Quadraplegic is reduced function in all four limbs, Trudy. I think it's a point made in the movie itself.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
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§ ita § - Jul 13, 2005 8:18:25 pm PDT #742 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Trudy Booth - Jul 13, 2005 8:25:02 pm PDT #743 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Thank you, ita, it's been driving me nuts.
Jen - Jul 13, 2005 8:32:43 pm PDT #744 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Hi Trudy!
Technically, the word 'quadriplegic' refers to a person who has paralysis of all four limbs. The more correct term for someone who has weakness and reduced function in all four limbs but still retains some voluntary control is 'quadriparetic'. But that's almost never used outside a health care setting; in common usage, 'quadriplegic' often refers to both.
billytea - Jul 13, 2005 9:54:08 pm PDT #745 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
So I've been checking out a couple more dating profiles. There's one from a Japanese woman now living in Canada, which is all fine, and she sounds like a nice person. But then under 'Appearance' she's written:
I'm 158 cm tall with beautiful teeth and smile. Also, mines are big enough to hold your Jonasan.
I am completely baffled as to what this might mean, and I'm not sure I want to know. And I suspect my Jonasan is managing fine wherever it's currently located.
Fay - Jul 14, 2005 2:57:16 am PDT #746 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Contra dancing? Does this involve Nicaragua and the Sandinistas?
Connie speaks for me. (And yay for good surgery!)
Wow. That's a very, unique, specific description, billytea.
(Incidentally, re your tag - have you heard Sisquo's popular hit Thong Song?)
Kitty cat advise - any notion what it might signify for a kitty cat to have several random bald patches appear around his throat? Thumb print sized? I thought with the first one, which appeared a couple of weeks ago, that he must have got into a fight. But I'm thinking not, now. He's been full of cold and I've been feeding him antibiotics for a week, as per the vet's instructions, but he's still Sneezy McSneeze, and has been sick quite a lot. He is not a well bunny. Going to take him back to the vet's this weekend and see what's the what.
billytea - Jul 14, 2005 3:11:01 am PDT #747 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
(Incidentally, re your tag - have you heard Sisquo's popular hit Thong Song?)
I have indeed, and in retrospect it may not have been the right move to give an impromptu performance at the speed dating tonight.
Volans - Jul 14, 2005 3:17:32 am PDT #748 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Fay, if his throat hurts/itches, he may be clawing at it. Either that, or it's mange.
I urge everyone today to solicit local opinions on hot spong.
I will!
Yay for good surgery, connie!
billytea - Jul 14, 2005 3:19:51 am PDT #749 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Thong spong!
Lilty Cash - Jul 14, 2005 3:30:25 am PDT #750 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
And I suspect my Jonasan is managing fine wherever it's currently located
That sounds wise, billytea.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 14, 2005 3:42:26 am PDT #751 of 10001
What is even happening?
I keep thinking of that (former?) Bishop Shelby Spong, and gagging. Maybe that's just me.