Oh, fish frys at the Grange hall! So damned good. The history of the Grange is interesting, collectives for farmers. I wonder if the Grange hall is still there back in my old township.
It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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.
Connie Neil - Mar 05, 2014 10:51:45 am PST #21553 of 30000
brillig
flea - Mar 05, 2014 11:10:36 am PST #21554 of 30000
information libertarian
Ha, I was told the West Side was the only place to go for real fish fry! DeSales is a good lead, though. (There is a nice, really cheap house right off Woodburn that I've been admiring, but I am really undecided about that neighborhood, too. If we didn't have kids... but then, if we didn't have kids buying a 6br house would be very silly).
Sophia Brooks - Mar 05, 2014 11:24:06 am PST #21555 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
The Grange hall where I grew up was in the old opera house, and had a stage. They built a kitchen on it, and put in a window! I put on a performance of Steel Magnolia there, and just used it as the set!
Tom Scola - Mar 05, 2014 11:41:30 am PST #21556 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The SATs are getting rid of the guessing penalty? What's the rationalization for that?
Sophia Brooks - Mar 05, 2014 11:45:02 am PST #21557 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
First they come for the analogies, now this:
Instead of arcane “SAT words” (“depreciatory,” “membranous”), the vocabulary words on the new exam will be ones commonly used in college courses, such as “synthesis” and “empirical.”
Kat - Mar 05, 2014 12:31:53 pm PST #21558 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Mormons do very little with Easter, no observances other than, I think, some notice on Easter Sunday itself. Lent would baffle a lot of people in Utah
But Mormons already operate on a deprivation model -- no caffeine, no alcohol....
The SATs are getting rid of the guessing penalty? What's the rationalization for that?
It has little net effect on scores. CollegeBoard gave up the guessing penalty on AP Exams 4 years ago. I'm not surprised.
First they come for the analogies, now this:
Again, I'm supportive of this. There is a big move, especially among people who do not come from English dominant homes to spend strategic and focused attention on the words in the academic corpus and not the Martha Stewart decorative words.
le nubian - Mar 05, 2014 12:48:27 pm PST #21559 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I'd like to get rid of the collective reliance on the SAT altogether. But whatever. I am shouting at the sun on this point.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 05, 2014 1:07:45 pm PST #21560 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think I am going to have a fish fry.
I kind of wish they would just get rid of the SATs, but it is weird to think of the things you particularly excelled at as being obsolete.
Connie Neil - Mar 05, 2014 1:20:25 pm PST #21561 of 30000
brillig
I always rocked the vocabulary words. It makes me sad to think of those lovely words being considered extraneous.
Scrappy - Mar 05, 2014 1:35:49 pm PST #21562 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Are we talking about The Americans anywhere?