User talk:Bishonen/Sicilian Christmas

Latest comment: 16 years ago by Salvuzzo in topic cuccìa


EARTHQUAKE AND MAYHEM ON MAIN PAGE TODAY

14+ Frenchmen can't be wrong. [1] Vive la difference!

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Fall down a double staircase!

Hear the hidden nuns!

Merry Christmas!
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Vikings??????? Filiocht | The kettle's on 08:20, 15 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

YES! Vikings and what do you know about the subject? Fall in line or it will be an Irish Christmas - and guess who gets vaporised! Giano | talk 09:22, 15 December 2005 (UTC)Reply
WP:NPA, WP:CIVIL, DSO and Bar! Filiocht | The kettle's on 10:07, 15 December 2005 (UTC)Reply
All right, you two. I'm gonna list this page, the only question is where: Requests for comments, Vandalism in progress,, or Featured Article Candidates. Meanwhile, no threats, please, or I'm a fwap you with the cluebat. Bishonen | talk 12:50, 15 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

Disputed

Gaelic poetry, especially as declaimed by Il Filiocht, would rouse the peasants to a wild frenzy, not put them to sleep. Filiocht | The kettle's on 13:46, 15 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

Oh yeah! sez who? Giano | talk 14:10, 15 December 2005 (UTC)Reply
Me, and I'm an expert! I have a PhD from Baby Doc (obscure 20-year-old Doonesbury reference). Filiocht | The kettle's on 14:21, 15 December 2005 (UTC)Reply
Oh yeah! and Jerry Adams has an Italian granny - not many people know that! Giano | talk 14:32, 15 December 2005 (UTC)Reply
The headmaster at the NYC school where I worked was "all-things-Italian" all the time. We translated our native English motto into Latin. We got an official insignia that was the Italian version of the fleur d'lile (a "giglio?" a "gigli?"), and any faculty member with a connection to Italian aristocracy was practically worshipped. He was especially scornful of the Irish, who were obvious pretenders. Turns out, he had a dark secret. His father was Italian, yes. His last name was Italian, yes. His mother, though, was Irish, and Irish from Ireland. This was treated as a scandal, and we faculty were supposed only to whisper it. Geogre 11:00, 21 December 2005 (UTC)Reply
Quite right, too. the "Irish from Ireland" are always the worst sort. Filiocht | The kettle's on 11:22, 21 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

Footnote

Bish, do you really like the look of the bracketed numerals, and those little "up arrow thingies"? The only advantage over the "rf" and "ent" templates, is that it autonumbers, but that turns into a disadvantage when some one inserts an unlabeled external link in amongst them, in which case the numbering gets all screwed up. Paul August 19:10, 20 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

And when Geogre inserted a note between mine and Fil's, the numbering got screwed up, too. That's why I reverted your template change. Er, are you aware that the 1–3 footnote templates are deprecated? And, no, I don't like the look of the brackets or the arrows, but I like the function of footnote 4. Just please don't add horrible external links in the text (put them in a footnote!), keep making with the holy incantations, and look for consensus, and we'll be good. Straw poll, anyone? (Casually collecting my otaku sockpuppet army.) ;P Bishonen | talk 21:21, 20 December 2005 (UTC)Reply
Fuck the footnotes - you just tell that Geogre person we do NOT wear velour tracksuits1 ! Giano | talk 21:36, 20 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

I can't help it if Geogre can't count to three. Anyway I promise not to add any such horrible external links — but I can't guarantee that nobody else will ;-) Since you agree they look better, if I promise to make sure no one screws them up (I do know how to count) can we pretty please go back to the prettier format? By the way, the "rf" and "ent" templates, (which have nothing to do with Footnote 1–3), were never "precated" so they can't be "deprecated". They are in fact a renegade system brewed up by some certifiable Padre guy, and used only by a select few heretical editors, who hate the "up arrow thingies", and think that it is easier to fix the numbers (the note numbers don't really have to be in numerical order in the text, as long as they are in order in the notes, and match up.) than try to insure (or force?) other editors to not use external links ;-). Ok I'm off to brew up some more incantations, so your consensual sockpuppet army had better beware. Paul August 22:34, 20 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

Ah. I thought they looked unfamiliar. I've always found it easier to force other editors to not use external links than to teach them to count to three, but that's me. If you're willing to nurse the footnotery, then by all means revert to the unique and purtier format. I hope you saw yourself on the architecturally remarkable steps of the Chiesa delle Anime del Purgatorio (Anime and Purgatory Church..? Oh, never mind, I bet Giano thought it was funny!). I'm still deliberating whether or not to include the witness (admittedly under the influence of illegal substances2) who put you in a position of authority, and on a space hopper, in that scene. Can you confirm or deny these details? --Bishonen | talk 00:39, 21 December 2005 (UTC)Reply
I most certainly can confirm or deny every last detail. Paul August 03:37, 21 December 2005 (UTC)Reply
  • PBBBBRRRRTT! I can too count to three! I hate those inline thingies, though, and I was being subversive and maybe even Dadaistic and making an historical pun (the Miscellanies, Volume III was volume one). Either that, or I lost track and couldn't count to three. Still, I can do it, but that doesn't mean that I will do it. Geogre 03:07, 21 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

Returning to the left; Giano, do you have any idea what they're talking about? Filiocht | The kettle's on 08:20, 21 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

  1. Something about how, when you wear a velour track suit, you can't type to 3 and that you mess up the delicate balance of inline references, which, as we all know, are the most important criterion for a featured article. "Oooh, oooh, give me a sign/ Hit me baby, one more time!" According to them, my OT VIII Thetan-purged inline edit wasn't in sequence or something. I blame psychiatry. Geogre 10:57, 21 December 2005 (UTC)Reply
  1. Love the pointless introduction of the numbered list. Personally, I blame a general lack of expertise. Are any of you certified (apart, obviously, from Giano)? Filiocht | The kettle's on 13:34, 21 December 2005 (UTC)Reply
    1. Are there balls associated with the Sicilian Christmas? Will Cinderella be there, or will she be called Ashputtle or la belle dame sans fumo? Geogre 14:05, 21 December 2005 (UTC)Reply
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Happy Christmas to you all! I have yet to decide your fates, the dog or the chainsaw. I'll decide in the new year. Have a relaxing Christmas Giano

Revert war

I'm >this< close to reverting that "so-called" edit. Please cite your sources!!!!!!!!!! Filiocht | The kettle's on 13:34, 22 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

Sources, that's a laugh. It was so called by you, wasn't it? Bishonen | talk 17:11, 22 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

Sex, booze, spam, lead section

The original folkloristic and harmlessly attractive little article about gingerbread palazzi and lugubrious Swedish chants seems to be veering rapidly in the direction of broad sexual innuendo and the celebration of Irish drinking habits. (There's bookseller spam, too, however that has been snuck in—a tawdry business!) Really, I hesitate to have anything more to do with the page; soon, no doubt, we'll be seeing fetishes, furries, goat sex, goatse—you name it. Anyway. I seem to have lost my train of thought... ah, yes. The original stub remains as a very inadequate Lead section, which does nothing to summarize the article. I do feel that the reader has a right to a Lead that warns him/her about what's coming, not this pure-hearted paragraph. Would any of you leering satyrs like to provide a functional Lead in its place? <with dignity> Bishonen | talk 17:11, 22 December 2005 (UTC).Reply

Sciilian Banner orders

Notes

^1 Denial: not just a river in Egypt.
^2 See Anon., Kiss me, my lungs are full of grass (Firenze, MCXCVII, Medici Press), passim, copy consulted in the private library of Il Filiocht. £6, special offer this week only. We ship all over the world and accept all major credit cards. Join our free mailing list now.

cuccìa

Hey there, I recently found a grave error that had cuccìa written in an English wikipedia article as cuccià. This is an incorrect spelling of Sicilian, since the accent rarely falls on the last syllable. And this word just doesn't exist as such. So, I've since corrected the page name and title, and have gone to the subsequent pages that are linked to cuccìa and have done the same there. I see that your user page links to cuccià, but I did not want to change your user page. So if you'd like, you can also update your page to the correct spelling of cuccìa. Cheers! --Salvuzzo (talk) 17:26, 8 March 2008 (UTC)Reply