And now annoying man has sent me a new agenda for the meeting that is taking place at 1:00! But he put on the wrong date and also left items off! And now I am trying to get in touch with the visually impaired person who needs to put it on his computer before the meeting so he can follow along! And make copies, even though we are paperless. Again, why!?!
You're a bloody puppet! You're a wee little puppet man!
Spike ,'Smile Time'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 11, 2013 7:24:20 am PST #14318 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Sophia Brooks - Dec 11, 2013 7:45:44 am PST #14319 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
In an attewmpt to lighten up, I am wondering if anyone has heard of this swear word substitute?
My mother (who is of English and French Canadian extraction, but grew up in a German immigrant, giving way to Italian immigrant, giving way to Black neighborhood) says something that sounds like "fah-nah-bu-lah jyootz" in place of something like "Aw, shit!" or "Oh, nuts". Does it have any meaning? A lot of her swear words are Italian American ones, because those were her friends in high school Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?
Trudy Booth - Dec 11, 2013 7:48:29 am PST #14320 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Could be related to va fanculo... [link] Or maybe fanabala puttana... [link]
Sounds Italian to me, anyway.
Theodosia - Dec 11, 2013 8:16:01 am PST #14321 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
That's good detectoring, Trudy!
I can't nap, even though I want to -- my hands keep clenching up. I'm so sick of being sick.
shrift - Dec 11, 2013 8:33:02 am PST #14322 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Sophia's micromanaging semi-boss-man needs to chillax and let her do her job.
Have people seen the Santa Brand Book? [link]
Dana - Dec 11, 2013 8:54:40 am PST #14323 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Have people seen the Santa Brand Book?
Hives! I made it to the third page and it gave me hives!
shrift - Dec 11, 2013 8:59:25 am PST #14324 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Keep going! It gets funnier!
Or maybe I've just worked too long in advertising?
Connie Neil - Dec 11, 2013 9:04:32 am PST #14325 of 30000
brillig
That Brand House is creepy. And I've sat in meetings where they used terms like that.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 11, 2013 9:18:45 am PST #14326 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Or maybe fanabala puttana... [link]
I think this is it. Maybe she heard people saying fanabla "youse" (like youse guys?)-- that makes some sort of sense to me!
Yay!
JZ - Dec 11, 2013 9:31:50 am PST #14327 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Migrating in from Facebook, because I am spending too much time there and not enough at home with the Buffistas:
A local friend just posted that she needs to compose six body-part-themed haikus for extra credit in her Human Anatomy class. She came up with the following:
Nasal passages
You are so filled with mucous
Drip, drip,sniff, sniff, snort
I added:
Faint blue blood blossoms
Red in the right ventricle
Ah, sweet oxygen!
My dear phalanges
Proximal, middle, distal
Twenty, I love you! edited to nuke a stray syllable
Uterine lining,
Why must you make me suffer
Every month or so?
Lower GI tract
Growling, gurgling, gassy, smelly, rude,
Stomach's garbage dump
And someone else chimed in:
round, fat, fleshy, flat
a gluteous maximus
all shapes suit me fine
But I really want haikus from the Buffistas. If billytea, for one, can't come up with some completely amazing and elegant haiku based on an obscure anatomical feature the rest of us have completely overlooked or never knew existed, I shall eat my hat.