I'm sorry for your loss, Liese.
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Atropa - Mar 29, 2016 11:12:33 am PDT #18586 of 30003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Steph L. - Mar 29, 2016 11:20:57 am PDT #18587 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The highway is closed right now because of a police shooting, and we need to take that highway for a board meeting tonight (one I would vastly prefer to skip), so I emailed the board members to tell them about the highway being shut down and that if we're late, it's because we had to take a different route.
The chair of the board just called me to spend 10 minutes telling me different routes I could take, even though I kept interrupting and saying "We both have GPS on our phones and I'm sure we'll be fine". I said that like 5 times and she kept talking.
And I have an author emailing repeatedly saying she doesn't understand why the footnotes in her table are rearranged from the way she presented them (they weren't in alphabetical order, which I told her, and she is SERIOUSLY not grasping the concept of "alphabetical order"; I even wrote the following sentence: "The footnotes need to appear in this order: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, but your original manuscript had them in this order: a, b, c, d, e, h, g, f, i, which is why they were re-ordered" and she STILL DOESN'T GET IT I AM GOING TO SHANK SOMEONE).
Zenkitty - Mar 29, 2016 11:26:51 am PDT #18588 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Steph, the list starts out a,b,c,d and I bet her brain skips the rest of it and doesn't see what's wrong. Try saying "g and h cannot come before f. Alphabetical order is required."
Dana - Mar 29, 2016 11:29:50 am PDT #18589 of 30003
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Or just keep repeating "They need to be in alphabetical order." Over and over.
msbelle - Mar 29, 2016 11:31:07 am PDT #18590 of 30003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Or throat punch her.
Maria - Mar 29, 2016 11:32:32 am PDT #18591 of 30003
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
I'd be in jail already if I had to do Teppy and Zen's job. No lie.
Saints. All y'all.
SuziQ - Mar 29, 2016 11:39:26 am PDT #18592 of 30003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
"asked and answered"
sj - Mar 29, 2016 11:49:58 am PDT #18593 of 30003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'd be in jail already if I had to do Teppy and Zen's job. No lie.
Maria is me. By this point I would be tempted to send a link to a Sesame Street video where they're singing the alphabet.
Toddson - Mar 29, 2016 11:52:45 am PDT #18594 of 30003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I was recently copyediting a document that contains a list of sponsors for a conference. Whoever put the list together somehow managed to move a bunch of cities around - as in, Austin, GA; Atlanta, PA; and so on. The ones I spotted I googled to make sure I had the correct state, but I didn't have time to search on all of them ... I referred it to a higher authority and went on to something else.
Zenkitty - Mar 29, 2016 11:58:30 am PDT #18595 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I feel validated! I'd lose what's left of my mind if I had to do one of y'all's jobs that involve money and/or math.
Have I told the story of when one of my friends had a client who insisted that 10% of anything was always 10? Because 100% is the whole thing, and 10% of 100 is 10, therefore 10% is always 10! Easy!