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BreakTheChain · 8/20/2023 10:15 am

My name is BreakTheChain (I try to make my pseudonyms varied to ensure privacy). And I came here because of a particular post that recommended this site. I don't know where to start so I'll start here. Ask me anything.

Anon · 8/20/2023 12:27 pm

Anything?

You're welcome.

Just kidding.

So, who here that you already know of recommended this site?

(They may be entitled to a bonus for the referral.)

ETA: The referral was not validated before the bonus offer expired.

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monster · 8/20/2023 9:48 pm

pepsi or coke?
how do you feel about my finger?
whale penis or dead hobo?

BreakTheChain · 8/21/2023 2:59 am

Anon wrote:
So, who here that you already know of recommended this site?

I do not know him but it was a post on reddit from 4 years ago that was asking for forum recommendations and that particular person said that this forum was the one of the oldest ones out there.

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BreakTheChain · 8/21/2023 3:00 am

monster wrote:
pepsi or coke?
how do you feel about my finger?
whale penis or dead hobo?

Im a Pepsi person

Your finger is alright I guess

Whale Penis. much better than encountering dead people.

griff · 8/21/2023 5:43 am

Can a plane on a treadmill lift off?

BreakTheChain · 8/21/2023 5:50 am

griff wrote:
Can a plane on a treadmill lift off?

Yes

tw · 8/21/2023 8:02 am

What is the boolean logic equation for a three digit counter?

BreakTheChain · 8/21/2023 9:15 am

tw wrote:
What is the boolean logic equation for a three digit counter?

R = X?

tw · 8/21/2023 4:29 pm

Must I figure out how to wire that? Does it come with instruction?

monster · 8/21/2023 9:03 pm

Disney or DeSantis?

Welcome btw, I kind of like you but the pepsi thing.... oh dear.....

fargon · 8/21/2023 9:35 pm

I'd rather sip a Pepsi, than suck a coke.

lumberjim · 8/21/2023 10:49 pm

That's soak a cork.

Hello chain. Welcome.

I have one question.

When you think, are you the speaker or the listener?

BreakTheChain · 8/22/2023 5:01 am

monster wrote:
Disney or DeSantis?

Welcome btw, I kind of like you but the pepsi thing.... oh dear.....

I hate Disney. But I am also Australian and Americans have nothing to do with me.

Neither

BreakTheChain · 8/22/2023 5:08 am

lumberjim wrote:
That's soak a cork.

Hello chain. Welcome.

I have one question.

When you think, are you the speaker or the listener?

I think I am the speaker. But I am not too sure.

glatt · 8/22/2023 7:54 am

Hi BreakTheChain,

Welcome. What's bringing you joy these days?

tw · 8/22/2023 8:01 am

Apparently chains must not exist. Heard was that chainmail is illegal.

Never mind.

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TheNeverWas · 8/22/2023 11:07 am

...fargin' cork soakers...

Flint · 8/22/2023 12:53 pm

lumberjim wrote:
When you think, are you the speaker or the listener?

Just saw the Seinfeld clip of Costanza needing to get a book on tape, because he hates hearing his own voice in his head when reading. So he gets a recording of the book.. and the voice sounds just like him.

fargon · 8/22/2023 3:28 pm

"That's soak a cork."
I always thought it was pull a cork.

Anon · 8/22/2023 4:30 pm

It's a fishing reference. Since you can't eat fish, you don't go fishing; so, you wouldn't know. One casts a fishing line into the water with a cork bobber on it. When a fish takes the bait, it tugs the cork bobber under the surface of the water and soaks the cork. That's how you know when to set the hook and reel in the fish. The video below explains it all:

monster · 8/22/2023 6:52 pm

Surely if the fish is soaking the cork it is also pulling on it so the difference might just be regional variation?

TheNeverWas · 8/22/2023 8:44 pm

I thought I heard it in Johnny Dangerously.

Anon · 8/22/2023 10:49 pm

monster wrote:
Surely if the fish is soaking the cork it is also pulling on it so the difference might just be regional variation?

The fish may pull on the fishing line and drag the attached cork bobber across the water's surface, pull only enough to make the cork bobber go up and down; but, when the fish pulls hard enough to submerge the cork bobber the idiomatic expression is soaking the cork. It's really more a matter of degree when the terms are used correctly.

That said, you could be absolutely right since I totally made up the fishing reference (viable distractor) as an introduction to the video. Think Monty Python's Confuse-a-Cat sketch.

griff · 8/23/2023 5:42 am

So when old-timers call someone a corker is it a related derivation?