So walking the plank is offboarding?
AND waterboarding, in a sense.
Wesley: Feng Shui. Gunn: Right. What's that mean again? Wesley: That people will believe anything. Actually, in this place, Feng Shui will probably have enormous significance. I'll align my furniture the wrong way and suddenly catch fire or turn into a pudding.
'Conviction (1)'
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.
Frankenbuddha - May 27, 2008 10:35:40 am PDT #694 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Sparky1 - May 27, 2008 10:47:19 am PDT #695 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
sparky your niecephew is amazing! How old are they?
She's almost 12 and he's almost 16. (Note to self: buy birthday presents) All their musical talent comes to them from their father, while their mother seems to have contributed a love of roller coasters.
Toddson - May 27, 2008 10:50:08 am PDT #696 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Another one that I could happily never hear again? "Perfect storm". Usually misused ....
sumi - May 27, 2008 10:53:24 am PDT #697 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Nora - TWOP forums appear to be working - although I'm still not getting notifications.
Fred Pete - May 27, 2008 10:59:45 am PDT #698 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
"Perfect storm". Usually misused ....
It isn't one I use, but I'm old-fashioned enough to hestitate before using "in the loop."
If I were to use "perfect storm," it would mean that several things, each unpleasant in itself but not inordinately so, combine to create an epic mess. Yes/no/maybe?
Frankenbuddha - May 27, 2008 11:04:12 am PDT #699 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
If I were to use "perfect storm," it would mean that several things, each unpleasant in itself but not inordinately so, combine to create an epic mess. Yes/no/maybe?
We could probably leverage that definition.
runs away
Toddson - May 27, 2008 11:06:38 am PDT #700 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
As I understand it, the technically correct use is that a number of factors come together so that the final result is greater - far worse - than any of the individual factors.
Also - I can remember when people came on TV/radio and "commentated". They later became "commentators" (which is OK, so far). Unfortunately, this spawned a new verb, "commentating". ick.
And I also really hate the use of "task" as a verb (except as Melville used it). Also "authoring" - what's wrong with "writing"? And I really, really hate when someone decides to use a "big" word (again, in a usage that misses its exact meaning) rather than something less pretentious but more straightforward. sigh.
Laga - May 27, 2008 11:33:22 am PDT #701 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I dated a guy who liked to reclinate in a recliner.
Volans - May 27, 2008 11:36:19 am PDT #702 of 10001
move out and draw fire
I also do not understand the rise of "gifting" when we already had "giving."
Giving: The desire to do something nice for someone else, because their increased happiness is important to you.
Gifting: The desire to be recognized as better than other people, because you spend money.
The idiom that's been bothering me is possibly a regional VA thing; it's not Bureaucratic Bullshit Bingo anyway. It's dropping "to be" after "needs" but not adding an "-ing" to the second verb.
Like, "the dishes need done, the car needs washed, and dinner needs cooked."
Laga - May 27, 2008 11:44:30 am PDT #703 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm taking myself out to lunch. I think I'll go read my African novel in an Indian restaurant.