Also a good read: a 1622 treatise on breastfeeding from The Countess of Lincoln's Nurserie.
I love early modern books. I am a freak.
The money was too good. I got stupid.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
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.
Kat - Jun 05, 2007 7:08:25 am PDT #1120 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Kat - Jun 05, 2007 7:09:07 am PDT #1121 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I still think that a grown man being called Scooter is an abomination unto man.
Steph L. - Jun 05, 2007 7:10:10 am PDT #1122 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Scooter Libby's been sentenced to 30 months in prison.
One of my co-workers ran in here a few minutes ago to gleefully announce that. There may have been a few collective war whoops.
Kat - Jun 05, 2007 7:10:18 am PDT #1123 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
sara, lardoon is the piece of pork back or bacon used in larding something.
sarameg - Jun 05, 2007 7:13:57 am PDT #1124 of 10001
Yeah, I got that reading further.
brenda m - Jun 05, 2007 7:15:27 am PDT #1125 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
Aren't those lardons? Or is it the same thing?
Or wait, so you lard the lardoon to make lardons?
Kat - Jun 05, 2007 7:18:04 am PDT #1126 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I think lardoon and lardon are the same thing.
What kills me is that in early modern books every noun is capitalized. It's batty making.
Tom Scola - Jun 05, 2007 7:24:42 am PDT #1127 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Hmmm. A new take-out place that sells empanadas just opened right next door to the place that sells patties. This white boy is very confused.
§ ita § - Jun 05, 2007 7:27:27 am PDT #1128 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This white boy is very confused.
Lucky, that's what you are.
Hey! Breakfast time!
A recent Masterpiece Theatre was the story of the first modern cookbook by Mrs. Beeton. I'm not sure what precisely divided modern from the rest, but it was an interesting if very likely spunked-up story of a woman ahead of her time, and a man trying to keep up.
tommyrot - Jun 05, 2007 7:29:38 am PDT #1129 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.
Survey time....
OK, say one is employed in the computer/tech industry and been working for the same company for more than 10 years (11, actually). What's the usual/common amount of vacation/PTO/sick time that one might get per year?