wonders if Billytea's revenge recipe is in the buffista cookbook
But? There's always a but. When this is over, can we have a big 'but' moratorium?
Fred ,'Smile Time'
Natter .38 Special
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.
amych - Aug 29, 2005 4:00:25 pm PDT #2265 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
quester - Aug 29, 2005 4:02:01 pm PDT #2266 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Trudy, I'm watching too. Do you mean the blueprints tattoo or shooting the bishop?
Trudy Booth - Aug 29, 2005 4:03:38 pm PDT #2267 of 10002
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
quester, I meant the tattoo
billytea - Aug 29, 2005 4:04:27 pm PDT #2268 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
wonders if Billytea's revenge recipe is in the buffista cookbook
"First, take the Girl Scouts of America." Unfortunately, at that point I always add 'in a manly way', and I'm too busy giggling to finish the rest of the recipe.
DavidS - Aug 29, 2005 4:05:22 pm PDT #2269 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DavidS - Aug 29, 2005 4:13:03 pm PDT #2270 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Other parts? Not so good:
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Even as reports of damage continued coming in Monday night, the full extent of the destruction in Katrina's wake was hard to gauge.
But one thing was clear: Gentilly, Treme, Bywater and the 9th Ward had been swallowed.
The exit from I-10 onto to Claiborne Avenue - and then Claiborne itself - was underwater. Ditto the intersection of I-10 and Elysian Fields, where water reached near the roof lines of homes. Homes were also inundated at the I-10 exit at Louisa Street.
St. Claude Avenue, east of the French Quarter and into St. Bernard Parish, was almost undewater.
DXMachina - Aug 29, 2005 4:14:07 pm PDT #2271 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
French Quarter - not that bad
Yeah, I saw some footage on the news tonight of a guy reporting from Bourbon Street, and what I could see of the area behind him didn't look that different from a Saturday morning after a long Friday night. It looks like that part of town didn't get hit too badly.
Steph L. - Aug 29, 2005 4:16:18 pm PDT #2272 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Steph, if ever you try online dating, "beautiful majestic semicolon" has to appear in your profile somewhere.
Yes, because I'm not celibate ENOUGH....
Cindy, a "nut graf" is, in a news article (generally), the paragraph that contains the gist of the news story. It's usually -- or, rather, in a well-written article, it SHOULD be -- very close to the beginning of the article, often the 2nd or 3rd paragraph. Though, by the same token, it's generally not the first paragraph, which is often descriptive or anecdotal, to hook the reader.
Here's an example I pulled from WDSU.com:
Katrina Weakens Further; Storm Now Category 1
NEW ORLEANS -- The Big Easy is breathing a bit easier right now.
Hurricane Katrina has spared New Orleans a direct hit, but its effects are still being felt there and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast.
Less than one hour after downgrading the storm to Category 2, forecasters lowered their assessment of the hurricane to a Category 1 storm with winds of nearly 95 mph. Officials said they expect the storm to get weaker Monday as it moves over land, but widespread damage is being reported on the southern coast of neighboring Mississippi.
The nut graf is actually the 3rd paragraph there. Specifically, the sentence in blue -- it's the gist of the article, what the story is really trying to convey.
Steph L. - Aug 29, 2005 4:24:17 pm PDT #2273 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And there is nothing like an impromptu boring journalism lesson to kill a thread D-E-D.
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2005 4:25:51 pm PDT #2274 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kat, you don't have to go back as far as the fifties. I called all my teachers Miss unless I needed to distinguish them from each other.