Ah, the prime minister is currently in New York. Wouldn't you love to be the person assigned to tap him on the shoulder and say, "Excuse me, Mr. Former Prime Minister, I think you might like to take a look at CNN."
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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.
Connie Neil - Sep 19, 2006 10:37:14 am PDT #9027 of 10001
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Hil R. - Sep 19, 2006 10:38:23 am PDT #9028 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
1. Never say anything in clear, direct English if you can obfuscate it with technical jargon. (This also works beautifully in literary criticism; just check out the writings of Jacques Lacan.) For instance, if someone asks you how, exactly, radio signals are encoded, toss off this jaunty phrase: "Oh, you just modulate the amplitude of the sine wave!" All the scientists out there understand this immediately, but trust me, to the average American, the sentence conveys no actual meaning, even though they listen to their radios every day.
But how would you say "modulate the amplitude of the sine wave" in clear, direct English? I can't come up with anything.
Connie Neil - Sep 19, 2006 10:41:33 am PDT #9029 of 10001
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For lighter news
Tales of the City: Dog on the Track
quote:
"Hi, I’m at Parkside Avenue. I’m going to be a while. There’s a dog in front of the train.”
“I don’t know what kind of dog it is. But it’s been running in front of the train, and it does not look tired.”
kat perez - Sep 19, 2006 10:42:45 am PDT #9030 of 10001
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Tom and Trudy. We meet again.
Suddenly, I am imagining the (Former) Prime Minister of Thailand in that dinner party scene from Studio 60 last night. I don't know what he looks like in real life, but in my head, he looks smashing in a cocktail dress and black ribbon headband.
Theodosia - Sep 19, 2006 10:43:14 am PDT #9031 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
But how would you say "modulate the amplitude of the sine wave" in clear, direct English? I can't come up with anything.
"Turn the dial."
lori - Sep 19, 2006 11:04:29 am PDT #9032 of 10001
Hey all, thanks for the birthday wishes. I just got back from yummy cuban food and sangria - a fine midweek lunch. I haven't been around here much lately, but it's nice to drop back in and see familiar faces.
tommyrot - Sep 19, 2006 11:08:02 am PDT #9033 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.
Hey lori - do folks at NASA observer Talk Like a Pirate Day?
Trudy Booth - Sep 19, 2006 11:16:10 am PDT #9034 of 10001
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
Hey lori - do folks at NASA observer Talk Like a Pirate Day?
Yeah! Tell us about your quest for the starrrrrrrs!
brenda m - Sep 19, 2006 11:17:30 am PDT #9035 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
Do ye talk like Space Pirates? Arrgh?
JZ - Sep 19, 2006 11:20:55 am PDT #9036 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Sorry to be all non-piratical and un-fun, but I just stumbled across this and it made me utterly fucking sick. This rendition and torture of a completely innocent Canadian happened almost three goddamn years ago. How can I have been so utterly ignorant as not to hear about it until just now?
His personal testimony. God save us from ourselves, please.