Comments on: Python-Lehrer Tourette syndrome http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html Ned Gulley's Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:15:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Mike O http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-99777 Mike O Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:17:27 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-99777 OK, late non-sequitor, but I blame you all, so I'm sharing it here. I don't remember which post prompted this, but it's best here: "Hmmm. That reminds me... of a song." (tuning)<i>yum, yum, yum...</i> Yar-tee-abuckety Rum-ting-a-too Nih Nih Nih YAOOOOOOOOW! Thank you, I'm here all week. OK, late non-sequitor, but I blame you all, so I’m sharing it here. I don’t remember which post prompted this, but it’s best here:

“Hmmm. That reminds me… of a song.”
(tuning)yum, yum, yum…
Yar-tee-abuckety
Rum-ting-a-too
Nih
Nih
Nih
YAOOOOOOOOW!

Thank you, I’m here all week.

]]> By: Doug Moore http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-37422 Doug Moore Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:24:57 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-37422 Ned, It was great to see you at Reunions this summer. Sorry for disappearing for a decade or two, but I'm not quite dead yet... I just stumbled on your blog, which I think is terrific. The Tokyo wave pool is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. All the best, Doug Moore Ned,

It was great to see you at Reunions this summer. Sorry for disappearing for a decade or two, but I’m not quite dead yet…

I just stumbled on your blog, which I think is terrific. The Tokyo wave pool is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.

All the best,
Doug Moore

]]> By: JMike http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-24942 JMike Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:34:25 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-24942 I notice that T. Lehrer isn't getting the love here in the comments. My son is at the "sound each letter out" stage of reading and writing, and so I was just telling him about Silent E the other day. A spoonful of Lehrer helped the lesson go down: "Who can turn a man into a mane..." I notice that T. Lehrer isn’t getting the love here in the comments.

My son is at the “sound each letter out” stage of reading and writing, and so I was just telling him about Silent E the other day. A spoonful of Lehrer helped the lesson go down:

“Who can turn a man into a mane…”

]]> By: Dan http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-24933 Dan Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:23:52 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-24933 I'm sympathetic to your plight, Ned, but bear in mind that NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition. I’m sympathetic to your plight, Ned, but bear in mind that NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition.

]]> By: Ned http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-24829 Ned Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:46:59 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-24829 Historical footnote: I first met Mike O. (many years ago) because he was quoting the "Burying the Cat" sketch whilst in the checkout line at a hardware store. Doing this creates a burning white blip on the geekdar in the Geek Detector Van. I was able to spot a kindred spirit in a flash. Question: What Geek Detector Van? Answer: The one from the Ministry of Housinge. Historical footnote: I first met Mike O. (many years ago) because he was quoting the “Burying the Cat” sketch whilst in the checkout line at a hardware store. Doing this creates a burning white blip on the geekdar in the Geek Detector Van. I was able to spot a kindred spirit in a flash.

Question: What Geek Detector Van?

Answer: The one from the Ministry of Housinge.

]]> By: Jon Luff http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-24821 Jon Luff Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:42:10 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-24821 Did he say, "Bless'ed are the cheese makers?" Did he say, “Bless’ed are the cheese makers?”

]]> By: Mike O http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-24816 Mike O Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:23:52 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-24816 Bravo, JMike. Bravo. PS - my brain is currently in the throes of PLT, such that I cannot focus on any one quip long enough to type it. Aagh, the wound! Bravo, JMike. Bravo.

PS - my brain is currently in the throes of PLT, such that I cannot focus on any one quip long enough to type it.

Aagh, the wound!

]]> By: Jay Czarnecki http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-24809 Jay Czarnecki Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:55:25 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-24809 One of the interesting nuances of this joyful affliction is that it not only hereditary, but also "reverse hereditary ": I gave it to my mom. The condition in her case manifests itself via frequent use of set-up lines: she been known to gesture over-dramatically out the back window and intone "Someday, all this will be yours." I understand that recent genetic research has suggested a relationship between this disorder and a male-only recessive variant called Caddyshack-Animal House Obsession Syndrome One of the interesting nuances of this joyful affliction is that it not only hereditary, but also “reverse hereditary “: I gave it to my mom. The condition in her case manifests itself via frequent use of set-up lines: she been known to gesture over-dramatically out the back window and intone “Someday, all this will be yours.”

I understand that recent genetic research has suggested a relationship between this disorder and a male-only recessive variant called Caddyshack-Animal House Obsession Syndrome

]]> By: JMike http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-24789 JMike Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:41:41 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-24789 Dangit, Ned, there you go again with the JMike bait. (To those of you who don't know me: In certain markets, where Ned is not the poster boy for PLT Syndrome, I am.) Luckily, through an intensive program of suppression (going to MIT where there were many extremely annoying practitioners of Grailolalia) and transference (reading "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" enough that it bubbles up as the source of quasi-relevant quotes about as often as Python and Lehrer) I am -- not cured, but at least my wife is willing to take me to parties. A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse. Oops. Damn. Sorry. Dangit, Ned, there you go again with the JMike bait.

(To those of you who don’t know me: In certain markets, where Ned is not the poster boy for PLT Syndrome, I am.)

Luckily, through an intensive program of suppression (going to MIT where there were many extremely annoying practitioners of Grailolalia) and transference (reading “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” enough that it bubbles up as the source of quasi-relevant quotes about as often as Python and Lehrer) I am — not cured, but at least my wife is willing to take me to parties.

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.

Oops. Damn. Sorry.

]]> By: St. Frank http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-24756 St. Frank Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:44:03 +0000 http://www.starchamber.com/2007/08/python-lehrer-tourette-syndrome.html#comment-24756 "He's NOT the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!" Well, you asked for it... “He’s NOT the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!”

Well, you asked for it…

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