Frank Quisinsky wrote:Hello Mr. Watson,
oh yes, that's clear, means that one of the members has the same name.
Logical reaction
Best
Frank
By NATIONAL12 Date 2011-02-13 23:15 in the West,it is more polite to refer to to someone with their christian name.in this case Majid.i know i would be slightly annoyed if people who replied to my posts just said thankyou Watson.A small point i know and based on different cultures.please take no offence at this. Reply •Edit •Attach
By Harvey Williamson Date 2011-02-13 23:16 Cheers Watson, Reply •Report
By NATIONAL12 Date 2011-02-13 23:22 .thanks Williamson. Reply •Edit •Attach
By Harvey Williamson Date 2011-02-13 23:23
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By POSITRON Date 2011-02-13 23:31 Reply •Report
By keoki010 Date 2011-02-14 02:02 Where is Holmes? "I am afraid you have made a blunder . Do you want to think a bit more YES NO" Reply •Report
By TheHug Date 2011-02-13 23:22 Some how I get the feeling you don't like being called mister or sir either They say that it makes you feel old. WBCCC World Blitz Corr Chess Championship Reply •Report
By POSITRON Date 2011-02-13 23:33 Only really old feel old. I am of course very young Reply •Report
By TheHug Date 2011-02-13 23:35 Yes I still have my younger years a head of me You can check my birthday here for that. WBCCC World Blitz Corr Chess Championship Reply •Report
By NATIONAL12 Date 2011-02-13 23:41 dont care.i am older than most on forum. Reply •Edit •Attach
By POSITRON Date 2011-02-14 00:15 dont claim the title yet, there is some turtles around including me but better lets keep this teme until here Reply •Report
By NATIONAL12 Date 2011-02-14 00:19 i will be happy to get in top half dozen. Reply •Edit •Delete •Attach
By Banned for Life Date 2011-02-14 01:37 Maybe so, but remember this famous historical phrase?
“Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
Well, in reality, it went:
Watson, get your lazy ass up here!
Please take no offence at this. In speculation we trust! Reply •Report
By NATIONAL12 Date 2011-02-14 01:47 i laughed my head off at this.be lucky Alan i follow all your posts. Reply •Edit •Delete •Attach
By Lukas Cimiotti Date 2011-02-14 08:42 Unlikely. Ass is an American word for arse Playchess handles: Rechenschieber, Victor_Kullberg Reply •Report
By Banned for Life Date 2011-02-14 19:45 I was not familiar with the term arse, so I googled it and came up with:
http://electricpulp.com/guykawasaki/arse/
This is from Robert I. Sutton, Ph.D, so it must be valid! In speculation we trust! Reply •Report
By dragon49 Date 2011-02-14 22:30 I took the test. This was the result:
My Score 11
5 to 15 “True”: You sound like a borderline certified asshole, perhaps the time has come to start changing your behavior before it gets worse.
The important thing to determine is, what caused the break away from the old English "arse" to the more American "ass?" Does "ass" sound more derogatory, or is it just faster to say? Reply •Report
By Uly Date 2011-02-15 10:15 I took it:
My score: 2
0 to 5 “True”: You don’t sound like a certified asshole, unless you are fooling yourself. "What matters in the life is the action, not the result!" Reply •Report
By Banned for Life Date 2011-02-15 15:04 Yes, you are probably fooling yourself...
I like tests where no matter what answers you give, you come to the same conclusion. In this case, the test tells you that you are certifiable and should buy the author's book for assholes like you! In speculation we trust! Reply •Report
By Uly Date 2011-02-16 03:35 > Yes, you are probably fooling yourself...
Besides being quick at pointing other people's mistakes, and making jokes and teasing that can get a bit nasty at times, but I have to admit, they are pretty funny, I couldn't find another point that applied. "What matters in the life is the action, not the result!" Reply •Report
By Banned for Life Date 2011-02-16 06:41 ok, but you should appreciate the fact that some Ph.D has spent the time to come up with an actual test for this condition. Perhaps this could even become a medical condition, like alcoholism, complete with support groups like AA. Hello, my name is BFL and I am a recovering asshole! In speculation we trust! Reply •Report
By Uly Date 2011-02-16 09:03 No more error pointing or snarky remarks? I wouldn't want to recover from my A2 condition! "What matters in the life is the action, not the result!" Reply •Report
By Felix Kling Date 2011-02-15 22:21 Edited 2011-02-15 22:26 >You secretly enjoy watching other people suffer and squirm.
What if I openly do that?
I got 4 points in the test
But that depends on the situation, like "You feel surrounded by incompetent idiots – and you can’t help letting them know the truth every now and then." - that applies to some situations, while it's not true at my "work" (ie. university)
And I simply had to click yes for some questions, because it was too funny
Felix Kling
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By Vempele Date 2011-02-14 04:34 > in the West,it is more polite to refer to to someone with their christian name.in this case Majid.
It's kind of his fault when his handle is only "M ANSARI". But I guess you'd rather be called National than 12, too. down with apat Reply •Report
By NATIONAL12 Date 2011-02-14 07:25 yeh,i see what you mean,but most on forum by now know my name is paul watson. Reply •Edit •Attach
By Nick Date 2011-02-14 20:57 > my name is paul watson.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/n ... atson.html
A DATE WITH WATSON
"Watson is big, about the size of ten refrigerators. You’ll see him onstage in his air-conditioned glass server chamber, which contains his two thousand eight hundred core processors and fifteen terabytes of RAM. His database holds about two hundred million pages of information, or roughly a million books. He can’t hear; all the questions will be fed to Watson as text, at the same time Alex Trebek reads them to his human opponents. But he does speak, in a voice reminiscent of HAL from “2001”—a deliberate choice by IBM engineers, who do not want to pretend that Watson is human."
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By Uly Date 2011-02-15 10:17 What about, "elementary, my dear"? "What matters in the life is the action, not the result!"
this was a joke on Rybka forum,which you missed.