P&G Wants to Trademark LOL and Other Millennial Phrases
One of the acronyms they want to trademark is WTF, which is perfect on so many levels.
I'm sorry. You were going to ask me to choose, right? Did you want to finish?
Zoe ,'War Stories'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DXMachina - Aug 24, 2018 1:40:20 pm PDT #25158 of 28197
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Steph L. - Aug 24, 2018 2:03:56 pm PDT #25159 of 28197
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And also FML, which I really don't see as effective marketing for detergent.
-t - Aug 24, 2018 10:17:57 pm PDT #25160 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
(After googling P&G products) maybe for Pepto-bismol?
Gris - Aug 25, 2018 12:25:09 am PDT #25161 of 28197
Hey. New board.
FML is for Pampers commercials.
Kate P. - Aug 25, 2018 5:39:19 pm PDT #25162 of 28197
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I decided to start reading the Prydain Chronicles to Rose tonight. We read the first chapter of The Book of Three, and she seemed to like it, though I'm not sure she was really following the story. After she went to bed, I sat and read/skimmed through the whole book, and was delighted to find that it was just as good as I remembered. I loved those books so much as a kid.
DavidS - Aug 25, 2018 6:02:29 pm PDT #25163 of 28197
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I loved those books so much as a kid.
I know we've talked about this before, but yeah. Me too.
Gris - Aug 29, 2018 1:49:32 pm PDT #25164 of 28197
Hey. New board.
OMG. Yes. Now I want to pick up Taryn Wanderer again.
Gris - Aug 29, 2018 1:53:49 pm PDT #25165 of 28197
Hey. New board.
My first exposure to Prydain was actually this old Black Cauldrom video game, which my brother and I were never able to get get anywhere on. It was hard! At least we thought so. I'm actually surprised I ever got over it to read the books.
Consuela - Aug 31, 2018 11:22:16 am PDT #25166 of 28197
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
What a lovely appreciation of Joan Aiken: [link]
Gris - Sep 01, 2018 3:42:18 pm PDT #25167 of 28197
Hey. New board.
I started reading Harry Potter to Calvin a few days ago. He's too young for some of the later books, but I think in a slow read aloud way he will be able to enjoy the first one. We've only done the first chapter, and he didn't quite follow it - I'd forgotten how much that chapter is almost entirely about voice and atmosphere. I expect once the parseltongue and owls kick in he'll be a bit more into it, but it is so ridiculously compelling from the get-go to me. I feel like I never gave JK Rowling enough credit for her word-craft back when I devoured the books, but that chapter just has voice coming out of its bottom. And Britishiness. It's like a slightly less funny (though still pretty funny) Hitchhiker's Guide, with Mr. Dursley playing the role of a less likable Arthur Dent.
Tonight I had the bright idea to get the books in Portuguese as well, and installed a Portuguese-English dictionary on my Kindle, so after I read to him in English I will follow it up later that night or the next day in Portuguese for myself. I expect that will help me build some vocabulary! (I live in Brazil now, in case this feels like a complete non sequitur to anybody reading).