Oh, man, I keep forgetting to mention that we ate at Consuela's brother's restaurant in Chicago when we were there the week before xmas and it was freaking awesome!!! And he came over to say hi to us and was just lovely. Our food snob friends we were with were VERY impressed.
'Shindig'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
Hey, what's a word for someone who gets easily distracted and flits from thing to thing? It's like a bird or an insect or something? It's possible I'm making it up. I know it's not magpie, and it doesn't seem to be mayfly. I want it to be an m word, apparently. Any ideas?
ETA: OK, never mind. I went with scatterbrain. Well, I mean, feel free to come up with the word; just saying that the crisis is averted. I'm sure you're all relieved.
Plus, anytime you say, "The whole purpose of literature is to elevate," I want to smack you.
Ding ding ding! That sort of phrase makes me very angry.
Hey, what's a word for someone who gets easily distracted and flits from thing to thing? It's like a bird or an insect or something? It's possible I'm making it up. I know it's not magpie, and it doesn't seem to be mayfly. I want it to be an m word, apparently. Any ideas?
Hummingbird? (waits for x-post)
Flibertigibbit?
If you say this about ANYTHING except a hot air balloon, a smack is totally called for.
What about an elevator??
mayfly
Gadfly?
Hey, what's a word for someone who gets easily distracted and flits from thing to thing? It's like a bird or an insect or something? It's possible I'm making it up. I know it's not magpie, and it doesn't seem to be mayfly. I want it to be an m word, apparently. Any ideas?not a bird but dilettante?
Gadflies annoy. Flibbergidget is my first choice.
That or a cracked out squirrel.
Oh, flibbertigibbet! Wow, that's a word I never had to spell before.
new bow
Nice! How does it shoot?