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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.
When I was about six, my brothers and I decided to call our parents M and D. And occasionally Ma and Pa Kettle.
I call Wallybee Sweetie most of the time, and occasionally Baobei (Chinese, more or less, for "My Precious". And now I'm curious to see LotR dubbed in Mandarin.)
Ooh. One day only sale:
The Complete Monty Python's 16 Ton Megaset: Flying Circus (1982)
65% off! Only $34.99
New for 2005, The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset packs together the original 14-DVD megaset with the two-disc Monty Python Live in space-saving Thinpaks. While more cautious fans may want to pick and choose among the previously released individual volumes of Monty Python for their collection, true Pythonites will want to own this definitive megaset that contains all 45 episodes (in chronological order) of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
I called my parents by their first names until kinder.
I have been to the store and purchased wine that I will bring to a New Year's Eve party. Now I need to make chili and freeze most of it so I'll have something to eat when I get back, and pack my bag.
Getting out of bed is the first step.
And that went into my cart with my textbook.
eta: Re: the Python mega-set
Somehow I managed to get a paper cut on the outside of my left little fingertip today. I put a band-aid around it, but it still stings.
I'm trying to send out my Christmas thank-you notes. Typing the addresses to print on the labels is not supposed to be more painful than composing the notes themselves.
I refer to Ethan as either "Ethan" or "my husband" at work, depending on who I'm talking to and whether or not they'll know that "Ethan" refers to my husband. (Though I also frequently come thisclose to saying "DH" out loud.)
And wow, this hotel has the slowest internet in the world. I think they may have hooked up their wifi routers to a dial-up modem...
For example, google.com has a cache lifetime of only three minutes. This allows it to recover from failure quicker; if a host goes down, the bad address won't get stuck in other people's DNS caches for very long.
Aha! Thank you, Tom Scola.
I refer to people by their relationship to me unless the person I'm talking to has met them, or insists I use their name. Or I'm making a point.
Of course, my parents are named Mummy and Daddy. In certain circumstances they become "your father" or "your husband." Or even "your problem."