'Out Of Gas'
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.
That sucks.
You know, sometimes I really want to call people up (people with PhDs) and explain to them if they don't report their observations truthfully and accurately, it kinda casts a shadow on their conclusions. I swear, didn't we learn that aspect of science in what? Third grade at the latest?
Huh.
Got up to get another cup of coffee and ended up...painting one of my walls. Not with coffee. Paint. Yellow.
Wonder where that came from?
I think I may start stabbing people.
Whoa.
Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, whose party just lost both chambers of Congress, will leave his position in January, and the post as party chief has been offered to Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele.
That would be the man whose last, best hope in his own election was to try to masquerade as a Democrat. Which is actually one of his less sleazy actions.
Abrade is the verb for abrasion, right? I see that abrase is also a verb, but it looks awkward and makes me think it's a backformation.
I'm trying to think of other verbs that make that "d" to "s" shift, and I'm blanking--can any of you guys think of some?
I'm bored enough to paint walls.
I'm bored enough to paint walls.
I'm so bored, I'd watch it dry.
I'm coming up with "t" words -- convert to conversion, for instance -- but blanking on "d" words, as well.
evade / evasion
(t to s) pervert / perversion
deride / derision
provide / provision