and gotten $60 taken off my Comcast bill.
Oooh, how?
Kaylee: Can I? Zoe: Sure. He's out, though. Kaylee: He did this for me, once.
'Safe'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
javachik - Nov 11, 2009 7:21:19 am PST #18616 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
tommyrot - Nov 11, 2009 7:21:37 am PST #18617 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.
Please stop that. You're disturbing me.
Now that I think of it, I say "predominantly" but I write "predominately."
Predominately, anyway.
Consistency is a hobgoblin.
megan walker - Nov 11, 2009 7:22:33 am PST #18618 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Fowler's says predominately is older (1594 v. 1681) but was rarely used until the 19th century. Now, however, predominantly is overwhelmingly the commoner and is what they recommend.
JZ - Nov 11, 2009 7:22:39 am PST #18619 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
10 Geeky Laws That Should Exist, But Don’t
Oh, they're all splendid. And, of course, now that someone has enumerated and defined them, they DO exist! And I shall start using them forthwith.
I want this one on a t-shirt right now:
Starbucks’ and Peet’s Law: C8H10N4O2, better known as caffeine, is the most wonderful chemical compound known to humankind. If the field of chemistry had never identified or produced a single other useful compound, caffeine alone would be justification enough for its existence.
Jesse - Nov 11, 2009 7:25:30 am PST #18620 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am hearing this as a triumphant song, like "they got the mustard out".
Heh. It was like that.
javachik, they had charged me (twice, apparently!) for the installation they weren't supposed to charge me for at all. I should have asked for more.
§ ita § - Nov 11, 2009 7:31:32 am PST #18621 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We do have some challenges to the Tolkien/Rowlings law in the movie thread.
brenda m - Nov 11, 2009 7:33:15 am PST #18622 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
PREDOMINATE! But only in ASSCAPS and if you say it in a Dalek voice. Otherwise I think the evidence is that 9 out of 10 people will look at predominately and go "wha-huh?"
tommyrot - Nov 11, 2009 7:35:03 am PST #18623 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.
Now I'm picturing Daleks invading us just so they can correct our grammar.
"'ALOT' IS NOT A WORD! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"
-t - Nov 11, 2009 7:37:43 am PST #18624 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
"SPLITTING INFINITIVES IS FUTILE!"
Jessica - Nov 11, 2009 7:39:02 am PST #18625 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
We do have some challenges to the Tolkien/Rowlings law in the movie thread.
I agree, but the wiggle room there is the phrase "reasonably faithful" - if you make a brilliant movie out of a crappy book, is it still a reasonably faithful adaptation?