When business speak goes wrong: a colleague just informed a whole group of senior leadership that he called me about a big project and I "walked him right off a ledge".
Inara: So, explain to me again why Zoe wasn't in the dress? Mal: Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. 'Sides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. It's the whole... air-flow.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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brenda m - Dec 15, 2009 12:37:18 pm PST #3797 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
brenda m - Dec 15, 2009 12:38:19 pm PST #3798 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I like having a term that means to leave a job without specifying "quit" or "fired". I'm not as sure I like that the term is "ankle".
So sort of halfway between "walked" and "booted"? I'm with you - I like the idea but I don't think I'm down with the term.
tommyrot - Dec 15, 2009 12:41:13 pm PST #3799 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.
"walked him right off a ledge".
At least you didn't ankle him off a ledge. Or boot him off a ledge....
erikaj - Dec 15, 2009 12:42:20 pm PST #3800 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Not yet. But Christmas is for miracles, right?
Trudy Booth - Dec 15, 2009 12:53:06 pm PST #3801 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
Heh...almost hesitate to post this, given where it'll lead and all that, but a good rule is that "lay" applies to inanimate objects.
::Super Porny Pants swoops in::
::lands, fists on hips::
THEN YOU AREN'T DOING IT CORRECTLY
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Its/it's annoys me. It's should be correct for both because 's is the possessive all the rest of the damn time. I don't know why we have its at all.
tommyrot - Dec 15, 2009 12:54:48 pm PST #3802 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.
It's should be correct for both because 's is the possessive all the rest of the damn time. I don't know why we have its at all.
So you want hi's and her's and our's and their's as well?
Laga - Dec 15, 2009 12:57:23 pm PST #3803 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
So you want hi's and her's and our's and their's as well?
oh!
Trudy Booth - Dec 15, 2009 12:59:49 pm PST #3804 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
Well, his', her's, our's and their's.
OK, maybe not all the rest of the damn time. I wonder how the pronoun exception happened.
brenda m - Dec 15, 2009 1:00:33 pm PST #3805 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
So you want hi's and her's and our's and their's as well?
And of course him's, since his is kind of its own wacky deal too.
tommyrot - Dec 15, 2009 1:01:58 pm PST #3806 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.
I wonder how the pronoun exception happened.
Tino? Lieberman?