Yes Tico, bearing is of course correct. We use the term "over boardwalk"
from Monopoly (game).
Osso, I was actually talking about a friend of mine who drives me
nuts. She's the original queen of digress.
I caught the Boardwalk ref..
On your friend,
I might like her..
Well, who knows.
I'll cheerfully admit that more linear thinking folks and more, er, making-connections (zippy) folks often annoy each other.
DrewDad wrote:Pedant fight! Pedant fight!
Indeed. My favourite fight.
I fear I am a pedant.
djjd62 wrote:my weird rant is this little radio show that runs in my head while i'm listening to the real radio
it's a cross between howard stern and rush limbaugh as i basically mock anything and everything that's happening in the world
i have to watch, because sometimes i say stuff out loud and get odd looks
I hear you....hang on, could you say that again
I'm a pendant. See me shimmer. Watch me glimmer.
I could rant about hospital politics and power-tripping residents who conform to unfortunate feminine stereotypes, but I haven't the time or the malice. I think she simply wasn't hugged enough as a child.
patiodog wrote:I'm a pendant. See me shimmer. Watch me glimmer.
I could rant about hospital politics and power-tripping residents who conform to unfortunate feminine stereotypes, but I haven't the time or the malice. I think she simply wasn't hugged enough as a child.
I thought you were a dog and a vet?
Wotchew doing in hospitals?
Is this the thread for weird rantings?
If so, I'm building up to one and will probably be back later.
I shall try Chamomile tea in the first instance, however..............
patiodog wrote: I think she simply wasn't hugged enough as a child.
and I'll bet her skirt looks like a shoebox
I'm a pedant.
(Plural of ellipsis is ellipses.)
I have a great deal of patience for digressions with panache. I have no patience for chatter. (This came up before, but I welcome the opportunity to expand AND to rant.)
Chatter:
So we went to the fair -- me, and that girl I was talking about, and her son, who is eight now, very smart, and his dad, and was the other daughter with them? gosh, I don't remember -- I think so, because.... right, right, we sat at that table when we had lunch -- the food was great -- and there were five of us so right she was there. Um... so we were at the fair and this boy got off the rollercoaster and his hair was sticking STRAIGHT UP. It was so funny because it was sticking STRAIGHT UP. I mean, not like a little bit, but STRAIGHT UP. Hee hee. Quite remarkable. It was short hair but it was STRAIGHT UP. Like this [demonstrates]. Just absolutely STRAIGHT UP. Isn't that funny? STRAIGHT UP.
[example, tragically, paraphrased but taken from life...]
Garrulous signers must have enormous forearms.
ehBeth wrote:patiodog wrote: I think she simply wasn't hugged enough as a child.
and I'll bet her skirt looks like a shoebox
Ok, I admit it. I don't get it.
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sozobe wrote:I'm a pedant.
(Plural of ellipsis is ellipses.)
I have a great deal of patience for digressions with panache. I have no patience for chatter. (This came up before, but I welcome the opportunity to expand AND to rant.)
Chatter:
So we went to the fair -- me, and that girl I was talking about, and her son, who is eight now, very smart, and his dad, and was the other daughter with them? gosh, I don't remember -- I think so, because.... right, right, we sat at that table when we had lunch -- the food was great -- and there were five of us so right she was there. Um... so we were at the fair and this boy got off the rollercoaster and his hair was sticking STRAIGHT UP. It was so funny because it was sticking STRAIGHT UP. I mean, not like a little bit, but STRAIGHT UP. Hee hee. Quite remarkable. It was short hair but it was STRAIGHT UP. Like this [demonstrates]. Just absolutely STRAIGHT UP. Isn't that funny? STRAIGHT UP.
[example, tragically, paraphrased but taken from life...]
Oooh! Ooooh! I spelt it ellipses!!!!
Poor Soz...you need a hug after that killer chatter.
patiodog wrote:Garrulous signers must have enormous forearms.
Wouldn't it be the whole arm?
I mean, perhaps MORE the forearm.....
Can I just post a very small rant? It's related to another thread, where I'm horribly, horribly tempted to bust out the pedantry, but it would be completely off-topic and result in an ugly scene; but I just HAVE to say it somewhere:
A rose by any other name WOULD SMELL AS SWEET. Not "is still a rose"!!!! No! That just sounds so frigging dumb, it kills me when people say it that way. Under normal circumstances I can tolerate it, but when it's said by a stupid annoying person who is saying stupid annoying things anyway, and then tops it off with butchering a good phrase--!! arrgh!
<whew> okay, I feel a bit better...
Whew.
It's like people who think "Wherefore art thou Romeo" means "where the hell are you Romeo?"
The Alfa Romeo is parked on the street;
Nice car, but I think you're in the wrong thread.
See, that's an example of the freedom of the internet bulletin board ~ I would never be that blunt in real life. I'd nod my head, and ask if it also came in canary yellow.
Lol!
Does the Romeo make the man feel alpha?
.... and then I could slap my forehead for not getting the pun.
Tico wrote:.... and then I could slap my forehead for not getting the pun.
Size DOES matter.
Bastid stretched the thread.
dlowan wrote:Poor Soz...you need a hug after that killer chatter.
Thank you. It was <voice breaks> quite traumatic.
I've never met a non-garrulous signer. Including myself. In ASL mode I'm quite, uh, handiferous.
sozobe wrote:dlowan wrote:Poor Soz...you need a hug after that killer chatter.
Thank you. It was <voice breaks> quite traumatic.
I've never met a non-garrulous signer. Including myself. In ASL mode I'm quite, uh, handiferous.
Not "handy" then?
PS: How would a voice break in ASL?
Which leads me to the related question:
Does the (adolescent male) voice "break" in ASL?
Yes, I know, I hafta go to work....
