Cordelia ,'You're Welcome'
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.
squirrel can be exceedingly hard to pronounce
Harder than pronouncing écureuil ?
Aerospatiale had a helicopter model by that name. I knew it meant "squirrel," but never figured out how to pronounce it. I think it was a common problem -- they later re-named it the "A-Star" for the North American market.
Has Mac discovered snow yet?
NYC hasn't had any yet this year. t pout
I have a Amharic speaker at work if you end up in a pinch msbelle...
That would be sort of funny. "Let me go grab this partner and have her talk to a kindergartener and find out what he's saying".
(She totally would though)
Harder than pronouncing écureuil ?
Good point. Although the "reuil" in écureuil is much easier than the "rueil" in Rueil-Malmaison, so it could be worse. Much worse.
I didn't even know about the Amharic language until Nilly mentioned it, over the past couple of days.
msbelle, I've been talking about you and Mac to meatspace friends, and they're choking up almost as much as I do.
Me, too! Of course, 3 of my co-workers have adopted internationally (2 of those co-workers have adopted 2 kids each), and so they're extra-interested in msbelle and Mac.
Between msbelle and the Flanvention that almost wasn't, the 'net is choking me up more than usual, and I've been passing those emotions along to meatspace friends quite successfully.
JA will always and forever be Eric Brady to me
You may change your mind.
I'm quite looking forward to the notion. I'll certainly enjoy the internal debate.
::goes off in search of a bigger bunk::
I might have some issues with Barack Obama, but this is hilarious (from Salon's War Room):
The office of Sen. Barack Obama has just distributed a press release advising that he'll make an "announcement" during the telecast of Monday Night Football tonight about an "upcoming contest of great importance to the American people"...
Obama's office says he'll say that he's "ready" for something tonight, but we're betting that what he's "ready for" is "some football." How do we know this? No. 1, that's how the song goes on Monday Night Football. No. 2, Obama told Jay Leno last week that he's already promised to give the Food Network the exclusive on any presidential announcement.
JA will always and forever be Eric Brady to me
I should confess that, not only did I watch several clips of same on YouTube recently, I actually remembered some of the (unbelieveably cockamamie) plots! It was hilarious! Also, hello to the pancake makeup and bad hair.
I should be glad that I was not on television when I was 18, because I know I had bad hair at that age (although I did not wear pancake makeup).