Okay, who took my mojo?

Austin Powers?

The laugh isn't because they consider themselves such wags, but because it's a nervous habit, or possibly ingrained self-denigration.

This is actually something we worked extensively in the first level of the (intense, full contact) self defense class I took. It's a problem for a lot of women.

Okay, who took my mojo?

If I remember my cinema correctly, it was Dr. Evil.

The laugh isn't because they consider themselves such wags, but because it's a nervous habit, or possibly ingrained self-denigration.

My boss's boss does this. She has also referred to herself as a "dumb bunny" in meetings. I wanted to slap her.

I want to marry Teppy's lolrant and have its little ranty babies.

Let's make it a poly-rant.

I could not agree more.

Ok, so add in shoutouts to somebody's niggaz and you know why I quit the Wire boards at hbo. Even starfucking Simon couldn't get me to put up with that. Fake marriages have to have clear boundaries.ETA: Or maybe it was fighting with Balmer's Lone Neocon. On a Wire Forum? He must have been horribly lost.

I think it goes without saying that I love, adore, could not live without this board and all of you. But I'll say it anyway.

I agree with this statement 100%

Animated smileys are so very deeply of the devil. Why does not everyone recognize this?

I do! The ASCII emoticons don't bother me a bit, though, and are rather clever.

but code that turns them into animated things wigs me out.

Exactly!

I'm a little conflicted about the commercial which has the various female family members playing Scrabble, where the mother says, "I have failed you as a parent." Cause on the one hand, funny! And also, yeah, ROTFL is not a word! And on the other, this is an ad for cell phones which will let you text a lot.

Edited because the commercial wouldn't really make sense if they were playing Tetris. Wish I could get my students to stop playing it, though.

The laugh isn't because they consider themselves such wags, but because it's a nervous habit, or possibly ingrained self-denigration.

This is actually something we worked extensively in the first level of the (intense, full contact) self defense class I took. It's a problem for a lot of women.

The other verbal tic I don't understand is when someone always finishes your sentence with you. And if you've never experienced it, I don't know if I can really convey what it's like.

It's just -- no matter what you say, they'll chime in on the last word (or last syllable) of your sentence. EVERY sentence. I know a woman who does this, and I don't see her often (mostly b/c I avoid her husband, who is a jerkface), but even when I *do* see her, I hate having a conversation with her, because it's like there's an echo in the room. Or like she's trying to one-up me by showing me she knows what I'm going to say.

Like --

Me: "So I figured, I'd just buy both!"

Her, a nanosecond behind me: "...oth!" (LOL!)

Every. Single. Sentence.

And the thing is, I'm sure it's a verbal tic, not an attempt to one-up me or be an extremely annoying echo, but, again, it drives me bugfuck.

I'm, er, not extremely tolerant of others' verbal tics. Bad Teppy!