Which may in fact be the case.
Heh. You need to take a graphics program and draw a little Matilda thought-bubble with a shimmering cake in it....
Aren't they something. They're like butterflies, or little pieces of wrapping paper blowing around.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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.
tommyrot - Oct 02, 2007 7:44:56 am PDT #4416 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.
Emily - Oct 02, 2007 7:45:37 am PDT #4417 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Curse my flickr-blocked existence!
tommyrot - Oct 02, 2007 7:47:12 am PDT #4418 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.
Mother of the Year (picture)
Tom Scola - Oct 02, 2007 7:52:36 am PDT #4419 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
It's OK to kill a coworker if they set their phone's ringtone to the Chicken Dance, right?
Dana - Oct 02, 2007 7:53:44 am PDT #4420 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
After you kill the phone.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 02, 2007 7:55:46 am PDT #4421 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
It's OK to kill a coworker if they set their phone's ringtone to the Chicken Dance, right?
Not just OK - required.
Also, what Dana said.
Cashmere - Oct 02, 2007 8:09:27 am PDT #4422 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
It's OK to kill a coworker if they set their phone's ringtone to the Chicken Dance, right?
Only if you beat them to death with the phone.
Nutty - Oct 02, 2007 8:18:59 am PDT #4423 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
O Texans of the board, a question.
I know whenever we do "funny city pronunciations for $1000, Alex!" we always do Natchitoches, LA, because it is indeed funny. So, um, the dictionary is telling me that Nacogdoches, TX is pronounced basically the same way, except they are not all French and actually say the last syllable.
1. Intel on the ground: how alike do those names actually sound?
2. Who was in charge of spelling in that region?? And can I have him/her beaten with a rhyming dictionary, please?
Dana - Oct 02, 2007 8:19:12 am PDT #4424 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Huh. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee died.
The article's a great read, if you've got a high tolerance for weird Louisiana politics.
Mr. Lee also put his deputies to work in some unconventional ways. One of the strangest started out as what many considered a joke.
The Parish Council was in the midst of a long-running and rancorous debate in 1995 over how to stem the rapidly growing nutria population, which threatened to undermine the parish's all-important drainage network, when Mr. Lee sauntered to the microphone at a council meeting and appeared to grab an idea out of thin air.
"I could do it for $50," he told the council. "I could buy a lot of .22 (bullets) for $50, and my SWAT team could shoot them."
Dana - Oct 02, 2007 8:22:00 am PDT #4425 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Simultaneously summing up Mr. Lee's appeal and his waistline, former University of New Orleans Chancellor Gregory O'Brien once considered naming the five most influential people in the New Orleans area and remarked, "Harry Lee would be three of them, and I'd be hard pressed to name the other two."
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I know whenever we do "funny city pronunciations for $1000, Alex!" we always do Natchitoches, LA, because it is indeed funny.
nack-uh-tish.
So, um, the dictionary is telling me that Nacogdoches, TX is pronounced basically the same way, except they are not all French and actually say the last syllable.
It lies. That's nack-uh-dosh-ez.
2. Who was in charge of spelling in that region?? And can I have him/her beaten with a rhyming dictionary, please?
Natchitoches is Indian, I would think.