English is essentially language's equivalent to a transvestite.
I happen to be very biteable, pal. I'm moist and delicious.
Xander ,'Bring On The Night'
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.
Tom Scola - Aug 03, 2011 10:57:29 am PDT #19147 of 30001
hwæt
Kathy A - Aug 03, 2011 11:08:35 am PDT #19148 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Hee--from Tom's link:
English is essentially Pictish that was attacked out of nowhere by Angles cohabiting with Teutons who were done in by a drunk bunch of Vikings masquerading as Frenchmen who insisted they spoke Latin and Greek but lacked the Arabic in which to convey that. --Bill Hammel
Ginger - Aug 03, 2011 11:10:40 am PDT #19149 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
javachik - Aug 03, 2011 11:19:02 am PDT #19150 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Oh thank you, Ginger. I love that story.
sumi - Aug 03, 2011 11:22:52 am PDT #19151 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Yes, that is a most excellent story.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 03, 2011 11:41:04 am PDT #19152 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Stoned wallabies make crop circles [link]
That's hilarious. And now I'm picturing billytea's DW getting stoned on poppies and running around in big circles.
Jesse - Aug 03, 2011 11:45:15 am PDT #19153 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ah, crap. Coworker just reminded me that we haven't gotten departing coworker a gift of any kind, and we probably should. She's moving out of town almost immediately, to a much smaller place, so... some kind of gift card? But what? I'm inclined to Amazon, just because you can use it for anything, but that seems incredibly lame. Is Zappos too weird, from coworkers? She's totally inappropriate, if that helps.
Kate P. - Aug 03, 2011 11:50:45 am PDT #19154 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Gift card definitely sounds like the way to go, Jesse. Personally, in that situation I'd be pretty happy with an Amazon card. Does Zappos do much other than shoes?
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2011 11:51:57 am PDT #19155 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Clothing, accessories, bags, eyewear, housewares, beauty crap...
Jesse - Aug 03, 2011 11:52:26 am PDT #19156 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
She orders from there a lot, which is why I even thought of it, and I think will be commuting by foot rather than car when she moves.