Simon: You're out of your mind. Early: That's between me and my mind.

'Objects In Space'


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.


Sean K - Sep 17, 2005 9:38:58 am PDT #8423 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

The floor was hungry too.


Trudy Booth - Sep 17, 2005 9:43:50 am PDT #8424 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

1. Spin in place
2. Dizzily walk into furniture
3. Repeat

Best. Game. Evar.

FEMA seems to like it.


Volans - Sep 17, 2005 10:00:41 am PDT #8425 of 10002
move out and draw fire

Yes, her problems are the most widely publicised. She was caught with a forged prescription for Xanax. Then she violated her drug treatment plan and was sent back to jail.

FTR, my conservative friends deny categorically that this ever happened. Apparently this is a whole-cloth creation of the liberal media.

I have a word game! What are common words or phrases that get mistaken for near-homonyms, and how serious are they? "Duck tape" for "duct tape" doesn't really bug me, but "tact" for "tack" (as in "try a different") does. My niece says "next store" instead of "next door."

The one that really just floored me? "It would be who of us [to do something]"


Jessica - Sep 17, 2005 10:04:08 am PDT #8426 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Ye be jumpin' the gun, matey. Yarr.

Yarr, we're just trying to slow global warming, matey.


Steph L. - Sep 17, 2005 10:04:32 am PDT #8427 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I have a word game! What are common words or phrases that get mistaken for near-homonyms, and how serious are they?

I deeply deeply loathe "mute point."

t edit And "tenants" for "tenets."


dw - Sep 17, 2005 10:04:51 am PDT #8428 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval

FTR, my conservative friends deny categorically that this ever happened. Apparently this is a whole-cloth creation of the liberal media.

Your conservative friends have had too much Kool-Aid. I mean, JEB CRIED AT THE FRIKKIN NEWS CONFERENCE.

My conservative friends acknowledge it happened and say that this makes the Bushes "normal," since they have the same familial problems as the rabble.

To which I reply, "Yeah, it's SOOOO hard for me to choose between the Kennebunkport place or the Houston house for my massive political fundraiser."


brenda m - Sep 17, 2005 10:06:02 am PDT #8429 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Here, here!


Trudy Booth - Sep 17, 2005 10:06:02 am PDT #8430 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

"crank" phonecall has always driven me nuts -- though I understand it actually is legitimate.

But doesn't PRANK make more sense in context?


Sean K - Sep 17, 2005 10:06:58 am PDT #8431 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

"Duck tape" for "duct tape" doesn't really bug me

There's even a competing brand called Duck Tape. Their logo is a duck.

The one that really just floored me? "It would be who of us [to do something]"

Um.... no.

My stepfather, and a stage manager I worked for, both say "renember". Every. Single. Time. I want to smack them and say "THERE'S NO 'N' IN THE WORD!"


Eddie - Sep 17, 2005 10:08:33 am PDT #8432 of 10002
Your tag here.

Not a homonym, but I knew a guy who pronounced queue KWEE.