It might be my native language, but English confuses the hell out of me.
Today is the 150'th birthday of the creator of Esperanto...
Lorne: My little prince. Oh…what did they do to you? Angel: Nina…tried to…eat me. Lorne: Oh, you're--medic! You're gonna make it Angel. Just don't stop fighting. Doctor! Is there a Gepetto in the house?
'Smile Time'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
DCJensen - Dec 15, 2009 6:02:04 pm PST #3871 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
smonster - Dec 15, 2009 6:08:43 pm PST #3872 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Thanks, y'all. I am pleased.
Congrats on the part, P-C!
Troop also bugs me but I suppose it's just another of those wacky government terms. Thanks for chiming in, Stephanie. And I'm glad you had a nice dinner.
Okay, I've made the veggie casserole for tomorrow's work potluck, and will now leave myself an enormous note that says CASSEROLE so I won't forget it.
Off to bed with me! Or back to bed, or whatever. Night, my lovelies.
Hil R. - Dec 15, 2009 6:10:21 pm PST #3873 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Too much walking today. Ouch.
The productivity of everybody in my office has dropped immensely since we discovered Sporcle. [link]
Laga - Dec 15, 2009 6:13:00 pm PST #3874 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
leave myself an enormous note that says CASSEROLE so I won't forget it.
I sometimes forget to read notes in the morning but I never forget my lunch if I put my car keys in the refrigerator.
omnis_audis - Dec 15, 2009 6:21:43 pm PST #3875 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
wrt smonster pic... Va va va voom! Looks great!
wrt soldier/troop. I guess I have a related peeve. Soldier does not equal all service members. Marines are not soldiers. Marines are Marines.
brenda m - Dec 15, 2009 6:25:24 pm PST #3876 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
To Marines. I don't see why that applies to the rest of us.
omnis_audis - Dec 15, 2009 6:30:08 pm PST #3877 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
A matter of accuracy. I guess it would be like saying politician could equal democrat. But could also equal libertarian. Soldier, iirc, is Army folk only. There are Navy folk in harms way over there. I'm guessing those folks wouldn't like being called soldiers either.
Trudy Booth - Dec 15, 2009 6:32:34 pm PST #3878 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
Soldier does not equal all service members. Marines are not soldiers. Marines are Marines.
And similarly for members of the Air Force and Navy (though they aren't getting killed so much in these wars). I suspect that's why the news with with "troops" (and then "troop"). Once "Men in uniform" became the unwieldy "men and women in uniform" they were left in a terminology minefield (what with us having not signed the terminology mine band).
smonster - Dec 15, 2009 6:48:37 pm PST #3879 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I sometimes forget to read notes in the morning but I never forget my lunch if I put my car keys in the refrigerator.
It's a giant note under my keys, so it usually works.
Navy - sailors
Air Force - air (wo)men, IIRC
KBD gets peeved at that stuff.
Ok, really, bed.
Ginger - Dec 15, 2009 6:51:20 pm PST #3880 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Can you completely destroy something?
Completely destroy is redundant.
Destroy:
1. to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
2. to put an end to; extinguish.
3. to kill; slay.
4. to render ineffective or useless; nullify; neutralize; invalidate.
5. to defeat completely.