User talk:Bishonen/Sicilian Christmas

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The following users are actively contributing to this topic and may be able to help with questions about verification and sources: Filiocht

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

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)

WP:NPA, WP:CIVIL, DSO and Bar! Filiocht | The kettle's on 10:07, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

• Don't mess with the big boys kid or The cantos gets this or worse still some "inline questions". Giano | talk 12:10, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

• Careful, now. me and the boys can to terrible things to fancy Italian buildings. Filiocht | The kettle's on 12:13, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

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)

[edit] 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)

Oh yeah! sez who? Giano | talk 14:10, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

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)

Oh yeah! and Jerry Adams has an Italian granny - not many people know that! Giano | talk 14:32, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

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)

Quite right, too. the "Irish from Ireland" are always the worst sort. Filiocht | The kettle's on 11:22, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Oh are there any Irish left there? Giano | talk 13:29, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 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)

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)

Fuck the footnotes - you just tell that Geogre person we do NOT wear velour tracksuits¹ ! Giano | talk 21:36, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

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)

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)

I most certainly can confirm or deny every last detail. Paul August ☎ 03:37, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• 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)

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)

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)

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)

• I note the author of the above comment did not have the balls to sign it! Which is a pity as I and the chainsaw will now have to remove some other body part! Giano | talk 13:27, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

1. 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)

[edit] 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)

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

[edit] 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).

[edit] Sciilian Banner orders

• Please may I have my own copy of the banner. Filiocht | The kettle's on 11:58, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
• Please may I have my own copy of the banner. Giano 11:59, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
• Please may I have my own copy of the banner. Paul August ☎ 12:00, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
• Please may I have my own copy of the banner. —Theo (Talk) 12:02, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Notes