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• about 17 hours ago ruzuzu said:
  Sí. Pobrecito. Pero es posible comunicar con él en su lista.
• about 18 hours ago sionnach said:
  Dios mio! Que esta pasando con Skippy? Lo habran secuestrado u algo asi, porque no se puede comunicar con el, a pesar de que nos ha dejado algunas huellas, se supone como pruebas de vida. Pobrecito! Espero que los criminales no le corten una oreja.
• 15 days ago ruzuzu said:
  Thanks, sionnach.
• 22 days ago sionnach said:
  Grrrrrr!!!!
• about 1 month ago bilby said:
  
• about 1 month ago sionnach said:
  Thanks, John.
  
  In other news, the peregrinations of Mr Fox
• about 1 month ago john said:
  Hi Sionnach, the fix is in, again. This time it was balking at phrases containing periods--should be ok now.
• about 1 month ago sionnach said:
  Thanks, John. I really appreciate it!
• about 1 month ago john said:
  hi sionnach, looks like you've already discovered this, but we fixed the issue with your 'critics' list (which i love--comments are delightful).
  
  
• about 1 month ago reesetee said:
  *hands chained a blue-frosted cupcake*
  
  *and bicycle pump*
• about 1 month ago mollusque said:
  Would an aspirator help c_b?
• about 1 month ago dontcry said:
  Babe....
• about 1 month ago possibleunderscore said:
  :D
• about 1 month ago reesetee said:
  I missed all the hubbub! And I didn't even have a chance to offer you a blue-frosted cupcake.
  
  *hands sionnach a blue-frosted cupcake*
• about 1 month ago bilby said:
  They say we're young and we don't know
  We won't find out until we grow
• about 1 month ago chained_bear said:
  Damn. I'm still deflated.
  
  Does anyone have a bicycle pump, or something?
• about 1 month ago ruzuzu said:
  (thank you, santa)
• about 1 month ago sionnach said:
  I take major umbrage at that suggestion, c_b. But, in fact, the comments do show up in my e-mail.
  
  Thank you all for your kind remarks. I'm not sure what precipitated yesterday's outburst, but I have resolved to stick around and try to participate more.
  
  In fact, it must be time to start a new list. And somebody needs to take a flight down under to give bilby some remedial spelling and grammar lessons.
  
  And yes, c_b, I am indeed old. Practically ancient, in fact. Though I have yet to master the steps required to prepare the magical, mystical dublin coddle.
  
  Happy Groundhog Day!
• about 1 month ago chained_bear said:
  ... so we can't make fun of him?
  *deflated*
• about 1 month ago bilby said:
  If this page is still here the account hasn't been deleted. And if he still has 'Email me...When I get comments on my profile or lists' checked then he'll be notified of each and every comment.
  
  He's probably just gone off to commune with cuddlefishes or hunt wild vegemite in the pampas.
• about 1 month ago chained_bear said:
  Interestingly, if sionnach has left, he won't see any of these comments. I move we make fun of him instead, since he's not here to defend himself.
  ;)
• about 1 month ago possibleunderscore said:
  And also very much like cutting spaghetti.
• about 1 month ago prolagus said:
  Moreover, leaving us like this would definitely qualify as pointing the brie.
• about 1 month ago hernesheir said:
  You haven't reported your experience making dublin coddle yet. You can't leave us like this.
• about 1 month ago prolagus said:
  Would that help if I told you that this song is about no one but you?
• about 1 month ago dontcry said:
  *cries*
• about 1 month ago possibleunderscore said:
  What?? Is the Santa Fox going? I'm a lot less poetic than ruzuzu and a lot less bilbyish than bilby, so can only settle for a really sincere and genuine: 'We wouldn't bear to see you go! Please stick around!!'
  :'(
  Things could only possibly go uphhill from now anyway.
  : )
• about 1 month ago ruzuzu said:
  Brackets around bilby feedback page, please.
• about 1 month ago prolagus said:
  It must be some internal bug, Milos. Let's report it to the bilby feedback page.
• about 1 month ago Milosrdenstvi said:
  Did bilby just misuse you're?!
  *aghast*
• about 1 month ago bilby said:
  Of course he's old. He was old when Noah put in his requisition chit for an ark welder.
• about 1 month ago chained_bear said:
  ... did you just call sionnach OLD?!
  *sniggering*
  ;)
• about 1 month ago bilby said:
  I have different reasons to ruzuzu but end result is the same: I wish you would stay a while. Like you I don't find the site very usable, and the spam's a pain, and fundamentally the splitting of 'words' into two pages is not working very coherently, etc. etc. etc., but maybe my tether is longer out here in the desert. There's still fun to be had. It'd be funner with you here. You're mature enough to know you're own head so I'm not going to plead. But you certainly can't leave without a sloppy kiss first, oh no!
• about 1 month ago ruzuzu said:
  When the switch first happened, I was very sad. I had just discovered Wordie, and I was completely in love--it didn't matter that some of the comments I was reading were two years old. In fact, that made it even more compelling--stuff I'd just found out about was stuff that you and chained_bear and bilby had been sharing for, well, for years... and then there were things you were joking about that I hadn't learned yet. When The Change came, the main difference for me was not the layout and missing features so much as the missing voices. I continue to read through old comments, and I'm still smitten--even though Wordnik is not the Wordie I fell in love with. But the prospect of losing another voice now, when I've had more time to become keenly aware of how important those voices are, is the part of all of this change that could actually break my heart. I will eventually run out of old comments to read, but I won't run out of the longing to hear what you have to tell us--that would just get worse over time. Please don't go.
• 2 months ago possibleunderscore said:
  I have always been fascinated by books about words and language and that list is a dream come true, considering that sad limitations prevent me from collecting my own.
• 2 months ago ruzuzu said:
  Your list of books is fantastic. I counted only 12 that I could immediately find on my own bookshelves.
• 2 months ago sionnach said:
  Thanks, john!
• 2 months ago john said:
  Hi Sionnach, sorry about the long delay, but we finally dug up the list sorting bug. We'll hopefully have a fix out for it mid-week.
• 2 months ago sionnach said:
  Bounty has competition!
• 2 months ago dontcry said:
  Gotcha.
• 2 months ago bilby said:
  If I had to answer you with one of these things in my mouth it would probably come out as ... [ln÷oæΣï].
• 2 months ago dontcry said:
  It's dry, then?
• 2 months ago bilby said:
  I hope OBG one day brings the full brunt of the Dessication Index to bear on tau sa pia. That's if local supply hasn't been deployed to mop up an oil spill or something like that.
• 3 months ago nickbomb said:
  how cool.........nt.
• 3 months ago possibleunderscore said:
  Ummm.........of course it is!!!
  
  heh.
  
  (Just in case you didn't actually know, or you weren't actually joking, he's the Fox from Super Mario Smash Brothers. I mean, who doesn't like playing that game? Honestly.)
• 3 months ago bilby said:
  That's from the WANTED poster relating to the Chapel Hill incident, isn't it?
• 3 months ago possibleunderscore said:
  You must be terribly busy Santa Fox, at this time of year, but I have a question to pose:
  Is this one of you relatives?
  
• 3 months ago john said:
  Hi sionnach, the default sort for lists is 'order added', so seeing words from across the alphabet on any page is expected behavior. I just paged through all three pages of the list you mentioned, sorted by alpha and order added, and they look ok to me. Email me if you're seeing something different.
  
  Onelook and friends still there, but the location has changed. If you look at the summary page for any word, in the 'Definitions' area, underneath 'WordNet' there's a section called 'Elsewhere on the web.'
• 3 months ago ruzuzu said:
  Here's an article about how foxes can help save potential Christmas trees from certain death by using the most potent weapon at their disposal.
• 3 months ago ruzuzu said:
  It's true--I have the sulks. I mean, I know you're busy... this time of year and all... but are there any new celebrity, bull, or cat anecdotes you're willing to share with us?
• 4 months ago bilby said:
  The end of MOTP will give us all the sulks. Thankfully we have Boris on hand to method-act our grief.
• 4 months ago sionnach said:
  Oh! No! Poor Sisypuss!
• 4 months ago bilby said:
  
• 4 months ago bilby said:
  Are you referring to the use of Si in Indonesian as an honorific? Why yes, Si O'Nnach sounds perfect!
• 4 months ago ruzuzu said:
  Correlation... is not... causation? But that would mean I've committed a non sequitur fallacy--specifically the fallacy of false Claus. (Sniffles, begins to fall into a heap of cognitive dissonance.)
  
  But wait--it would make sense for Santa to be a statistician. Maybe you're just saying that stuff so people don't find out the secret location of The Workshop. I get it now! I won't tell anyone, I promise, Santa Fox! Ooops. I mean I won't tell anyone, "sionnach." (Winks.)
• 4 months ago ruzuzu said:
  I am now convinced for all time that Santa's Workshop is in Gibraltar.
• 4 months ago possibleunderscore said:
  Hah! I don't know about 'specific excrement' specifically but that book looks Cute!
• 4 months ago sionnach said:
  I don't know, but this book just might be appropriate for anyone who had, say, an interest in specific excrement:
  
  
• 4 months ago prolagus said:
  Great pronunciations! I recorded some of your Italian idioms - you can see which ones on my profile.
• 4 months ago gangerh said:
  An stf of yours has been illustrated by frogapplause. Here.
• 4 months ago prolagus said:
  Ha! Come on! Rotten is good. (*)
  
  (*) Except for rotten sugar, a.k.a. alcohol.
• 4 months ago ruzuzu said:
  Dear Santa Fox,
  
  Speaking of lists, and checking them twice.... I wish it were easier to search for list names these days. (I just found your lovely list of capitonyms.)
  
  --A. Youngster
• 4 months ago ruzuzu said:
  I knew it! You're the Santa Fox! For Christmas I would also like a chained_bear. I've been very good....
• 4 months ago possibleunderscore said:
  We all wish...
  
  hang on... are you?
• 4 months ago ruzuzu said:
  Are... are you Santa?
  
  --signed, a Youngster
• 4 months ago bilby said:
  
• 4 months ago bilby said:
  Was unable to log in unable to log in unable to log in unable to log in unable to long in unable to log in until today.
  Just looking at this site hurts my soul so I don't know if I'll be around for long. In the past week I've got used to the unWordie reality of my life.
• 4 months ago sionnach said:
  My profile is now public again.
• 5 months ago bilby said:
  Oh my jimmytooters!
• 5 months ago sionnach said:
  In case anyone has wondered about my relative scarcity on Wordie recently, well, there are exciting things going on:
  
  
• 6 months ago bilby said:
  Are you, sir, familiar with fugazzetta? Tonight I was watching a movie set in BA and this word came up. The little boy wanted to have some and the grandmother, his guardian, said she didn't want to smell like onions. That's all I know.
• 6 months ago madmouth said:
  thank you, sir. the final -m got the Google back in action, and it's a Dubliners coinage, from the looks of it.
• 6 months ago madmouth said:
  you'd know, I warrant. I heard a word on a Dubliners track that sounds like 'falooran' or 'felorrin', meaning 'masculine virility' (re: old man a young woman has married out of necessity, "He's got no feloorin" so then she sleeps with this handsome young man). Google, however, is convinced it doesn't exist. you know what this word is?
• 6 months ago frogapplause said:
  I loved your Empanada Semiotics post. What filling is inside the two round ones?
• 6 months ago hernesheir said:
  I referred to a Dublin Coddle recipe some months ago wondering if you were the person who posted the recipe under a different "handle" on the (largely) Irish tune site The Session. I inquired because your breadth of knowledge, turn of phrase, but especially your posted wit and sense of humor are virtually identical those to those of that person, who happens to be one of THE primary contributors to that site like you have been to Wordie as long as I've camped out here. You have a doppelganger in the world of Irish musicians, S! Cool! Cheers - Deme en el centro de Buenos Aires una vuelta con una mujer bie'n preciosa y bella , o mejor, un tango con ella! ;>) Ciao - y que se disfrute alla'!
• 6 months ago ruzuzu said:
  Thank you for adding to my list. I thought von trapp family was especially great.
• 6 months ago bilby said:
  Vengeance.
• 6 months ago telofy said:
  Wow, that’s teh alsome, you’re Over 9000! ;-)
• 6 months ago sionnach said:
  Is this my 9000th comment? I think it might just be.
  Nope, apparently not. Wait, yes it is.
• 6 months ago bilby said:
  Thanks! For the record, it's from Allalu Mo Wauleen:
  An allalu mo wauleen!
  No hole, no stitch, no rent in it,
  ’Twas stuffed from string to sauleen,
  My half-year’s rent was pent in it.
  Charming stuff.
• 6 months ago bilby said:
  Kind sir, would you help me with the two -eens in this?
  Yourself and I, mo stóreen,
  At every hour of night and day,
  Through road and lane and bohreen
  Without complaint we made our way,
  Till one sore day a carman
  In pity took us from the road,
  And faced us towards Dungarvan
  Where mortal sin hath firm abode.
• 6 months ago bilby said:
  Being doing quite a bit of online reading. Got caught with library closed and nothing in the in-basket; don't have a book collection.
  
  The Guano Republic? I've never been to Nauru but it's well-known to Australians. At one stage their president preferred to live in Melbourne, ostensibly for the sake of his children's education ... not sure what that said about his country either. Nevertheless, he duly demanded that his activities appear in the Vice-Regal notices in Melbourne papers on a pretty much daily basis.
• 6 months ago sionnach said:
  What can I say? To survive the mean streets of Santiago, I had to pick up some bad habits.
  
  wanna make something of it, bud?
• 6 months ago plethora said:
  How rude!
• 7 months ago sionnach said:
  I am still in San Francisco, but will be leaving for Buenos Aires on Friday.
  
  Yippee-i-yay!
• 7 months ago bilby said:
  You in Fair Breezes now?
• 7 months ago bilby said:
  Kafka feliz!
• 7 months ago sionnach said:
  That foxlight is a condescending insult to vulpine intelligence. Those cauliflower-sheep, on the other hand .....
  
  'Nummy.
• 7 months ago bilby said:
  Foxlight.
• 7 months ago dontcry said:
  Howl!
• 7 months ago bilby said:
  How to get a fox to eat his vegetables.
  
  (thanks to frogapplause for finding it).
• 7 months ago telofy said:
  Yeah, pretty pretty, especially since 17 is a prime number.
  Congratulations!!
  (two exclamation points to make the line 17 characters long)
• 7 months ago sionnach said:
  Ooh! 17K. Finally. Seems like it's taken forever to get from 16K to 17K.
  
  Now I guess I'll have to hold off for a few days to admire the nice roundness of that 17,000 figure.
• 8 months ago bilby said:
  It takes just as much courage to pull the plug and scoot as it does to hang around. I hope the revised plans work out well for you.
• 8 months ago sionnach said:
  Thank you, frogapplause! Best laugh I've had all week.
• 8 months ago frogapplause said:
  sionnach: Thanks!
• 8 months ago bilby said:
  We can only hope so. Don't spit the dummy-half!
• 8 months ago sionnach said:
  Does it involve cannibalizing rugby players?
• 8 months ago bilby said:
  Beware of diorama sickness in the Andes, Zorrito!
• 8 months ago reesetee said:
  Have a great trip!
• 8 months ago bilby said:
  MOTP updates ... yay!
• 8 months ago sionnach said:
  Zorrito will be heading to the Southern hemisphere on Saturday for his regular infusion of espanol. I'm sure there will be lists: "un zorro en Santiago de Chile" and "un zorro en Buenos Aires".
• 8 months ago treeseed said:
  Thank you so much! It's all coming back to me now....
• 8 months ago treeseed said:
  I have forgotten how to create a new list. Please help me out?
• 8 months ago sionnach said:
  Thanks, John. It's a bit of a random thing. In trying to track the phenomenon, I had the impression that it might be a result of having two Firefox windows open simultaneously (which I usually avoid, but sometimes a second window opens up as a popunder ad). This doesn't explain things completely though, but it has been less of an issue to date. I am able to delete duplicate words and comments, but a couple of lists appear twice on my list of lists, which is a minor annoyance.
  
  Not to worry, though. I still need my daily fix of Wordie.
• 8 months ago john said:
  Ga, Sionnach, I somehow missed your bug report a few weeks ago about all the duplicates. I'll look into that ASAP, which unfortunately probably means this coming weekend. Last thing in the world I want is to diminish Wordie's appeal to you :-)
• 9 months ago bilby said:
  I'm sure it would lift the spirits of the prisoner! Can you email me a postal address please?
• 9 months ago bilby said:
  Zzzzzz.
• 9 months ago bilby said:
  What's up, Imelda?
• 10 months ago prolagus said:
  Well then, see you in Kyoto in summer 2010!
• 10 months ago prolagus said:
  I had a wonderful, wonderful time. Now I'm getting ready for London, next week!
  My statistician vulpine friend, what are the chances that we eventually meet someday while wandering across the planet?
• 10 months ago garyth123 said:
  Define barmy.
• 10 months ago sionnach said:
  here's hoping Pro had as much fun in catalonia as I did in Edinburgh. They're downright barmy, these Scots people! But in the best possible way.
  
  Tomorrow, it's on to Dublin, to see what Ireland's trendsetters are up to.
  
  (Not!)
  
  Though I will be catching up with a friend from high school I've not seen in 35 years. Exciting stuff.
  
  over and out.
  
  foxy
• 10 months ago prolagus said:
  Have a safe trip! I'm going to Catalonia for the weekend.
• 10 months ago bilby said:
  Bon voyage! Just as well Scotland has strict laws against dioramas ;-)
• 10 months ago sionnach said:
  Ooh, I've got an attack of the tummyfreeze.
  preparing to leave for Edinburgh and assorted Irish destinations.
• 10 months ago bilby said:
  An antidote for firefox!
• 11 months ago mark22 said:
  new entry for groddess if you're interested.
• 11 months ago bilby said:
  ¡Hola, hideous 10-dollar broadminded pampas bunny!
  
  Can you please have a look at my Frank O'Connor citation on skite? Now that madmouth has queried it I have a feeling it's a usage peculiar to Oireland. Perhaps something similar to bender? Worthless Word For The Day notes as one of skite's meanings:
  orig. and chiefly Scot. a jollification, a spree, a binge; freq. in phrase on the skite.
  
  Oh, the zine is out now too! Positive comments already on Marmalade Cat Humiliation. I was at a friend's house last night and he had photocopied the poem and stuck it on the fridge. Occasaionally he'd loook at it and say, "Beer. Maravilla. Beer maravilla." So if you can get me a postal address to identifythewordie@yours.com, 2 copies will be on their way. Plus the book :-)
• 11 months ago bilby said:
  *giggles*
• 11 months ago chained_bear said:
  *hopes sionnach goes on a hunt for more candy-pooping animals*
• 11 months ago bilby said:
  Haha! Fox Crescent's about a kilometre (sorry, imperial wimps) from the PO actually. Maybe someone at Google Maps is also plotting against you ... have you been followed recently by a lemur in a check surtout?
  
  Just to ensure you now feel a right richard, I can tell you I bought a book to send you in return. It's a much-loved piece by one of my favourite writers, a gent who I think writes with the kind of verve that will keep you well-entertained. So where do I send it, Flash?
• 11 months ago bilby said:
  Forgive me for being obtuse, but I thought I had put my hand up and given you a postal address on your blog? Never mind, I'm happy the beasties have found a home. And yes, our friend Flickr.
• 11 months ago bilby said:
  You've been letting yourself go in Thpain, haven't you? It's time we had you back in training.
• 11 months ago bilby said:
  Thank you and Boris. Blasted be the Cat Humiliators.
• 11 months ago bilby said:
  I'd like to use 'Marmalade Cat Humiliation' in my wee poetry zine. Yours will be 2 copies and worldwide glory.
  
  Pretty please with sheep on top.
• 11 months ago prolagus said:
  I read it, and I will reply soon. Thank you!
• 11 months ago strev said:
  Thank you Sionnach.
  
  I was just reading about pillaloo and the song... "Tá an poc ar buile" (The billygoat (puck) is hopping mad!)
  
  Big family get together tonight–so I'm going to ask my mum if she knows the song.
  
  Lots of funny stuff to read here!
• 11 months ago vanishedone said:
  Don't worry about it. I thought you might be taking phony umbrage, but I couldn't tell how serious you were being, and my response ended up somewhat brusque. No hard feelings.
• 11 months ago bilby said:
  Opening my Boys' Own Compendium of Bowel-Challenged Beasties, I was immediately struck by the possibilities of a lard-arsed aardvark. Another part of me - don't ask - is fearful that you may have corrupted Donny Q's donkey, or even that your pouch envy may compromise a phascogale on Candy Camera.
  
  But on the whole, as we near the climactic moment in what has been a triumph of dioramaturdy dramaturgy, I'm feeling sheepish.
• 11 months ago prolagus said:
  I will upload pictures of my Broadway adventure to Flickr. Next time I'll rent a car in Marble Hill and just drive until the end of all Broadways. I hope there's free Wi-Fi over there.
• 12 months ago prolagus said:
  Of course I like it! You can credit me "less anonymously" than this (my real name, linking to my wordpress blog, or both).
  As I read on Blipper:
  Thank you for
• 12 months ago bilby said:
  Speaking as Project Outreach Officer of International Diorama Appreciaters (POO-In-Diaper) I can let you know at this point that we are actively lobbying for the resources to continue the project next year. And as Madrid has turned out to be such a wonderful venue for our, ahem, fascinations, it would be a shame not to be able to build on the pioneering achievements there. But we may have to let the fewmets loose, as it were, elsewhere.
• 12 months ago bilby said:
  It's coming! And as daylight saving finishes tonight in Australia, it's coming an hour early!
• 12 months ago bilby said:
  Predictably I have a stake in the Mare Bilbium and the galaxy's first (think showpiece!) lunar bandicuterie. Our offer includes return of balls over the out-of-bounds markers and vulpine discounts at the 19th Hole (predicated on non-consumption of staff). Please consider. Despite your obvious engagement with the hoi-polloi-ole! at the Thriya in Sevilla.
• 12 months ago nettys said:
  Danke, sionnach. Toll, Du sprichst Deutsch. It is a long story. Been in Wales since 2000 - möchte aber umziehen. Vorher oder bald möchte ich nach Irland.
  Hwyl fawr.
• 12 months ago bilby said:
  Zorrito, I'm glad that the growing multimedia empire of MOTP is not distracting you from your core business, i.e. plastic animals in poses of candied crapulence. It's important someone does this right, hence it is reassuring that your international network has been deployed in the area of logistical support.
  But what is this mysterious xxxxx of which you speak? Tiger? Smurf? Aardv? Nixon? Sheep? Blair? Eagle? Wolof? Bilby??!!
  
  P.S. How's Elsie? She's soooo talented. Have you tried feeding her white chocolate for that chequerboard effect?
• 12 months ago reesetee said:
  Bilby, do you require a lozenge?
• 12 months ago bilby said:
  Moorcock?
  Gestzumpenflock!
  It's not even a salvador-dali-iconic-upturned-partie-smock!
  Sacre medicins sans frontiers outpost do-gooder journal block!
  Spuckety-blat! Tickety-mboom! Perhaps a hickory dickory sionnachery dok?
• 12 months ago reesetee said:
  That photo ain't no moorcock; I can tell you that. ;-)
• 12 months ago chained_bear said:
  *gigglesnort* Excellent pose, sionnach!
• 12 months ago bilby said:
  
• 12 months ago sionnach said:
  
  ¡ Wheeeeeeee !
  
  
  
  I can fly!!!
• 12 months ago bilby said:
  It's going to be a moorcock, isn't it?!
• 12 months ago bilby said:
  I could go the Smurf, I really could.
• 12 months ago sionnach said:
  Ssshhh! I worry that you may be getting Bilby's hopes up unrealistically.
• 12 months ago chained_bear said:
  OH MY GOD!! They have Barack Obama! *faints*
• 12 months ago reesetee said:
  Wait a minute. It just dawned on me--sionnach, would you happen to be in the part of Spain where this is traditional?
• 12 months ago chained_bear said:
  Oh foxy boy... Would you happen to have any idea or indication of the date of that suit of armor in the Flickr photo you linked to on solleret? *curiouser*
  
  Also, you may find this intriguing. Note that it is $79.95, but it is also sold out. ?! (Psst... Amazon has them for $24.98.)
  
  And this page was obviously MADE for you.
• about 1 year ago bilby said:
  It's getting closer! May we have a plump hint as to what kind of animal might star as this weekend's Feature Crapper?
• about 1 year ago bilby said:
  Only 4 more sleeps until you know what.
• about 1 year ago bilby said:
  I can tell you St Paddy's Day this year is a cracker, begorrah! Here's to the Irish me fine fecal carnageatron compositor!
• about 1 year ago reesetee said:
  Oh dear.
• about 1 year ago bilby said:
  The famous four come together! And here I was stuck on the other side of the world with my autograph book lying idle!
  
  Sionnach, please, ensure that the Down Under tour dates for the Engelbeart Pooperdump, Ying-Pong-Tiddle-I-Splot, Spoorky the Pig and Happy Shit living statues exhibition are uploaded soon.
• about 1 year ago sionnach said:
  
  Things may be getting a little out of hand:
  
  
• about 1 year ago bilby said:
  I left a comment on MOTP. Indeed, it were inspiring! What with Easter eggs back on the shelves, might be time to dust off the penguin costume and practice my waddling.
• about 1 year ago bilby said:
  
  From the caterpillar brows of Nixon
  To the chic first family Obamas
  I'll entrust a fox (but, pardon, not a vixen)
  To be my Muse of Dioramas
• about 1 year ago bilby said:
  Zorrito, it's hard to find a good bandicuterie these days *sobs*
  
• about 1 year ago prolagus said:
  Tan lindo, zorro. Gracias.
• about 1 year ago mollusque said:
  When you're done with the cows, how about grading the quiz?
• about 1 year ago sionnach said:
  I can make no promises. Usually Sunday evening (Madrid time) is a good time to check for diorama updates. But my friend Brad is visiting this week, and we do have a day-trip to Segovia planned for tomorrow. A lot may depend on how interesting the museo de brujería (museum of witchcraft) turns out to be.
  Then there are today's mad cow photos to upload to Flickr (it was a 19-cow afternoon, so it could take a while).
  But I will certainly try my best.
• about 1 year ago bilby said:
  You know you're my go-to man for confectionery dioramas, don't you? Can't we have some kind of countdown clock until the next one appears?
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Huzzahs and accolades on 15,000! No other fox in history has done so. I'll bet.
• about 1 year ago reesetee said:
  Congrats, S!
• about 1 year ago bilby said:
  ¡Wouldn't it tithle your grumlin-futtocks!
• about 1 year ago rolig said:
  Congratulations on your sesquidecamillennial* accomplishment!
  *I have no idea if this is a real word, but it seems right.
• about 1 year ago sionnach said:
  I think I can! I think I can!
• about 1 year ago sionnach said:
  I've got 15K in my sights. Yes I have.
• about 1 year ago sionnach said:
  
  ¿You do?
  ¡Me too!
• about 1 year ago bilby said:
  ¡I love inverted palindromic punctuation!
• about 1 year ago smileyriley said:
  Sionnach, I just read your Wilbur Chronicles. The first one was so hilarious and well written that I couldn't help but continue on to the next chapter and the next... This is both good and bad. Good since I laughed my little noggin off, but bad since I was supposed to be writing a paper on probabilistic modeling techniques, due tomorrow, ack! However, upon discovering that you are a statistician, I put all guilt aside and simply enjoyed the moment: after all, it was technically somewhat, sort of, slightly related, in a Wilbur kind of way :)
• about 1 year ago bilby said:
  ¡Paciencia, zorrito! It may take some time to summon the requisite landing craft ... all our crocodiles are currently deployed against a nasty outbreak of Swedish sunbathers along the north coast here. Meanwhile, remember the pre-arranged codes. Flower-pot on balcony: we meet in the car park. Calzoncillos on the tv antenna: do not disturb. A man walks past your window sportng a grey overcoat, woollen scarf and groaning umbrella: it's nasty outside, dress warm or stay the hell in.
• about 1 year ago prolagus said:
  Aquí en Nueva Amsterdam, el cielo está claro. Quebec, el pasado fin de semana, fue magnífico. ¡Hasta pronto!
• about 1 year ago bilby said:
  Ah, www.wordie.es! Ole!
• about 1 year ago prolagus said:
  sionnach, before you leave, please add at least one contribution to Knuckle tattoos for posterity.
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Thee you thoon, I hope. Have fun leaping and gamboling!
• about 1 year ago bilby said:
  Bring me back a Dali. Please.
• about 1 year ago prolagus said:
  Madrid? Two months?! There's a chance I will visit Madrid in April! I'll be looking for red tails.
• about 1 year ago reesetee said:
  Have a thpectacular time, thionnach!
• about 1 year ago sionnach said:
  
  I will be taking a break from Wordie, starting in a couple of days, as I will be spending two months in Madrid, working on my Thpanish.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• about 1 year ago sionnach said:
  Sionnach enjoys: foreign languages, Gilbert and Sullivan, lemon meringue pie, teasing and being teased by bilby, Wordie and goodreads.com.
  Sionnach is neutral about: walking on the beach, the Oscars, large chain bookstores.
  Sionnach actively dislikes: sports metaphors, the Superbowl, rabid right-wing radio hosts, internet hostility.
  Sionnach is saddened by: the suicide of David Foster Wallace, the overall tendency of internet debate to devolve into crass name-calling, Iceland's bankruptcy.
  Sionnach is grateful for: Wordie and its many fine Wordizens. (Sionnach doesn't want to offend by singling anyone out, but feels obliged to give a shout-out to a certain wretched antipodean non-placental mammal with large leathery ears).
  Sionnach is tired of: speaking in the third person.
• about 1 year ago prolagus said:
  You've been sucked into the cheese whirlpool!
• about 1 year ago reesetee said:
  Happiest b-day, s! :-)
• about 1 year ago telofy said:
  Thank you. And I've taken the liberty of replying on my Gene Wolfe list. :-)
• about 1 year ago sionnach said:
  Thanks, Gary. Happy New Year to everyone on Wordie.
  
  Two webpages which have provided material for many of my recent postings are:
  
  omniglot.com
  
  and
  
  Speak Finnish like a restless native!
• about 1 year ago garyth123 said:
  Thanks for the heads up on pusi... whatever it is. My words wot i misspell list is coming into its own (I knew it would). And happy new year to you!
• about 1 year ago prolagus said:
  Are you back from Rome, sionnach?
• about 1 year ago BrainyBabe said:
  I am charmed by your confession of a "chaste intellectual crush"; no one else has ever done so and it has lifted my day.
  
  I web-wandered over to your site and found myself reading the whole of the Wilbur chronicles: they deserve wider publication! Very funny (except for the twist in the tail.)
• over 1 year ago reesetee said:
  All of our nations' capitals? What a trip!
• over 1 year ago sionnach said:
  Sionnach will be back on Saturday after his visit to your nation's capital.
• over 1 year ago reesetee said:
  Yes. It's called "my older sister." ;->
• over 1 year ago sionnach said:
  
  Is there a name for the transparent strategy of buying for somebody else a present that, in fact, one craves for one's own self?
• over 1 year ago sionnach said:
  �? ǂ ʢ ɬ
  
  ɲɟǃǃʎ
• over 1 year ago plethora said:
  I should've known that, being a Capricorn.
• over 1 year ago sionnach said:
  Capricorn, actually.
• over 1 year ago plethora said:
  That one's the sign for Libra, isn't it?
• over 1 year ago sionnach said:
  No; it was a snowman, silly!
  
  ♑
• over 1 year ago bilby said:
  I hope that wasn't an emoticon *anxious*
• over 1 year ago sionnach said:
  Still testing:
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• over 1 year ago sionnach said:
  Testing: