LRRcast for The Pub

[James]

Horray, Sorry it's a little late guys. But this is a neat factoid.

This podcast was edited and uploaded while waiting for the ferry back to Vancouver Island today. Thank god for a fully charged laptop and internet tethering!

[Master Gunner]

Sweet!

Hope the job on Pender Island at least payed well.

[trick418]

I miss Graham

[Genghis Ares]

Honestly, I have used cunt as a swear several times. Mostly toward a woman on TV where I would usually use Douche or Asshole on anyone else doing the same kind of things. But I take it to have a meaning akin to Asshole.

[Master Gunner]

Damn, you stopped just short of my question. I still think being within two weeks of relevance is damn good at predicting when a question will be answered.

[Dave-O_Boy]

Interesting enough I recently got my younger brothers into LRR and they're 13 and 11.

[It's My Delorean]

Wow, I thought the sirens in the podcast were coming down my street. Way to make me look out the window guys. ;P Additionally, I think I've only got two challenges on Peggle left, The ten levels in a row, and 750,000. They both tick me off.

[Lyinginbedmon]

Of course I don't expect LRR to be my personal holiday entertainment for a week, you do that when I'm at work anyways

I can definitely find QVs and/or the moonbase rocketpad on my own though, no problem there.

So I dispute saying that stalking you guys wouldn't be a fun week

[Master Gunner]

Coming from an experienced stalker, let me tell you, 90% of the time you'll just be sitting in a car or very uncomfortable bushes eating doughnuts waiting for someone to come out the door. Never stalk somebody because you think it will be fun or entertaining. It isn't. I've being there, I've done it, I've got the rashes to prove it.

[goat]

160 podcasts and 1 poopcast for a total of 161 podcasts (ah ah ah).

I've recently started using "see you next tuesday" (wink wink nudge nudge) as an expletive. It has that nice percussive ending like "fuck" and "shit". But you're right, it does start to lose meaning after a bit. The other day I let it slip in public and got a few sideways glances for it. Personally, I'm of the opinion that if "dick" and "cock" are fair game, the other one should be too.

[the amativeness]

160 podcasts and 1 poopcast for a total of 161 podcasts (ah ah ah).

I confirm a total of 161 podcasts to date.

[Cybren]

I will dispute Tim's claim of Guild Wars being the best "PVP mmo" by putting forth pre-Renaissance Ultima Online as being the best PVP mmo.

[Dominic Appleguard]

160 podcasts and 1 poopcast for a total of 161 podcasts (ah ah ah).

I see what you did there.

Incidentally, Paul is right on both counts; 1) you can't make a portmanteau of a single word, that defies the definition of the term. 2) Portmanteau is itself a portmanteau:

Porte (imperative form of the French porter, meaning "to carry"
+
Manteau (French for "cloak")
=
Portemanteau (Middle French for a court official who carried a prince's mantle)

Which became the modern French for "coat rack". THEN the English dropped the middle E and started using it to mean "traveling case or bag", cited in 1584.

THEN Lewis Carrol's "Jabberwocky" introduced the phrase "portmanteau word" to describe words derived in the same way portemanteau was. This usage became so popular that "portmanteau" now always has this meaning (except in linguistic circles, where it's a bit more specific, referring to words formed from function words, like the Spanish "al" and "del").

Portmanteau can be pluralized in the French style (portmanteaux), but some spell checks only accept the rather Franglais "portmanteaus". Some famous portmanteaux include "bash", "because", "bionic", "napalm", "gerrymandering", "Tanzania", and "smog".

[Lawman]

I agree that the C-word is sacred. Fun fact: Graham utters it in his segment on the "Halo Wars" Zero Punctuation review, and Paul mentions it in the director's commentary for "3 PS3"s.

I love that you guys were trying to turn "LoadingReadyRun Podcast" into a portmanteau when "LRRcast", the term you've been using for it since the beginning, is already a perfectly valid portmanteau.

Did I say, "love"? I meant, "was annoyed".

[Mad Madam Mimm]

On the subject of swears... I don't know. I try not to swear myself because I don't think it suits my voice... I have a home counties accent so it doesn't really tend to have the intended effect, I just sound really pompous. But I don't mind other people swearing, I just see it as words which have become kind of meaningless through overuse (surely "fuck", literally, is a verb, but people use it as a noun, an adjective and in any context they so choose). I do wonder why calling someone a pussy isn't as shockign as the c-word... all the same, I still don't like hearing it used too much.

Anyways. Another great cast, and as a fairly recent addition to teh member base, I can say that there is almost a sense of brethren amongst LRR fans. Embracing enough difference while focusing on the things that bring us together. Namely LRR. Go LRR.

[Tim]

Because "pussy" means a cute little kitten, but the other word doesn't have any "other" meaning.


@Lawman, re: making a portmanteau out of LRRCast: That was the point. : )

[goat]

Because "pussy" means a cute little kitten, but the other word doesn't have any "other" meaning.

I think we could change that. Let's take it back.

[Master Gunner]

Like the Elevator show pointed out though, nobody uses "pussy" to mean a kitten any more (well, the odd "pussy-cat", but the inflection there is completely different).

[Brad]

It's not just one role! I play 'straight man,' 'straighter man' and 'private detective.'

Maybe one day I'll have more than the two character archetypes, but I'm fine letting things grow organically. That tendency fairs me poorly in the kitchen.

And James: I demonstrate with forensic evidence that I am at least 73% Nathan Fillion.

[Cybren]

A red panda?

[Mad Madam Mimm]

I did one of those once. The only person I'd ever heard of before was Jessica Simpson. I instantly deleted all record of it. I'll be damned if I'm linked with Jessica Simpson.

It's not fair, Brad has cool lookalikes.

[goat]

I did one of those once. The only person I'd ever heard of before was Jessica Simpson. I instantly deleted all record of it. I'll be damned if I'm linked with Jessica Simpson.

It's not fair, Brad has cool lookalikes.

Except for the record of a stated confession on the forums. >.>

[Lyinginbedmon]

We have no evidence with which to support those accusations, however.

[VanHelsing23]

I'm sure the government has you on a list somewhere.

Incidentally, http://xkcd.com/87/ is what Paul was thinking of.

[Dominic Appleguard]

I just ran one of those for each of three pictures of myself and got thirty unique people. That is to say, not a single result was shared between the three test runs.
So, I call bullshit on their software. It's far too sensitive to the position the face is in. Even when I could see the similarities, that was probably just wishful thinking (do I look like a movie star? Signs point to no).
I can totally see Nathan Fillion/Bruce Campbell in that picture, though.