Ooh, I'm going to have bacon tomorrow. But I'm not sure if for breakfast or lunch. Maybe both? I have a 2 o'clock meeting, so I'd better not have a big breakfast, because that could lead to my not wanting lunch in time, so I guess it's bacon for lunch. Yum!
I miss Oz. He'd get it. He wouldn't say anything, but he'd get it.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
Natter 40: The Nice One
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.
Jesse - Nov 29, 2005 6:29:53 pm PST #7880 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
tommyrot - Nov 29, 2005 6:30:26 pm PST #7881 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I once fed a bacon and gerund omelette to my hairless cat.
Cass - Nov 29, 2005 6:32:33 pm PST #7882 of 10006
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Freak.
Jesse - Nov 29, 2005 6:33:38 pm PST #7883 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Why ruin a perfectly good gerund by hiding it in an omelette??!?!?!?!?!
P.M. Marc - Nov 29, 2005 6:34:19 pm PST #7884 of 10006
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Was your hairless cat wearing a seatbelt at the time? And are gerunds Atkins-friendly?
Lee - Nov 29, 2005 6:36:19 pm PST #7885 of 10006
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Were there olives?
tommyrot - Nov 29, 2005 6:37:49 pm PST #7886 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Should I answer all these questions with or without a serial comma?
sumi - Nov 29, 2005 6:45:37 pm PST #7887 of 10006
Art Crawl!!!
Math and I parted ways in the middle of Algebra 2. Once I was out of that class I never went near math again.
Mitch Pileggi! On next week's Nip/Tuck! Which looks like a special giant episode.
Also the Andre Braugher show that FX has been promising for years is finally supposed to show up -- in March. You know the one where he is a thief.
TAR: Ummmm, I really thought that next week was going to be the finale. Now, not so much. What do you guys think? One more elimination and then the finale in two weeks ?
Hil R. - Nov 29, 2005 6:48:14 pm PST #7888 of 10006
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The sequence of math courses in high school in the US is kind of weird from a modern standpoint, because it was developed at a time when it was assumed that a lot of kids wouldn't go past tenth grade, and so the curriculum-makers then decided that the most important things were the basics of algebra and geometry, and then everything else, for those kids who finished high school, could come later.
Personally, I think that it would be best to combine pre-algebra, Algebra I, and Algebra II into a two-year sequence, then follow that with geometry, and then trig and pre-calc, then calculus.
In terms of students I've seen, I'd say that the biggest problem people have with calculus is when the come in without a strong grasp of algebra. Also, there are a whole lot of people who can't follow an algorithm, and then another lot of people who can only solve a problem if it involves following an algorithm. (Um. I feel like I'm getting into a rant here, and I know I've ranted this rant here before. I'll stop now.)
Also, I'm horrible at arithmetic. From what I've seen, most mathematicians are. We can all do things like calculating tips, because that's just moving decimal points around and cutting things in half, but most of us would need a calculator for balancing a checkbook.
bon bon - Nov 29, 2005 7:01:28 pm PST #7889 of 10006
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
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