yes ... though not in fact just the immediately preceding post ... you might have to //Seek// as far back as the top of the current page


(Personally I think rule 7 was poorly worded; I think it should apply to the last page-worth's of posts - so the last 15. It shouldn't be legit (in the most flagrant instance of this rule not being thought-out properly) to make the first post on a new page identical to the last one on the previous page.)

When one composes a reply on a thread one SEES the last 15 posts if one scrolls down (perhaps the number is configurable?) Then one should try to avoid the words used in these 15 posts. Sometimes I check several pages back because the game is less interesting if it repeats itself.

Pees - I let my dog out and of course she pees instantly!


Sorry I made a mistake guys!

APES have language skills. Apes like us use them to play word games. LLMs (a.k.a. AI) possess language skills too.

aLes .... take away language skills ... Hic!

LESS language skill. More urine.

leEs -- remnants of fermentation

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lees_(fermentation)

FEES are due.

eek! I'll be away on my //feeT// as fast as I can!

(Us Scots have a ... reputation ... to maintain.)

Feel - I like to feel how soft it is :)

Heel -- NOT soft; blistered - it's all that running away that did it.

HEED - Heed the advice they gave ya buddy!

nope! I'm gonna hide from everyone (who wants paid) in that //Reed// bed by the river.

I READ the last few pages of this thread and the word READ was not used recently. Interesting that READ and READ are two different words pronounced differently but spelled the same.

gonna drink some Mead (but hopefully not so much that I fall down)

If you let the sweet mead LEAD you to drink too heavily, your limbs will soon feel as heavy as LEAD, and perhaps also your head!

... just so long as I don't end up ... Dead.

Please take care not to end up dead, nor DEAF.
(Which one is worse?)

Deal - Lets play 'Lets make a deal' guys :)

Dunno how - perhaps I should //dIal// you for help (though ... haven't used a phone with a dial on it for ages - 40 years or so)

Hehe I dont have an entry now Jer :D


Ill wait until someone else adds an entry :)

Hmm - ok try this - Iranian unit of currency: //Rial//

Or you can sing an ARIA.
BTW Today I sort of "used" a phone with a dial. My nieces visited with their babies.

[An aria I might manage - or rather /might/ have managed when I was well --- but (lots of) years ago I was asked to sing something which required me to sing in the "recitative" style -- something I'd never done before.

How difficult this was didn't become apparent until the rehearsal a couple of hours before the performance. I thought - wrongly - that before each entry I had to make that the continuo player (church-organ in this case) would play a spread chord (essentially an arpeggio of related notes) in which I would hear the note I intended to start my next phrase on - which would confirm in my mind that the note I thought I was about to sing was the correct one.

But this wasn't how she thought it should go - she would wait until I started to sing a phrase THEN play the appropriate spread chord(s) - which would confirm to me I was singing the right notes - if I was - but be too late to fix the problem if I was not. Impasse! - each of us waited for the other...

This might have been fine if I'd had several days to get used to how it was going to work - but I had about 10 mins. I do not think I did it well in the performance.



On another occasion I was asked (by someone who was an experienced older singer in that chorus) if I'd fill-in a solo line in a major choral work at the next rehearsal. I learned it thoroughly. Come the moment in the next rehearsal & the time at which I should have started singing ... & I didn't.

(I thought it would have been different if the conductor had said something to make it clear he knew about the arrangement ... but he didn't. It seemed to me to be incredibly arrogant to sing-in a soloist's part when I was standing in the midst of the chorus.)

The bloke who'd suggested I did this then started to sing the part; I thought "hmm I learned this - I'll do it" - started & he shut up.

(This was behind a large orchestra & in the midst of a chorus of maybe 70-100 singers - though not all particularly good ones.)



The interesting (to me) thing about this is I subsequently sang the work twice more with a different (internationally-acclaimed) chorus - as a mere chorus member - and discovered that I now COULDN'T sing the chorus line that took place at the same time as that solo line; I'd learned the solo part so thoroughly that when the orchestral cues came along l could only think of the solo line.

I've also since listened to broadcasts of that work & found that even when it's on as background music while I do something else that when the cue approaches I will be alert to it & think/sing the solo part.

Perhaps if I'd learned the recit line in the other work that thoroughly I might have been ok.

I should point out that by than I had 15-20 years experience of singing sometimes-complex music in a capella groups. I'd sight-sung another person's solos in a concert in a chamber choir (when the singer meant to sing something hadn't come to the concert & the conductor hadn't realised. That conductor did sort-of complain to me afterwards that I'd not sung the solo with [the rehearsed] light & shade ... but when I pointed out I'd not sung in those rehearsals & had only stepped-in because it was clear to me that no-one else would ... he apologised.) ]


ariD - a comment on a cultural desert ...

The word GRID has many different meanings, almost all of which are related to a networks that results from sets of parallel lines or curves.

for heaven's sake - everyone knows that - get a //griP// .... (tee hee)

To go on a TRIP I can purchase airline tickets, or I can just use my car. I can also just go out and walk around, or I can just stay home and use some substances (however, I never tried the last option; perhaps it's time...)

Drip --a versatile term that can refer to modern fashion, liquid drops, medical equipment, financial plans, or a marketing platform.

Also UK slang for someone "wet"; "wet" being slang for someone who is weak, feeble, or lacking a (metaphorical) backbone. Actually having no backbone means: victim of gruesome accident or murder (*).


* - not the avian meaning! There's a good joke [which might only work in the UK - if the terms are UK-specific] which goes: "For a murder there needs to be probable caws."

What? "Murder" is the collective noun for crows. "Caws" are the sounds crows make - but is also a pun of "cause". "Probable cause" is a legal term.

More puns following from this specific joke can be found at: https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/co...there_must_be/

Drop - Careful Jeremy,dont drop the package!

I won't. I put it on a shoogly table - which was a risk - but then managed to ... Prop ... it up.

ROPE - you can use a rope to tie it.

If I can remember my knots... I could .. Cope .. with that!