User talk:Yossarian

* Fails* Oh well. Welcome to RW, anyway. :) 19:03, 30 August 2008 (EDT)
 * Tries to remember suitable quote...*

Hi Yossie! I see you didn't have a welcome template, so I gave you one. 00:05, 2 September 2008 (EDT)
 * Thank you! :) -- 00:09, 2 September 2008 (EDT)

"What is the collective noun for denizens of RW?"
"RationalWikians" seems to be the most popular. I tried to coin "RatWives" a while back -- mainly for use in the Forbidden Zone -- but it didn't stick :( 20:38, 30 August 2008 (EDT)
 * "Goatse"  ħ uman  00:15, 2 September 2008 (EDT)

Signature
I'm pleased to lend my assistance; give me a second and I'll take a look at it for you. I've had this problem before, and it turned out to be pretty knotty back then, so I'm not sure how much use I can be. Oh, and I'm using an auxillery account because I just blocked myself for five days. I have legendary powers of poor timing. Marginally Less Chaos!Audacity! 06:39, 31 August 2008 (EDT)
 * Thank you muchly, erstwhile Jellyfish. ;) --
 * I removed a couple of carriage returns from inside the Choose template (which has occassionally worked for me even though it's completely illogical). Can you try your sig with the date so I can see the effect? Marginally Less Chaos!Audacity! 07:22, 31 August 2008 (EDT)
 * I do believe I can. -- 07:24, 31 August 2008 (EDT)
 * Hmmm...it didn't like it, then it did, then it didn't...it was wrong on the preview, but correct when I actually posted. Then it was wrong when I added the strike-through to the "darn"...wtf? --


 * HMMM...seems like it doesn't like certain variations of the text. It's okay when it displays the "upside down" text, but not when it displays the "speak, memory" one...hmmmmmmm.... --Y
 * I thought I had it then -- you'd arranged your talk page link so that the font tags were both inside and outside the link code (if that explanation makes any sense). However, tidying that up doesn't seem to have fixed it. Let me try something else... Marginally Less Chaos!Audacity! 07:37, 31 August 2008 (EDT)
 * Yes, that does make sense...I also tried shuffling some stuff, but it came to nothing. But somehow the upside down one works...what method lies in this madness?! Anyway, I ought to go to bed (it totally isn't 4:30am here...nope, not even CLOSE), but thank you for your continued help! I'll see if things have improved tomorrow morning. --
 * Alright, I'll see you later then. I think I might have an idea what's causing it... Marginally Less Chaos!Audacity! 07:46, 31 August 2008 (EDT)

Convenient test section

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I win!!
Take that, inconvenient coding conventions! And now I must sleep, to prevent my brain collapsing into a neat pile of dust. Marginally Less Chaos!Audacity! 07:55, 31 August 2008 (EDT)


 * Welcome to the Dollhouse! You're one of my favorite fictional characters.  ħ uman  00:12, 2 September 2008 (EDT)

Dammit!
When I saw "Yossarian" I thought "Major Major Major Major" would be a perfect username for somewhere, but you beat me to it. Maybe "Doc Daneeka" then. Corryundefined 07:08, 2 September 2008 (EDT)

Demotion
I have a confession to make, dear Yossie: I have done something unspeakably horrible; I made you a sysop.

I'd give you bucket and mop, but we have a glut of floor cleaners already. Would you like some Lysol cleaner? 20:09, 13 September 2008 (EDT)


 * Damn you to the bowels of hell, good sir! Also, I use Mr. Clean. I assume this position comes with a raise. Right? -- 05:00, 14 September 2008 (EDT)
 * (Edit conflict, Hulk SMASH) It's double what you got before. Also, don't only conservapedia sysops assume the position? Totnesmartin 05:09, 14 September 2008 (EDT)
 * They do indeed. But it's missionary and only twice a month. -- 05:22, 14 September 2008 (EDT)
 * Yes, but it's in the form of, uh, intangible benefits.  05:05, 14 September 2008 (EDT)
 * So, like, metafits? -- 05:07, 14 September 2008 (EDT)
 * Yah!  05:11, 14 September 2008 (EDT)
 * Sweet. -- 05:22, 14 September 2008 (EDT)

^_^
I liked "People George" as well, actually. I suppose your fingers just really wanted to type the "eo" bit from George. They got a little carried away :) 07:26, 16 September 2008 (EDT)
 * My enthusiasm for George is understandably great! I kinda like it, too, actually. Maybe "People George" is his revolutionary nom de guerre. He is, after all, a man of the purple. -- 07:31, 16 September 2008 (EDT)

Email
Would you please enable your email? I have a Very Important Message to send you. 04:07, 8 October 2008 (EDT)
 * A VIM! Of course! -- 04:16, 8 October 2008 (EDT)
 * I am enabled, email away. -- 04:22, 8 October 2008 (EDT)Hopefully it will work...the reason it didn't work before was because I had a comma instead of a period in it...:P
 * Good, good. Prepare to be spammed!  : )   04:32, 8 October 2008 (EDT)
 * Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam...-- 04:33, 8 October 2008 (EDT)

Teh image in yor userbocks
The only way to attach a caption to an un thumbed picture is like I've done on "our" page: using Divs. 04:40, 13 January 2009 (EST)
 * Oh, I know. I just want it to be a little hidden scroll over text thing, if that makes any sense. -- 04:42, 13 January 2009 (EST)

Crat!
Dear Yossarian,

It is my sincere regret to inform you that you have been further demoted to the rank of Bureaucrat. As such, you are encouraged to read the guide, and again, I have pity on you.

Warm regards


 * MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL, JAVA'S CAP IF THAT IS YOUR REAL NAME?! YOU SHALL RUE THE DAY, MONSIEUR! RUE. THE. DAY.
 * My sincerest thanks. -- 14:29, 14 February 2009 (EST)

You're clueless
I've switched in the new version of teh a-fly's quote machine.



That was a test.--Kriss AkabusiAAAAWOOOOGAAAR!!1 16:17, 20 February 2009 (EST)
 * Unfortunately the quote machine is out of date. Teh Schlafurher now signs himself "Andy Schlafly". Генгис    16:22, 20 February 2009 (EST)
 * Excellent! Step one in the construction of Schlafsimile is complete! -- 16:24, 20 February 2009 (EST)

Come on down!
УОЅЅДЯЇДИ, you are the next contestant on The Conservapedia Game Show! --Irrational Atheist 14:06, 8 March 2009 (EDT)

I see everything twice!
Catch 22 is a great book, finished it the other day. My favourite character by far was the chaplain funnily enough. The scene where the Colonel compares the plum tomatoe to a young girls breasts was priceless! MarcusCicero 17:43, 3 April 2009 (EDT)
 * I read it when I was 13, and it pretty much changed my outlook on life. I've read it four times, in and out of order (so you can see why my handle would be appropriate, lol). My favourite bit is Clevinger's trial, just for sheer laughs. I'd have to read it again to tell you other favourite bits, but that one has always stood out for me. Also the beuatiful description of how much effort Yossarian put into not constructing the officer's club. -- 19:47, 3 April 2009 (EDT)

Emblems
Howd'you like the national bird, flower & saint? 03:07, 10 April 2009 (EDT)
 * I thought it was brilliant, especially the saint. What did you think of "The Suspiciously Benign Theocracy"? :) -- 03:13, 10 April 2009 (EDT)
 * At the risk of sounding like a Mutual Admiration Society, Excellent!
 * (I liked the Booby best)
 * and you no doubt noticed the "Chief Archivist". 04:03, 10 April 2009 (EDT)
 * I did indeed! -- 06:26, 10 April 2009 (EDT)

What seems to be the problem
with your signature? -- Nx  / talk 07:58, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, it was treating the time stamp as a line break, thus causing all sorts of insanity. Now it won't let me have the tag without doing that... :'( -- 08:01, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * It's the whitespace between the option tags, same problem as Assquote had. -- Nx  / talk 08:04, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh yeah! That's the ticket. Thanks! Did we get an upgrade or something today? I've been in transit for the last 6.5 hours. -- 08:07, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * You missed all the fun :) Read this, this, and this -- Nx  / talk 08:11, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Oooo! I did miss the fun! Hmm...your solution did not seem to help my sig, so I had to revert it back to the stationary form. -- 08:12, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Strange. I've got to go now, so I can't help you, but Human's signature is working, take a look at that. -- Nx  / talk 08:17, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

I think I know what the problem is, I'm fixing it now, don't edit your sig. --  Nx / talk 10:21, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * There, fixed it. To restore complete randomness (right now it's random, but the same on one page view), change your sig in preferences and add an empty parameter section, like this: . You can also make the images link anywhere with link=, e.g. [[Image:Andy.gif|link=Andy]] --  Nx / talk  10:28, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah! Thank you muchly, it was driving me nuts. I owe you an Internet. -- 10:32, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. --  Nx / talk 10:35, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Ta!
Thanks for cleaning up after me. 13:24, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * No worries! Just thought I'd Russify Rob's name a touch further. -- 18:59, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, but Jinx has it wrong
You claimed Jinx McHue - his name forever be damned! - wrote about women submitting, but he's just another phony Christian. I found the essay on his blog you were talking about and he dares claim that men must submit to women more than women must submit to men. That's a lie borne in the fires of HELL!!!! Someday he'll be submitting his pathetic, tight little backside to demons when he's cast into those same fires someday. SoldierInGodsArmy 22:08, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Jinx, curséd be his name, is-- ...er, actually, I just wanted to curse Jinx's name. -- 10:26, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Welcoem
Ask Mei for maps if you are lost. Mei has maps. --  = w =  05:18, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * If you tell me how you got the custom user page logo, I just might follow your insane coup d'etat well thought out plan. -- 08:42, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I asked nx but I don't think he wants to give out any more. Its all code and code shouldnt be encouraged. --  = w =  04:20, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * By no means do I encourage/endorse code. -- 01:38, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

CheGueschlafly image
Comrade. The party is pleased by your revolutionary artwork. I'm attaching bourgeois copyright notices to the images, and need to confirm something: Did you create CheGueschlafly.png and Chelafly.png images? If so, were you attaching any licence to them? -- 11:20, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I did indeed create them, comrade. I guess whatever the most up to date creative commons license is. -- ԿՕՏ ՏՃՐ ԼՃՈ Strong Opinions 07:28, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The people shall remember your contribution to the glorious struggle. Thank you. -- 07:42, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Vive la revolution! --sloqɯʎs puɐ suƃıs uɐɪɹɐssoʎ 07:47, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

In the antipodes its 1.04 past midnight

 * On the west coast it's 04:08! Merry Acemas! --[[Image:Flag of Soviet Canuckistan.svg|30px|IN SOVIET CANUCKISTAN, BEAVER DAMS YOU!!!]] Yossarian The Man from the USSR 12:08, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Your signature...
...is missing a  tag, as everything following it on a page is in the Arial face. 04:07, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Weird...I'll have a look. --User:Yossarian22:32, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Are you positive it's mine? All the ones with Arial font in my sig page seem to have the proper  tag. Which one is doing it? EDIT: I'm assuming it's not affecting sigs, since I just looked at the LJ page, and there are lots of fonts besides Arial in signatures beyond my sig. Is it just affecting the unadulterated wiki text? If so, that's probably why I haven't noticed, since that's my default... --[[Image:Flag of Soviet Canuckistan.svg|30px|IN SOVIET CANUCKISTAN, BEAVER DAMS YOU!!!]] Yossarian The Man from the USSR  22:46, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Lindisfarne Jumper voting
Ello there. You voted in the famous Lumpy Jerboa bi-election, but there's some confusion as to who voted and who just commented. If you only intended to comment, can you modify your post on the RationalWiki:May 2010 Loya Jirga by-elections by adding a strikethrough tag to it? e.g.

My earlier comment

You can leave your post as is if you were actually voting.

ConcernedResident bat for the ladies 09:04, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

In a puff of smoke
I still owe you an email, don't I? 03:10, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * This is not incorrect! -- 20:42, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Project Email will begin presently. Godspeed. 18:42, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Yossarian in Cyrillic
Your username in Cyrillic characters would be: "Йоссариан" -- 01:34, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh, yes yes. I knew that; I was referring to the Armenian form of my sig. I'm strangely well versed in Cyrillic for someone who speaks no Russian...but thanks anyway! -- 09:50, 27 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh, duh... ok, I found two possible transliterations: either "Յոսսառիան" or "Յօսսառիան". I've not been able to distinguish between the two, because there are two characters for non-word-initial "o", and both versions result in a transliteration of "Yossarian". I've also been unable to find any Armenian text that refers to either version as well. -- 13:50, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Wow, thanks! Way to go above and beyond. I tried to find an excerpt of Catch-22 in Armenian long ago, but no such luck. I like the first one, at least from an aesthetic point of view. Armenian is best when it looks like a series of lowercase 'U's and 'N's. -- 21:41, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, you're definitely on to something, as Google (thinking itself extremely clever) gave English results for "Yossarian" for both variants. -- 21:43, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I think it's a matter of Google not finding anything for the Armenian itself, and thus transliterating it, and doing a search on that. I've seen Google do that a few times before. I'm not actually sure "Yossarian" is an actual Armenian name. The book claims that he's Assyrian, but Assyrian being a Semetic language doesn't allow "Yossarian" in its phonology. Working under the assumption that it's pseudo-Armenian, I would suggest going with the first one that I presented, as the "o" character is the older glyph, rather than the newer glyph. ("newer" being relative... it's still older than either of us, I'm sure.) -- 22:32, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I've long suspected it's a fake name that Heller threw together, or at least a misremembered one. I know in the sequel there's a joke about how he was an Armenian pretending to be an Assyrian. Anyway, I think I will go with the "older" character! -- 23:05, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Yossie
Hey there buddy. Don't see you around much anymore. Hows it all going? AceModerator 22:10, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Heya, Ace! I'm doin' alright. Working on a theatre project and trying to find writing work (or any work, really). Yeah, I've unfortunately been a bit scarce on the RW, but I like to keep an eye on things, especially over at CP. I appreciate the shout out! Hope all's well with you. -- 22:43, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * yeah things is OK. AceModerator 22:44, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Your sig
...is broken because due to the upgrade it is automatically substed in. Trent is refusing to fix that. Peter Rapidly running out of marmite 06:28, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I thought it might be something like that. Thanks for the info! --Yossarian <font color="#6495ED">Speak, Memory 07:20, 4 September 2012 (UTC)