We're into the second season of Community. Whoever wrote the music for the space simulator episode is a genius.

Heh, yeah, that was a fun one. I'm past the halfway point of season two.

I haven't given up on "crazy" yet either.

Me neither. I'm now hyperaware of its usage, but I'm still fine with it.

Request for recommendations: I have both Parks and Recreation and Community in my viewing queue. Any suggestions on which I should watch first?

I'm doing Parks and Rec after I finish Community. So I would vote Community.

I just finished watching both and love them both equally! So yeah, I'm no help.

On a side note, Hulu has all of season 3 of Parks and Rec. We signed up for the trial of Hulu Plus so we could burn through those and then cancelled. (We wanted to watch them on the big screen on not on a computer monitor). I'm not a fan of Hulu Plus. If I'm going to pay for a service, I don't want commercials.

billytea,

I just finished both seasons of Parks and Rec and I took to it very slowly. "Community" is more my kind of humor than P&R - though P&R is funny.

P&R is closer to "The Office" (so if you like "The Office", you will probably love P&R) in format and sense of humor, but P&R has fewer people there that you HATE. Nearly everyone character on P&R, I have some affection for.

"Community" just gets me because of the layers of references and pop culture folded in. Many more visual gags, and ambition than P&R and so that's what hits my funny bone the most.

Beau laughs at P&R more than Community and truth be told, I think Community is a bit more uneven than P&R - but I still like Community more.

Community is darker in tone overall than P&R - in case that makes a difference.

The etymology of niggardly is concrete. The same cannot be said for gyp, by a long shot.

I still get a little uncomfortable when people intentionally use "niggardly" to be dickish. There are other words in the English language that are synonyms, I don't think it is a problem to use them.

The same cannot be said for gyp, by a long shot.

I was wondering if there was an etymology of "gyp" that wasn't painfully racist. Do all lexicons have the "you misunderstand" etymology that Hec cited, or just that one dictionary that he cited?

This sounds like a job for erinaceous.

(Also, I am trying SO HARD to stop using "crazy," and I fail so badly. But I keep trying. Gah.)

*blink* When did we decide to stop using "crazy"? And in what context? The word is used in so many different ways in modern vernacular, everything from "that was crazy awesome!" to "dancing it up like crazy" (which I literally heard on the Today show as I was writing this).

Do all lexicons have the "you misunderstand" etymology that Hec cited, or just that one dictionary that he cited?

No, they don't. Some still (like wordnik, for instance) still cite gypsy.