I am still close enough to academia (and even closer to government talk) that I can come up with a ridiculous yet precise way to say things.
First of all, 'Posse?' Passé
Cordelia ,'Potential'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
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.
Jesse - Jul 13, 2006 10:50:50 am PDT #6664 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 13, 2006 10:52:14 am PDT #6665 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I do get really frustrated that everything here is written in this rather bizarre combination of immature, non-business-like prose and pedantic, jargon filled sentances that don't actually make sense. Not that I am a great writer, but I just feel like everything that is here already sounds moronic and it just takes so long to fix it. I was just rewriting a whole set of instructions for applying for a program that a) had no actually instructions except for a checklist that was not explained b) had a checklist with different names for application parts than were printed on the application and c) is written entirely in passive voice.
brenda m - Jul 13, 2006 10:55:09 am PDT #6666 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
CNN Breaking News
-- Ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame sues Vice President Cheney, his former aide, Scooter Libby, and presidential adviser Karl Rove.
Jesse - Jul 13, 2006 10:56:11 am PDT #6667 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Writing by committee. Always a good time.
Also, it's kind of a problem that employees can't be expected to understand "no refunds" in this context. I'm just saying.
DavidS - Jul 13, 2006 11:02:26 am PDT #6668 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
-- Ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame sues Vice President Cheney, his former aide, Scooter Libby, and presidential adviser Karl Rove.
Oooooh. I hope that has enough bite to drag them through the mud at least.
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2006 11:03:26 am PDT #6669 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.
Ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame sues Vice President Cheney, his former aide, Scooter Libby, and presidential adviser Karl Rove.
Yay!
Lets hope she has good lawyers. With bazookas.
Oh brenda, I keep forgetting - I have to get that book to you. Where abouts-ish do you live? Are you near the Red Line?
eta: Ooh - sexy, evil number....
Sophia Brooks - Jul 13, 2006 11:08:20 am PDT #6670 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh- the no refunds thing is really complicated. And I am actually OK with academic-ese. Just in this particular department we have badly done academic-ese (like withdrawals are subject to tuition???). I think it might be because the nurses I work for aren't particularly academic, and a lot of the mistakes they make were trained out of me in a liberal arts college environment, while in a more clinical setting their writing wasn't the focus.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 13, 2006 11:10:27 am PDT #6671 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame sues Vice President Cheney, his former aide, Scooter Libby, and presidential adviser Karl Rove.
Man, I wish the process servers had taken pictures when they handed out those summons.
Tom Scola - Jul 13, 2006 11:10:53 am PDT #6672 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
There seems to be a site for the Wilsons' legal fund. But looking at it, I don't see any way to determine its veracity.
DavidS - Jul 13, 2006 11:12:45 am PDT #6673 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Huh. Google seems to have changed its algorithm or something. When I googlebate now, it turns up my writing first instead of random instances of my name in reviews. So it places Things David Wrote in the top slots.
Cool! I was wondering why I was suddently getting email from people I'd been out of contact with. Now they're getting directed immediately to Kim's websites and she's been forwarding them to me.