Oh, no, my thick-rimmed glasses are a lie!
Eta: in my defense, that's totally how I hear the lyrics in my head. Weird. Getting te band wrong is vintage me, though.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
-t - Jun 29, 2011 8:57:00 am PDT #14657 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
javachik - Jun 29, 2011 8:58:00 am PDT #14658 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Oh no! Not the Oxford comma !!!!! My parents, God and Ayn Rand will be very upset when they hear this!
Delicious example, Sophia.
MsBelle I am so damned happy for you!!
Jesse - Jun 29, 2011 8:58:53 am PDT #14659 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was arguing about Oxford commas before anyone had ever heard of either Vampire Weekend OR Arcade Fire.
-t - Jun 29, 2011 8:59:38 am PDT #14660 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I feel like I could use some kind of elite double secret irony to cover my ignorance if I really wanted to. Let's pretend I did that.
Polter-Cow - Jun 29, 2011 9:08:48 am PDT #14661 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
An update to the story clarifies that it's only the University of Oxford style guide, which is run by the PR department, not the Oxford University Press, which one hopes still abides by the comma that bears its name.
Also, as much as I love the Ayn Rand example, the style guide does say you are allowed to use it to avoid confusion. But why use it only sometimes? IT IS MAGIC.
DavidS - Jun 29, 2011 9:14:57 am PDT #14662 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But why use it only sometimes?
Because it is only necessary sometimes.
I don't wear a raincoat every day. Only when it is necessary. See? It's not that complicated. Use the extra comma when it is necessary to avoid ambiguity. That's what commas are for anyway.
Beverly - Jun 29, 2011 9:16:43 am PDT #14663 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
::clings to serial comma::
WooHOO, msbelle! So happy for you!
Kathy, I'm awed and inspired by your industry.
I seem to have come to the bottom of my coffee cup. This necessitates getting my ass in gear and and getting on with things. Here I go.
megan walker - Jun 29, 2011 9:21:12 am PDT #14664 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Six Degrees of Separation, the –t version:
Arcade Fire…
1) Humanity received the knowledge of fire from the Greek God Prometheus (this may or may not have happened under a stoa, or arcade).
2) Frankenstein was “The Modern Prometheus.”
3)
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
is a 1971 horror film directed by Al Adamson.
4) Dracula is a vampire.
5) According to folklore, vampires are repelled by both the sun and religious symbols.
6) The present-day concept of the weekend first arose from the
Dies Solis
(Day of the Sun) decreed by Constantine, and the Biblical Sabbath.
…Vampire Weekend
-t - Jun 29, 2011 9:24:37 am PDT #14665 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Nice! It's like you're in my head.
Don't mind the dust.
Consuela - Jun 29, 2011 9:47:36 am PDT #14666 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, I just narrowly avoided embarrassing myself quite badly.
They finally re-announced my position, and when I went to look at the announcement I saw the words "NTE 2 years", and I nearly lost my shit. Called the HR person (who was out), bitched to my boss, was going to go track down the Big Boss who was responsible for the whole thing.
... and then I looked at it again, and realized it was an announcement from 2008, and not the new one. The new one? Is a permanent position.
Good thing I didn't talk to the Big Boss.
Of course, now I get to spend the next week stewing over the application, which is always fun.