Oh, and "at the end of the day." HATE that one.
Wash: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress? Jayne: I'll chip in. Zoe: I can hurt you.
'Shindig'
Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Glamcookie - May 27, 2008 8:50:09 am PDT #666 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
smonster - May 27, 2008 8:50:31 am PDT #667 of 10001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
From waaay back, re: HFCS - corn subsidies over subsidies for fruit and veggies = expensive real food and cheap "food" that all contains HFCS.
A friend of mine who is allergic to corn informed me that most cottage cheese contains corn starch. Whodathunk?
smonster - May 27, 2008 8:51:22 am PDT #668 of 10001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
at the end of the day
...and now I've got a Les Miz earworm. Hee.
Jessica - May 27, 2008 9:05:35 am PDT #669 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
A friend of mine who is allergic to corn informed me that most cottage cheese contains corn starch. Whodathunk?
Huh. I wonder what it adds? (Texture, flavor, shelf life?)
Ginger - May 27, 2008 9:10:46 am PDT #670 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The major villian in the HFCS saga is U.S. price supports for sugar, which make sugar prices in the U.S. two to four times more than anywhere else. That's also a factor in driving U.S. candy companies to move to Canada and Mexico. Corn sugars are much cheaper. Why manufacturers want to put some kind of sweetener in almost everything baffles me, though.
Volans - May 27, 2008 9:16:03 am PDT #671 of 10001
move out and draw fire
What Ginger said.
I mean, I don't know a single pizza place that doesn't put HFCS in their dough.
I guess the masses just want everything really sweet.
brenda m - May 27, 2008 9:16:57 am PDT #672 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Huh. I wonder what it adds? (Texture, flavor, shelf life?)
I'm assuming it's used as a thickening agent?
Susan W. - May 27, 2008 9:17:04 am PDT #673 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I want to do away with "task" as a verb, as in, "Susan has been tasked with updating the handbook," only I'm afraid it's a battle I'm fighting alone.
But I still think it's icky.
Ginger - May 27, 2008 9:19:40 am PDT #674 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I do not like tasked. I also do not understand the rise of "gifting" when we already had "giving."
Steph L. - May 27, 2008 9:22:17 am PDT #675 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I'm afraid it's a battle I'm fighting alone.
Not alone, although I don't know I can do much good in your company.
I hate "task" as a verb. But I also hate "partner" as a verb, and that seems to have near-wholesale acceptance.