Simon: I swear when it's appropriate. Kaylee: Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate.

'Jaynestown'


The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People  

[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.


Rick - Sep 27, 2005 11:09:33 am PDT #4443 of 10001

In English language news, I ran across a spelling error yesterday that had been picked up verbatim from a previous book. Which book had picked that spelling error up from a different previous book. I checked four books, and the spelling error was in all of them.

One of the fun things about Google Scholar is that you can do a search on your own stuff or some classic paper and see how the citations of said stuff change over time, as people copy previous errors and insert their own. Eventually you find out that you published a paper in 1897 in the Journal of Psychiropractic Medicine or some other field that doesn't really exist. I'm not sure if it's more like an accumulation of DNA mutations over several generations or more like that party game where a chain of people whisper a message to the next person in line, but either way it testifies to the carelessness of the science community when it comes to citations.

It might be fun to be a Psychiropractor, though.


Aims - Sep 27, 2005 11:36:20 am PDT #4444 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

"Heighth" drives me nuts, as does my friend who calls it a "swifter".


Allyson - Sep 27, 2005 11:40:32 am PDT #4445 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Instead of "supposed to" there's a dude who says, "posedta."


Betsy HP - Sep 27, 2005 11:52:04 am PDT #4446 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

It might be fun to be a Psychiropractor, though.

Could you adjust my brain? I've got a kink right here that's giving me problems...

Ta.


§ ita § - Sep 27, 2005 11:58:56 am PDT #4447 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You want your kinks out???


Aims - Sep 27, 2005 12:00:27 pm PDT #4448 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

She wants them out in the open, so everyone can enjoy them.


Betsy HP - Sep 27, 2005 12:06:28 pm PDT #4449 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

God wants me for a sunbeam.


Topic!Cindy - Sep 27, 2005 12:21:18 pm PDT #4450 of 10001
What is even happening?

Me, too, Jars. Also: sammich, punkin, nakin (for napkin because that's how my little bro pronounced it when he was wee) and bikit (for biscuit, same reason as nakin).
Prolly.


Jessica - Sep 27, 2005 12:22:51 pm PDT #4451 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I don't mind prolly, but sammich gives me hives. No, there's no logic there.


Kalshane - Sep 27, 2005 12:26:49 pm PDT #4452 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Sammich always makes me think of the X-Files episode "Arcadia" when Mulder and Scully are undercover as a husband and wife.