Emily - funny story you'll like.

This weekend I spent knocking on doors in Ypsilanti getting neighborhood support for one of our projects. I knock on one door and this guy answers. I do a double take at him because I *know* I know him. And I tell him so. He hesitates and says, "Uh, well, I'm Bob." I jump and say, "YES! Bob Dunaj! I'm Joe's wife! You were at my wedding!" He says, "Yeah! Come in and meet my new wife." I do.

He married Kathi Krater. HOW NUTS IS THAT!!

That's pretty funny-I was thinking homo superior, but that's from the X-Men, not David Bowie.

Okay, I totally went there, too.

He married Kathi Crater. HOW NUTS IS THAT!!

"Krater", baby.

Krazyhead.

That too

This says the bottom lip should be 1.5x the size of the top lip. It makes me wonder explicitly what all those women are doing wrong to their lips. I mean, my bottom lip is noticeably smaller than my top, so you'd think in isolation from the rest of their features they mightn't look so bad. But they do. I guess it's the ratio of the width to the height as well, then.

That's pretty funny-I was thinking homo superior, but that's from the X-Men, not David Bowie.

I suspect Bowie was implying...something else than the X-Men were.

Also, can one of the grammar people explain if that was the right "than" to use and when you use "then" instead? They both are looking wrong (and may indeed both be the wrong word entirely)

HOW NUTS IS THAT!!

Um. I can only think of one Kathi -- is that her? Or do I know her? I'm very confused.

Bob, on the other hand -- GI Joe!

Also, can one of the grammar people explain if that was the right "than" to use and when you use "then" instead?

Yes it was. "Then" implies time or causation -- this happened then that happened, if this then that. "Than" is comparative. Off the top of my head.

(Other than, taller than, more Kipling quotes than, foamier than,...)

It is so funny to see these small world posts on the buffistas!

Also, why do people have to push and cut and generally just walk in front of me to get on the bus. I don't walk too slow-- I am just behind the person in front of me, and I move up, but people come in from the side and enter the line! They even walk up to the door of the bus from the side and just get on. It is Rochester, people! There are plenty of seats! You will get one, and if not, you can stand! One of these days I am going to get a whistle and make people form an orderly line-- I mean, didn't we get taught how to form an orderly line in kindergarten! And then I have to laugh at myself for getting so worked up about other people being impatient, because it is just a waste of time. But I am seriously still annoyed now, four hours later, because it happens all the time!

Very annoying. Partly because it's just so rude -- somehow you're more important than I am? -- and partly, for me, because there's no polite way to deal with it. As rude as it is for them to cut, it's somehow also considered rude to draw attention to other people's rudeness. I wish that wasn't so, because it makes me very worked up too.