Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.

'Underneath'


Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People  

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.


beekaytee - Oct 11, 2006 8:11:16 am PDT #3091 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

How interesting to see that other people mix up the writing styles too. Huh.

I'm a great admirer of elders who were schooled in "The Palmer Method" (which eerily reminds me of Twin Peaks)...such grace and intention when writing. Makes the communication seem...well...more sophisticated somehow.


Jesse - Oct 11, 2006 8:12:32 am PDT #3092 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It implied that to me, but since I can't imagine writing more than a sentence in ASSCAPS, and I'm entirely normal, can't be, can it?

Ha. I have this vision of all the kids these days writing like architects, since that's who I think of when I think of block printing. And when we had "mechanical drawing" for a quarter in 8th grade, basically the whole class was taken up by learning how to write the alphabet in graph paper. Good times.


Amy - Oct 11, 2006 8:15:39 am PDT #3093 of 10001
Because books.

My kids have been taught D'Nealian handwriting in school, which is a mix of print and cursive. The printed letter have a certain slant to them, which is supposed to make it easier to write cursive when the time comes.

I usually print these days, although a couple letters always wind up joined somewhere. I just tried to write a sentence in cursive and was amazed how unaccustomed to it I've become.


Liese S. - Oct 11, 2006 8:16:59 am PDT #3094 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I think of block letters as being small caps, too, rather than ASSCAPS.

Big Cats in Arizona!

How cool! Yay for jaguars! They're really such a gorgeous animal, aren't they?

And yet another reason why a bigass fence is such an unbelievably stupid idea.


beekaytee - Oct 11, 2006 8:18:58 am PDT #3095 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

being taught to write by somebody who didn't understand how to teach a left-hander to write.

So very This, with most things, eh? Especially in the dark ages of my yout. What a pain to be so 'different' and yet, really not different at all.

My stepmother positively despaired trying to teach me to knit. I swear, I became ambidexterous in self defense.

Forget trying to use left handed scissors. I am borg.


tommyrot - Oct 11, 2006 8:19:29 am PDT #3096 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 hate writing anything by hand. Filling out forms and signing my name are about the only times I do it. I much prefer to run envelopes through a laser printer than address an envelope by hand.


sarameg - Oct 11, 2006 8:19:36 am PDT #3097 of 10001

I print, when I'm actually trying to be legible. Scrawled notes involve something like cursive, but much harder to read. My printing is much nicer.


Vortex - Oct 11, 2006 8:19:44 am PDT #3098 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I have very nice handwriting as well, thanks to Mrs. Cune, my second grade teacher. She would make me stay in at recess and rewrite my work. I would hand it in early, and she would accept it, then wait until it was time to go to recess and call me up to rewrite. I learned quickly.


Jesse - Oct 11, 2006 8:20:05 am PDT #3099 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

[link] Huh. D'Nealian looks more like many of us are saying we're now doing.


Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 11, 2006 8:22:32 am PDT #3100 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

This just seems weird to me. Only 15% of the next batch of college freshmen use cursive? Wow.

Doesn't seem weird to me. I HATED writing anything longer than my name in cursive, and practiced legible printing in school until I got my speed to equal writing in longhand.