Oh, wow. This place looks great. Oh, I feel like a witch in a magic shop.

Willow ,'Help'


Natter 64: Yes, we still need you  

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.


Jesse - Jul 22, 2009 9:00:03 am PDT #238 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

You, my friend, are insane. The red salsa is the best! Anyway, once I've had rice and beans, I figure I don't need corn as well. Anyway, I took it, it was fine.


Gudanov - Jul 22, 2009 9:01:18 am PDT #239 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

I do get the red salsa too, but the corn salsa is very yummy.


Jesse - Jul 22, 2009 9:02:33 am PDT #240 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I do get annoyed that the vegetarian burrito is the same price as a chicken burrito. Can't I get a price break for not getting the dead bird chunks?

You get the guac included, which the chicken-eaters don't.


Steph L. - Jul 22, 2009 9:04:54 am PDT #241 of 30001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Ooh, that's sheisty. (Is that how you spell that?)

I think you made up a word.

Which is a perfectly cromulent thing to do.


Jesse - Jul 22, 2009 9:05:39 am PDT #242 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I didn't make it up! I've just never seen it in print. [link]


Gudanov - Jul 22, 2009 9:05:51 am PDT #243 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

Ah, I don't get the guac. I see now that I'm just subsidizing the guac. My burrito sounds so healthy; rice, beans, corn, red salsa, lettuce; until you get to the sour cream and cheese part.


Steph L. - Jul 22, 2009 9:09:39 am PDT #244 of 30001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

I didn't make it up! I've just never seen it in print. [link]

Okay, I *am* familiar with sheister (though I think I've only seen it spelled "shyster," which makes no sense now that I think about it), so I guess sheisty is derived from sheister.

I learned a new word!


tommyrot - Jul 22, 2009 9:13:27 am PDT #245 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Huh. Wikipedia says 'Shyster' is the correct spelling: [link]

The word is derived from the German verb scheissen, "to defecate" and the English suffix -ster, "one who does". Shyster is an alteration of the German scheißer, because he knows what to do "incompetent worthless person".[2]


StuntHusband - Jul 22, 2009 9:16:42 am PDT #246 of 30001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark

Hm. I'd always assumed shyster came from Shylock, not from "scheissen".

(Amusing side-note: when I was studying German in college, one of the students forgot the pronunciation rules for the IE/EI dipthongs, and instead of "to shoot" - shiessen - said "to shit" - shiessen. Frau Janess was MOST outraged.)


Sophia Brooks - Jul 22, 2009 9:16:53 am PDT #247 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Does anyone remember- a long, long, long time ago- an article that was posted here about the negative effects that a formal user rating structure could have on an on-line community (The kind of rating system where every user can give a comment a thumbs up or thumbs down). I kind of want to send it to Cute Overload because the rating system on comments makes me want to stop reading the comments, both because the design is really obnoxious and breaks up the flow of comments and because people are arguing about it.