Apropos of Nothing

Josh Cryer · 2003-08-14 13:17:03

With my accent it can.

Edit, regarding "toy boat."

Palomar · 2003-08-14 13:17:26

*I wonder if two guys recently posting here are drinking/smoking something "funny" while online...

--Cindy

clark · 2003-08-14 13:18:25

Candian's will soon be trading in their Maple leaf for another type of leaf...

Josh Cryer · 2003-08-14 13:18:47

Legalize Cannibas/Hemp/Marijuana! Legalize Cannibas/Hemp/Marijuana! Legalize Cannibas/Hemp/Marijuana!

Seriously.

Heheh.

clark · 2003-08-14 13:20:30

Men experience PMS, putting up with more shit.

clark · 2003-08-14 13:22:10

I came home and realized everything had been stolen and replaced with exact duplicates.

Josh Cryer · 2003-08-14 13:23:42

I have to pee.

clark · 2003-08-14 13:25:01

personal sexual prefrences are nobodies business.

Josh Cryer · 2003-08-14 13:25:38

Can anyone get Prometheusunbound's ?canyon flight? to work?

Here's a link: http://www.parksweb.com/nateweb/vid1.htm

A movie is supposed to load, but it doesn't.

clark · 2003-08-14 13:27:08

Mr. Wizard deserves a Nobel prize.

clark · 2003-08-15 07:47:15

she wears pink bunny slippers with the ears cut off.

Josh Cryer · 2003-08-15 10:15:39

If you were near death, would you try several recreational drugs just for the heck of it?

clark · 2003-08-15 11:10:54

Who put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovalteen?

Palomar · 2003-08-15 12:47:20

*I wonder how dickbill is handling the massive power outage out east and in NYC.

--Cindy

clark · 2003-08-15 13:53:58

Every year, people die from falling vending machines.

dickbill · 2003-08-15 16:59:56

*I wonder how dickbill is handling the massive power outage out east and in NYC.
--Cindy

that's it , we recovered the power at 6PM today ! and internet works too ! last night was a candle + radio night. Good old radio btw. But now everything is OK for most of Manhattan.

Josh Cryer · 2003-08-15 17:47:52

I wonder if anyone will blame Bush* for not fixing a 350 million dollar problem that is going to have costs in the billions.

Palomar · 2003-08-16 08:43:25

*I wonder how dickbill is handling the massive power outage out east and in NYC.
--Cindy
that's it , we recovered the power at 6PM today ! and internet works too ! last night was a candle + radio night. Good old radio btw. But now everything is OK for most of Manhattan.

*Glad to read this. I guess you were home or near to home when the blackout occurred. I can't get the images of scores of people sleeping on the sidewalks because they couldn't get home out of my mind. What a nightmare.

Chicago is the largest city I've been to (twice). I hate big cities; never again, if I can help it.

--Cindy

dickbill · 2003-08-16 13:09:27

*Glad to read this. I guess you were home or near to home when the blackout occurred. I can't get the images of scores of people sleeping on the sidewalks because they couldn't get home out of my mind. What a nightmare.

Hi Cindy,
actually things were not so bad. when the shut down occured, at about 4PM, I was in my lab and automatically all the generators took over to rescue the electrical-dependant devices, same in the neighbor hospitals. So the emergency procedures ran fine. I, as most of the new yorkers, went home sooner, that' s it. People were playing game in the streets in the hot afternoon, stay in the bars, line up for the street phones, some nice citizen doing the circulation because the street lights were out, etc. Only good citizenery. No panic, I almost felt that people were happy to have one extra day off work. And a little bit of walk is good for the people anyway.

Except the night, which as I said was a little bit hot without the air conditioners, I don't think the media should consider that incident as a crisis and make a big deal of it. Those in the Quebec region in Canada, during the winter 1998 after the ice storm, can tell you what is a real electrical problem: no power for weeks in the hardest of winter. People had to be evacuated from their home because it was so cold.

Palomar · 2003-08-16 21:04:34

English is Such a Crazy Language

Let's face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins were not invented in England or french fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

*BGD: Think "gooseberries." GOOSEBERRIES.

Goose (feathered flying foul that goes "honk, honk")...berries...(plump tangy fruit)

Makes no sense.

Yep, English is a mighty weird language.

--Cindy

Palomar · 2003-08-16 21:09:47

*By the way, there IS an explanation for "guinea pig." They are native to South America. British soldiers would buy them (or sell them...I'm not sure of that exact detail) for a guinea.

Have you ever had a guinea pig? If so, you know they make sounds which are reminiscent to that of a pig; they making grunting and squealing noises. They are so cute, and make very good pets, by the way.

They also whistle. In 1991, while single and living in my own apartment, I had a guinea pig as a pet. One evening I was watching _Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back_ on TV. Harrison Ford flashed on the screen and I whistled at him. A second later, my guinea pig (a female) gave 2 shrill whistles. I laughed so hard...I asked her, "Oh, so you think he's handsome too, huh?" It was a cute coincidence of her responding to my whistle...who knows, maybe I said something in her language.

--Cindy

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