megan, Grammar Girl used to work with me, in 2000. She was an editor at an online magazine for caregivers. I used to have to correct her writing all of the time, and so I laugh that she's now got some sort of fame around grammar. I disagree with many of her "rules".
Like any of that's enough to fight the Dark Master. Bator.
Xander ,'Lessons'
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.
javachik - Jul 07, 2009 11:51:42 am PDT #27878 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
tommyrot - Jul 07, 2009 11:51:53 am PDT #27879 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 07, 2009 11:52:42 am PDT #27880 of 30000
"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
Wouldn't the ill-advisedness of marrying someone who manages money poorly also apply to any guy looking at the author as a prospective wife, what with:
1) living at the edge of her means,
2) carrying a lot of debt that she's unable to pay off,
3) being unwilling to move somewhere with a lower cost of living, and
4) wanting expensive stuff that can't be had on twice her income?
Calli - Jul 07, 2009 11:56:05 am PDT #27881 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
United Airlines broke a musician's guitar. After getting told it wasn't United's problem too many times, the musician did what they do—he wrote a song. And he's writing two more.
StuntHusband - Jul 07, 2009 11:59:38 am PDT #27882 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
"I know. You know I know. And I know you know I know. And Henry knows it.
"We're a very knowledgeable family."
Ah, Geoffrey. Poor unlamented tick-tock-man. And that horrible smarmy GRIN.
Sorry, Beverly - Geoffrey isn't Nigel Terry ("And I shall pull this sword from this stone, and be known as NIGEL TERRY?!") - it's John Castle.
And I didn't mean to steal your thunder; I just get ENTHUSED and zip! I'm off. :)
megan walker - Jul 07, 2009 12:07:59 pm PDT #27883 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
megan, Grammar Girl used to work with me, in 2000. She was an editor at an online magazine for caregivers. I used to have to correct her writing all of the time, and so I laugh that she's now got some sort of fame around grammar. I disagree with many of her "rules".
I'm not surprised she needed lots of help, when I hear a lot of her "rules", my first thought is often--you need a rule for that? But I enjoy the podcast for some reason, despite the fact that her name drives me batshit.
javachik - Jul 07, 2009 12:10:53 pm PDT #27884 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
She's a nice person, but she drove my friends (then colleagues) Sara and Karen (neither of whom you've met, yet...) NUTS.
Beverly - Jul 07, 2009 12:12:06 pm PDT #27885 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
No no, Nigel is *John*. John (Castle) is Geoffrey. Right? Yes?
No apologies necessary--glad to share thunder and squee and enthusiasm for such a great movie. Just need to be faster on my feet fingertips with you around!
StuntHusband - Jul 07, 2009 12:18:36 pm PDT #27886 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
No no, Nigel is *John*. John (Castle) is Geoffrey. Right? Yes?
Yes. :) Too many Johns. (ahem)
Ginger - Jul 07, 2009 12:25:20 pm PDT #27887 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Not that I play the lottery, since I feel it preys on those least likely to be able to afford it,
"What has six balls and screws rednecks?"
The lottery just makes me sad. When you see the people who are just getting by win the lottery, most of them say something like, "I've played $40 a week for years and it finally paid off," and I think of the thousands of people who've been pouring their money down that same rathole. I'm also baffled by the people who suddenly decide to play when it's reached a huge payoff amount. People! Many more people are playing. Your odds have gotten even worse.
in my state is subsidizes the college education of many already wealthy people, so that in my town, there are lots of college kids driving SUVs because their tuition is free.
To be fair, a lot of those kids would have SUVs anyway, and a lot of other kids wouldn't be in college without the Hope scholarships. What I dislike about them is that they've led to even more rampant grade inflation.
I need to watch Lion in Winter again.