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BISCUIT MILLS
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Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:02 pmby Sling
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/
The existence of this website makes life worth living...
Posted:
Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:20 pmby Teenr0cker
I would like to note their current poll:
"City's that smell of food"
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Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:16 pmby Sling
That website is clearly one of the best things ever, just the whole manner of sincerity about cakes, biscuits etc is truly hilarious... It's like Uncyclopedia... but about cakes, pies and snacks...
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Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:56 pmby HolsteinCow
That website will haunt my fucking dreams.
Even more than goaste.cx(sic)
fake edit: needed emphasis
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Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:02 amby Greatchickenman
everyone knows when [sic]ing, you're supposed to use brackets; not parenthesis.
By the way, if we're talking encyclopedias, encyclopedia dramatica is the way to go.
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Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:46 amby Sling
Greatchickenman wrote:everyone knows when [sic]ing, you're supposed to use brackets; not parenthesis.
By the way, if we're talking encyclopedias, encyclopedia dramatica is the way to go.
Actually () are brackets, [] are square brackets, {} are squiggly brackets and so forth... But then again most people aren't up to the naming standards and convetions of the British these days *sigh*
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Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:39 pmby Sage Of The Wise
You’re telling me {} has the official name of "squiggly"?
And if () are brackets, what are parenthesis?
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Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:39 pmby Teenr0cker
I'll just cite wiki to support what I knew already. All that time using correct vocabulary in Computer Science is paying off big time now!
Wikipedia wrote:Brackets are punctuation marks used in pairs to set apart or interject text within other text. With respect to computer science, the term is sometimes said to only strictly apply to the square or box type.
Types of brackets include parentheses or round brackets ( ), box brackets or square brackets [ ], curly brackets or braces { }, and angle brackets < >. All these forms may be used according to typographical conventions that may vary from publication to publication and may vary even more from language to language.
Link to wiki article using what I assumed was intended by "Squiggly" as my search string:
Source 1
Link showing that "Squiggly" has no page whatsoever on wiki :
Source 2
Additional Names for Parentheses :
Source 3
Counter Strike:
Source
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:24 pmby Sage Of The Wise
I declare Teen the winner. I'm not sure what the competition was, but he won.
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:20 pmby MusashiEX
I think he should be disqualified for the Counter Strike link.
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:22 pmby Impossible
I actually sometimes hear "brackets" used as the word for [] (rather than the parentheses I'm using right now), but square brackets would probably be a better term and avoid confusion.
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:33 pmby MusashiEX
Also, I think curvy brackets should be used to describe () brackets. They are curvy. {} are squiggy. My opinion, of course.
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:20 pmby Sling
Sage Of The Wise wrote:And if () are brackets, what are parenthesis?
An invention of America to confuse people...
Sorry, Squiggly was just the name eveyone in my IT group referred {} to as... but yeah () have alwyas been brackets, just regular plain old brackets. I guees everyone isn't up to the naming conventions of the British after all...
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:23 pmby Greatchickenman
I think it's simply that we here in America are so much smarter that we were able to capitalize upon your archaic language which cannot fathom the meaning of parenthesis.
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Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:29 pmby Sling
I know what Parethesis are dumbass, they are a made up word for something that already exists. Maybe if they guy who wrote the American dictionary wasn't a spiteful dislexic idiot we wouldn't be having these confusions, k? The only made-up word which actually makes sense is sidewalk, eveything else is just pointless and crappy.