My parents came back with some hilarious pictures of the whorehouse district in Pompeii -- the way there was marked with penis-arrows, and then each house had a picture of its specialty over the door. (The overall tour guide was scandalized that the local guide had taken the church group there, but of course they were into it...)
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
Jesse - Jun 12, 2013 9:25:23 am PDT #25658 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
amych - Jun 12, 2013 9:29:24 am PDT #25659 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I can't think of Pompeii without thinking of my 10th-grade Italian teacher, who had one carousel of slides from his summer trip that were suitable for students, and another carousel of his full set of slides.
OF COURSE he hit the off switch just as soon as he realized the mistake, but OF COURSE we were all extra-researchy at the town library after that.
Jesse - Jun 12, 2013 9:32:55 am PDT #25660 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ha! (I realize this is probably A Thing That People Know, but I did not!)
msbelle - Jun 12, 2013 9:34:55 am PDT #25661 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
oh yeah, we went to a Pompeii exhibit in museum down here when I was growing up. It must have been a big deal traveling exhibit, but all the phallic statues were startling to elementary school-aged me.
sumi - Jun 12, 2013 9:41:13 am PDT #25662 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Cool origami street art and check out this amazing work from a Vietnamese origami artist.
javachik - Jun 12, 2013 9:49:32 am PDT #25663 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Need some lawyer-related business advice, if you're willing.
At my past company, every regulatory submission I created had the application number, "CONFIDENTIAL" and the page n of x stamped at the bottom (in a row across). It was standard, and we did it across all documents.
At current job, boss says that to stamp "confidential" on the bottom of a page that already has "confidential" on it elsewhere actually degrades the strength of the implied confidentiality. So instead of using my page stamper on the entire (sometimes hundreds of pages!)document, I have to painstakingly go through the entire doc and only stamp "confidential" on the pages without that word already somewhere on the page.
So, this seems silly to me. Is it true that the "confidential" more than once degrades the concept? I'd love to know if this is a myth she heard somewhere or if it's true.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 12, 2013 9:51:27 am PDT #25664 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
You have a stamp with the page number???
Jessica - Jun 12, 2013 9:52:36 am PDT #25665 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So, this seems silly to me. Is it true that the "confidential" more than once degrades the concept? I'd love to know if this is a myth she heard somewhere or if it's true.
It seems silly to me too.
javachik - Jun 12, 2013 9:56:16 am PDT #25666 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Sophia, I use a software program with a stamping tool - sorry I wasn't clearer on that.
bon bon - Jun 12, 2013 10:10:19 am PDT #25667 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
That is extremely dumb. Two confidentials make a non-confidential? Where it's completely common to stamp every page confidential? WTF?
ETA: like what court/regulator is going to say, "well, this page says it's confidential, but this stamp also indicates it's confidential, so clearly the intention was to disclose this page exclusively."