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Don't let it prey on you.
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Not shown: the "bowl of petunias" galaxy. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Dave Swarbrick[^]
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Swarbrick suffered from emphysema, underwent three tracheotomies [and] in 2004 he received a double lung transplant
Marc
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That's terrible news. I had the good fortune to see him play with his band Whippersnapper some years ago at a small folk club. He came across as a genuinely lovely bloke and he was, needless to say, a breathtakingly good fiddler.
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PeejayAdams wrote: a breathtakingly good fiddler.
That's an ironic turn of phrase.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: That's an ironic turn of phrase.
Oops! It is, isn't it? Completely unintentional, I can assure you.
As an aside, I'm wondering if there is a specific name for the phenomenon where a word that is entirely appropriate in one context is rendered somewhat inappropriate by an associated context. Probably more a question for a Stack Overflow language forum than a Dave Swarbrick tribute thread, I must admit, but its got me wondering ...
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PeejayAdams wrote: I'm wondering if there is a specific name for the phenomenon where a word that is entirely appropriate in one context is rendered somewhat inappropriate by an associated context.
A Freudian slip, also called parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of an unconscious ("dynamically repressed") subdued wish or internal train of thought. They reveal a "source [of ideas] outside the speech". The concept is thus part of classical psychoanalysis.
and:
In contrast to psychoanalytic theorists, cognitive psychologists say that linguistic slips can represent a sequencing conflict in grammar production. From this perspective, slips may be due to cognitive underspecification that can take a variety of forms – inattention, incomplete sense data or insufficient knowledge. Secondly, they may be due to the existence of some locally appropriate response pattern that is strongly primed by its prior usage, recent activation or emotional change or by the situation calling conditions.
From the fount of all knowledge, Wikipedia[^] 
Marc
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I'm not really sure it was a Freudian slip so much as a failure to modify something in light of the events. Had someone asked me a decade ago whether I'd seen Dave Swabrick, I'd have probably said "yes, he was breathtakingly good."
I like the phrase "contextual irony" but I can only find one real use of it. "Situational irony" is a common phrase and really sounds like it should fit the bill, but (ironically enough) it means something rather different.
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Yes, a terrible shame though going by his chain-smoking habit on stage, he has done very well to make it this far. He even had the experience of reading his own obituary as the Telegraph reported him dead about 10 years ago.
I saw him many times with Fairport Convention and playing as a folk duo with both Simon Nicol and Martin Carthy.
An excellent musician, sadly missed.
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Great musician, sad indeed.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Are you all safe from the floods?
Give us a shout-out and tell us your experiences.
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Buncha wimps! It's been raining for one week, and they all start getting their tootsies damp - try living in Wales! 
Seriously, it's a problem and I do feel sorry for 'em. Except Parisian waiters of course.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Except Parisian waiters of course.
+5
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Wimps, you say. Five dead, 3 missing.
It's a big mess.
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We're sorry we did not manage to grow some gills. We'll be trying harder...
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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You could smoke more Gilloises... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Haha I have to upvote this one
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Parisian waitders
ftfy
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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The 8th picture here[^]
How do the French drive around? From what I can tell of the signage, Cambronne is to the left, Trocadero Concorde is to the right, but you can't make a left turn or a right turn, in fact, the middle sign seems to indicate that you can't go forwards or backwards, and who knows what the first sign with the X means.
Marc
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link to google stret view before the flood:
Google Maps[^]
(I'm no expert on french road signage)
I assume the no right turn and no left turn is to prevent crossing (one is blurred) ?
The crossed blue circle is no-parking (and the up/down arrows indicate that it applies before and after the sign)
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: link to google stret view before the flood:
Wow, how did you find that?
Makes me laugh at the caption in my original post "street posts are almost completely submerged" or something like that. I was thinking, wow, those signs must be really high then. Not!
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: and who knows what the first sign with the X means
This signals that priority has to be given to vehicles which come from the right.
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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