Are you free to come over for a short visit before you head home?
Sure!
'Day' is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable. I didn't get you anything.
River ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
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.
Kat - May 13, 2008 8:01:06 am PDT #6518 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
DavidS - May 13, 2008 8:01:21 am PDT #6519 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
There is an incessant beeping in my office. I'm too lazy to get up and see what it is and I guess everyone else is also.
"I was going to listen to it, and then I just carried on with my life." - Aldous Snow
Sophia Brooks - May 13, 2008 8:03:43 am PDT #6520 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Does the beginning of this video/song remind anyone else of the beginning of Once More, with Feeling?
(sorry to be all bandom all the time...)
Gudanov - May 13, 2008 8:04:08 am PDT #6521 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I would say the Bush Administration has jumped the shark, but it's too late for that.
Government asks court to block wider testing for mad cow
Isn't this exactly the sort of thing conservatives would presumably oppose? Not to say all, or even most, conservatives would support this, just pointing out the hypocrisy of the Bush Administration.
Burrell - May 13, 2008 8:04:29 am PDT #6522 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Cool Kat, see you then.
Emily - May 13, 2008 8:05:03 am PDT #6523 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Oh, Phelps. You rascal, you. As I recall, his reasoning is that the US, by tolerating (maybe by not condemning to death?) homosexuals, is deserving of God's punishment and, apparently, Fred Phelps's presence. I believe he sent out a press release after Jerry Falwell's death claiming Falwell was going to hell for compromising with the godless.
Well, at least the man's consistent.
tommyrot - May 13, 2008 8:06:20 am PDT #6524 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.
Blah blah blah teens suck at writing blah blah chatspeak blah....
Language that makes you say OMG
Ok. Fine. Whatever. But I think it's a stretch to blame LOLCats for this.
Linguistic butchery while texting is one thing. In school assignments, it is quite another. What's worse is how popular culture is encouraging this madness. A notorious offender called ICanHasCheezburger.com is a cute enough diversion -- it posts adorable pictures of cats, "lolcats" as they're called, with funny captions. But persevere beyond your first gag reflex and you'll notice that the captions are written in lolspeak.
Lolspeak has its own wiki-dictionary online -- sorry, a dikshunary -- where fanatics go to linguistically out-mangle one another. A recent entry on ICanHasCheezburger.com featured a cat looming over a laptop with the caption: "Just when u thot it wuz safe 2 go bak on teh interwebs." Another features a kitten: "why ur hed just asplode? wuz it my cuteness? sry."
Why did my head just "asplode," kitty dear? Because I could not transcribe that caption without Microsoft Word's AutoCorrect going into overdrive. And because ICanHasCheezburger.com receives 50 million page views every single month. Only 50% of users are between 18 and 49 -- which means a large chunk of the under-18 set is picking up lolspeak when they should be learning English.
LOLCats - bringing down Western civilization since... 1997?
lisah - May 13, 2008 8:07:57 am PDT #6525 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Well the beeping went away so my plan worked!
lisah - May 13, 2008 8:08:07 am PDT #6526 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
tommyrot - May 13, 2008 8:08:44 am PDT #6527 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.
DUMB OR MENDACIOUS? OR BOTH?....Democrats are taking unsurprising glee in rubbing GOP noses in the fact that the new campaign slogan chosen by House Republicans — "Change You Deserve" — turns out to also be the trademarked slogan of the antidepressant Effexor. That's prepackaged comedy gold for the late-night comic crowd. But I'm genuinely curious: how did this happen? Didn't Boehner & Co. even bother to Google the phrase to see if anyone else was using it? It shows up in a 10-second search, after all.