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SuziQ - Oct 13, 2007 12:02:32 pm PDT #9659 of 10001

Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Accomplished today...

De-junked guest room
Cleaned living room
Ran 2 loads of laundry
Biked, with CJ, to Park Street
Wandered the Classic Car Show - oooogling the Mustangs and Chevelles.
Biked to TJ's
Ooogled my daughter working and bought her a bottle of water
Biked home
Started another load of laundry

Flop.

-t - Oct 13, 2007 12:03:58 pm PDT #9660 of 10001

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Black shirt.

Eta: Damn Suzi! That's a lot. I have, in contrast, put away a load of laundry I ran yesterday and started the dishwasher.

vw bug - Oct 13, 2007 12:04:05 pm PDT #9661 of 10001

Mostly lurking...

Gris, go black, choose black.

Holy cow, Suzi! Go you! I need to do laundry, but I don't wanna. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow.

So, hivemind, what is historical present tense? Google isn't really giving me the love.

Gris - Oct 13, 2007 12:09:49 pm PDT #9662 of 10001

Hey. New board.

Black shirt appears to be the nearly unanimous winner. And the lone white shirt voter changed her mind after remembering that I tend to spill on myself. So black it shall almost certainly be.

ETA: Historical present tense... um, maybe "And suddenly, she had won the game!"?

Ginger - Oct 13, 2007 12:11:42 pm PDT #9663 of 10001

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

It's the present tense used for an event that has already happened, usually applied to things that are timeless, such as writing, "VW writes in her Nov. 1 post that...."

Gris - Oct 13, 2007 12:12:32 pm PDT #9664 of 10001

Hey. New board.

Oh, that makes much more sense. Cool!

vw bug - Oct 13, 2007 12:22:05 pm PDT #9665 of 10001

Mostly lurking...

It's the present tense used for an event that has already happened, usually applied to things that are timeless, such as writing, "VW writes in her Nov. 1 post that...."

Ok. Gotcha. It's the tense I'm supposed to use for the annotated bibliography. Burrell, you will be glad to know that I am learning with this exercise. Go figure.

ETA: But, I'm still not happy about it.

WindSparrow - Oct 13, 2007 12:31:21 pm PDT #9666 of 10001

Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

"Indefatigable" is just a wonderful word.

Well, it's great that it has been applied to vw. But why's it got to be such a daunting prospect to pronounce?

historical present tense

It is using the present tense as a narrative tool to increase the vividness and immediacy when relating events that have already taken place. Bartleby.com - [link] F'rinstance:

So, at work this morning, one of my co-workers comes up to me. She says, "Ya know what I like about vw? I like what an indefatigable scholar she is." And I say to to her, "I know exactly what you mean. Now, let's get some coffee." So we go to Starbucks, and order Pumpkin Pie Lattes on our break, and we run over to the mall to buy corsets.

Hil R. - Oct 13, 2007 12:33:09 pm PDT #9667 of 10001

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I have dinner in the oven. Asparagus and sun-dried tomato fritatta type thing. (Vegan, so tofu instead of the eggs.) So far, smells good, though maybe a bit too mustardy.

Gris - Oct 13, 2007 12:38:44 pm PDT #9668 of 10001

Hey. New board.

That sounds delicious, Hil. And I love your Ragtime quote.

Also, Andi, that example rocks. And now I'm sitting here saying "indefatigable" over and over, in multiple different pronunciations.

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