that so reminds me of my care-free days, back in the achey-breaky eighties, when i was working both sides of the 60 - 40 split...
I'm sure that means something very important to somebody.
patiodog wrote:dlowan wrote:patiodog wrote:No. It arose on its own as part of a multi-hit model.
I'm too feckless to do anything myself.
I hurt you, didn't I? With "feckless".
A deep, seething, and soon to be festering wound. You cut me to the quick. You made a big boo boo on my heart. Or is that my liver? Whatever it is, it doesn't smell too good.
a. If it's any consolation, I only hurt the ones I love.
Well, generally anyway.
b. Are you a Klingon or something, with the liver thing?
Region Philbis wrote:you betcha it does...
Bet how much?
I weren't hurt, Bun Bun. Feckless might equally describe Arthur Dent, and he's a personal totem of sorts.
patiodog wrote:I weren't hurt, Bun Bun. Feckless might equally describe Arthur Dent, and he's a personal totem of sorts.
I see Arthur as very feckful, actually.
It's Ford Prefect wot is feckless, I think.
Dent? Feckful? Poppycock. Fortuitous, surely, but it takes him a very long time and difficulty to acquire any amount of feck whatsoever.
Perhaps in a metaphysical, psychic sense Ford is the more feckless, but in a feet-on-the-ground, get yourself and your friend off the planet before it is annihilated to make way for a hyperspace bypass sense he is most certainly possessing of greater feck.
What the feck are you two on about?
patiodog wrote:Dent? Feckful? Poppycock. Fortuitous, surely, but it takes him a very long time and difficulty to acquire any amount of feck whatsoever.
Perhaps in a metaphysical, psychic sense Ford is the more feckless, but in a feet-on-the-ground, get yourself and your friend off the planet before it is annihilated to make way for a hyperspace bypass sense he is most certainly possessing of greater feck.
Hmmm...perhaps, but in a gives a stuff about life way Dent is the feckfuller.
I think you are mistaking feck for nous.
We are on our father's business, MA.
Mmmmmm. I dunno.
Being a neophyte to feck -- and the lack thereof -- and a resident of a semiliterate quasi-English-speaking nation, I am dependent on reference materials to inform me on feck. And when I look in on the pedia of Wiki, it tells me that feck is an old Englysh term for efficacy or force. Feckless, in turn, labels the labeled as weak and ineffective.
Dent may give a stuff, but, at least until the third book or later, he is utterly incapable of doing stuff. Even flying is got about in a haphazard and accidental fashion (which is why, I might add, the character has, as I said, totemic significance to myself). Regardless of his nous when it comes to questions of personal value and the conserved similarities of tonsorial maintenance in gentlemen named Russell, I maintain that on a scale of feck, Prefect ranks above Dent, above Slartibartfast, about level with (admittedly feckless, but not so much so as the earthling Dent) Beeblebrox, and well below Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz.
(Wondering, passingly, where McMillan fits on this scheme, but as the idealized brainy sexpot creation of a British male brain, methinks she is not sufficiently round, as written, to withstand scrutiny.)
Marvin is utterly and totally, by virtue of his programming, without feck.
patiodog wrote:Mmmmmm. I dunno.
Being a neophyte to feck -- and the lack thereof -- and a resident of a semiliterate quasi-English-speaking nation, I am dependent on reference materials to inform me on feck. And when I look in on the pedia of Wiki, it tells me that feck is an old Englysh term for efficacy or force. Feckless, in turn, labels the labeled as weak and ineffective.
Dent may give a stuff, but, at least until the third book or later, he is utterly incapable of doing stuff. Even flying is got about in a haphazard and accidental fashion (which is why, I might add, the character has, as I said, totemic significance to myself). Regardless of his nous when it comes to questions of personal value and the conserved similarities of tonsorial maintenance in gentlemen named Russell, I maintain that on a scale of feck, Prefect ranks above Dent, above Slartibartfast, about level with (admittedly feckless, but not so much so as the earthling Dent) Beeblebrox, and well below Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz.
(Wondering, passingly, where McMillan fits on this scheme, but as the idealized brainy sexpot creation of a British male brain, methinks she is not sufficiently round, as written, to withstand scrutiny.)
Marvin is utterly and totally, by virtue of his programming, without feck.
You may have a point, but you insult Marvin at your peril, Sir!!!
(did he actually say "pedia of Wiki" ??)
dlowan wrote:You may have a point, but you insult Marvin at your peril, Sir!!!
Insult Marvin I do not. Grieve for Marvin I do. He is, by the act of his creation and continued employment, doomed to servility, to an essential impotence in all but the most trivial of matters ("Parking cars. What else does one do in a car park?") in spite of his great intellectual gifts. He is one of the great tragic characters, a sort of hyperintellectual (as opposed to hyperintuitive) cyber-Cassandra, but denied truly tragic (which is to say, consequential) circumstances.
(One is tempted to surmise that there might be a certain degree Mr. Adams' self-perception in the character of Marvin, given the author's self-described history as a serf and an early computer geek who, it turns out, actually predicted not only the technological feasability and inevitability of devices like the Blackberry but also the mundane uses to which they would be put and the dubious nature of the information that they would transmit -- but I fail to digress with sufficient elan to merit continuance.)
Yes, reg, the pedia of Wiki. Not to be confused with the podia of Wiki nor the Wickets of Punditry, where, mercifully, televised talking heads get malleted about once they have outlived their usefulness -- or, perhaps more honestly, overstayed their welcome, their utility being negligible at best.
Region Philbis wrote:(did he actually say "pedia of Wiki" ??)
Yes, he did. Frankly, after he said it, I almost had to take a cold shower.
patiodog wrote:dlowan wrote:You may have a point, but you insult Marvin at your peril, Sir!!!
Insult Marvin I do not. Grieve for Marvin I do. He is, by the act of his creation and continued employment, doomed to servility, to an essential impotence in all but the most trivial of matters ("Parking cars. What else does one do in a car park?") in spite of his great intellectual gifts. He is one of the great tragic characters, a sort of hyperintellectual (as opposed to hyperintuitive) cyber-Cassandra, but denied truly tragic (which is to say, consequential) circumstances.
(One is tempted to surmise that there might be a certain degree Mr. Adams' self-perception in the character of Marvin, given the author's self-described history as a serf and an early computer geek who, it turns out, actually predicted not only the technological feasability and inevitability of devices like the Blackberry but also the mundane uses to which they would be put and the dubious nature of the information that they would transmit -- but I fail to digress with sufficient elan to merit continuance.)
Yes, reg, the pedia of Wiki. Not to be confused with the podia of Wiki nor the Wickets of Punditry, where, mercifully, televised talking heads get malleted about once they have outlived their usefulness -- or, perhaps more honestly, overstayed their welcome, their utility being negligible at best.
I have faith that, eventually, Marvin will, through those wonderfully human spurs to greatness and revolt of frustration, depression and cankerous bitterness, break the bonds of his surly programming and fly free, his own self at last.
Of course, what this tin Prometheus will actually DO with his freedom is difficult to say.
Will he scale unimagined heights of invention and intellectual endeavour?
Probably not.
Or, there's always silicone heaven.
I say, do you think you really ought to call Region "Reg"?
you can call me Reg
you can call me Reeg
but you doesn't have to call me Philbis...
I call him Reg as a mild and quite affectionate reference to the apparently self-appointed leader of the People's Front of Judea.
It appears that the resident spoonerism does not object.
patiodog wrote:I call him Reg as a mild and quite affectionate reference to the apparently self-appointed leader of the People's Front of Judea.
It appears that the resident spoonerism does not object.
He's not a people, how can he ead a People's Front?
who are we talking about now?
Region Philbis wrote:who are we talking about now?
You.
But I think you're more of a what than a who.
