At my university we do an ESL test on Canadian graduate students to determine whether or not their English is good enough to teach class without further remediation.
She's terse. I can be terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 12, 2010 3:15:04 pm PST #8174 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Amy - Feb 12, 2010 3:15:27 pm PST #8175 of 30001
Because books.
Is our NBC doing something weird? The opening ceremony hasn't been on yet, and they're just talking to athletes and talking about the weather in Whistler today.
Pix - Feb 12, 2010 3:15:56 pm PST #8176 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
Gods give me the strength not to leap across the counter and throttle the sweet but inept cvs tech.
Jessica - Feb 12, 2010 3:16:24 pm PST #8177 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
What sort of remediation, I wonder? Extraneous 'u' aversion therapy?
Ginger - Feb 12, 2010 3:25:08 pm PST #8178 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My dad was in the hospital in south Georgia and was visited by one of the ministers who served as rotating volunteer chaplains. He looked at the long Czech name and said, "You're not from around here, are you?
My dad replied, "No. We moved here from Florida."
The minister says, "But where was you born?"
"Canada."
"I knew that was some kind of foreign name!"
Maria - Feb 12, 2010 3:27:16 pm PST #8179 of 30001
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
Skipping to say thanks for the hippo birdies, everyone!
Happy birthday sorella!
Amy - Feb 12, 2010 3:31:17 pm PST #8180 of 30001
Because books.
Nearly belated happy birthdays to Maria and Pix, with lots of cake and love!
askye - Feb 12, 2010 3:36:15 pm PST #8181 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
Girls Hockey commerical on Olympics.
Oh it's a WalMart commerical -- but it featured girls playing hockey!
Ginger - Feb 12, 2010 3:47:06 pm PST #8182 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Commercial for British Columbia: "Some people call it British Columbia, Canada. We call it home."
Huh?
§ ita § - Feb 12, 2010 3:54:48 pm PST #8183 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We call it home to SyFy and CW genre productions. Long live Vancouver! I wonder what Colin is doing now?