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Top Ten Books For Adults About Children by Wesley Stace
I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
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.
DavidS - Aug 18, 2006 6:15:24 am PDT #3358 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
tommyrot - Aug 18, 2006 6:17:52 am PDT #3359 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I see what looks like a police robot (because the police in the future always have robots) firing lasers off every-which way. When it gets closer, it turns out to be something that looks like the hair monster from the old Looney Toons, only brown, with the Chicago Cubs symbol on its chest. My dream self surmissed this was the Cub's mascot in this future, so when it glared at me I yelled "Go Cubbies" which prompted it to leave me alone.
That is awesome!
Kalshane - Aug 18, 2006 6:21:32 am PDT #3360 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Maybe my subconscious was trying to tell me the Cubs need to make a laser-firing hair monster their mascot in order to break the curse.
Then again, I think the monster was causing random destruction because the Cubs had lost, so maybe not.
tommyrot - Aug 18, 2006 6:22:56 am PDT #3361 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I also had a bizarre dream last night. I dreamt I moved into a housing co-op (the hippy-ish sort that you might find near a university) and I just kept making mistakes that pissed everyone off. For example, it was brought to my attention that I had paid my deposit with play money. (It was an accident! I just happened to have play money around when I mailed the deposit in, and accidentally included the play money instead of real money. Why I was mailing cash in the first place I don't know.) And there were a cople other things I did that pissed people off. And I'm not even going to go into the bizarre sex....
Nutty - Aug 18, 2006 6:24:02 am PDT #3362 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
in Britain you can end a sentence containing a quoted sentence with two full stops, one inside the quotes and one outside.
I think that is horse hockey. The circumstances under which you get to double-bag on punctuation are extremely few. Brits do punctuate quotations differently -- they tend to put closing punctuation outside the quote mark -- but you'd only need two marks if they were different. E.g., if the quote ends with a question, but the sentence is not asking that question, you might end up with something like:
Jeffrey was too dumb to wonder, "What if it kills me?".
(In American English, the final period is unneceessary, and really, it's not necessary in British English either.)
But there's no reason to end the sentence-ending quote with a period and then ALSO end the sentence with a period. One or the other, but not both.
tommyrot - Aug 18, 2006 6:24:29 am PDT #3363 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Now playing: "Half-Breed" by Cher!
brenda m - Aug 18, 2006 6:32:16 am PDT #3364 of 10001
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
I think bob bob's adviser is kooky, and I've emailed my picky British consultants to confirm.
There are worse ways to go:
Man trapped in tank of chocolate for two hours
Associated Press
Published August 18, 2006, 7:29 AM CDT
KENOSHA, Wis. -- A 21-year-old man was trapped in a tank of chocolate for about two hours early Friday, police said.
Capt. Randy Berner said the worker said he got into the tank at the Debelis Corp. to unplug it and became trapped waist deep in the chocolate.
"It was pretty thick. It was virtually like quicksand," Berner said, and co-workers, police and firefighters were not able to get him out until the chocolate could be thinned out.
Jars - Aug 18, 2006 6:32:21 am PDT #3365 of 10001
I'm pretty sure I've seen the two full stops things quite a few times, though it seems antiquated. This is completely off the top of my head, however.
tommyrot - Aug 18, 2006 6:33:44 am PDT #3366 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
There are worse ways to go:
Anyone else reminded of Strange Brew ? (A tragically underrated movie.)
Jessica - Aug 18, 2006 6:35:21 am PDT #3367 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Man trapped in tank of chocolate for two hours
I fell into a vat of chocolate. I fell into a vat of chocolate...
What’d you do when you fell in the chocolate?
I yelled ‘fire’ when I fell into the chocolate...
Why’d you yell ‘fire’ when you fell into the chocolate?
I yelled ‘fire’ cause no one would help me if I yelled ‘Chocolate!’