It hinged upon demon and daemon and UNIX and eunuchs sounding the same
You know that the name Unix was supposed to be a pun, right? It was MULTICS with the balls cut off.
Please...Wesley...why can't I stay?
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
Tom Scola - May 16, 2012 4:00:41 pm PDT #5361 of 30001
hwæt
Jessica - May 16, 2012 4:07:19 pm PDT #5362 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
And the phrase "fire drill" was used.
I can't even tell you how long it took me to realize that this was a figure of speech. Like seven or eight rescheduled conference calls before I finally just asked.
§ ita § - May 16, 2012 4:07:27 pm PDT #5363 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You know that the name Unix was supposed to be a pun, right? It was MULTICS with the balls cut off.
I doubt I knew it at the time, and I'm pretty sure he didn't. It was the gripping story of a computer nerd getting in over his head because he invoked a demon when he was supposed to be running a daemon, and he doesn't understand what the strange people are saying about his OS.
And then I (woefully underaged) (named Ethelerita, but always called ita) get acid thrown in my face. I still shiver.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 16, 2012 4:30:24 pm PDT #5364 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
And the phrase "fire drill" was used.
I can't even tell you how long it took me to realize that this was a figure of speech. Like seven or eight rescheduled conference calls before I finally just asked.
I'd always heard the expression with a very un-PC "Chinese" on the front.
§ ita § - May 16, 2012 4:50:03 pm PDT #5365 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Magically, I have gotten this far and I don't think I've ever had that used in a meeting I was in. Or, well, not in any context in which I could have (or wanted to) worked out what it meant.
Blissful sort of ignorance, this is.
However, a Chinese fire drill was always the game you played at the lights were everyone got out the car and went in a different door.
tommyrot - May 16, 2012 4:54:48 pm PDT #5366 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
For us, a Chinese fire drill was when everybody got out of the car and ran completely around the car and then got back in (the same door one got out of).
amych - May 16, 2012 4:58:28 pm PDT #5367 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Granted, I'm not so much the corporate type, but I was completely unfamiliar with "fire drill" other than (a) Chinese, with car doors, or (b) the literal kind which used to happen several times a week at the looni, usually mid-meeting.
sarameg - May 16, 2012 4:59:29 pm PDT #5368 of 30001
No fire drill is a drill to me any longer... Even the head of mission know not to joke about it to me. Last actual drill, he actually came over and asked if I was ok. I must've looked REALLY bad when the halon went off.
lisah - May 16, 2012 5:08:31 pm PDT #5369 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
That cat video is hysterical. Cats!
Kat, hoping for decannulation for Grace next week. I love that she's vocalizing "bowtie"! So random and hilarious!
Kat - May 16, 2012 5:13:13 pm PDT #5370 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Not actually so random. She wears a split piece of gauze between her trach and her skin, beneath her ties. We call it a bowtie. Today she asked for water.
I got to see meara which was awesome even if all I can do these days is kvetch about my kids (whom I love, I swear! Even if they make me nuts).