Am I on crack or is Microsoft?

It's probably not sure what's a verb and what isn't.

Microsoft notoriously can't parse homonyms. Also, it stumbles on complex sentence structures, like nested dependent clauses. Not that I have any incredibly irritating experience with that.

I figure if I can't tell pretty quickly, I'm okay ignoring the Word squiggles. As long as the software doesn't disable my print function.

My last wine glasses were so ugly that I accidentally threw them in the trash when I moved a few months ago. I can't work out what was wrong with them exactly (other than heft -- I know they lacked proper heft), so it's making it hard to web-shop replacements. Cutlery and dishes, I have elaborate rules for, but so far good/bad with wine glasses is like erotica/porn.

I mean these look great, but they also look like every other wine glass. These sound like the kevlar of wine glasses -- what are the technical considerations when shopping for glassware?

s(/he|o)rbe(/r?/)t?

These are actually two different things, as it turns out. Okay, maybe you already knew this. I didn't, until recently, and thought maybe I had remember something wrong. Sherbet seems to have milk in it.

what are the technical considerations when shopping for glassware?

If I knock one off the table, will I be able to go out and buy a single relacement glass?

Truth be told, the majority of my wineglasses are currently from wine festivals so have things like words and frogs on them. I do have 4 czech-glass large red wineglasses I found back in the day Pier One bought from there. They were identical to some I adored in the CzR, but knew they wouldn't survive the trip back.

I don't use them much, what with them being so large and me not drinking much red wine these days.

Huh.

NOUN: 1. also sher·bert (-bûrt) A frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice, sugar, and water, and also containing milk, egg white, or gelatin. 2. Chiefly British A beverage made of sweetened diluted fruit juice. 3. also sherbert Australian An alcoholic beverage, especially beer.

ETYMOLOGY: Ottoman Turkish, sweet fruit drink, from Persian sharbat, from Arabic arba, drink, from ariba, to drink. See rb in Appendix II.

Beer?

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Will it pass the Senate?

But this quote gets me:

"Ask the men and women who stood on top of the (World) Trade Center," said Rep. Randy (Duke) Cunningham, R-Calif. "Ask them and they will tell you: pass this amendment."

Bullshit. And stop using the people who died on 9/11 as the new "In the name of Jesus...."

Aha! Since I was wondering:

In the UK (and probably most other Commonwealth countries) sherbet is a white powder commonly found in various sweets and confectionery. Its main properties are an acidic, tingly taste and it quickly dissolves in water.

(from [link]

Also,

Sylvar says In the US, sherbet is very bad sorbet. The only thing similar to UK sherbet, as far as I know, is "Lik-m-Aid" (Wonka's Fun Dip). The powder doesn't have its own name here, though.

Heh. Also, there's a recipe for sherbet powder, which seems to be made of icing sugar, citric acid, and bicarbonate of soda. Which I've never seen outside of 40s books and movies.

Kenyan, 73, kills leopard with bare hands

NAIROBI - A 73-year-old Kenyan grandfather reached into the mouth of an attacking leopard and tore out its tongue to kill it, authorities said Wednesday.

Peasant farmer Daniel M’Mburugu was tending to his potato and bean crops in a rural area near Mount Kenya when the leopard charged out of the long grass and leapt on him.

M’Mburugu had a machete in one hand but dropped that to thrust his fist down the leopard’s mouth. He gradually managed to pull out the animal’s tongue, leaving it in its death-throes.

I can't even let myself process that, because it will send me into a blind rage.

But the next line in the article is a thing of beauty:

But Rep. Jerrold Nadler (news, bio, voting record), D-N.Y., said, "If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents."

Right the fuck ON.