Oooh, I dvr'd today's Olympics just so I could watch the whitewater kayaking. I'm so looking forward to seeing it!
We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
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.
Kathy A - Aug 12, 2008 10:59:54 am PDT #2860 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Ginger - Aug 12, 2008 11:01:43 am PDT #2861 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It's not as annoying as singing, but several people at the Y have the volume so loud on their iPods that the music leaks around their ears.
Help! My brain is failing. Doesn't @ have a more formal name than "at sign?"
brenda m - Aug 12, 2008 11:02:53 am PDT #2862 of 10003
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
The quiet car on Amtrak specifies "working" headphones for any electronics. It's an important distinction.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 12, 2008 11:04:48 am PDT #2863 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Ginger, I've been meaning to ask when I saw you on the board the same time as I was - is there news about Bicyclops? If you posted something after the beep me item, I missed it.
amych - Aug 12, 2008 11:06:48 am PDT #2864 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Doesn't @ have a more formal name than "at sign?"
"eyeroll sign"? (But seriously: not really. At sign, or At symbol, or the never-heard-it-before Commercial At but nothing fancy and latinate: [link] . Also, some of the non-English names for it at the bottom are awesome.)
Sophia Brooks - Aug 12, 2008 11:07:22 am PDT #2865 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
amych - Aug 12, 2008 11:08:44 am PDT #2866 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I seriously think that the @@ emoticon may be our greatest linguistic legacy.
Nilly - Aug 12, 2008 11:09:22 am PDT #2867 of 10003
Swouncing
From amych's link:
In Hebrew it is colloquially known as shtrudel
I had no idea it was a Hebrew thing! I just thought it was named after the cake, because of its shape [Edit: and, yeah, that's why at first the "@@" emoticon was quite confusing for my poor little brain.].
Ginger - Aug 12, 2008 11:17:27 am PDT #2868 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Frank, he now has an amazing amount of metal in his leg (he e-mailed the x-rays), but is supposed to have graduated from a walker to crutches. The crutches will be around for a while. The last I heard, he was going to try to get to trivia tonight.
Last Tuesday, there was a runoff election in which one of the candidates was a particularly loathsome person. I e-mailed that I managed to get to the polls to vote against Vernon Jones despite my terrible stomach flu and he e-mailed back that he'd convinced his wife to get him into a wheelchair and to the polls for the same reason.
eta: I think we should all take to calling it the wiggly worm sign. My difficulty with the @ sign was that I was trying to come up with a photo of an @ key and @ is impossible to google.
Nilly - Aug 12, 2008 11:19:09 am PDT #2869 of 10003
Swouncing
Ginger, I'm not Frank, but still - thanks for the update. It's very good to read that things are improving, even though there's still quite a road to go.