Love your user name; anything that causes one to laugh is a good thing. With thanks from another mumblety-mumble-year-old Wikipedian, born in the first half of the preceding century. Bielle (talk) 01:21, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
I usually find your comments amusing, but this the one in the above-captioned section seemed unhelpful and unnecessarily derogatory. (And, no, I am not an American.) Bielle (talk) 19:40, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip. Yes, I know the place, but I haven't been there in a while. To be honest, when I'm looking for an out-of-print book, I normally just go straight to the web. It may not be as much fun, but it's a lot quicker. --Richardrj talk email 14:40, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
when i arrived to tell you that your name is excellent i noitced quite a few agree, but it seems to have taken me a while to 'get it' oh hum, see you around —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.188.254.82 (talk) 13:50, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Regarding your voice of protest on racist comments at the reference desk ...
No problem; I was curious about it myself. It occurred to me that—especially if the phrase "by the cross of the mouse foot" was actually in use—"mouse foot" might be an alteration of Messiah, as "Jiminy Cricket" is of "Jesus Christ"; but that would be mere speculation on my part. (What I was really reminded of was a B. Kliban cartoon in which a blues-guitarist cat sings "Love to eat them mousies. / Mousies what I love to eat. / Bite they little heads off; / Nibble on they tiny feet.") Deor (talk) 01:34, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey there Cookatoo, just droping a note to let you know that your sentiments on the RD talk are not without merit. The problem that the "guardians of the RD" face is to maintain that forum as a Reference desk and not a Discussion desk. Sometimes the edges get a bit fuzzy and so we let it all hang out on the RD talk page. None of us is "superior" in that any one of us can disagree and even revert if we feel strongly. I'm only here to help explain why a seemingly perfectly legitimate question isn't; it's an invitation for discussion and that's not what the RD was set up to do. --hydnjo talk 19:33, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the distinction H. Zoom and for your warm welcome. Those doors now seem practically human, sagging and planked, poor things! Are you speaking of the brick veneered bourgeoiserie of Austria or Sydney btw? Perhaps she could apply the Mambo gloss to a Howard Arkley screen door? Now, that's a door! ; ) Julia Rossi (talk) 22:35, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
You only got it from a rif raf's mouth, learned Zoom...har Σ; ) Julia Rossi (talk) 05:14, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
The Reference Desk Barnstar | ||
Hi, Cookatoo! I was just going through the reference desk and was amazed by the wonderfully helpful and consistent assistance you have provided there. Ergo, once I found this barnstar, I thought you deserved it best. Cheers! LaPianísta! 16:56, 12 April 2008 (UTC) |
to the naughty Cookatoo[1]. Julia Rossi (talk) 10:42, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
[2] Although the question was inappropriate, there's no need to retort like that. It's best to rise above it and either ignore it or tell them to go elsewhere (in the polite way, of course ;)). Best, PeterSymonds | talk 19:43, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Is there any particular reason that you only have contributed to the reference desks for six months?—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 02:39, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I do enjoy your posts at the ref desk, so I thought I'd drop by to thank you! Your description of German supermarkets was particularly masterly. Thanks for making me laugh so often! Gwinva (talk) 04:49, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi Cookie. Yes, that email might be very handy. (I have a strong connection with Katoomba, by the way - I was conceived there.) Cheers. -- JackofOz (talk) 06:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I usually find your refdesk responses hilarious (whenever I get them) but this one was particularly brilliant. I enjoyed the "AL troll" bit especially, even though it took the longest to get. Thank you.Zain Ebrahim (talk) 11:29, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi.. we have enough of a problem with people acting like 12-year-olds at the ref desk already. Please don't encourage this. Friday (talk) 22:34, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi Helmut, just thought I'd ask you for your opinion on something. I want to read Austrian newspapers as a way of improving my German. The main quality papers seem to be Der Standard, Kurier and Die Presse. Would you recommend any one of these over the others? The only thing I know about them is that the Standard is supposed to be socially liberal (which is fine by me); what are the political leanings of the other two? Coverage of arts and culture is also important to me, so which of the three would you say was strongest in that area? Einen schönen Tag noch, --Richardrj talk email 09:18, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
St Augustine's holiest of brews is indeed consumed on the shores of the Isar, although I much prefer to pair it with Leberkas instead of The Horror That Is Milzwurst (I'm not a native Bavarian, so i'm luckily under no obligation to like the stuff - but then, where I come from, people eat heaps of pure offal and call it "Kutteln", something I never quite got the hang of). By the way, joining the choir, username, refdesk posts, enjoyable. -- Ferkelparade π 09:26, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Helmut? Glad you're back, Cooky one. Julia Rossi (talk) 08:24, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Good Humor | ||
For your brilliant comments at Refdesk, I hereby award you the Barnstar of good humour. It can't be easy to be that funny without offending anyone. Zain Ebrahim (talk) 10:26, 24 June 2008 (UTC) |
Thanks very much for that, I may well take it up. However, I don't understand how I would get the free papers. Would they deliver them to my home, or would they perhaps send me vouchers which would be exchangeable for the paper at a news stand? How would it work? --Richardrj talk email 19:37, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up. I think I will go with the Standard first, maybe I will try Die Presse later if they have another offer. In our apartment building, I notice that newspapers get left at people's front doors all the time, so I can only assume the delivery guys have access to the building. --Richardrj talk email 08:33, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the laugh. You are a very skilled player of language games. How old were you when you learned English? (I am assuming here that your cradle tongue is German.) ៛ Bielle (talk) 01:40, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
You can be bold too, you know! And Ernst Jandl would have turned 83 today, ogott, ogott ... ---Sluzzelin talk 19:55, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks so much for the information and the length to which you went to secure it! I was beginning to regret that I'd posted such a detailed query on the Ref Desk rather than on the article's Talk page, which is where I'll eventually transfer the information that I can't work authoritatively into the mainspace page. I did leave a head's-up note to the page's creator who translated it from the German Wikipedia. (I'm still dismayed that there's none in the Czech.) So we'll see how this can develop, as I've just started on some bios of musicians and artists in the Theresienstadt ghetto, the great majority of whom, after a productive flurry there, were sent for extermination at Auschwitz. Library findings in English (at least locally) are disappointingly thin, so this will take a bit of work and time. -- Thanks again, Deborahjay (talk) 12:19, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I don't know if you're aware but your post about uneven bars appears to have annoyed the OP, Jooler (see Wikipedia talk:Reference desk#Nonsense answers). There is a miniedit war going on over your post, if you would be willing to consent to its removal, this would hopefully help cool things down. While I understand you were simply intending humour and no offence was intended, since Jooler appears to have taken it the wrong way I suggest it's removal is the best course of action to avoid unnecessary drama. Of course, if you disagree that is your right. Nil Einne (talk) 10:36, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
As I'm not sure if I understood your answer here correctly, I want to ask you if you want to critisize my teacher or my essay with it. --80.128.138.195 (talk) 19:34, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, I was too dumb to look--Radh (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 08:59, 17 October 2008 (UTC).
Best regards from an admirer in wikipedia and also in wikidot.com You do a great job. Congratulations. Georges42 (talk) 01:30, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
I am male ;) No danger... LOL Georges42 (talk) 16:16, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I love your pun on cogito ergo sum! LovesMacs (talk) 15:50, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Happy Christmas, Cookatoo. |
Julia Rossi (talk) 01:06, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
—or as the English WP page is titled, Bethlehem of Galilee—is the name of the "second city" which you described in your response on the recent Humanities RD query. So if we're getting into the holiday spirit, I suppose it's not too early to wish you a Merry Christmas! -- Deborahjay (talk) 18:00, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply at RD/L on the Ruthenian party. Perhaps you could help me about another article using the same source, and check if the info in Ruthenian Peasants Party is a correct interpretation of the short passage on [7]. I'm a bit confused, since Russian language sources (such as http://allaaria.ru/vid/bookscontent.php3-quest-b-eq-24-and-c-eq-633, which I also don't really understand to 100%) indicates that the Popular-Christian Party was a breakaway from the Ruthenian Peasants Party, not the same party. --Soman (talk) 20:20, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
I lol'd. :) --Sean 00:53, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi Helmut. Yes, still in Vienna. Thanks very much for your reply, which I've copied to my talk page in case it gets deleted as a piece of medical advice. Cheers, --Richardrj talk email 15:05, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
...or more neurotic (hmmmm... same difference?), as the gamete-cum-paratrooper character played by Woody Allen in that silly film back in the early '70s? But say not that we deteriorate with age; true as that may be, I believe we elders started with a superior fund of knowledge compared to the younger cohorts, so remain for some good while ahead of the game, such as it is. I welcome your contributions, as ever. -- Cheers, Deborahjay (talk) 21:53, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
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I love your username! rʨanaɢ talk/contribs 20:52, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
That's a superb suggestion I'm likely to take only in future instances, as in this case the client's doctoral dissertation "is history" :-) The query arose in my proofreading her c.v., though if she likes my work (:he:en: translation, editing non-native English, proofreading) it may be relevant as we continue to work together. Thanks for coming up with a thoroughly reputable response! -- Cheers, Deborahjay (talk) 05:34, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
...made enough mischief with "Die Juden sind unser Unglück" without the additional achievement with which the text I'm presently editing (actually translation-checking) credits him ( i.e. as "the founder of the German antisemitic party" - huh?!?). Your response was as timely as it was helpful, even with my merely rudimentary German, and I believe the source text merits the challenge and requires defense or revision, as the case may be. I'll keep you (and the page) posted. Meanwhile, many, many thanks! -- Deborahjay (talk) 22:34, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
. . .on the Ref Desks again. You've not been about much lately, it appears. Just wanted you to know that someone noticed. Bielle (talk) 01:45, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your outstanding work on the video! I have just one, rather simple, suggestion. The words that appear on screen at the start of the video include the word "synapsis". I would suggest changing that to "synapse". Regards, --Tryptofish (talk) 19:09, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
Are you still interested in this page? Aaron Schulz 03:08, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
I do appreciate this, Cookatoo. I must say I felt almost naughty in calling you out the way I did, but it was how I felt, and I could not just let it slide. Your apology is of course accepted, and whatever it was you apologised about is now officially considered never to have happened. It must have been a bad traum. I feel all gemütlich now, and trust you do too.
This whole thing has been a valuable lesson for me, and I hope others, in the power of perceptions. It doesn't matter a tinker's cuss (if I may quote a well-known habitué of these parts) what anyone ever intends, it's what comes across that counts. I've been telling that to others for decades, and now it's come back to bite me in the ... Anyone for pfstrudl? :) -- Jack of Oz [your turn] 08:33, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello Helmut. We don't get many questions about Vienna on the desks, so I was pleased to see this one. I provided an answer of a sort, just wondered if you had anything to add on the matter? Best wishes, --Viennese Waltz 15:17, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Many thanks for your kind offer. I think I'll be OK with my compact camera, though. The quality I can get from that is just about OK. LG --Viennese Waltz 14:01, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Dump of 3 samples of Viennese architecture for de:WP users (Geiserich, Hubertl, Maclemo et al) to view.
--Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 16:12, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, sorry for the delay in replying, I've been travelling. You're right, I'm a Mac man like yourself. I've only had it repaired once but they did a good job and I thought the price was reasonable. Here they are [8] Let me know how you get on if you end up using them. How old is the iMac, by the way? Mine is seven years old and I am seriously thinking about getting a new one. I was disappointed that Apple didn't announce an upgrade of the iMac at its last developers' conference - an upgrade is definitely overdue. Best, --Viennese Waltz 22:19, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Wien, Wien, nur du allein ............... -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 12:14, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
The PENISS Prize | ||
On behalf of the People Encouraging Niceness/Eschewing Nastinesss in Society Society, I hereby award you the PENISS Prize. The prize is the highest (and sole) honour in the gift of the Society and is awarded irregularly, on merit. It entitles the awardee to the postnominal letters P.E.N.I.S.S. (in appropriate contexts, of course). It confers automatic membership of the Society, and it thus bestows the power to award the prize to others, and they to others, in perpetuity. Remember, the more PENISSes in the world, the better for all of us. What a nice thought. Please continue your good work! -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 21:41, 18 September 2013 (UTC) |
I would like to heartily congratulate you on your user name, which bodes so well for the highest quality of Wikipedia contributions. Please accept this "Drunken Fart" Award on behalf of a grateful, but habitually mealy-mouthed, nation. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:36, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
The inquirer didn't request a translation of kongedømme, nor of doom, into any language. --My another account (talk) 07:55, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello Cooky. Hope you're well, noted that you haven't contributed for a while but I just posted a question on the humanities ref desk that you might be able to help with. Alles Güte, --Viennese Waltz 10:03, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
Never thought I'd see this word online, let alone that it comes from Yiddish. Here in Zagreb it's very very old slang for a total hole-in-the-wall sort of bar :) 78.0.230.255 (talk) 06:25, 16 November 2018 (UTC) (Sorry to litter your page, would've posted it as a reply on RD if it wasn't semi protected)
You may reconsider your posts [9] [10] at WP:RD/S. "Assume an observer is located at a distance of 1 light minute from Lucky Luke´s position." - One light-minute is almost 1.8 x 1010 meters or over 11 million miles. "...LL´s bullet travels at the speed of c " - The special theory of relativity implies that only particles with zero rest mass may travel at the speed of light. DroneB (talk) 18:21, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
For your friendly tracking that makes me feel at home :) Manytexts (talk) 06:07, 21 September 2021 (UTC) |