Definitely glad you weren't there, brenda. Yikes.
So, how was your summer? Mine was fun. Saw some fish. Went mad with hunger. Hallucinated a whole bunch.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
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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.
-t - Feb 04, 2005 7:14:30 am PST #3979 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Gus - Feb 04, 2005 7:20:28 am PST #3980 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Yikes, Brenda. So sad, that a guy should make it 51 years only to get zotzed over cabfare.
When I was 19 I was 6' 3" and 140 lbs. People were concerned for my health.
Tommyrot was me. Nineteen and skeletal. In my case, clumsy as hell, on top of it all.
tommyrot - Feb 04, 2005 7:34:17 am PST #3981 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
eta:
Fisking, or to Fisk, refers to the act of critiquing, often in minute detail, an article, essay, argument, etc. with the intent of challenging its conclusion or theses by highlighting supposed logical fallacies and incorrect facts.
Someone having fun with a "how to tell if your child is a Goth" article. The article is so lame - as the fisker says, " I really can't tell if these things are for real anymore."
If five or more of these apply to your child, please intervene immediately. The gothic culture is dangerous and Satan thrives within it. If any of these problems persist, enlist your child into your local mental health center.
eta: Maybe not as fun as Cat Stacking, but... world's smallest PacMan game. No, really....
Frankenbuddha - Feb 04, 2005 7:39:02 am PST #3982 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
A Goth fisking
I've definitely been around here too long, because I didn't read that word as "fisking" the first 4 times I read it.
However, I have no idea what a "fisking" is anyway, which may be part of it.
tommyrot - Feb 04, 2005 7:40:17 am PST #3983 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Well, I just found out what fisking is: [link]
Fisking, or to Fisk, refers to the act of critiquing, often in minute detail, an article, essay, argument, etc. with the intent of challenging its conclusion or theses by highlighting supposed logical fallacies and incorrect facts.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 04, 2005 7:41:59 am PST #3984 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Huh, so not too far off from what I was thinking the word was originally after all. :)
§ ita § - Feb 04, 2005 7:43:02 am PST #3985 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Until post #3971, fisking was something between lutefisk and fisting.
Good to be educated.
Initially, I found it odd that they named it after the guy critiqued originally, but I guess they're making a fisk of the article.
Gus - Feb 04, 2005 7:46:47 am PST #3986 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Huh. Fisking. A whole new word for me.
Cool! A whole new word!
Frankenbuddha - Feb 04, 2005 7:53:39 am PST #3987 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Cool! A whole new word!
Ack, die, vile earworm, die!
tommyrot - Feb 04, 2005 7:56:00 am PST #3988 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Isn't there like a certain minimum knowledge that one should have before one, say, becomes president?
President George W. Bush met with the Congressional Black Caucus Wednesday for the first time as a group in nearly four years, but what CBC members said stood out the most was the president's declaration that he was "unfamiliar" with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant pieces of legislation passed in the history of the United States.