet Service Provider for Being Complete Di@#heads.
• 10 months ago chained_bear said:
  ... I would need a hell of a lot more of them to pay my bills. :)
• 10 months ago jennarenn said:
  Dude! If words were dollars....
• 11 months ago heidikraut said:
  hello, I've just found your welcome message - thanks a lot.
• 11 months ago frogapplause said:
  c_b: Thank you for the very supportive comment. I knew I could count on my Wordie family! xxoo
• 11 months ago bilby said:
  Milestone! Maybe time for new cloak :-) Well done. We have our differences but you are part of the wonder of my Wordie adventure. Peace.
• 11 months ago mollusque said:
  Yippee! You're in league with reesetee now.
• 11 months ago reesetee said:
  Yay! You did it! :-D
  
  *hands chained_bear a cupcake emblazoned with "20K"*
• 11 months ago chained_bear said:
  not quite.
• 11 months ago prolagus said:
  Tappen problem, again? :-)
• 11 months ago chained_bear said:
  sorry. not sleeping.
• 11 months ago prolagus said:
  chained_bear! It's way too early (or too late) to be on Wordie! This is the Euroceasian round!
• 11 months ago reesetee said:
  Yes. Don't forget: I own the alphabet.
• 11 months ago chained_bear said:
  If there's only one person in it, can it be called a club?
• 11 months ago reesetee said:
  Ooh! You're about to join the 20k club!
• 11 months ago madmouth said:
  you'd better have "myun" as the default counter in the Korean section of the pasta list; "guksu" means "noodle soup".
  
• 11 months ago chained_bear said:
  Yeah, sorry about that. Maybe I'll move them. I do need to break up that list; it's getting completely unmanageable.
• 11 months ago yarb said:
  Lots of excellent words coming out of Illywhacker - I reckon they warrant a list of their own.
• 11 months ago chained_bear said:
  (apologies to those who get WordieMobile--esp. frindley...)
• 11 months ago chained_bear said:
  *hides*
• 11 months ago pterodactyl said:
  Hi c_b! I think I just stumbled across you on another site. Wow -- small Internet!
• 12 months ago chained_bear said:
  *ponders what candy poo looks like floating in a spacecraft*
  
  *decides she really should get back to work*
• 12 months ago reesetee said:
  *ponders avoiding candy poo while floating in spacecraft*
• 12 months ago chained_bear said:
  *ponders floating inside a spacecraft*
• 12 months ago reesetee said:
  Oh, I don't much care for golf. I was thinking of the trip there, you see.... :-)
• 12 months ago sionnach said:
  Silly reesetee! There is gravity on the moon. Otherwise golf would be very challenging indeed.
• 12 months ago reesetee said:
  *is equally disappointed and was hoping for zero-gravity fun*
• 12 months ago chained_bear said:
  *disappointed there are no pooping astronaut dispenser dioramas*
• 12 months ago sionnach said:
  I would just like to point out that the golf course there by the Sea of Tranquility is mine, all mine. Green cheese fees are surprisingly reasonable, however - ask me about the special lunar Wordizen discount.
  
  And, no, there will be no pooping astronaut dispenser videoramas - the Helsinki Convention has very specific prohibitions against this, as does the Kyoto Protocol. Now, if we could only get those golfing, pooping lunar tourists from Cataluña to behave!
• 12 months ago reesetee said:
  Except the alphabet, which I own.
  
  Okay. With the possible exception of P. *dodges ptero's fresh squid bombing*
• 12 months ago chained_bear said:
  Oh. Well, no offense taken or meant, I was just confused.
  
  If you mean the general practice by what seem frequently to be Newordizens (by the way, I just invented that, that's copyrighted) to say "This is my word, I coined it," uhh... I agree with yarb.
• 12 months ago yarb said:
  Claiming coinage of a word is a bit like claiming real estate on the moon, isn't it?
• 12 months ago bilby said:
  Uhh, just because I value your opinion. I could have set up a nonce like coinage takers but I thought I might as well ask you straight out as I am interested to know what you think. You've been here longer than me and seen more Wordies come and go so, yeah, respect for grey-tinged furry coiffure and all that.
• 12 months ago chained_bear said:
  Uhh... What's this about? Or to be more specific, did you mean to post this to my profile? For some particular reason?
• 12 months ago bilby said:
  Lately there've been a few occurrences of people coming to Wordie to stake a claim as the coiner of a particular neologism. Perhaps they even signed up primarily for this purpose, who knows? Frauditing and serendipitous findability are recent examples; there's also the odd claim launched at us over rufkm on the basis of commercial copyright rather than coinage. I can't really say as I'm for or against it, it's just something I noticed. My general knowledge of how language works suggests to me that the genesis of words is a complex process. Take the case of bootylicious. It does appear to have been around in the pre-Lopez days, but then again she was probably the one who cemented it in the popular lexicon and hence deserves some credit (regardless of what we think about her *ahem* music).
• 12 months ago sionnach said:
  But Hogmanay should be a place! Houghmagandy too!
• 12 months ago reesetee said:
  *tentatively hands c_b a cupcake, no icing*
• 12 months ago chained_bear said:
  Indeed. I would suggest that "Do Not Approach Bears" and "Guard Your Food at All Times" is good advice.
  
  I can't say whether the chains are for bears, though. No comment.
• 12 months ago prolagus said:
  Look what I found in Sequoia National Park!
• 12 months ago sionnach said:
  ¡ Hola, ursa en cadenas !
  
  Sorry it's taken me so long to answer your question about the dating of the armor. But I did finally track it down, and it appears that the suits of armor in question date from the 15th century. (this is from the little information booklet about the Alcazar in Segovia, which I finally was able to locate)
  
  zorrito
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  It's a slightly different subject than the modern-capitalistic-society stuff she has often written about in the past, I'll grant you. But it really is quite a similar treatment of a subject that, for some reason, not enough people write about.
• about 1 year ago reesetee said:
  I think I'll add it to my list. I've read other Ehrenreich titles and I enjoy her writing--although, as sionnach says, it seems like a departure for her.
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Thanks. I love this book. I was particularly fascinated by the chapters that compared the worship of Dionysus with early Christianity. Worth a read. Quite fascinating.
• about 1 year ago reesetee said:
  I second that, s. :-)
• about 1 year ago sionnach said:
  c_b: I just wanted to say how much I've been enjoying the entries you've been making, inspired by Barbara Ehrenreich's book. It seems like an interesting departure for her.
• about 1 year ago reesetee said:
  I just don't see the family resemblance.
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  *sigh*
  
  They're my flabby, dull cousins.
• about 1 year ago sonofgroucho said:
  Are these guys relatives of yours?
  
  
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Ta ean ear an gloch.*
  
  *I probably spelled that wrong.
• about 1 year ago sionnach said:
  Wonders where c_b is pulling the Gaelic from, and whether or not there is the danger of dislodging a tappen in the process.
  
  Scampering off to photograph cows....
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  A Phadraig a chara, Baile Atha Cliath go deas anois!!
  
  (p.s. I'm not really in Dublin. And your name is not Patrick.)
• about 1 year ago sionnach said:
  ¡Saludos madrileños a la ursa en cadenas!
• about 1 year ago reesetee said:
  Does anyone know someone who has a birthday today? Anyone? Anyone?
• about 1 year ago jennarenn said:
  Oh c_b, I am so sorry. I'm sure your tags are delightful.
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Thanks. I've seen these kinds of nasty-bomb tags on several words in my travels. It's lame. The answer to "I hate chained_bear's stupid tags" is to go use tags oneself in the way that seems best. Drown my tags out in a chorus of properly-used tags. That's what they're for.
  
  If someone posted a tag like the one on gunpowder in a comment, he or she might well expect to get shouted down for being unnecessarily nasty. But since it's a tag, the excuse that might be offered is that it's my fault for not thinking it's funny. Instead of laughter—and gee, I can't think why—the phrase "passive-aggressive assmarmot" comes to mind.
  
  Oh well. See yuz around.
• about 1 year ago reesetee said:
  I second that.
• about 1 year ago qroqqa said:
  *grrr* Loves you and your tags notwithstanding anonymous counter-taggers.
• about 1 year ago jennarenn said:
  11,000+ tags? People use tags? mollusque, I'm impressed.
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  I'll be back when I have some words to throw around.
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  (thanks sionnach.)
• about 1 year ago sionnach said:
  pssst... Ms Bear: The HTML code to include an image directly into a comment is {img src="location of image"}, where the opening and closing braces are replaced by the 'less than' and 'greater than' symbols.
• about 1 year ago hernesheir said:
  Thanks chained_bear for the compliments on my nascent lists and contributed words, and the encouragement you posted on my profile. What fun it has been to discover then poke around the edges of the Wordie community while indulging on words and language with so many witty and clever people! I've been so busy watching words and comments scroll by that I have spent too little time exploring others' truly neat and insightful lists. I guess that is where the real work for me begins soon.
  
  Collections of items are very powerful to me. I've assembled a collection of hundreds of antique corkscrews from all over the world. While individually they are interesting, collectively organized by type, material, or mechanical function they become awe-inspiring testaments of human creativity, problem-solving, and artistry. Wordie lists do the same thing for me. They provide a spectrum of words with similar and overlapping meanings and related terms and concepts. Most of all, the quirkier of the lists reveal to me what playful and clever monkies we humans are - one part of human-ness that I really cherish and revel in!
  
  Y'all amaze and inspire me! (Idaho kid trying to talk Southern). - hernesheir
• about 1 year ago reesetee said:
  Hey, how'd the piping and/or drumming go?
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Alas, List Maintenance is time-consuming, but at least it's well worth the effort. Like cleaning one's house. *sigh*
• about 1 year ago mollusque said:
  Sionnach, I generally haven't used bulk tagging, but I'm over 11,000 tags (970 different). I agree with c_b: tag as you go. It's a pain to wade through a list later to add the tags. For example, I intend to tag all the items on chromonyms by color, but keep procrastinating, since I'd rather list than tag.
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Happy 2009 everybody! I'm off to pipe in Hogmanay.
  
  Er... that's "pipe in" "Hogmanay," not pipe. in. Hogmanay. (which is not a place)
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Yes, that's all true too. Those are excellent examples of tags that are useful to many users rather than just a couple. Thanks Pro!
• about 1 year ago prolagus said:
  This is how I describe my use of tags on faq.
  
  Q What are tags for?
  A There are no formal rules - we are on Wordie, after all. But in general, tags are meant to relate words to each other, so that you can easily find words, for instance, in different languages (e.g. Italian) or pertaining to a specific jargon (e.g. scientific name).
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Sionnach, there's the bulk-tagging feature, which tags every word on a list—that probably accounts for the outrageously large number on my profile that even I don't really believe.
  
  Second, in my case, I've constructed several lists in the past few months which contain words sorted by a variety of tags—for example, the seventy-three (it feels like) dinosaur lists, or the London Underground stations.
  
  In the London Underground list, for example, each entry is tagged with which subway line it's on, and whether it's permanently closed. Obviously those tags won't prove very useful to other users or in other contexts, but they are very useful on that particular list and to any interested browsers.
  
  Since part of the purpose of tags is to organize information, it seems to me that if you're reading a list of 300 words but you want to see only that portion of them that interests you, then clicking on a tag, whether it's a list-specific one or not, will bring up that portion. Someone explained it to me in terms of Dogs in Russian Literature (perhaps on features, or tags?). The tag will organize information across lists as well as within them.
  
  Others of my lists that use very particular tags, just off the top of my head, are the ships of the British Navy (tagged with the size of the ship, number of guns, whether captured or sunk, etc.), Slaves enlisted in the Rhode Island Regiment (tagged with what month they enlisted and from which town), Signers of the Declaration of Independence (tagged with which state they represented), and (of course) many of the entries on the Aubrey/Maturin list are tagged with medicine, nautical, avian, or any number of other tags. These (of course) were not tagged with the bulk-tagging tool. It's much easier, I've discovered, to go to the trouble of adding tags when adding words individually to lists, than to go through later on and tag them. Though I've done it both ways.
  
  I know not everyone uses tags this way, or envisions them used this way, but this is Wordie and John says I can do what I want, so I did. :)
  
  Hope this helps.
• about 1 year ago sionnach said:
  Not being much of a tagger myself, I am in awe that one person could have added 8,444 tags.
  
  Though (it begins to dawn on me) it can't mean 8,444 unique tags, surely?
  
  Obviously there must be unsuspected utility to tagging that I should probably educate myself about. My primitive vulpine brain thinks of tagging primarily as a tool to facilitate later sorting and retrieval - perhaps there is more to it than that? Occasionally I'll see whole conversations scroll by about the most intricate, nitty-gritty details of tag choices and I have to confess that their larger meaning escapes me.
  
  If you, c_b, or any other prolific taggers out there, could offer any enlightenment, I know I would appreciate it.
  
  thanks
• about 1 year ago telofy said:
  xkcd: That site offers but a small minority of comics that are less than hilarious to me. :-)
  cheat sheet: It's not really exhaustive.
• about 1 year ago reesetee said:
  Two years. So don't feel so bad. :-)
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Wow. It's only been, what, three years? And I still can't get into my head there's a cheat sheet, even though John and others have told me about it four times... *smacks head with meaty paw*
• about 1 year ago reesetee said:
  So true! *sigh*
  
  C_b and BB (and anyone else who cares), I just want to point out that a "cheat sheet" for coding pops up when you click on the tiny "Some html" link just above the comment field on every page. I use it all the time, because I can't seem to keep them in my head. :-)
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Telofy, thanks for posting the link info here.
  
  That XKCD is *priceless*! I also like this one.
• about 1 year ago telofy said:
  Nothing like youtube comments. :-)
• about 1 year ago BrainyBabe said:
  Thanks for the coding tip! I have just read thrugh half these comments, and clearly here is where the action is (my main analogy is Wikipedia -- talk pages I guess). You guys are so civilised! Seeing as how you were discussing wooden stirring spoons, may I introduce you to bishkek and spirtle? The pleasure is mine!
• about 1 year ago telofy said:
  <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/83734/book/20334358">Link-blah-foobar</a> should look like this: Link-blah-foobar
  
  And on a(n) (un)realated note: I love fiction for I eschew real-life. Ok, that was cynical, I don't mean it like that, just kidding; please imagine many sortas, kindas and ;-)s inserted into that sentence.
• about 1 year ago BrainyBabe said:
  Thanks! Seeing as how you were discussing wooden stirring spoons, may I introduce you to bishkek and spirtle? The pleasure is mine!
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  No, I haven't! Thanks for the suggestion. I don't read much fiction. I find real-life stuff far more compelling.
  
  You can embed links with this text:
  
  a href="your link here"
  Put that whole line inside these: <
  >
  Then text you can click on
  and then another <
  slash, lower-case a
  >
  
  Hope it helps. Maybe someone else has a less obtuse way of explaining it. I know I had to keep referring to AbraxasZugzwang's comment on a certain word page before I could get it in my head.
• about 1 year ago BrainyBabe said:
  Have you read the novel "Bear"? (you don't have to answer, obviously) -- Now I will try to insert a link:
  http://www.librarything.com/work/83734/book/20334358
  
• over 1 year ago millionbear said:
  yes, your rich, non-incarcerated cousin perhaps...
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Delightful! Comment posted at bear hands. (Thanks to you too, kewpid!)
• over 1 year ago prolagus said:
  chained_bear, check this out!
• over 1 year ago reesetee said:
  I was going to say....Geez, chayce, get it right for once.
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Right! I'm going to proudly declare my lack of testicles!! Yay! *dancing*
  
  Wait... I have a whole list of them. I guess I *do* have testicles after all.
  
  *sigh*
• over 1 year ago prolagus said:
  Many people don't. There's nothing to worry about, much less for women.
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  That's right, chayce. I don't. I also know how to spell.
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  ABRAXAS!!!! *hugs* You were missed! I'm glad you're back and hope you stick around. *grinning*
  
  Yay! Yay!
• over 1 year ago abraxaszugzwang said:
  C_B! Hi! Thanks for the comment. I've been gone so long, I felt sure no one would remember me. Not sure why I go in such fits and spurts. I need to think about making a new list and getting back into the swing of things. Probably loads of people to meet too. Anyhoo, how're you doing?
• over 1 year ago bilby said:
  "I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world right now. It is true, one has to have strong cojones and ovarios to withstand much of what passes for 'good' in our culture today."
  - Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Letter To A Young Activist During Troubled Times, 2003.
  
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Oh god yes. *sitting on mound of defunse weaponry*
• over 1 year ago reesetee said:
  I'd like to be His Highness's archer too. Chained_bear, do you have enough artillery in your arsenal for civil defunse for all of us?
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  I see. Definitely becoming a pattern, more's the pity. And what do you propose calling this pattern? Simply the New-fangled Pattern?
  
  I am delighted to be considered one of King John's Archers. I propose a Facebook group.
• over 1 year ago bilby said:
  We are seeing a Variation in The Pattern. I shall now stand on a chair *crowd gasps* and pronounce this the New-Fangled Pattern. Viz:
  - Site Misuser enters
  - Site Misuser annoys Other Users, mostly Loyalists, with Spam or Sundry Triteness
  - the King John's Archers, mounted on Fine Steeds, conduct a swift and barbed counter-offensive. And some of us can be really phucking offensive :->
  - Site Misuser protests and comes Lame Excuse A-Proffering.
  
• over 1 year ago elgiad007 said:
  Hi chained_bear,
  
  Thanks for the welcome!
  
  I've been with Wordie for a month or so, and I've enjoyed what I've seen immensely. I've seen plenty of examples of abuses like English reasearch paper on other reputable sites, so today's antics by Bonnie and company didn't surprise or dissuade me in the least. If anything, I was impressed by the swift response by you and the Wordie community. It demonstrated strong support of the ideal's of Wordie by it's members, and that is encouraging in light of the cretinous display we witnessed today.
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Hmmm, do you think it's real? I don't like the vagueness of the definitions! At any rate it's no longer unlisted. Thanks!
• over 1 year ago whichbe said:
  There is an unlisted superslasher on the loose on Wordie!
• over 1 year ago reesetee said:
  Wise ursa.
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  You know, in today's politically motivated anti-bear climate, you can hardly blame me for wanting to get out in front of this bad press. Let the record show that I repudiate such attacks.
• over 1 year ago frindley said:
  Still, we'd be right to suspect you. Only a very clever bear could aim for a girl's "left lip". (Looks like her upper lip to me, but hey…)
• over 1 year ago reesetee said:
  How could you? You're chained. :-)
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  I want everyone to know that I had nothing to do with this.
• over 1 year ago lillyjames said:
  Haha! Well, I guess it's adorable then! :)
• over 1 year ago mollusque said:
  Thanks c_b! Next up, a baker's kilodozen.
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Certainly. And, too, there are so many different types of dictionaries. It's delightful that so many are available digitally.
• over 1 year ago quotato said:
  A paper page dictionary has more than 15,000 words, and, it does not even need an electric plug to keep it charged up.
  
  Of course, a human being does need to use muscular power to open its pages too view it's many many words...
  
  I must admit...my mind shall never remember every word in that Great Book.
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Yeah... sorry about that... I also blew past 15,000 words at some point this week... Not too busy at work for the past few days so plenty of time to read and play with words.
• over 1 year ago mollusque said:
  Hey c_b, you blew past 10,000 comments today! Conflagrations!
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Sorry about hogging the front page of comments, all. I'll be done very shortly.
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  I'm terribly sorry to disappoint, zuccaciyecioglu, but fuck is one of my favorite words. :( Good luck!
• over 1 year ago zuccaciyecioglu said:
  Hi CB, please help me bump 'f--k' from the Wordie Hot 100 by adding prestidigitation, alacrity, ineffable, or chimera. I'm not even kidding!
• over 1 year ago sionnach said:
  c_b: ¿Qué pasa, chica? You are leaving me in the dust. I will never catch up with you.
  
  Abrazos from the 35th parallel, al oso en cadenas.
  
  zorrito.
• over 1 year ago prolagus said:
  I'll try not to use it, instead: zuccaciyecoglu... (quick look) zuccaciyecioglu!
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Actually I wouldn't care, but thanks for responding. I'll just hone my quick-draw copy-paste ability. :)
• over 1 year ago gangerh said:
  OOOOOOooooooOOOOh!
• over 1 year ago zuccaciyecioglu said:
  Chained Bear, I'm afraid I must insist that you master and use the entire name. I promise it will be worth the effort. You wouldn't want me calling you, "Chai," would you?
• over 1 year ago prolagus said:
  And 9000 comments!
• over 1 year ago bilby said:
  4200 tags?! Yikes, I'm struggling to get my first hundred!
• over 1 year ago elisheba said:
  thank you chained bear! :-)) wordie is a really cool idea, it's lots of fun as well as interesting. i'll check out the other musical lists and add definitions as soon as i have some time
• over 1 year ago reesetee said:
  Deal!
  
  *hands c_b an Agreement Cupcake, sans icing*
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  That's a good idea--a separate list of extinct vs. prehistoric. We could coordinate our use of tags, too.
• over 1 year ago reesetee said:
  Either way would be fine with me. :-)
  
  I've been thinking of starting a list of extinct birds, but I hadn't thought of going back to prehistory. Maybe they should be two separate lists.
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  I haven't yet, but I might, just for sorting purposes. Do you want to make it instead? And maybe I can add words to yours? Or vice versa?
• over 1 year ago reesetee said:
  C_b, are you making a list of prehistoric birds?
• over 1 year ago mollusque said:
  Eleventy-thousand eleventy-one!
• over 1 year ago whichbe said:
  My legion of demonic words imbibes my soul with the power to add words like eggo construction.
• over 1 year ago reesetee said:
  Wow. How Zen.
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  I'm in a Wordie frenzy so this will change momentarily, but I wanted to mark this moment. I feel it counteracts my experiencing the mark of the beast on whichbe's list yesterday:
  
  chained_bear has added 11111 words
• over 1 year ago super-logos said:
  Sorry about that, c_b. I have created my own 2 lists about mythical literary works and mythical music/composers with an Americam theme. Please feel free to add.
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Masterpiece re-creation located at my open list SPAM SPAM SPAMMITY SPAM.
  
  Also, plethora, I paid attention this time and the 10,000th word was nurdled. A good one, I think.
• over 1 year ago reesetee said:
  Oh. Hmm. Well, that's probably a good thing, in the long run--even though we posted masterpieces there. ;-)
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  I have no idea. I don't know what the 10,000th word was cuz I wasn't really paying attention, I guess. Sorry.
  
  I mean, it's neat like seeing the odometer numbers all turn at once, but other than that... *shrugs*
  
  Edit: Apparently it does, reesetee, because Radixand's account was nuked (it looks like), and the word count went down again. (Not that it matters! Just sayin'.)
• over 1 year ago reesetee said:
  I hate to burst your bubble, c_b, but didn't we discover that adding words to someone else's list doesn't increase your word count? Or was I dreaming?
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  You ain't kidding, bilby. I am completely pussified! ROOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRR!!
  
  Actually it just takes, you know, a couple years of hanging out here and adding words like a crazy bear (or mollusque, or whichbe, or whatever it is that reesetee is, etc.).
  
  Plethora... ahh... good question! One of those nice spammity things over on radixand's profile, I suspect. Juhu!
• over 1 year ago plethora said:
  Yay! Congratulations c_b!
  What was your ten thousandth word?
• over 1 year ago mollusque said:
  Yippee! Congrats!
• over 1 year ago bilby said:
  Ooh, another in the 10K Klub. It takes ovaries to do that!
• over 1 year ago sionnach said:
  Hola, oso en cadenas. Felicitaciones.
  Tu hincha numero uno.
• over 1 year ago reesetee said:
  Heeeey, congrats on passing the 10k Wordie mark!
• over 1 year ago rolig said:
  Don't worry about it bothering people. Wordie has two sides, the public, where everyone gathers around to chat in a million directions, and the private, where we compile our various lists as we see fit. I enjoy your enthusiasm, c_b, for the weird and wonderful word even when I don't jump in with a comment.
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  I'm very sorry if it's bothering anyone. Glad you've been enjoying them, rolig, and thanks for telling me. :)
• over 1 year ago rolig said:
  Ms. Bear, thanks for your recent posts with links to McSweeney's and, a couple of weeks ago, to Dan Savage. I've been enjoying Savage steadily since, and am sure I will McSweeney as well. Juhu! (as they say in Slovene) new ways to avoid work!
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Oh dear. That does sound annoying. Fortunately I've never read that series.
• over 1 year ago bilby said:
  In Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, usually abbreviated to WoT by fans, the characaters go on and on about The Pattern. Especially the Aes Sedai who like to come across as the wise ones of the piece. Every 'air of resignation' is (inevitably) accompanied by an "Ah, it's part of The Pattern now." It's suitable fantasy shorthand for fate I suppose for about two books' worth, after which you realise RJ uses The Pattern as a cache for all the stuff his aimless tomes have no interest in explaining. Screamworthy after the tenth book :-(
• over 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Umm... ??
• over 1 year ago bilby said:
  Arrggh, WoT!
• over 1 year ago gangerh said:
  I think you're right, 'bear. And it does lean towards glamourising it. I'll just list the phrase for posterity and perhaps a future function.