In good news, I get to see Sox & family this weekend. My DH invested in new balloons (for balloon animals) in the hope that Iris would ask him for one or two or ten.
Grins. He'd better bank on 10.
Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
[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.
hippocampus - Jan 23, 2009 7:08:36 am PST #8740 of 10000
not your mom's socks.
Hil R. - Jan 23, 2009 7:13:35 am PST #8741 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Well, I went to physical therapy this morning. Was OK, I guess. Worked on loosening up the muscles around my shoulder, because I've been tensing them to guard my shoulder joint, and I need to be able to move them freely before I can really work on anything else.
amych - Jan 23, 2009 7:16:18 am PST #8742 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Why is that?
IIRC, you capitalize after a colon when you're using it to start a list (You capitalize after a colon in the following three cases: First,...), but not when it's separating clauses.
As to why, because somebody decided giving pervy schoolboys senseless and arcane rules to memorize would leave them with less time to touch themselves in naughty ways.
Laga - Jan 23, 2009 7:18:22 am PST #8743 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
peace ~ma for Askye and Anna
I forgot to buy spoons and I'm eating yogurt with a fork again.
I guess my mind isn't as dirty as I thought as I totally don't get the 2-3 chickens and a cow thing.
Typo Boy - Jan 23, 2009 7:27:59 am PST #8744 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
because somebody decided giving pervy schoolboys senseless and arcane rules to memorize would leave them with less time to touch themselves in naughty ways.
Actually pretty close. A lot of rules of English grammar were invented when Latin was the language every educated European needed. So many of the rules were invented on the grounds:
1) That the rules of English should be made as much like the rules of Latin as possible to make it easier to teach Latin
2) That the rules of English should be made as much like Latin as possible because Latin was a superior language, and the more English could be forced to resemble in the better.
Actually, not sure that applies to punctuation. Punctuation rules seem to be more recent, as do standardized spelling rules. Which makes Amych's theory seem more and more likely.
Typo Boy - Jan 23, 2009 7:32:25 am PST #8745 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Oh and Laga's question. The joke makes clear:
1) The Swiss lived in a cold country and wanted to go somewhere warm.
2) The Swiss were poor (hence the low number of animals)
3)The answer is phrased like a word problem in math for extra humor.
The "humping" part I don't really get. Maybe the Swiss were being accused of bestiality? Or the joke was implying that in a cold country you hump more? Or the joke was implying the Swiss were more likely to get laid in Italy, but that wasn't the reason they went.
amych - Jan 23, 2009 7:34:31 am PST #8746 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Actually pretty close.
Oh, I know it is. I don't actually think there's much direct tie to the Latin-fetish in punctuation rules -- although that's responsible for a lot of the silly stuff that still persists, "SPLIT INFINITIVES" I'M LOOKING DIRECTLY AT YOU. ahem. But the history of education during the period when expanding access meant expanding codification of all kinds of rules is full of concerns about behavioral control, and not just getting your commas in the right places.
Umm, sorry. Sticky pedant tag. Damn thing never wants to close...
Ginger - Jan 23, 2009 7:49:05 am PST #8747 of 10000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Shir, you're safest not capitalizing after either, unless the colon introduces something you'd capitalize anyway, such as a bulleted list using complete sentences. Theoretically, you capitalize an example introduced by a colon, but in practice, it's usually a matter of a particular publication's style.
Gris - Jan 23, 2009 7:49:56 am PST #8748 of 10000
Hey. New board.
UGGH.
I am not feeling work today. Last day of term, students are annoying and mad at me for the homework they're missing.
Suck it up, make it up, or give it up, kids! I am fastidious and your work never came to me.
Blah.
I am ready to be WEEKENDED.
...
Serious hugs to all the people who have much more cause than I for complaint and bad moods.
omnis_audis - Jan 23, 2009 8:16:45 am PST #8749 of 10000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Shir, English is my native language, and I get the technicalities wrong. You do better than I. Not that it makes it ok, but, don't sweat the small stuff.
It bugs the hell out of me that some jackass in a power suit who cannot even pronounce 'nuclear'Ugg. Because of him, I now have troubles remembering which is the proper way of saying that word.
The nose is feeling better. For whatever reason, I was kind of expecting results as if I had shampooed the carpet, and all the gunk came out and you go "OMG that was in my carpet!" only it came from my nose. Alas, not that dramatic. However, as my sinus fills up (since it only seems to be the right one), and I blow my nose, it seems to actually empty mostly. So, I take that as success.