"It's a moo point. It's like a cow's point. It doesn't matter."
This money, it is too much. You should have some small refund.
Niska ,'War Stories'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Feb 08, 2006 8:15:05 am PST #5714 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
bon bon - Feb 08, 2006 8:15:18 am PST #5715 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
it cannot be denied that logic and philosophy stand to lose an important conceptual label should the meaning of BTQ become diluted
That's not right. BTQ is replaceable with assumes the question or assumes the argument.
tommyrot - Feb 08, 2006 8:17:12 am PST #5716 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
If we were created by a loving, omnipotent God, why does He allow us to keep having the proscriptivist/descriptivist debate?
Rick - Feb 08, 2006 8:18:12 am PST #5717 of 10002
That's not right. BTQ is replaceable with assumes the question or assumes the argument.
Agreed. Things that are hard to understand should be replaced with things that are easy to understand if the easy things do the job just as well. It's like, uh, the evolution of language.
Steph L. - Feb 08, 2006 8:18:55 am PST #5718 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
If we were created by a loving, omnipotent God, why does He allow us to keep having the proscriptivist/descriptivist debate?
Because even God needs to watch something funny once in a while.
Toddson - Feb 08, 2006 8:19:30 am PST #5719 of 10002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Perhaps we need to establish a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Grammar ... or possibly Language as a whole.
Allyson - Feb 08, 2006 8:19:46 am PST #5720 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
"Which leads me to the question..."
I dunno. It's one of the few philosophy thingies I've ever understood right away, so I'm like Rainman/Wapner about it.
Gudanov - Feb 08, 2006 8:20:11 am PST #5721 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Because even God needs to watch something funny once in a while.
Actually, that explains alot.
Rick - Feb 08, 2006 8:20:42 am PST #5722 of 10002
If we were created by a loving, omnipotent God, why does He allow us to keep having the proscriptivist/descriptivist debate?
I like Woody Allen's version of this, from an early essay:
"If there is a God then tell me Uncle, why is there poverty . . . and baldness."
Jessica - Feb 08, 2006 8:21:38 am PST #5723 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Actually, that explains alot.
- Penguins
- Llamas
- Monkeys