The cracking thing sets off my cutesy-etymology spidey sense.
Hah! yeah.
If you want me to leave, you can put your hands on my hot, tight little body and make me.
Spike ,'Get It Done'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
lisah - May 01, 2009 8:57:45 am PDT #17657 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Allyson - May 01, 2009 9:16:35 am PDT #17658 of 30000
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Today is my last day here. I'm on vacation next week, and then start at JPL the week after.
Last days are so weird...
Calli - May 01, 2009 9:22:47 am PDT #17659 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
None of which advanced the cause of women in the workplace, but god, the colors his face turned.
Good! Unless you're performing a morning-long session of brain surgery every day, why the hell should he care if you go to the bathroom?
Kat - May 01, 2009 9:27:07 am PDT #17660 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
But yay! LAST DAY!!
Connie Neil - May 01, 2009 9:27:15 am PDT #17661 of 30000
brillig
Unless you're performing a morning-long session of brain surgery every day, why the hell should he care if you go to the bathroom?
Must maintain a proper number of techs on the line, you're supposed to be working, nobody else is taking such frequent bathroom breaks, blah blah. I just adore the "Nobody else is" school of management. I'm sorely tempted to say, "Well, everyone else is an appalling little sheeple. I'm better than they are," just to watch his lockstepping little brain seize up. God forbid you think your brains and abilities entitle you to better treatment.
Barb - May 01, 2009 9:45:20 am PDT #17662 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
I was wondering if it was a regional thing.
It's always seemed synonymous with Georgia/Florida poor white although in North and Central Florida, at least, "cracker" denotes native-born, with no negative connotation.
msbelle - May 01, 2009 9:46:36 am PDT #17663 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am having a severe and acute onset of the sillies. OMG, am crying from laughing over NOTHING.
Gudanov - May 01, 2009 9:49:46 am PDT #17664 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
That can happen to my wife sometimes, although it is often over something that Leif does or says. Sometimes he'll just yell something like "Piece of Meat!" at random to see if he can get a laughing attack going.
Tom Scola - May 01, 2009 9:51:08 am PDT #17665 of 30000
hwæt
"Cracker" is also an alternative term for "computer hacker", usually pushed by people who want to rehabilitate the term "hacker", which didn't start out having a negative connotation.
Kathy A - May 01, 2009 9:53:16 am PDT #17666 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The forms department who are in my aisle and the next two aisles over are letting a lot of temps go today--sad. Part of the announced layoffs from Wednesday.