BURGLAR MORE CHALLENGING

[witch]

Yup, that's what it means.  We Yanks never spell out a government agency that has a TLA.

Managed to crack up one of my co-workers with that, this long hot Friday afternoon.

...Talking about various educational governmental departments...
Just another TLA I said.
What's that, she said?
Three Letter Acronym I deadpanned back.

So thanks for that.

[jrd]

Three Letter Abbreviation. All acronyms are abbreviations, but not all abbreviations are acronyms. Most (like TLA) are initialisms instead.

[J. M. Pescado]

Squinge was atomized by aliens.

I'm thinking Squinge *WAS* an alien, and they deported him. Possibly back to another planet. Gotta watch out for that INS Division 6.

[witch]

Three Letter Abbreviation. All acronyms are abbreviations, but not all abbreviations are acronyms. Most (like TLA) are initialisms instead.

True, thanks for the correction - I kept looking at Three Letter Acronym when I wrote the words, it didn't seem quite right but I couldn't put my finger on it. I get confused by recursive acronyms too, like GNU.

[dizzy]

ACRONYM
Abreviation by CROping Names that Yield Meaning (slang)

-- From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (March 2005)

[jfreddog]

So where is Squige? I really wanted this mod

[KittKitt]

Squinge is missing in action, apparently. Perhaps he was picked up by the INS for something.

The key words you see above are an expression that typically mean the person in question has not been seen or heard from in some time, nor has anyone come forth to offer any explanation for said absence beyond utter conjecture.

That's what it is to be missing.  It's like if you were to say, "Gee, my car keys are missing."

If you knew where they were, they wouldn't be missing, now would they? 

More to the point of the topic, I've been using Dizzy's weekly burglar mod probably very nearly since it was released and it works fabulously for upping the frequency. 

As to actually being able to fight the burglar, I haven't tried it yet myself, but it's possible that the Interact w/out greet hack (which is in the DC IIRC) may make this possible -though even if so, I suspect you would also have to have a negative relationship with the particular burglar NPC in question, and I'm doubtful that any outcome of you fighting the NPC would have any viable effect.

That is to say, even if it worked at all, I suspect the thief would merely finish the fight with your sim (win or lose) and then proceed to steal or be arrested as per usual.

-Kitt

[JadeEliott]

The level of rampant smart-ass sarcasm on this forum never ceases to amuse me to the point of snorting my morning cuppa through my nose.

I am easily amused.

[jsalemi]

So where is Squige? I really wanted this mod

He popped up back on insimenator.net a day or so ago.  He took the summer off to take care of other stuff...

[witch]

Did he mention any aliens?

[veilchen]

Which kind Witch? Illegal or Space?

Other than that, I have nothing much to contribute. I just wanted to show off to Witch the newest Maori word I've come across. I wont even bother to pretend that I've learned to speak it:

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

The word's bigger than the hill itself, or so it seems

[witch]

Ha ha, space of course!

I think the Welsh still hold the record for the longest place name. Oh no, wikipedia says that's in Thailand. Who'da thunk it?

One word I have to use in my job sometimes is whakawhanaungatanga, that's quite fun.  Fucka-fa-noe-ng-ga-tunga (Noe - like big ''toe'. The whaka is quite short and sharp like fucka. Means a collaborative sort of network, working with biculturalism, and many other things as well, no doubt.

Many Maori words begin with whaka - with my English background there is always a moment's startlement before I realise Maori speakers are not swearing in the middle of a professional / formal meeting.