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Infaliable

Now, I don't want to get a swelled head er nothin', but I have been declared "Infaliable" by an admirer:

Why, ain't that the very kind of folks we want for admisistrators—the infaliable kind? —— Shakescene (talk) 21:16, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

I always prefer fallible, and also, just in case, flammable. _Nezzadar_☎_ 17:38, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

It's a sad day when some maroon has trouble spelling "infaliable" PhGustaf (talk) 21:26, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

The user who said that, Mythdon, went on a 6-month vacation starting around Labor Day. →Baseball Bugs carrots 04:01, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

I just happened to find this. PhGustaf (talk) 19:56, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Transients welcome

IMPORTANT NOTICE to would-be harassers

An admin has stated the following for the record:

"Misplaced Pages doesn't need any new volunteers for the job of harassing User:Baseball Bugs at this time." But if anything turns up, we'll get back to you. 0:)

That link doesn't work. L☺g☺maniac chat? 14:48, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

The user was deleted. →Baseball Bugs carrots 15:18, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

• More head scratching now... --Dave1185 09:48, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm getting to be a rather old volunteer. Does Misplaced Pages need old volunteers to harass User:Baseball Bugs? -- kainaw™ 20:35, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

The older, the better. >:) Baseball Bugs carrots 00:07, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

I'd harass you but I'm too tired, I need a nap. :( Antandrus (talk) 03:05, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Bugs, I think I'm going out to get a fresh pack of marshmallows for us. --Dave1185 (talk) 21:09, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

¶ "Misplaced Pages doesn't need any new volunteers for the job of harassing User:Baseball Bugs at this time, ..."

1. "... but we'll be sure to keep your application on file for careful consideration when the next suitable opening occurs",
   or
2. "... however, qualified, bondable professionals with at least ten years of demonstrated accomplishment in this or a closely-related field are strongly encouraged to supply full C.V. with references and salary requirements. The successful candidate will be an aggressive self-starter with a proven record of perseverance, tenacity, ingenuity, enterprise, self-assurance, effective inter-personal skills and sustained powers of advocacy, combined with a cheerful readiness to withstand pressure, ridicule, hostility, unpopularity and long periods of isolation. This position may require frequent, repeated changes of title and location at short notice, and cannot always provide extended home leave." —— Shakescene (talk) 00:37, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

You've written business requirements before... I can tell. Padillah (talk) 16:49, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Nope, I've never written that kind of ad or job description, although I've read many. See the chapter in Parkinson's Law on The Short List. —— Shakescene (talk) 01:26, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Fundraising Banner Gone Forever

If I read your comment correctly on the Help Desk, you said that the "Misplaced Pages Forever" didn't go away entirely "like the other ones". I am not sure to what "other ones" you refer, but you can get the banner to go away completely. It is My preferences", "Gadgets" and then tick the third box under "Browsing Gadgets" which says something like "suppress fundraising banner". It works. (If this is not what you meant, feel free to delete this.) Bielle (talk) 06:20, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Your mother was an elderberry and your father smelled of hamsters!

Wait, no...That's not how it goes. HalfShadow 18:19, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

I demand...A SHRUBBERY! Soxwon (talk) 19:31, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Ni! ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 22:03, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

• HS, you've gotta to mindful of your choice of words, some editors out there are watching you after your recent coming out from an UNBLOCK. But otherwise, have fun because BUGS needs to be bugged periodically, period. Speaking of which, there's a HAMSTER hotel in France for all the nutty HAMSTERS owner to go nuts about! --Dave 02:57, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

• Don't forget that Dutch hotel, in the cockney section of 'Amsterdam. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 03:48, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Homework questions

Why did you just delete them on sight, without even leaving a note on the user's talk page? You should have left them there and put underneath that the user needs to rephrase his question. --Richardrj 07:18, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

Where on earth did you get that idea from? It says on the homepage of each desk, "If your question is homework, show that you have attempted an answer first, and we will try to help you past the stuck point. If you don't show an effort, you probably won't get help. The reference desk will not do your homework for you." --Richardrj 09:27, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

It's not really my place to put it back, seeing as you were the one who deleted it in the first place. If you don't want to put it back, then that's up to you. --Richardrj 13:10, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Woohoo!

It's national cashew day! Soxwon (talk) 01:02, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

A day for all nuts to celebrate! ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 01:54, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

• So... what did you do to the great white? I'll buy you some donuts if you need some perk-me-up, yeah? --Dave 04:36, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

• He was very good with mustard. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 07:30, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Wow...

...forceful! KV5 (Talk • Phils) 21:11, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Vandals are not likely to read a paragraph, but they might read a bold-faced sentence. :) ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 21:17, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Obviously he did, because he re-vandalized. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 15:44, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

He apparently decided to put that warning to the test. One thing for sure they probably read, and that's the YOUR BLOCKED notice. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 16:07, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Bugs Sighting

Just came from TG dinner at a friend's house. He has a wall of original cartoons and prints, many of them autographed. One showed Bugs standing on a rock outcrop, with Yosemite Sam apparently suspended in midair over the adjacent abyss. Bugs was helpfully passing Sam an anvil. Sam is obviously going to accept the anvil, suddenly realize that he's over an abyss carrying an anvil, and plummet.

Just the usual bugs stuff, I know, but the print was autographed. By Mel Blanc. Jealous ya moi. PhGustaf (talk) 06:14, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Beautiful. :) There were many great cartoon voices from that era, and Blanc is the king. I think the last survivor of the cadre of classic voices would be the somewhat-younger June Foray, who is now 92 years old. Mel Blanc, had he lived, would now be age 101. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 07:06, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

I liked Blanc on The Jack Benny Program, where he played Benny's hapless violin teacher, Sy the Mexican, and the guy who announced, "Boarding on track six for Azusa, Anaheim, Lompoc, and Cuc..." PhGustaf (talk) 16:21, 28 November 2009 (UTC) "...amonga."

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Those were jokes and routines that were used countless times with little variations, and they always worked. This youtube from Daffy Duck Slept Here is a great cartoon, first of all, and contains the exact quote from Mel Blanc (as Daffy) at about the 6:15 mark: ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 17:09, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Here it is, without much embellishment, from the Benny show: ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 17:26, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Low blow

Hey... There's more stuff to do in Wisconsin than pick cranberries or hang out in cheese factories. MuZemike 01:09, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

It's just fun to pick on Wisconsin. Like this one: What do you have when Lambeau Field is filled to capacity? One full set of teeth. However, I was trying to point out to the IP in question that we know where he is. That fact didn't seem to matter to him, though. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 07:06, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Ooooooowww. I think back to the movie Stripes where Bill Murray goes "It's Czechoslovakia – it's like going into Wisconsin!", with Harold Ramis responding "Well I got the shit kicked out of me in Wisconsin once. Forget it!" MuZemike 08:43, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Both of them are from the Chicago area, so they might be speaking from experience there. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 21:07, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Notifications

I have added a notification about your notification about my notification...ow, my head hurts! GiantSnowman 20:32, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Might interest you..

In one of my linguistics courses, we studied the usage of the proper /ing/ () pronunciation on present participles (ex- running, hopping etc) versus the substandard /In/ pronunciation (runnin', hoppin') among various social classes in the US. It was found that in working class families that the /In/ was much more common, even in formal interviews, with it being less often used when reading a text or passage. In middle class and even lower middle class families, the /ing/ was used much more frequently. I guess the point is, who's right? (you could argue the same with African American vernacular English)- is it wrong or a dialect? Anyway, thought I'd share that tid bit with you. Peace, Tom A8UDI 20:53, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for chiming in on that ANI closure by a non-admin. Appreciate the backup. Best wishes to you, Jusdafax 09:57, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Redheylin and ANI

Can you please do something about the odd subsection-breakup usage of Redheylin (talk · contribs) at ANI? This is a strange usage of subsection headers, and not necessary. I changed it once, and he seems to have re-added it a second time. Best if someone else takes a look. Cheers, Cirt (talk) 15:47, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Wi-Fi and fidelity

Please comment on Talk:Wi-Fi#Wi-Fi_and_fidelity or I will revert again. --Nux (talk) 16:42, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Hola!!

¿Cómo está usted?¿De dónde eres?--俠刀行 (talk) 16:50, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

¿Cómo se dice your signature looks like little boxes? ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 17:25, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

S&W and sock case

I notice that Sift&Winnow has not been back to Misplaced Pages since the morning of November 28. Would one consider that ducking the question on why he didn't disclose that he had made the IP edits that led to a sock case against me? He's rarely missed editing since he began editing full time in September. I find that curious, troubling and a bit frustrating. I was made to answer for something I didn't do, but he just doesn't bother to reply to something he did do. LaVidaLoca (talk) 21:26, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Maybe he's away, meditating, pondering his transgressions. Keep an out for when/if he returns. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 21:32, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

"Edit-warring" to retain meaningless flag?

Hi Bugs, I noticed this and read your summary. There being "nothing wrong" with something isn't in itself enough reason to keep it there, as you well know. I was also less than chuffed that you blind reverted my edit, thus also removing other edits I had made. What exactly would you say having this pretend flag adds to the article? Where exactly was the wide consensus to use that logo to represent "worldwide"? How does it fit in with WP:MOSICON? Take your time. --John (talk) 04:58, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

It's free, it's harmless, and in many cases it serves as a good placeholder. Leave it be, and find something to do that's actually useful. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 05:01, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

• Yeah, not to mention... and I quote TV's Craig Ferguson that it is legally meaningless~! ;P --Dave 05:09, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm not seeing answers in there to the three questions I asked. Reverting multiple of my edits as you have been doing is very much not "harmless" nor ok. I have explained my reasons for removing this logo; if you persist in restoring it without giving your reasons, it is likely to have a consequence for you. Please do reconsider what you are doing and discuss. --John (talk) 05:08, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

And several editors have reverted you. Take the hint, and go work on something else. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 05:11, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Please join the discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style (icons) before making any further reverts. Thanks. --John (talk) 05:17, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

You're missing the point. ALL of those icons are meaningless decorations. Either delete all of them, or keep all of them. Don't pick on the ones you don't personally like. P.S. Your "likely to have a consequence for you" threat is "emptier than the streets of Miami during Oktoberfest." ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 05:25, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Not a threat, as I don't deal in those. A promise rather, and I always keep my promises. Please do be careful, and I look forward to reading your policy- and user-based responses to my questions at the guideline's talk page, shall we say some time in the next 24 hours?. Rather than some off-topic rant about IPs. See you. --John (talk) 07:03, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Re: WP:AIV

Re your message: They had too many items in their carts or wanted to pay with credit. I don't take credit in this lane. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:52, 1 December 2009 (UTC)