Today's xkcd: [link] The best part is, you can substitute SO MANY words/phrases for "sex" and it still works! (Like, say, "creating new threads"....)
Xander: How? What? How? Giles: Three excellent questions.
Xander/Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
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.
Steph L. - Jun 03, 2009 9:31:46 am PDT #22561 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Ginger - Jun 03, 2009 9:32:14 am PDT #22562 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
AP Style: Apostrophe S after a single letter, e.g., "mind your p's and q's." No apostrophe for the rest, so it's IDSs. That looks very weird, but I checked and the patent office uses IDSs.
Lee - Jun 03, 2009 9:36:56 am PDT #22563 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Thanks Ginger!
DavidS - Jun 03, 2009 9:41:56 am PDT #22564 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's like a little piece of heaven with bagels and muffin tops.
If that's heaven then Tony Kushner was right about San Francisco.
Nilly - Jun 03, 2009 9:48:25 am PDT #22565 of 30000
Swouncing
t quite impolite and a bit selfish Um, is it OK to pop in Natter after skipping-and-skimming to the point of understanding how lurkers-support-stuff-in-e-mail, just in order to exploit the hivemind in English grammar question(s)?
t Not closing the quite-impolite and a-bit-selfish tag, since I'm still those things
Aims - Jun 03, 2009 9:49:10 am PDT #22566 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
It's totally fine!!
And of all the things you are Nilly, impolite and selfish are words that don't exist.
msbelle - Jun 03, 2009 9:50:02 am PDT #22567 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Nilly cannot be not fine.
Trudy Booth - Jun 03, 2009 9:50:13 am PDT #22568 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I wish television news had to run a ticker with relevant facts under every speaker.
Oh, that's even better.
msbelle - Jun 03, 2009 9:53:40 am PDT #22569 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
B/c it shouldn't be in Nilly's post - a co-worker just came up to me and basically said "you! do this now!"
1) FU
2) I don't work for you, and please or courtesy go a long way, FU.
3) When I do start letting you know what is what DO NOT F'in QUESTION ME ON MY ANSWERS YOU F'in MFer.
ps - if you had an ounce of intuitiveness you would know that I am about half a twitch away from cutting someone, now it's a good chance that soemone will be you.
Nilly - Jun 03, 2009 10:02:01 am PDT #22570 of 30000
Swouncing
Goodness, I miss posting with you guys so much!
But first, I'll exploit the hivemind: I get every spell-checker I use shout at me regarding sentences like these:
The deep and comprehensive description of that topology as well as its effect on the netwrok's properties makes it possible to blahblahblah
We showed that a dramatic improvement in the search's efficiency was achieved even for blahblahblah
Um, not because of the blahblahblah, of course (which transforms into actual, y'know, words, in the actual sentences), but because of the "'s". What's wrong with how I used it, and what's the proper way to write these sentences?
Ta, ever so!
[I'm confined lately to working from my computer at home, which is too old and weak to handle more than one window open at a time, and even then it sometimes needs coffee-breaks and naps - for itself, not for me, and not of the COMM kind, alas), so I can't open the b.org window as well as whatever I have to work on at the time. Goodness, I miss it so.]