The quiet car on Amtrak specifies "working" headphones for any electronics. It's an important distinction.
You were very nearly devoured by a giant demon snake. The words 'let that be a lesson' are a tad redundant at this juncture.
Giles ,'Selfless'
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.
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
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.
Jesse - Aug 12, 2008 11:20:53 am PDT #2870 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm definitely going to start calling it monkey.
Steph L. - Aug 12, 2008 11:24:20 am PDT #2871 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
In the Netherlands he is accompanied by "Six to Eight Black Men" which is the title of the piece.
Oh, yes! And if you're bad, he beats you and steals your shoes? Or something?
If you're bad he stuffs you in a sack and takes you back to Spain (which is where the Dutch Santa lives the rest of the year). Or possibly just pretends to kick you.