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[Isgrimnur]

Tell that to Cardinal Richelieu.

[LordMortis]

Did he write the Cardinal Rules of French?

Could there be a Cardinal Richelieu II? Or perhaps, is the reason they need to be chaste. Only if the Pope is chosen from a cardinal why do they change their names and put a number at the end. So mabye Pope Francis, fine but shouldn't it have been Ordinal Benedict XVI?

I don't get religion at all.

[Isgrimnur]

Did he write the Cardinal Rules of French?

The Académie française is the pre-eminent French council for matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII.
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The Académie is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language.

[LawBeefaroni]

The only real rule to the English language is consistency. If it's used a lot, it eventually becomes correct.

Literally!

Virtually, irregardless of past cromulence.

[Jaymann]

The only real rule to the English language is consistency. If it's used a lot, it eventually becomes correct.

Literally!

Virtually, irregardless of past cromulence.

I'm decimated!

[LordMortis]

Wait. was a he Cardinal or Minister? If he is a minister doesn't that make him ordained and therefore Ordinal Richylou I? Are you saying he is the source of all of my confusion?

[LawBeefaroni]

The only real rule to the English language is consistency. If it's used a lot, it eventually becomes correct.

Literally!

Virtually, irregardless of past cromulence.

I'm decimated!

[hepcat]

Did he write the Cardinal Rules of French?

Could there be a Cardinal Richelieu II? Or perhaps, is the reason they need to be chaste. Only if the Pope is chosen from a cardinal why do they change their names and put a number at the end. So mabye Pope Francis, fine but shouldn't it have been Ordinal Benedict XVI?

I don't get religion at all.

No, he played for the Cardinals. The 2012 season, I think. But his OBP was pretty awful, so I believe he was sent down to the farm league at the end of the season. That or he became pope, I can't remember.

[LordMortis]

No, he played for the Cardinals. The 2012 season, I think. But his OBP was pretty awful, so I believe he was sent down to the farm league at the end of the season. That or he became pope, I can't remember.

As you brought it up, if you play for the Cardinals, how do you play first, second, or third?

[hepcat]

Practice, practice, practice!

[LordMortis]

Practice, practice, practice!

I thought that was how you got take in the Carnegie Haul. No. Never mind. that's just one practice wud'nit? If you find yourself continuing 'practice, practice' the next thing you know it's nothing but come-ons from the horse. I do declare!

[LordMortis]

It took my a bit but I see what you did there. You "Practice, practice, practice" was an allusion to the Pope on First, Saint Peter Lewis Cardinal. I may be slow, but I catch on. I can learn things.

[hepcat]

I love that I can get that "just took acid" feel from reading your posts...without actually taking LSD!

[LordMortis]

I love that I can get that "just took acid" feel from reading your posts...without actually taking LSD!

You were the one telling me Paul Simon played his guitar in the National League. I was just trying to figure out how out there. Don't put this on me.

[hepcat]

[Holman]

Did he write the Cardinal Rules of French?

The Académie française is the pre-eminent French council for matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII.
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The Académie is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language.

The French Academy is *way* behind in their official dictionary of French. The latest edition is the 9th, begun in the 1980s, and as of 2011 they're only up to the letter Q.

French speakers (aside from hidebound conservatives) happily ignore the Academy's prescriptivism as they always have.

[Daehawk]

nope

[Daehawk]

Oldest fish. 112 years old.

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/an ... ity-record

A new study using bomb radiocarbon dating describes a bigmouth buffalo that lived to a whopping 112 years, crushing the previous known maximum age for the species—26—by more than fourfold.

According to radiocarbon dating, when the bigmouth buffalo was born, World War I had not yet broken out in Europe. This makes it the oldest-known freshwater fish on Earth.

[Z-Corn]

Bullshit. Sturgeon live longer than that.

[LawBeefaroni]

Yeah, Orange Roughy can live to 80, maybe even longer.

I think it's a fresh water record.

[Isgrimnur]

Bullshit. Sturgeon live longer than that.

for the species

[Z-Corn]

Sturgeon live that long in Lake Superior.

[LawBeefaroni]

See isg above.

[Z-Corn]

Bullshit. Sturgeon live longer than that.

for the species

Bullshit. I didn't read the article.

[Isgrimnur]

Bullshit. Sturgeon live longer than that.

for the species

Bullshit. I didn't read the article.

[Isgrimnur]

Yeah, Orange Roughy can live to 80, maybe even longer.

I think it's a fresh water record.

[Z-Corn]

Bullshit. Sturgeon live longer than that.

for the species

Bullshit. I didn't read the article.

Bullshit. That black theme ruins your eyes.

[Isgrimnur]

[LawBeefaroni]

Yeah, Orange Roughy can live to 80, maybe even longer.

I think it's a fresh water record.

Oldest Fish. 112 years old.

This makes it the oldest-known freshwater fish on Earth.

Clear as mud.

[gilraen]

Yeah, Orange Roughy can live to 80, maybe even longer.

I think it's a fresh water record.

To 149 (confirmed so far), according to Wikipedia.

[Holman]

Oldest fish. 112 years old.

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/an ... ity-record

A new study using bomb radiocarbon dating describes a bigmouth buffalo that lived to a whopping 112 years, crushing the previous known maximum age for the species—26—by more than fourfold.

According to radiocarbon dating, when the bigmouth buffalo was born, World War I had not yet broken out in Europe. This makes it the oldest-known freshwater fish on Earth.

Not fish, but Greenland Sharks live a very long time.

This one, caught recently, might be older than the Protestant Reformation, making it the oldest vertebrate.

[Kraken]

Sharks are cartilaginous fish.

[Kraken]

Cosmetologists and cosmologists are not the same thing. Stop confusing me. They probably don't even like one another.

[wonderpug]

Cosmetologists and cosmologists are not the same thing. Stop confusing me. They probably don't even like one another.

They're really useful for coating WWII era firearms for long term storage.

[LawBeefaroni]

Yeah, Orange Roughy can live to 80, maybe even longer.

I think it's a fresh water record.

To 149 (confirmed so far), according to Wikipedia.

That's why I quit eating them.

[hepcat]

Yeah, Orange Roughy can live to 80, maybe even longer.

I think it's a fresh water record.

To 149 (confirmed so far), according to Wikipedia.

That's why I quit eating them.

Couldn't handle all those Quickenings?

[Default]

Merde!

[Holman]

Sharks are cartilaginous fish.

Of course they are. Don't know what my brain was thinking there, but I *had* had three beers.

I think somewhere in the past I got it into my head that sharks' long-term evolutionary stability has made them a radically different category from most other fish species.

[Freyland]

Correct. They are in the "Top" category.

[tjg_marantz]

Just watched The Long Shot and we both loved it.

Def recommended.