In Natter:
Tom Scola:
One of our servers at work just crashed with a "PCI streaming byte hole error".
msbelle:
Tom, this isn't Bitches, please keep it family friendly.
tommyrot:
Heh. Next time a computer crosses me, I'll have to threaten to tear it a new byte hole.
Gudanov:
Sounds like the PCI bus streamed too much data into one place and it collapsed into a digital singularity (not to be confused with The Singularity) where not even assembly code can escape out.
tommyrot:
Or maybe just the bit bucket was full....
Frankenbuddha:
There's a hole in the bucket, dear Linux, dear Linux
There's a hole in the bucket, oh Linux my dear.
From F2F, discussing Seattle's South Lake Union Trolley:
Pete:
Meara, if it's called a streetcar now, that is only their attempt to change the acronym because, yes, they did manage to launch the service as a SLUT.
And the damage is done. It'll always be known as the SLUT so their attempts to change it are doubly feeble. Then again that sounds like our city council to a tee.
Fay:
I am reminded Tesco's decision to rename Spotted Dick "Spotted Richard".
I mean, yes, okay, dick, ho ho - but it's so totally well-known that mostly you don't think "Penis! Penis! Ho ho ho!" ...until you find yourself staring at "Spotted Richard", think "WTF???" and then make a mental translation, and then think "OMGWTFSPOTTEDPENIS!"
As successful renaming ventures go, it's akin to Dick Van Dyke deciding to change his name to Richard Van WomanWithComfortableShoes.
In Natter:
tommyrot: Heh. There needs to be a LOLTradingGuys site....
Fred Pete: I can haz divvidend?
Steph L.: Recession: I haz it.
tommyrot: I made you investment portfolio, but market eated it....
Steph L.: Recession: DO NOT WANT.
In Natter --
Brenda:
Let's get ready to rrrruuumble! Five gods walk in, some equal or lesser number walk out!
amych posts a link in Natter:
"America's Best-Known Hockey Mom" drops the puck at a Flyers game, and is booed loudly enough to drown out both the music and the anouncer, from the time they call her name to the time the puck is safely in the hands (err, sticks) of the players:
billytea responds:
I'm reliably informed that Philly fans have booed Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny too, so I now choose to believe that Sarah Palin does not actually exist.
In Lit'ry--
Ginger: This weekend, a headline said "Norbert Batters Mexican Coast." What does it say that my first thought was dragon, not hurricane?
sumi: Norbert?
And we already have Omar building up steam too. (Or so I heard.)
What's the "P" name this year?
Ginger: Palin
sumi:
Oh, that "eloquence" thing.
Apparently, Barak is fooling us with his ability to speak in complete sentences that actually communicate thought.
