OK I really seriously thought today was Tuesday or Wednesday.

FalseTodd

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archives key: i didnt sleep at all last night
archives key: i got bck from NYC at 7 AM
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archives key: i was partying
archives key: heehe
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archives key: sorree
FalseTodd: You went to NYC on a Monday night?
archives key: wednesday night
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archives key: today is thursday!
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FalseTodd: You are correct
archives key: nick cave concert
FalseTodd: Wow.
archives key: it ruled
FalseTodd: Oh yeah
FalseTodd: OK I seriously lost a day
archives key: soo good
archives key: 2 days!
archives key: you lost 2 days!!
archives key: hahaha
archives key: wtf
FalseTodd: Could you check the paper and see if I murdered anybody yesterday or tuesday?
archives key: i can check for 'canine manglings'
 
damn unemployed bum
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Here's the rest:

FalseTodd: Canine?
FalseTodd: HAHAHAHAHI don't get it.
archives key: like, dog
archives key: wolf
archives key: werewolf
archives key: you may be a werewolf
FalseTodd: No shit.
archives key: etc etc
FalseTodd: Ah.
archives key: man
FalseTodd: Actually I believe that would lupine, I think.
archives key: actually you are wrong
archives key: wolf is
archives key: canis lupis
FalseTodd: lu·pine2 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (lpn)
adj.
Characteristic of or resembling a wolf.
Rapacious; ravenous
FalseTodd: Actually you are a dick.
FalseTodd: Canine may be technically correct, but the preferable, more descriptive term would be lupine.
archives key: nope
archives key: canis lupis
FalseTodd: LUPIS
FalseTodd: LUPINE
archives key: CANIS
archives key: CANINE
FalseTodd: Yes, but Lupine is FAR more specific
archives key: but if i say canine i can mean dog OR wolf
archives key: it is a better term in this case
FalseTodd: And fewer people will get that you meant "werewolf"
FalseTodd: But you didn't want to mean dog!
archives key: yes i did
FalseTodd: Oh really!
archives key: because i would search the papers for dog manglings
FalseTodd: Then when I asked what you meant....
archives key: or manglings that looked like they were done by a dog
FalseTodd: And you said y'know, like a werewolf....
archives key: yeah because the paper would never guess that a mangled body
archives key: in the park
archives key: was done by a wolf
archives key: in Boston
FalseTodd: That would indicate that your choice of words left some room for error.
archives key: they would guess a DOG
FalseTodd: Oh lord.
archives key: your choice of interpretation left some room for stupid
FalseTodd: Please talk to the hand.
FalseTodd: And your face leaves a wide berth for ugly.
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(much later):
FalseTodd: Oh, and to return to our earlier argument about Lupine v. Canine, I think you severely underestimate the journalistic enterprise
FalseTodd: and the amount of research that it entails
archives key: you are just looking for something else to post
archives key: nice try
 
xfer said:
toby is right.

Perhaps, but Toby needlessly prolonged the argument by not explaining the thing about "that's how it would be reported in the papers" which is where the real argument lies. I just didn't follow his train of thought. All I was saying is that "lupine" would be a better term for "wolf-like", than "canine" which most everyone would naturally associate with "dog".
 
Though I am no master of words, I am going to go with Sir Todd O' False on this one. If for no other reason cause I had a friend that would always suddenly change the variables in any given debate without telling me, and make me think I was just slow for not reading his mind. For shame.
 
ChromeLife said:
Though I am no master of words, I am going to go with Sir Todd O' False on this one. If for no other reason cause I had a friend that would always suddenly change the variables in any given debate without telling me, and make me think I was just slow for not reading his mind. For shame.

Yeah, that puts it a lot better than I did.