"Rarer" is okay, but a pain in the ass to pronounce -- I suspect that's why people tend to use "more rare". Which is also awfully R-ish, now that I look at it, and yet still not as bad.
You want to meet the real me now?
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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.
amych - Feb 12, 2006 7:27:15 am PST #6691 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Trudy Booth - Feb 12, 2006 7:27:52 am PST #6692 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
Thanks, Nilly. Yes, I'm finally home. My Mother is still with her sister and will be spending an extra day there due to the weather which is good -- now that the hub-bub has died down its really sinking in for them that their Mother is gone. I keep alternating between being sad about my Grandmother and then remembering that Mimi is gone too. (Oh, "Mimi" is short for Miriam. My Grandmother and her siblings were David, Paul, John, Ruth, Miriam and Esther).
The reason it is "more rare" as opposed to "rarer" is that English is random and weird.
Laura - Feb 12, 2006 7:28:07 am PST #6693 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.
Sad to not be able to see Jessica's pictures.
Nilly - Feb 12, 2006 7:28:26 am PST #6694 of 10002
Swouncing
I would love to post some more, but I have to run.
Have great rest-of-the-weekend, everybody!
Strix - Feb 12, 2006 7:29:28 am PST #6695 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
well, most adjectives can be parsed that way: fast, faster, fastest. Rare can be, too: rare, rarer, rarest.
I think maybe I just prefer "more rare" because "rarer" sounds weird. Like "rar"
It might just be the midwest accent thing, though.
Daisy Jane - Feb 12, 2006 7:30:53 am PST #6696 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Y'all cannot post so much on a Sunday. It makes me think it's Monday, and then I panic. Also, I need an extra day of weekend.
Jessica - Feb 12, 2006 7:34:28 am PST #6697 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oops -- I was missing a number in that URL. It's fixed now. (And for the anti-scroll crowd, DEATHSNOW 2006 photos are here.)
Daisy Jane - Feb 12, 2006 7:39:02 am PST #6698 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Deathsnow is kinda pretty. It's just cold here. Last week we had temps from 65-75 now it's 30-45. I hate not being able to put up either my winter or summer clothes. Pick a damn season already!
Jessica - Feb 12, 2006 7:45:50 am PST #6699 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Also check out DH's photos from last night. The ones he took with the night-vision setting are pretty cool.
Jesse - Feb 12, 2006 7:46:08 am PST #6700 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, I have completed the easiest thing on my to-do list. And The Outsiders is on TV! Now to really dig into the census stuff I was avoiding last night. I have to write a proposal for a case study that's not due til later, but I think I have to do most of the research to write the proposal. Oy.