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::Have a good evening! [[User:Star Mississippi|<span style="color:#be33ff;">Star</span>]] [[User talk:Star Mississippi|<span style="color:#ff33da;">Mississippi</span>]] 02:19, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
::::For me to ''try'' to be disruptive would be superfluous. It seems to come naturally. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuCdLAHP9vo#t=3m06s It's a gift, and a curse]. [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color:red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color:blue;">Eng</b>]] 02:38, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
[[Template:Did you know nominations/Margaret C. Waites]] —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 18:09, 5 October 2024 (UTC)▼
==DYK for Booby Island (Saint Kitts and Nevis)==
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|text = On [[Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2024/October#9 October 2024|9 October 2024]], '''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know]]''' was updated with a fact from the article '''''[[Booby Island (Saint Kitts and Nevis)]]''''', which you recently nominated. The fact was ''... that the search for mammals on '''[[Booby Island (Saint Kitts and Nevis)|Booby Island]]''' was a bust?'' The nomination discussion and review may be seen at [[Template:Did you know nominations/Booby Island (Saint Kitts and Nevis)]]. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page <small>([[User:Rjanag/Pageview stats|here's how]], [https://pageviews.toolforge.org/?start=2024-09-29&end=2024-10-19&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Booby_Island_(Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis) Booby Island (Saint Kitts and Nevis)])</small>, and the hook may be added to [[Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics/Monthly DYK pageview leaders|the statistics page]] after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the [[:Template talk:Did you know|Did you know talk page]].
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::It wasn't very interesting, just foul-mouthed. —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 00:00, 15 October 2024 (UTC)▼
:Uh-oh. It's not a GA. --[[User:Tryptofish|Tryptofish]] ([[User talk:Tryptofish|talk]]) 21:58, 15 October 2024 (UTC)▼
::I'm not gonna be the fall guy on this one, copper. All I did is some copyediting. [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color:red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color:blue;">Eng</b>]] 23:01, 15 October 2024 (UTC)▼
:::I'm golden, not copper. --[[User:Tryptofish|Tryptofish]] ([[User talk:Tryptofish|talk]]) 23:13, 15 October 2024 (UTC)▼
== TIL from TFA ==
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*You're welcome. And such a pleasure to get a talk-page message that isn't someone taking me to ANI! [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color:red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color:blue;">Eng</b>]] 04:43, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
=== There isn't currently a discussion at [[:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents]] regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you ===
Just to set everyone's mind at rest... When Mr and Mrs King <small>[please note that the preceding was shamelessly stolen from ''The Madness of King George'']</small> [[:2024 royal tour of Australia|came to visit us last month]], you'll be pleased to know that (despite living [[:Blighty|on the other side of the planet]]) they had no problems making themselves understood, as they both speak perfectly fluent American. [[User:Shirt58|Shirt58]] ([[User talk:Shirt58|talk]]) 🦘 08:59, 2 November 2024 (UTC) <small> ps:"新的東西" in your page notice literally means "New ([[Chinese_particles#Linguistic_sketch|adjectival particle]]) East West"</small>
:How very dare you! Everyone knows that is '''not her name'''. She is officially the [[Camilla (mythology)|Queen Consort]], aka "[[Benson & Hedges|Suzy Superkings]]". And they can both just about scrape by in that Antipodes lingo of yours, thank you. <small>(e.g. [[Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook|"My hovercraft is full of organic asparagus"]], &etc.)</small> [[Neighbours: The Finale|Fair Dunkum 123]] ([[User talk:Martinevans123|talk]]) 09:27, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
=== There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved ===▼
▲== There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved ==
Just kidding. I didn't get to reply [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=prev&oldid=1259579594 to this] before the thread got locked. But hey, at least we're behind video games and beauty pageants...
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::::Correct. Done for TR and RFK. I left MLK as it was since the initials were not mentioned anyway in the lede. :-) [[User:Bernard Lee|Bernard Lee]] ([[User talk:Bernard Lee|talk]]) 03:32, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
:::::[[Hair (musical)|LBJ IRT USA LSD FBI CIA LSD LBJ]] —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 06:50, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
== [[Template:Quote_box/doc]] ==
What was wrong with my edit {{diff||1262019143}}? Not only did it simplify the wikitext, it fixed {{slink|Template:Quote_box/doc#Letterhead_custom_class}}'s displayed code not matching the template output, and will prevent that problem in the future. [[Special:Contributions/172.97.141.219|172.97.141.219]] ([[User talk:172.97.141.219|talk]]) 05:27, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
:My mistake. I have reverted myself. Thanks. [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color:red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color:blue;">Eng</b>]] 05:34, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
::No worries! [[Special:Contributions/172.97.141.219|172.97.141.219]] ([[User talk:172.97.141.219|talk]]) 05:39, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
:::If only that were so. [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color:red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color:blue;">Eng</b>]] 05:51, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
== Just a note ==
My youngest son has recently (recency being relative: this has been going on since the COVID lockdown) become a fan of several educational channels on Youtube and is quite fond of relaying the information gleaned from them to me, to see if I'm already aware of it, and to, perhaps, listen as I expound upon it abit.
He recently informed me of the strange case of one Phineas Gage and went into some detail on it. When he was done gushing, I asked him if he was aware that an entire genre of jokes had originated with him. My son, of course, was not aware of any such thing. Naturally, I offered to tell him the first such joke, one which I originally read right here.
"So Phineas Gage walks into a bar..."
It took him a moment, but when it clicked, the kid damn near peed himself laughing. [[User:MjolnirPants|<span style="color:#004400;">'''ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants'''</span>]] <small><small>[[User_talk:MjolnirPants|''Tell me all about it.'']]</small></small> 21:37, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
:I'm so, so glad. Now I know what great [[Tom Lehrer]] meant when he said, "If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while." [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color:red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color:blue;">Eng</b>]] 22:13, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
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:::<small>It's always a shame when they set the bar too low... [[User:MjolnirPants|<span style="color:#004400;">'''ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants'''</span>]] <small><small>[[User_talk:MjolnirPants|''Tell me all about it.'']]</small></small> 01:58, 14 December 2024 (UTC)</small>
::I mean, who doesn't want to sow a little chaos from time to time? I recently told a very homophobic and transphobic young man that he'd never be able to hack my computer the way he kept threatening to, even if I generously provided him with my IP address: 192.168.0.1. Strangely, he logged off the internet and hasn't been back online in a few days. Still no signs of a l33t h4x0r on my end, however. [[User:MjolnirPants|<span style="color:#004400;">'''ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants'''</span>]] <small><small>[[User_talk:MjolnirPants|''Tell me all about it.'']]</small></small> 01:56, 14 December 2024 (UTC)
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::::Assuming you meant one of the non-English bits:
::::192.168.0.1 = internet address for your own local router (often)
::::l33t h4x0r = elite hacker
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:::::Thanks, David. It was the router and the shorthand for elite hacker that were new to me, interesting. MPants and I go back a long time, so I already knew about the username. --[[User:Tryptofish|Tryptofish]] ([[User talk:Tryptofish|talk]]) 00:29, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
== ANI archive question ==
Why do you manually archive closed threads like that? There's a bot to do just that after x amount of time, <s>*cough* why not archive your user talk page threads instead *cough*</s>, what is the use in manually archiving them before the bot does? Some posts do deserve quick archiving, but you've been archiving a lot of them. – [[Special:Contributions/2804:F14:80D2:8401:D80F:263F:C174:E386|2804:F1...74:E386]] ([[Special:Contributions/2804:F14::/32|::/32]]) ([[User talk:2804:F14:80D2:8401:D80F:263F:C174:E386|talk]]) 21:12, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
:Archiving threads that (a) have come to their natural conclusion, and (b) have no residual educational value, prevents editors wasting their brainpower casting their eyes over threads to no good purpose. (ANI has TONS of watchers, so the multiplying factor here is tremendous.) Plus (c) it keeps me up to date on the forms of disruption currently in vogue, on top of which (d) I find all that clicking relaxing and diverting when I really should be doing something else.{{pb}}If you feel there's some thread I archived prematurely, please point to it so I can hone my discretionary skills along those lines. Otherwise, why do you care? [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color:red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color:blue;">Eng</b>]] 22:05, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
::Well no, if I had anything substantial against it I would have said it, it's just that I wanted to know why. As far as I know is just 24 hours minimum, or less if routine, or more if complex or controversial, or 3 days if the bot does it(said at the top of the board), everything else is fine if you're not being disagreed with. – [[Special:Contributions/2804:F14:80D2:8401:D80F:263F:C174:E386|2804:F1...74:E386]] ([[Special:Contributions/2804:F14::/32|::/32]]) ([[User talk:2804:F14:80D2:8401:D80F:263F:C174:E386|talk]]) 23:13, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
:::As it happens I wrote that 24/routine/complex language (as well as, BTW, that deathless phrase "urgent incidents and chronic, intractable behavioral problems" -- I'm having that inscribed on my gravestone) so when my finger's on the clicker you may rest assured that ANI archiving is in expert hands. [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color:red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color:blue;">Eng</b>]] 00:01, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
==Merry Christmas==
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Hello EEng, warm wishes to you and your family throughout the holiday season. May your heart and home be filled with all of the joys the festive season brings. Here is a toast to a Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year!.
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*Bah [[List_of_The_Phantom_Tollbooth_characters#Humbug|humbug]]! [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color:red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color:blue;">Eng</b>]] 18:42, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
==[[User:EEng/ASSUMEGODFAITH]]==
Hello, EEng,
I saw you link to this "essay" on ANI so I went to read it. You promise to write an essay with this page title over 6 years ago, isn't it time to give it a shot? Depending on the wit, I'd love to link to it myself.
Happy holidays, you old grouch! <span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">[[User:Liz|'''''L'''''iz]]</span> <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">[[Special:Contributions/Liz|'''''Read!''''']] [[User talk:Liz|'''''Talk!''''']]</sup> 09:05, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
:Gosh, that's the nicest thing anyone's said to me recently. I'll see what I can do. [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color:red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color:blue;">Eng</b>]] 00:10, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
*This made me curious, so I looked. Let the grouch in ''me'' caution against saying that calling pseudoscience by its name is disrespectful. --[[User:Tryptofish|Tryptofish]] ([[User talk:Tryptofish|talk]]) 22:46, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
*:I don't see what pseudoscience has to do with it. Are we looking at the same page -- [[WP:ASSUMEGODFAITH]]? [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color:red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color:blue;">Eng</b>]] 00:10, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
*::Oh, I based that on a comment on the talk page, where the issue comes up. But if that's not where you intend to take it, that's fine with me. --[[User:Tryptofish|Tryptofish]] ([[User talk:Tryptofish|talk]]) 19:38, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
▲*:::Oh, I
*::::Yeah, given the state of the world at large, I wouldn't mind going comatose, myself, now. If you have any suggestions about how to get there, I'd like that. --[[User:Tryptofish|Tryptofish]] ([[User talk:Tryptofish|talk]]) 22:40, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/?diff=prev&oldid=1266777713] [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color:red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color:blue;">Eng</b>]] 05:11, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
== Hope things are OK ==
I saw you post on another talk page that you are dealing with some serious real life issues. I hope things are OK. --[[User:Tryptofish|Tryptofish]] ([[User talk:Tryptofish|talk]]) 00:04, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
:Merely a statistically unlikely conjunction of multiple personal and family business matters, combined with the imminent resumption of teaching duties. Your solicitude for my well-being is appreciated. [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color:red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color:blue;">Eng</b>]] 00:39, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
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