I think for armed services it is "suicide missions", not the act of serving.
I'm very sorry if she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows.
Simon ,'Safe'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
le nubian - Sep 30, 2010 5:07:43 am PDT #7509 of 10469
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Ginger - Sep 30, 2010 5:08:37 am PDT #7510 of 10469
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 30, 2010 5:41:13 am PDT #7511 of 10469
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
*Hearts* Ginger.
Jessica - Sep 30, 2010 5:45:33 am PDT #7512 of 10469
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I guess the difference in definition comes from taking something in everyday pop culture and trying to fit it into academic technical terminology.
This, totally. Academic jargon != What Words Mean In The Real World.
(See also, Theory of Evolution)
DebetEsse - Sep 30, 2010 7:22:43 am PDT #7513 of 10469
Woe to the fucking wicked.
It seems like there should be a different word for something that's more like self-manslaughter, rather than self-murder, which is what we think of as suicide.
Don't know what that word would be, but it'd be a reasonable word to have. I mean we refer to people behaving as though they have a death-wish, taking "unreasonable" risks.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 30, 2010 12:23:02 pm PDT #7514 of 10469
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
GRIS! How was NoCA? How's married life?
Gris - Sep 30, 2010 12:47:27 pm PDT #7515 of 10469
Hey. New board.
GRIS! How was NoCA? How's married life?
NoCa was amazing. Married life is, thus far, awesome. Though so far remarkably similar to shacking-up life. That should change once we move out of NYC next year though (we're thinking Nashville and a house).
Kate P. - Sep 30, 2010 12:54:58 pm PDT #7516 of 10469
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Woo! I can recommend Nashville! Though, uh, it's not entirely certain that we'll still be here in a year. But not unlikely, either.
tiggy - Sep 30, 2010 2:31:13 pm PDT #7517 of 10469
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
i'll be here! Kate, it's really a shame that we still haven't managed to meet up.
Liese S. - Sep 30, 2010 8:32:45 pm PDT #7518 of 10469
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I might be in Nashville briefly in November! I have industry peeps to see, but may also have free time!