That's one of those mis-uses that is totally predictable and inevitable, and doesn't deserve to be called a mis-use.
I think that begs the question.
Where'd they get CAT scan from?... I mean, did they test it on cats? Or does the machine sort of look like a cat?
Dawn ,'Sleeper'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
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.
Wolfram - Apr 01, 2005 10:06:23 am PST #2375 of 10001
Visilurking
Aims - Apr 01, 2005 10:10:22 am PST #2376 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
oops
-t - Apr 01, 2005 10:13:36 am PST #2377 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think that begs the question.
What question?
t runs away
§ ita § - Apr 01, 2005 10:15:31 am PST #2378 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse - Apr 01, 2005 10:17:46 am PST #2379 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I would be so screwed if people had mikes on me. I would totally be that person smiling for the camera and then turning around muttering "motherfuckers."
-t - Apr 01, 2005 10:20:58 am PST #2380 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Not the Prince I was expecting.
§ ita § - Apr 01, 2005 10:21:02 am PST #2381 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's some of the most human I've read Charles to be, despite some awkward phrasing.
I just thought of a problem -- I need lunch. And still have no doorbell. Or menus. I'll need to do some wrangling.
Nutty - Apr 01, 2005 10:22:15 am PST #2382 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Well if the President can call a reporter a "major league asshole" on-mike (by accident), then anybody can, right?
Descriptivist dog!
Humph. Go yell at the laywers who decided it made sense to call a spade a snozzwhanger.
-t - Apr 01, 2005 10:23:11 am PST #2383 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's the most likable I've found him in years.
Gudanov - Apr 01, 2005 10:23:46 am PST #2384 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Go yell at the laywers who decided it made sense to call a spade a snozzwhanger.
I think we should call a spade a spade.