Query

[smoothg103rd]

I'm on a winning streak. I'm waiting for you to try and end it. Its your move.

 

[Que]

I'm on a winning streak. I'm waiting for you to try and end it. Its your move.

Ha. My phone is 45 miles from a refill... I thought I would time the trip to Walmart with a night in the not-so-big city. Stupid I cannot refill the phone online. I spent 3 hours trying it last time and made the drive.

I don't know why It cant play online as well.

 

[Que]

I cant remember but I think I was gonna make that one. I did better with one game at a time. When we had 3 at a time up you were starting to kick my ass too regularly.

 

[smoothg103rd]

This how our board look right now. I know you are going to win this one. I'm just waiting for the next game to redeem myself.

 

[Que]

This how our board look right now. I know you are going to win this one. I'm just waiting for the next game to redeem myself.

Sure. Let everyone see that I took my white privilege, playing white.

theoretically we could play with the grid...like my next move will be kG1 to G2.

The letters go left to right if you are sitting on the white side of the board. Those of you in the back of the bus playing black have to think of the letters backwards from H on your left to A on your right.

The numbers start on the white end as well. So for you the top line is 1 and the bottom line is 8. For example you king is right now at d6.

Ive been trying to learn to do chess algebraic notation in my head so I can describe a game better. There are other symbols to show that a pice was changed to a queen you put a Q at the end, but even without it people know thats what you did.

 

[smoothg103rd]

My father be trying to play me like that. I can't do it. I have to just play. I'll get lost with that number and letters shit.

 

[Que]

My father be trying to play me like that. I can't do it. I have to just play. I'll get lost with that number and letters shit.

Well sometime get a real board out, maybe run some masking tape down the white side and the left edge. Put numbers and letters, and think of it like that game battleship.

 

[DesEsseintes]

I have to just play. I'll get lost with that letters shit.

<Sympathetic face.> I know. Language is hard. But you'll get there, kid. You have guts. Step out of the sandpit some time.

 

[Que]

You got the game by Milton-Bradley called Battleship in the UK, Des?

 

[smoothg103rd]

Well sometime get a real board out, maybe run some masking tape down the white side and the left edge. Put numbers and letters, and think of it like that game battleship.

When he writes me I'll tell him that I will play. Just got to study up on it. He supposed to be coming home in Feb. So he will be home before we will finish the game, so its kinda pointless. I'll give him so entertainment and play him. If he is still up to it.

 

[smoothg103rd]

<Sympathetic face.> I know. Language is hard. But you'll get there, kid. You have guts. Step out of the sandpit some time.

Lay knifes, standing straight up around your bed. (Make sure that they are sharp) Stand on your bed, jump on it a couple of times and then dive head first off it. Hopefully you get lucky.

 

[Que]

When he writes me I'll tell him that I will play. Just got to study up on it. He supposed to be coming home in Feb. So he will be home before we will finish the game, so its kinda pointless. I'll give him so entertainment and play him. If he is still up to it.

Good man.

What you can do, in the meanwhile is just send me his move and I'll mirror it on a game, then you play, and I'll code that for you till you feel you have the hang of it.

I dunno a letter every other day, you are probably right...be in the middle when he gets home.

That could be kind of cool. You could have the board set up at home and finish the game off face to face.

Unless he falls for blitzkrieg and you beat him in four letters.

 

[DesEsseintes]

You got the game by Milton-Bradley called Battleship in the UK, Des?

Not sure. We have battleships, but that's been around since the Dreadnought. Is it different?

 

[DesEsseintes]

Lay knifes, standing straight up around your bed. (Make sure that they are sharp) Stand on your bed, jump on it a couple of times and then dive head first off it. Hopefully you get lucky.

But I don't have any knifes, Mowgli. I have some knives: would they work as well?

 

[smoothg103rd]

But I don't have any knifes, Mowgli. I have some knives: would they work as well?

That's cool. You got that one.

http://youtu.be/bCNQH1_Zrs4
0:17


Do you know what I meant to say?

 

[smoothg103rd]

Good man.

What you can do, in the meanwhile is just send me his move and I'll mirror it on a game, then you play, and I'll code that for you till you feel you have the hang of it.

I dunno a letter every other day, you are probably right...be in the middle when he gets home.

That could be kind of cool. You could have the board set up at home and finish the game off face to face.

Unless he falls for blitzkrieg and you beat him in four letters.

That's cool. Appreciate it.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You got the game by Milton-Bradley called Battleship in the UK, Des?

It's called Minesweeper...

 

[Que]

But I don't have any knifes, Mowgli. I have some knives: would they work as well?

Unless it is a sharks fin as it knifes through the water, or how a truck jack-knifes.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Unless it is a sharks fin as it knifes through the water, or how a truck jack-knifes.

Very true. But both of those things are difficult to access in a bedroom context.

And Smooth, the video was blocked for me. Could you precis? I really want this to work.

 

[smoothg103rd]

You know what I meant to say. That's all that matters.

 

[Que]

Very true. But both of those things are difficult to access in a bedroom context.

And Smooth, the video was blocked for me. Could you precis? I really want this to work.

You haven't got a shark tank in your bedroom???

What kind of hovel are you livin' in, man?

Doesn't the "mood music" from Jaws seem out of place without the context?

 

[Que]

What was funny about the clip as well was it brings up the word misanthrope. As in Miss Anne Thrope. All these people hung up on Ann's gender, I always just took it as a joke of a play on words and not gender specific.

 

[smoothg103rd]

Aye Des my grammar isn't on your level. We all know that, and that's cool. But there is a lot of shit that I'm better than you at. Them jokes about my writing are old now. Find something else.

 

[Que]

You have expressed an interest in improving your grammar a little. Picture Des with a British accent. His gentle reproach is funnier then.

It's one of those odd things in the English language. His version is closer to the original. I am trying to hear it in my head, but he says it more like knive than we do, but has to remember to spell it knife. We say knives, but have to remember its no longer an F which is obvious to our ear with knife.

Life, Wife Knife becomes Lives Wives (god I hope not) and Knives (in case of stabbing needed for Wives, plural)

On the other hand, if you have more than one fife, it is not fives.

Also if you start out with two fives, give one away it is not a fife.

 

[DesEsseintes]

You know what I meant to say. That's all that matters.

That's an interesting take on language. You appear to see it as merely a question of communication, which ignores the phatic, ludic and simply creative possibilities. The plot of Hamlet could be reduced to five minutes - in fact, the Reduced Shakespeare Company used to do a 30 seconds version backwards, involving Ophelia running back across the stage removing a bucket from her head. Would that be better than the original? (I know original is complicated in the context of Hamlet - let us say the First Folio version.)