River ,'War Stories'
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.
ION, I'm editing an article on stem cell mobilization, and it keeps making me giggle, because it sounds like a military tactic. "Mobilize the stem cells! Get them on the front line NOW!!!"
Hee. "Go go go!" Sometimes things have fun names. In my cancer pharm course, I mentioned the antioxidant superoxide dismutase. How awesome is that name?
Godfather is mostly true to the book. I read the book a long time ago, but I remember it was pretty consistent. The thing that absolutely matched was the tone. Coppola got it perfect. I felt the same sense of tension and dread reading the book as I did watching the movie.
How awesome is that name?
That's as cool as "cytokine storm"! (Which is something that I don't want to ever happen to me, but the name makes it sound fantastic!)
I swear to you, I read this
Lucas’s Law: There is no movie so beloved that a “special edition,” prequel or sequel cannot trample and forever stain its memory.
And I thought, "Woah, there's a special edition of Lucas? And it's different somehow? How did -- Oh. Oh, I get it now." Definitely time for more coffee.
Now someone with a better memory than me come up with a supporting example, stat!
My impression is that Bridges of Madison County is reasonably faithful to the book. But since it's a movie, you are spared Waller's prose.
And now I find out from Facebook that my mother is at the hospital with my grandfather.
Jones Soda introduces limited edition "Tofurkey & Gravy" vegetarian flavor.
(1) Ew. (2) I had no idea their regular turkey flavor soda wasn't vegetarian. EW.
I'm sorry, Dana. I hope it's nothing serious.
I just had a Tropical Punch Crush in a glass bottle. Holy nom nom nom, Lolcatz!
I'm sorry, Dana. I hope it's nothing serious.
Yes, it would be nice to know, rather than finding out from FACEBOOK and having to wonder.
I'm being irrationally angry, I know. And yet, knowing that doesn't stop my being angry.
I missed the grammar smackdown! Cry!
Here, how's this: splitting infinitives is only a problem in English because a bunch of English dudes who were studying Latin thought English should be more like Latin. In Latin, an infinitive is all one word, thus it is impossible to split it without just making up some nonsense words...
So, as a Latin scholar aware of this, I feel free to indiscriminately split infinitives non-stop.