- snorkle* at Who's on First?
Oh, God. Oh, God. My hair. My hair! The government gave me bad hair!
Cordelia ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[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.
Spidra Webster - Aug 31, 2010 5:00:31 pm PDT #799 of 30000
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
smonster - Aug 31, 2010 5:06:11 pm PDT #800 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Yay Trudy!!
DCJensen - Aug 31, 2010 5:19:35 pm PDT #801 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Just because I recently made the same assumption, I think mechanics need to be asked "So the catalytic converter needs to be replaced?" when they say the following:
"From the catalytic converter to the tailpipe"
or what a mechanic recently said:
"Pretty much the cat back to the tail pipes."
I really need to ask them again, as I, too am puzzled.
Ginger - Aug 31, 2010 5:27:04 pm PDT #802 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My assumption is that the phrase "from the catalytic converter to the tailpipe" includes the catalytic converter, under the theory that in any car repair scenario, the answer is the one that costs more.
Yay for successful surgery!
I vote for having DCJ around for many years.
I'm sending all the ~ma to Drew.
Connie Neil - Aug 31, 2010 5:34:09 pm PDT #803 of 30000
brillig
Jesus Christ, did his great-grandma bone THOR?
Well, he is blond and blue-eyed and owns several hammers. Back in the day, he had long hair that he braided into his beard. Ah, the '70s in California in the Forest Service. I so wish I had pictures of him then.
smonster - Aug 31, 2010 5:36:25 pm PDT #804 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Ha! All the lead paint docs I need to read are in PDF form and I'm on my iPhone. Time to go read some Inception fic!
Cass - Aug 31, 2010 5:37:09 pm PDT #805 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I'd have assumed "from the cat convert" included it.
Clearer, to me, would be "From AFTER the catalytic converter to the tailpipe would need to be replaced."
Cass - Aug 31, 2010 5:37:28 pm PDT #806 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Time to go read some Inception fic!
Awesome plan!
-t - Aug 31, 2010 5:39:53 pm PDT #807 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I will pretty much always ask "inclusive?" after any "from A to B" statement. Which doesn't always help, but it's my knee-jerk.
Steph L. - Aug 31, 2010 5:43:10 pm PDT #808 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I will pretty much always ask "inclusive?" after any "from A to B" statement. Which doesn't always help, but it's my knee-jerk.
I am indeed learning I need to do this. But if I said, "I am covered in mud from my head to my toes," I would think no one would assume I meant starting from my collarbone down. Or! "From soup to nuts," in my book, implies the inclusion of the soup. Although it's not a good comparison, really. But I wanted to say it.
(For the record, I meant [A], which included the catalytic converter. However, I do not think that *I* have to have the catalytic converter replaced [knock on wood], thank god.)