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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #300 on: 17 Jun 2011, 00:20 »

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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #301 on: 17 Jun 2011, 00:28 »

Happy Birthday, Jeff!
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #302 on: 17 Jun 2011, 03:24 »

Can't help but think all the "Should she or shouldn't she?" people and "Marten is a (various forms of saying wuss)" people ... Got served today.

Nothing that has happened contradicts the notion of Marten being a wuss, so... you're going to have to explain this one.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #303 on: 17 Jun 2011, 04:06 »

A) Happy Birthday.

B) You're not old.  You've got 5 more years until you're old.  At 36 you can legally date women half your age.

Me, I'm really old.  At 42 I can buy them drinks.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #304 on: 17 Jun 2011, 04:17 »

Y'know, I think I'll just have a soda...

Might as well -

Nobody hurts,

Nobody dies

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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #305 on: 17 Jun 2011, 04:33 »

Congratulations Jeph, happy fucking birthday :mrgreen:
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #306 on: 17 Jun 2011, 04:49 »

Happy birthday, Jeph.

And a brief word, from experience... 31 really is very young, but you won't really realise that until you turn 41.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #307 on: 17 Jun 2011, 04:51 »

A) Happy Birthday.

B) You're not old.  You've got 5 more years until you're old.  At 36 you can legally date women half your age.

Me, I'm really old.  At 42 I can buy them drinks.

Just wait until you're 50, like me and women 1/2 your age are working on their second kid!
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #308 on: 17 Jun 2011, 04:58 »

My second kid (third when you count in the stepchild) was born when I was 25 and my wife was 24.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #309 on: 17 Jun 2011, 05:03 »

You've always been above average, pw.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #310 on: 17 Jun 2011, 05:52 »

Quick, some call Marilyn Munroe, get her to sing Happy Birthday to Jeph!

Oh...wait...It might be a bare bones performance.

Happy Birthday Jeph! I'm glad I'm still in my twenties.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #311 on: 17 Jun 2011, 06:24 »



Also, Strat with a bridge humbucker? Nice guitar dude!
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #312 on: 17 Jun 2011, 07:30 »

You're still now in your prime!
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #313 on: 17 Jun 2011, 08:06 »

Can't help but think all the "Should she or shouldn't she?" people and "Marten is a (various forms of saying wuss)" people ... Got served today.

Nothing that has happened contradicts the notion of Marten being a wuss, so... you're going to have to explain this one.

Marten was honest in a nondestructive way about what he thought and felt, faced the reality of not having a say in the matter, and in the end chose, not to sulk, but to reassure Tai of their friendship. That takes no small amount of maturity ... and a spine.

EDIT: Happy Birthday, Jeph.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #314 on: 17 Jun 2011, 08:46 »

And now, a short list of people who also have birthdays today besides Jeph (thanks to Wikipedia).

Newt Gingrich
Barry Manilow
George S. Clinton
Jon Gries
Greg Kinnear
Eric Stefani
Sebastian White
Venus Williams

Also, happy birthday Jeph. You wonderful cornucopia of madness.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #315 on: 17 Jun 2011, 09:36 »

Happy birthday Jeph!
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #316 on: 17 Jun 2011, 09:59 »

Jeph:  Sláinte ar do lá breithe!

An ceol go maith.

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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #317 on: 17 Jun 2011, 10:56 »

Can't help but think all the "Should she or shouldn't she?" people and "Marten is a (various forms of saying wuss)" people ... Got served today.

Nothing that has happened contradicts the notion of Marten being a wuss, so... you're going to have to explain this one.

Marten was honest in a nondestructive way about what he thought and felt, faced the reality of not having a say in the matter, and in the end chose, not to sulk, but to reassure Tai of their friendship. That takes no small amount of maturity ... and a spine.

EDIT: Happy Birthday, Jeph.

Maturity yes, but "spine" has no real application at all in the strip you were talking about (in the typical "meeting aggressive behavior head-on and facing it down" meaning, or "fuck you, I'm not going to let you bully me around" sense).
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #318 on: 17 Jun 2011, 10:59 »

Maturity yes, but "spine" has no real application at all in the strip you were talking about (in the typical "meeting aggressive behavior head-on and facing it down" meaning, or "fuck you, I'm not going to let you bully me around" sense).

Although one could see it as he had a chance to gloat over Tai being rejected, but chose not to, instead to comfort her. Which shows a certain amount of spinal structure.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #319 on: 17 Jun 2011, 14:26 »

I wonder if Jeph ever thought about getting into animation.  Not with QC but just in general.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #320 on: 17 Jun 2011, 14:48 »

Poll Results;

The penny drops for Tai…  3 (4.8%)
Gary Fucking Numan Again!  1 (1.6%)
Straight Guy Lesbian Girl Hug…D’awww  13 (21%)
BROS! [SSSH!]  7 (11.3%)
Bros Bros Bros Bros  32 (51.6%)
Chunky Bro Forever!  1 (1.6%)
Roll on the Birthday Filler  2 (3.2%)
We need more waffles. MOAR I TELLS YA!  3 (4.8%)
 
Total votes - 62.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #321 on: 17 Jun 2011, 18:19 »

Jeph:  Sláinte ar do lá breithe!

An ceol go maith.
Hey, I can go celtic too.

Deiz ha bloaz laouen, Jeph, hag yec'hed mad dit.


EDIT: typo.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #322 on: 17 Jun 2011, 18:58 »

Google translate doesn't like that one.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #323 on: 17 Jun 2011, 19:09 »

Thats either Welsh, or Scots Gaelic.

And for the record, what Celticgeek wrote was Gaelige. So nice to see the mother language being spoken. Reminds me of home.....oh wait, I'm already there.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #324 on: 18 Jun 2011, 02:44 »

It's Breton, actually.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #325 on: 18 Jun 2011, 04:53 »

It's Breton, actually.

Happy birthday, Jeph, and I wish you good health? Something like that?
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #327 on: 18 Jun 2011, 07:58 »

生日快乐杰夫
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #328 on: 18 Jun 2011, 08:22 »

Google Translate says "Happy Birthday, Jeff". "Jeff" is capitalized, so Google Translate knew it was a proper name. How do you represent a non-Chinese name in Chinese? If it's phonetic, how did GT know it was a name?
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #329 on: 18 Jun 2011, 15:40 »

It's Breton, actually.
Happy birthday, Jeph, and I wish you good health? Something like that?
Yeah, that's about right. The second part is the typical cheering (as in around drinks) phrase in Breton.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #330 on: 18 Jun 2011, 18:10 »

Google Translate says "Happy Birthday, Jeff". "Jeff" is capitalized, so Google Translate knew it was a proper name. How do you represent a non-Chinese name in Chinese? If it's phonetic, how did GT know it was a name?
I don't know about the specific mechanism used by Google Translate (GT), but as I said in a previous post Chinese characters (hanzi) cannot always be read correctly in isolation. The hanzi that make up 杰夫 (Jié​fū) do have a number of individual meanings depending on context but are a combination that GT has obviously been programmed to recognise.

GT does have a huge problem with identifying names in Chinese, but it is, if anything, more a problem with Chinese names (especially surnames) than Western ones. This is because Chinese names are are made up of fewer hanzi than the phonetic representations of Western names, so it is more difficult for GT to pick them out. For example, the Chinese surname 黑 (Hēi) also means "black" or "dark", so GT translates 黑嘉嘉 (Hēi Jiājiā) as "black Jiajia" or sometimes even "black fine" instead of recognising correctly the name of the Australian-born professional weiqi player. Only prominent Chinese people like 周恩来 (Mao Zedong) can count on having the combination of hanzi in their name recognised by GT.

In general terms, Western names are written in hanzi that sound to the Chinese ear like the syllables of the name when spoken aloud. Normally the hanzi for common given names are chosen from among the many homophones in Chinese so that their meaning is somewhat complimentary. For example many hanzi could have been chosen to sound like "Jeff", "Geoff", or "Jeph" but 杰夫 translate as "distinguished man". Less common given names, surnames, and place names are handled more pragmatically:

巴拉克奥巴马 = Bā​lā​kè Ào​bā​mǎ (Barak Obama, remember that ke is pronounced "kuh").
乔治布什 = Qiáo​zhì Bù​shí (George Bush, remember that Q is pronounced "Ch",  zhi is roughly "juh", and shi is "shuh").
澳大利亚 = Ào​dà​lì​yà (Australia)
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #331 on: 18 Jun 2011, 23:54 »

He's not that old, he's still a hexadecimal (i.e. base-16 numbers) teenager.
31 = 16 + 15, so that's written as "1F" in hexadecimal. So he's still "eff-teen". Next year he'll be 32, which is 16+16, so written as 20 in hexadecimal.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #332 on: 19 Jun 2011, 00:31 »

But then he doesn't get to drink Hexadecimal alcohol for another year.  :psyduck:
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« Reply #333 on: 19 Jun 2011, 02:00 »



That's the best kind of alcohol!
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« Reply #334 on: 19 Jun 2011, 12:37 »

Next year he'll be 32
And a bit older.
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« Reply #335 on: 19 Jun 2011, 15:43 »

wow, I didn't even get it until just now. Well played indeed.
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« Reply #336 on: 19 Jun 2011, 19:32 »

If Schmorgluck hadn't pointed out that there was something to get, I would've missed it.  Well done.
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Re: WCDT: 13th-17th June (1946-1950)
« Reply #337 on: 21 Jun 2011, 23:48 »

If we really get into that, then I'm afraid I have some bad news for Jeph. He will never again be able to truthfully say that all the numbers coprime to and less than his age (obviously also greater than 1) are primes themselves. :evil:

Edit: Thanks Andy147 - my brain outran the fingers. At least you were able to read my mind  :psyduck:
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« Reply #338 on: 22 Jun 2011, 12:17 »

Math is delicious!
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