I should shower and start doing productive things, but I have a serious case of the don't wannas.
Dawn: Are you kidding? Dr. Keiser: I never kid about my amazing surgical skills.
'Bring On The Night'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
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.
Dana - Dec 01, 2008 6:01:26 am PST #3785 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2008 6:03:27 am PST #3786 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I wonder if you are conflating prodigal and profligate?
I don't understand. They share a meaning. I didn't conflate them, English did.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 01, 2008 6:04:11 am PST #3787 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
2. Diamonds Are Not The Hardest Substance on Earth
Not no more, anyway....
Yeah, but the only thing that's harder is also pure carbon that's been heated and put under extreme pressure. I say it's still just a diamond, only tougher and fuglier than usual. It's the dock-side hooker diamond.
flea - Dec 01, 2008 6:08:51 am PST #3788 of 10002
information libertarian
Well, dictionary English, yes, but in US usage that I see, prodigal is almost always used in the "prodigal son" sense, and the profligate nature of the prodigal is elided, with emphasis on "he was unspecifically bad, and then he came back and was accepted".
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2008 6:21:10 am PST #3789 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
in US usage that I see, prodigal is almost always used in the "prodigal son" sense, [...] "he was unspecifically bad, and then he came back and was accepted".
Yeah--that's kind of what I meant by my question:
Am I right in thinking "prodigal" is often used to mean long-lost-but-now-returning and not spendthrift?
I.E. it's not used to mean profligate, although that's what it's supposed to mean. And the "prodigal son" sense, he is profligate. It's just not what people seem to be taking away from the parable.
Connie Neil - Dec 01, 2008 6:22:29 am PST #3790 of 10002
brillig
I'm now wondering at the connection between "prodigal" and "prodigious."
flea - Dec 01, 2008 6:23:21 am PST #3791 of 10002
information libertarian
Right. I guess we agree. Sorry I misunderstood.
Kat - Dec 01, 2008 6:27:35 am PST #3792 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
But the prodigal son returned, sheepishly, because he spent all he had.
eta sorry for the xpost.
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2008 6:45:34 am PST #3793 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The whole prodigal thing had me confused for a while.
There's a strange man on my balcony. They're painting the exterior of the building, but we're given no advance warning as to when they'll climb up the outside wall onto our balcony or just a moment before they'll paint the floor outside your apartment so you're hemmed in until it dries.
A note would have been nice.
tommyrot - Dec 01, 2008 7:07:29 am PST #3794 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Did I mention that we had a note posted in my building that they had gotten rid of the washers and dryers (with no advance warning), and that they'd be replaced (after some work was done in the laundry room) at some unspecified point in the future?
And it's been almost a month, with no laundry facilities, and no info on when we can expect laundry facilities. Some people wrote angry notes on the posted notices, which were then taken down and fresh ones put up.
A month is really too long for this to be going on, huh?