Yeah, meara, at least check out the f****t scene from Louie.

I can't think properly when I have a head cold much less a full blown sinus infection. For MONTHS.

this has been my exact experience. brain stuffed with socks. plus other horrors. fire is kind of a step up. but no, big anti-bs for much longer than a week, plus another non-steroid inhaler (inhaled steroids, we have discovered this year, give me panic attacks).

Ginger, I hear you.

I feel like I should bring this thread some kittens after all the sinus drek. I will go look for some.

Someone around here had recommended a hotel in London (maybe to sj?) - does anyone know what that was?

I don't know about recommending it as a place to stay (beaucoup pricey, no doubt) but I've heard that afternoon tea at Claridge's in Mayfair is a great experience: [link]

Yeah. Have you seen the scene about that from his show? It's interesting, at least.

Yeah, meara, at least check out the f****t scene from Louie.

Watch the scene in the standup about that? Or there's a separate scene where he talks about it in a show? Link?

So I made it. Lord, am I tired.

afternoon tea at Claridge's

If I go, I will have a 2.5 year old with me, so I won't be eating anywhere where there are tablecloths.

To hate like this is to be happy forever.

WORD.

Carolina is also in the camp of having a nickname separate from the mascot: we are the Tar Heels, but our mascot is Ramses the Ram. The latter started when a football player was nicknamed "The Battering Ram" many decades ago, and a linebacker started bringing an actual ram from his family farm to games. The same family still brings one of that ram's descendents to each football game. The former is either from our shipbuilding past, or some Civil War battle where them North Carolina boys stuck like they had tar on them heels.

Earlham College--although they use "Hustlin' Quakers."

Now I'm picturing Quakers working street corners, hustling... corn? No, that's husking.

Or there's a separate scene where he talks about it in a show? Link?

There's a scene in the FX show with a conversation about the word, which includes a gay comic. Probably a YouTube search for Louie and faggot would bring it up.

So they are the Georgetown "Whats!"?

Yep. I think it's a word associated with Jesuit colleges. Even though Marquette was the Warriors (before they changed to the Golden Eagles), the fight song went:

Ring out Ahoya with an M-U rah-rah
M-U rah-rah
M-U rah-rah-rah-rah-rah
Ring out Ahoya with an M-U rah-rah
M-U rah-rah for old Marquette!

It wasn't Shakespeare, but it was fun to sing and play on my clarinet. I could probably pull the arrangement out of the 25 y.o. depths of my memory if I tried, since we played it often enough at basketball games.

There's a scene in the FX show with a conversation about the word, which includes a gay comic.

Was that the scene where they were playing poker? Because there was one poker scene where they started talking about being gay, and I couldn't believe the language they got away with.