Have any of you ever seen the phrase, "much to do about nothing?"
Mondegreen! Now I wish I could forget this exists, much like "per say" and "for all intensive purposes".
Jayne is a girl's name.
River ,'Trash'
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.
shrift - Nov 28, 2011 10:41:23 am PST #8863 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Cass - Nov 28, 2011 10:46:52 am PST #8864 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
"for all intensive purposes"
But! Their purposes are totes intense. Very, very intense.
Steph L. - Nov 28, 2011 10:49:29 am PST #8865 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Have any of you ever seen the phrase, "much to do about nothing?"
The writer means "much ado" like shakespeare, right?
Probably. I think it arose because someone, somewhere, didn't know "ado" was a word, and substituted what they thought was right.
Or it's a mondegreen.
(Also? I LOATHE "much to do about nothing" LIKE FIRE. But it's not the kind of thing you can correct in conversation without being That Asshole.)
shrift - Nov 28, 2011 10:49:50 am PST #8866 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Do you want to be dead to me?
Cass - Nov 28, 2011 10:57:50 am PST #8867 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Do you want to be dead to me?
Do you hate freedom, live music, democracy and totes intense porpoises? They only listen to vinyl records, you know.
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I so need a nap. I need three naps. I need All of the Naps.
P.M. Marc - Nov 28, 2011 11:00:51 am PST #8868 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Man, I missed the nerdiest thing discussion!
Probably because I was being emo over being unable to make the ketaput dollhouse in time to have my Castiel and River Song dolls do bad things in it for the Hunt.
And by "unable to make in time" I mean, "got side tracked playing RPGKids and complaining that we only got 1xp for the Trixie the Unicorn adventure, and also possibly putting together an ebay Roll Your Own Holmes list due to accidentally falling into doll tweaking again, and, oh, right, watching Top Gear and spinning Clarkson RPS in my head."
Also, I'm wearing my River Song boots. And pricing out hotspot options.
Burrell - Nov 28, 2011 11:09:12 am PST #8869 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
So in other words you were too busy being nerdy to take part in a discussion about nerdiness. ha! That's beautiful.
Burrell, is there something doll-related I could help you with?
Oh yes please, Bev! I will send you an email shortly if that's okay with you.
Liese S. - Nov 28, 2011 11:15:10 am PST #8870 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ooh, what River Song boots?
Liese S. - Nov 28, 2011 11:19:58 am PST #8871 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
So I went to the physical box stores on Cyber Monday. It's possible I'm doin it rong. However I need to hit the cyber stuff for my dad's nook now that I'm home.
shrift - Nov 28, 2011 11:23:23 am PST #8872 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Do you hate freedom, live music, democracy and totes intense porpoises?
Do you mean sexually aggressive porpoises? Or the sexual porpoise ice sculpture in the Pros fic that Dana used to torture me with before I started torturing myself?