I guess not...I was just wondering since the term "colored" has negative connotations.
Angel's lame. His hair goes straight up, and he's bloody stupid!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?
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.
Aims - May 26, 2006 10:46:00 am PDT #9139 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Topic!Cindy - May 26, 2006 10:49:23 am PDT #9140 of 10002
What is even happening?
I guess not...I was just wondering since the term "colored" has negative connotations.Aimee, I think you missed a question word in your question, and that's what Vortex meant. Did you mean to ask something along the lines of: Is that [the reason or why] the name has not been changed?
(That is, the wording of your question was "Is that the name has not been changed?")
Aims - May 26, 2006 10:51:04 am PDT #9141 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
YES! Duh.
Hi, I'm Aimee and this is exactly the reason I am taking writing classes. Also an idiot.
Is that the reason WHY it has not been changed?
Topic!Cindy - May 26, 2006 10:53:35 am PDT #9142 of 10002
What is even happening?
That's just stupid fingers, Aimee. I get them all the time. I know the difference between their/they're/there quite well, but my fingers go too fast, or something.
Also, when I'm editing, I tend to leave in/out words that make the whole new thing (which I think is so much better than my first attempt) make no sense at all.
Fortunately, most of you are all messed up on Fernet all the time.
Kathy A - May 26, 2006 10:57:47 am PDT #9143 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'll tell you what's messed up--the fact (which I just found out now) that even though there's a library not one mile from my apartment, my "home" library is actually the one three miles down the road. Oh, well, it just means that I have to get my official card first before I can go to the nearer one and be entered into their system.
Amy - May 26, 2006 11:13:49 am PDT #9144 of 10002
Because books.
In semi-topical news, the job my DH just accepted is with the Oneida Indian Nation. (Upstate New York, for those playing along at home.)
aurelia - May 26, 2006 11:15:55 am PDT #9145 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Did I mention yet another bigwig in the IT group resigned this week?
Hey, go get his monitor!
Vortex - May 26, 2006 11:22:53 am PDT #9146 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Is that the reason WHY it has not been changed?
ah, yes! thank you Cindy! I don't know if it's an homage so much that a name change would confuse people, I think.
Aims - May 26, 2006 11:24:46 am PDT #9147 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Got it.
tommyrot - May 26, 2006 11:41:32 am PDT #9148 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.
Wonkette photo essay on the Rayburn House Office Building situation: [link]
This caption cracked me up:
“This guy’s name is John Turley, apparently he was one of the first let out of the building, other than that, he doesn’t know shit.”
eta:
So what caused this whole ruckus? According to CNN, the “suspected sounds of gunshots heard in a House office building were made by a mechanic using a pneumatic hammer on an elevator.”