'First Date'
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.
Thanks, guys. I can't do aluminum foil for the wire S. just had to splice to get to work (which will be taped when he finds the electrical tape), but I will for other things. AND get the apple spray. He's a big chewer, and this isn't the first cord he's chewed all the way through.
Uh, the cat is the big chewer, not Stephen. To be clear.
good gravy. I would NEVER have known that "spastic" and CP has a connection. I don't use "spaz" very much if at all, but it was all the rage in the 80s when I was in high school. There was no connection to CP in our use of it. It would be more likely to be associated with hyperactivity.
I get why not to use it anymore, but when I was a middle schooler, spazzing out or spazz had the same meaning as "wigging out", possibly with more jumping about. I didn't even get the connection with the word "spastic". Language is fascinating.
Steampunk office: [link]
His permanent record in one vet office states "Destroys financial records."
Bartleby can chew my 1999 to pieces instead. It wasn't a great year.
I need to get some of that Bitter Apple stuff to keep Percy from chewing the strings off the blinds. What is it with that cat and string? Is he an obsessive flosser? I wish I knew more of what his life was like before I got him.
I would never think to use spastic to pertain to CP because it's completely NOT even used diagnostically or clinically here (you get hypertonic, which I guess would be spastic, and hypotonic). Grace has hemiplegic hypotonic CP.
The only medical use I've ever heard for spastic is re: spastic colons, which are in spasm. I've always assumed spastic was just another form of the word spasm.
Wikipedia breaks CP down into spastic (70-80%), ataxic (<=10%), athetoid/dyskenetic, and hypotonic. They put hypertonic under spastic, but the main section is titled spastic. No way of knowing if it was a Brit that did that, or an American.
This is the funniest April Fools Day prank I've seen, although I would have been a little peeved if it was done to me. This would be an exciting day.
I have CP(No idea which, to be honest) and I don't really care if you use "spaz". Although they are related. My exboyfriend used to have "funspastic" as his e-mail, but I wouldn't say I'm *that* comfortable with it. But he was more spastic than I am, so if he could joke about it...