The Mayor ,'End of Days'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'd think knit.
Whose hair is that long? I'd think that spinning the yarn would be a bitch. Felting, though -- how best to mat hair once it's off the head?
hair is actually quite itchy and unpleasant
Fur is hair plus, though. And many people quite like that texture.
This is the first post I've been able to get to take in Natter all day.
What problem were you having?
I'm trying to record class attendence in the computerized class-management system that my university is now using. There has got to be a way for this to have been better designed. There's no way to just go down the class list and check off who was there. To indicate that someone was in class, I have to click that student's name, then check off that he or she was there, then click "OK," which gets me to the "this has been recorded" confirmation page, then click "OK" on that, which gets me back to the class list page. There are 52 students in this class. This is taking forever, and it's ridiculous that it's taking forever, because I am absolutely positive that there's a way this software could have been designed so that I could look at the class list page and just click a check box next to the students who were in class.
On obtaining a hair shirt (no bleaching or anuses, FTR)
This is taking forever, and it's ridiculous that it's taking forever, because I am absolutely positive that there's a way this software could have been designed so that I could look at the class list page and just click a check box next to the students who were in class.
You lucky devil, that sounds like PeopleSoft. (No offense to any PeopleSofters in the house, but we have a pseudo-customized version of PeopleSoft for attendence and it makes the babyJeebus cry.)
I live next to New London. Guess what the big river running through New London is? Yes, the Thames. Guess how we say "Thames"? Hint: the first phonic is the same as the word "think". Boy was it embarassing to try to explain this to my British friends.
What I was told was that "THames" was the original pronunciation but the British dropped the "h" when some overly-German king couldn't pronounce it. I have no idea if this is true.
I grew up near a town in NJ named "Boonton" pronounced "Boo-n" (you sorta swallow the 'n')
I like the way locals pronounce "Terra Haute". It's pretty much "Tear-ho".
This is the first post I've been able to get to take in Natter all day.
Buffistas ate the posts. Buffistas are very sorry. But doughnut talk make Buffistas very hungry.
On a related note to un/mispronounceable cities and towns, a few of my favorite goofily named American cities:
Frankenbudda, you forgot Dildo, Newfoundland.
Timelies all!
Megan has just caused me to be earwormed with an Arrogant Worms song. There are worse things...
Sorry Sheryl!