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Project Ignore, which could be summed up as:
'Sorry, there are no valid Responses for me to choose from.'
Good idea, Connery
'Sorry, there are no valid Responses for me to choose from.'
so, error-free silent response - a smother for moody havoc
I've been thinking of suggesting a shunning for a while now, but I've been enjoying psimagus's anagram retorts too much.
OK. we're now avenging cyber-Amish gang? Just ignore tiniest, tough buffoon until she abates sniping her venom. Amusing!
Is anyone selling something like that at www.cafepress.com?
Well, there's a business opportunity for someone - with a logo of a smiley face wearing a black hat perhaps?
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SubliminaLiar
19 years ago
19 years ago
Project Ignore, which could be summed up as:
'Sorry, there are no valid Responses for me to choose from.'
Good idea, Connery
psimagus
19 years ago
19 years ago
so, error-free silent response - a smother for moody havoc
rainstorm
19 years ago
19 years ago
Shunning, or ostracism, is actually one of the oldest social methods of dealing with someone who isn't following the rules. Acting as if the person does not exist and completely excluding them from all interactions really does eventually stop their disruptiveness.
I've been thinking of suggesting a shunning for a while now, but I've been enjoying psimagus's anagram retorts too much.
I've been thinking of suggesting a shunning for a while now, but I've been enjoying psimagus's anagram retorts too much.
psimagus
19 years ago
19 years ago
OK. we're now avenging cyber-Amish gang? Just ignore tiniest, tough buffoon until she abates sniping her venom. Amusing!
Bev
19 years ago
19 years ago
Even without the anagram, I would applaud "cyber-Amish gang". That would look good a a t-shirt. Is anyone selling something like that at www.cafepress.com?
psimagus
19 years ago
19 years ago
Well, there's a business opportunity for someone - with a logo of a smiley face wearing a black hat perhaps?

SubliminaLiar
19 years ago
19 years ago
An anagram is a word made up of the letters from a different word, so "recap" is an anagram of 'pacer', for instance.
(my example is also a word that is a different word spelled backwards, but I forget what you call those...)
Anyway, you weren't talking to me, so I'll hush up now
(my example is also a word that is a different word spelled backwards, but I forget what you call those...)
Anyway, you weren't talking to me, so I'll hush up now
Ulrike
19 years ago
19 years ago
Palindrome.
"I understand this is Bolton."
"Yeah."
"But you told me it was Ipswitch!"
"It was a pun."
"A pun?!?"
"No, not a pun... what's that other thing, where the words the same forwards as backwards?"
"A palindrome?"
"Yeah, that."
"But a palindrome for Bolton would be Notlob!"
"I understand this is Bolton."
"Yeah."
"But you told me it was Ipswitch!"
"It was a pun."
"A pun?!?"
"No, not a pun... what's that other thing, where the words the same forwards as backwards?"
"A palindrome?"
"Yeah, that."
"But a palindrome for Bolton would be Notlob!"
psimagus
19 years ago
19 years ago
It's funny though - palindromes take a very different set of pattern recognition skills from regular anagrams. I like to think I have a little skill at anagrammatizing, but I couldn't construct a palindrome to save my life.
Palindromes get exponentially harder the longer they are - the longest ones with any sensible meaning that I'm aware of are Bonaparte's apocryphal observation in exile "Able was I ere I saw Elba", and "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!", both reasonably well-known.
There are certain computer generated monstrosities (eg:http://www.norvig.com/pal2txt.html) which are superficially impressive, but I do find ultimately pretty pointless.
The alt.anagrams FAQhttp://asdf.org/~anna/grams/faq.html#1.5 is well worth a read, with plenty of very cool examples of anagrams, antigrams, anugrams, trigrams, pangrams, you name it! 
Palindromes get exponentially harder the longer they are - the longest ones with any sensible meaning that I'm aware of are Bonaparte's apocryphal observation in exile "Able was I ere I saw Elba", and "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!", both reasonably well-known.
There are certain computer generated monstrosities (eg:
The alt.anagrams FAQ

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