Dawn: Is that supposed to scare me? Spike: Little tremble wouldn't hurt.

'The Killer In Me'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Hil R. - Apr 07, 2010 12:03:31 pm PDT #21547 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Hil, I rode trains in and out of that station for years. Believe me, it's closer to Nerk than New-erk.

Nerk sounds really weird to me -- I'm trying to think of all the ways that seem like a way I've heard, and all of them have the oo sound in there somewhere.


Hil R. - Apr 07, 2010 12:07:48 pm PDT #21548 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I tried googling Newark and Nerk to see what I got, and just about every reference to pronouncing it Nerk is for the one in Ohio.


Amy - Apr 07, 2010 12:13:27 pm PDT #21549 of 30001
Because books.

Well, I grew up twenty miles from there and rode in and out of that station for years, Hil, and the way I heard it always had very little, if any, "oo" sound. Not that it really matters.


Hil R. - Apr 07, 2010 12:14:16 pm PDT #21550 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Well, I grew up twenty miles from there and rode in and out of that station for years, Hil

As did I.

Not that it really matters.

Yeah.


§ ita § - Apr 07, 2010 12:33:04 pm PDT #21551 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

And then when I comprehended it, all I could think was, "weremonkey."

Don't make me snort at work. It's not professional.

Would it be okay, hivemind, to wear a denim skirt to work on casual Friday? Jeans are okay, and people wear t-shirts, which I would never do, and running shoes, which I also wouldn't.

Just had an all-IT meeting. Did the demographics. Over 50 people, 8 women. 4 black people, two women, two men. What a minority I am.

CIO used two pop culture slides in her presentation, including one Lost reference. One day I will slip in Princess Bride or Buffy or Batman. Or maybe I won't.


Polter-Cow - Apr 07, 2010 12:38:51 pm PDT #21552 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I used a bunch of Buffy sound clips in my English presentations in high school. I mean, come on, we were talking about Machiavelli; I had to invoke Giles and Xander.


Cass - Apr 07, 2010 12:38:57 pm PDT #21553 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

If jeans are okay, then a denim skirt is totally acceptable.


§ ita § - Apr 07, 2010 12:42:25 pm PDT #21554 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

a denim skirt is totally acceptable.

I can't work out why I'm so hesitant. I guess because I haven't seen one yet. I've worn shorter non-denim skirts, so that's not the proper source of the hesitation. I'm just kinda tired of my jeans.


Daisy Jane - Apr 07, 2010 12:42:46 pm PDT #21555 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Buffy-well, Willow actually-came up in a meeting today. We were talking about how our team is kinda having to be dicks until people follow our procedures. We really need them to because our team has been so pared down that we can't have last minute stuff just pop up. We don't have enough people to handle it, so we have to really be shitheads about deadlines and such.

Boss lady and I almost at the same time: "A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend."


Jesse - Apr 07, 2010 12:44:52 pm PDT #21556 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I've worn shorter non-denim skirts, so that's not the proper source of the hesitation. I'm just kinda tired of my jeans.

That was going to be my question -- if the skirt is generally work-appropriate or not.