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Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!

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.

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Kate P. - Jan 04, 2006 10:36:34 am PST #7366 of 10002

That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

But a University of Michigan study shows that the percentage of married women with advanced degrees has grown, not shrunk, over time.

OK, I'm guessing the number of people with advanced degrees has grown over time. Given that, wouldn't the real question be the percentage of women with advanced degrees who are married?

Or the percentage of married women who have advanced degrees? The original statement is totally ambiguous.

I'm okay with voice recognition in general, but the ones that add in verbal litter piss me off.

"Verbal litter"! What a great phrase. I shall use it every chance I get.

DavidS - Jan 04, 2006 10:37:32 am PST #7367 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Kate! When's your date?

If you haven't called him yet, call him tonight. Do it!

Frankenbuddha - Jan 04, 2006 10:38:20 am PST #7368 of 10002

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

"But it'd be okay if I hit George W. Bush in the face right?"

Heh, Emmett agrees with me, I see.

brenda m - Jan 04, 2006 10:41:21 am PST #7369 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

Backfeifengesicht

Someone remind me how to pronounce that again? What an excellent word.

sarameg - Jan 04, 2006 10:43:15 am PST #7370 of 10002

bak-fyfen-ge-sikt

Kate P. - Jan 04, 2006 10:44:00 am PST #7371 of 10002

That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Kate! When's your date?

Skipper! It was last night: Kate P. "Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!" Jan 3, 2006 7:25:10 pm PST

Jesse - Jan 04, 2006 10:44:22 am PST #7372 of 10002

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Speaking of automated customer service.... [link]

§ ita § - Jan 04, 2006 10:44:36 am PST #7373 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

OCR! There's a totally commonplace usage of AI that I should have remembered sooner. It's only, like, a chunk of my job.

DavidS - Jan 04, 2006 10:46:12 am PST #7374 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Skipper! It was last night: Kate P. "Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!" Jan 3, 2006 7:25:10 pm PST

Sweet! Go you. And go him for his excellent taste.

Kathy A - Jan 04, 2006 10:47:43 am PST #7375 of 10002

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

A college friend and fellow band member told me that his high school couldn't get enough quality male singers capable of performing the barbershop quartet, so they decided to do a trombone quartet instead, so he was one of the school board members and also arranged the songs for trombone. (I don't know how they got instruments into the school board's hands before the Wells Fargo Wagon showed up, though.)

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