Jess, I think the suggestion was:
Natter -- It's time for elevenses.
Or something like that.
Mal: If anyone gets nosy, just, you know... shoot 'em. Zoe: Shoot 'em? Mal: Politely.
'Serenity'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
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kat perez - Mar 30, 2003 9:30:56 am PST #8973 of 10001
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Nilly - Mar 30, 2003 9:33:57 am PST #8974 of 10001
Swouncing
Or something like that.
This was exactly the suggestion in scrappy "Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier" Mar 29, 2003 3:58:42 pm EST:
Natter--it's time for elevenses
And (surprise) I'm all for it.
Sue - Mar 30, 2003 10:37:23 am PST #8975 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I am pro monkey!
§ ita § - Mar 30, 2003 10:49:52 am PST #8976 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Problem with absentee ballots is that the final wording won't be decided upon until just before the vote starts.
Lyra Jane - Mar 30, 2003 12:41:01 pm PST #8977 of 10001
Up with the sun
Absentee ballots aren't a big issue for me -- I'll be checking my email, so I may be able to log in long enough to vote anyhow. I just wanted to state my viewpoint because this is something I feel fairly strongly about, more strongly the more I consider it. I'm speaking a tad prematurely in that I haven't seen Anne's list yet, of course.
Noumenon - Mar 30, 2003 4:16:18 pm PST #8978 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
And for the record, in Chile we still have "onces" which is actually like afternoon tea, but it is called "elevenses".
"Once" (ohn-seh) is Spanish for eleven. Onces are not followed by a second snacktime called twices.
kat perez - Mar 30, 2003 4:46:12 pm PST #8979 of 10001
"We have trust issues." Mylar
I know once means eleven, but I didn't get the point. My point was that the afternoon tea is called "onces" even though it's not taken at eleven in the morning. It's called "onces" because of the aguardiente connection (eleven letters in the word aguardiente, thus secret code for "Let's drink").
Noumenon - Mar 30, 2003 4:53:27 pm PST #8980 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
I know once means eleven, but I didn't get the point.
I thought many people might not know that. But I missed your point and thought it was just a synonym for elevenses and not a separate code. (I thought you mentioned "aguardiente has eleven letters" because that's just too long a word to use for snacks.)
kat perez - Mar 30, 2003 5:01:21 pm PST #8981 of 10001
"We have trust issues." Mylar
No, aguardiente is a type of liquor, not a snack. A proper lady of those times could never be seen drinking in public, especially at tea time. So they used "onces" as a code to offer a little something extra in the tea.
brenda m - Mar 30, 2003 5:03:10 pm PST #8982 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
I'd still be surprised if 'onces' didn't originally derive from the traditional elevenses and grew to incorporate the aguardiente meaning. Neat symmetry, though.