User talk:Narky Blert/2023

Happy New Year, Narky Blert!

Happy New Year!

Narky Blert,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
— Moops ^⋠T⋡ 20:17, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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@Moops: And A Happy New Year to you too! Narky Blert (talk) 06:32, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Reorganizing the skin RfC

The RfC has been reorganized into "support", "oppose," and "neutral" subsections with numbered lists instead of * lists, and a "RfC discussion" subsection. A numbered list didn't work right with your two paragraph changes, they broke the numbering, so I changed the syntax of those paragraph changes from a new line and : to </p><p>. Is this acceptable? --Kiz o r 02:05, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Kiz: Of course. The whole thing was beginning to get unwieldy when I posted. Reordering makes a great deal of sense, not least for the benefit of the suffering closer; and as you say, : breaks # lists. Narky Blert (talk) 05:09, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The test of great parody

... is that the reader is genuinely uncertain as to whether what he's reading is, or is not, in fact parody. I tossed and turned last night wondering: you were kidding, weren't you? [1] E Eng 17:29, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@EEng: I enjoy many of your ANI posts; bubbles of pomposity need pricking, and I thought the complaint against you (which I am pleased to see has now been resolved) without any merit. Lord knows the cesspit can be a grim place. Mockery is the best therapy, especially against conspiracy theorists.

I was being as serious as you were in the thread about that appalling Filipino Greek letter society. There is footage; ignore the vapid commentary, look at what those firemen are doing, and shudder. I was only ever near one serious accident in a chemical plant; I was 3rd or 4th responder; 45 years ago, and I can still hear the screaming. Sorry, I think you overstepped the mark with that one.

FYI 1. The brazier at St Andrews was most likely a sawn-off oil drum with holes roughly colf-chisellled in the sides, filled with a fuel such as coke and used for heating or cooking. I can't find a pic on Commons.

FYI 2. On Yahoo! Answers, mods called the Religion & Spirituality section "the cesspit". A colleague and I used to double-team it occasionally; I went after the atheist trolls and he the Christian ones, because we each disliked the posts that made our side look bad. I have rare footage of our results.

Best, Narky Blert (talk) 18:45, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

But under the standard to which you're holding me, wouldn't any reference to any energetic exothermic reaction be off limits, on the chance someone had witnessed some horror thereby triggered? Meanwhile... The brazier at St Andrews was most likely a sawn-off oil drum with holes roughly cold-chisellled in the sides??? Ouch! I guess wartime shortages made the conventional garment

difficult to obtain. E Eng 21:58, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@EEng: It's a question of degree. My colour video shows an exotherm; fire or acid is the only way. I remember contemporary jokes about Challenger, but not about 9/11.

A rich girl uses a brassiere,
A poor girl uses string,
Dinah uses nothing at all,
She lets the bastards swing.

David Niven claimed that during the filming of some appalling Hollywood weepie, he bribed the choirboys to segue from the line "And when I die" into a rousing British version of "Dinah". (Our article is very incomplete; the Mudcat one is somewhat fuller, though "honky tonk" should read "knocking shop".) On viewing the rushes, the director fell off his chair. Narky Blert (talk) 04:50, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

T. E. Meeks and misplaced linking of her women composer articles, again

Hello, you may or may not remember this situation, but this editor's still going at it ... see this edit to Victor Hugo, made less than 24 hours ago! Any input you might have at this thread on their talk page would be appreciated. I notified you because of your comments on the linked ANI. Graham87 19:06, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Pentapolis (disambiguation)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Laurens, New York (disambiguation)

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"SoC" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:14, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Special Barnstar

		The Special Barnstar
		For using creative problem solving to discern the use of pronouns for ancient enbys, seen here. Thank you. Schyler (exquirito veritatem bonumque) 16:22, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Schyler: Don't even get me started on Tiresias. See also Heracles#Heracles and Omphale. Narky Blert (talk) 17:59, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Voting for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023 is now open!

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