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My closest run-in to those predictions were a dog named Snooki (pre-dating Jersey Shore therefore the dog doesn't get hassled over who it was named after haha) and a dude dressed as a big nerd who later thought it was too hot and basically became an incarnation of The Situation. Who would have thought a small Halloween party could bring that much action at once? Well, I guess it doesn't sound like much but it truly was! haha

Have fun.
I'd expect to see Lady Gaga, apparently a lot of people are buying prefab Gaga costumes, and I'm sure people are making their own.

Was hoping to be in Montreal this year, but it looks likes I will miss that exhibit, looks interesting. Great to see all the love for your set, it definitely deserved it.

Please stop mentioning Alex K. 'cause each time you do, I get the itch to get more work done and he just finished my sleeve

And they don't seem to listen when you tell them 'shut up, i'm thrying to sleep'. They just keep purring...

it's a cat world. we're just necessary nuisances

I'm not fluent in anything beyond English - took some German in HS and a little Spanish in Jr High, but my brain just isn't wired right for extensive memorization. My impression is that mechanical, literal translation can work OK for some simple kinds of writing, although come to think of it, the instructions that come with just about every simple product from China these days really suck, so maybe not even then. But for literature or any sort of writing with an artistic component, literal translations don't work very well at all. Literary translation is more art than science because shading and texture can be so difficult to translate. When you're dealing with a writer who has a very profound command of their native language, the task becomes extremely difficult. I can only imagine the challenge involved with trying to translate someone like Vladimir Nabokov into English, or Henry James into Italian.

In the aftermath of the meeting my face had with a chair-back after tripping in my darkened living room last night, it looks like I'll be able to scare small children with no costume at all this Halloween.

I think the following is a wicked example for a german song text,
translated into english. It kind of plays with the whole translation thing...
For the english version typical german school english is used
(as Im probably using it as well), and its kind of a literal translation,
even with german sentence structure, but at the same time very self-ironic.
For a native german speaker the english version
(knowing the words of the original) is really funny, while the german version
is rather kind of tragic-comic.
But I have no idea, if someone who is not native german speaking
can laugh about it, so that would be interesting to find out.

English version:



German original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItLGYS7BCAY

V ielen glueck fraulein.

Hope the presentation went well!

i'll be here i can't wait a lots of kisses to u!!!

Compliments on your gorgeous new set!

I don't know you at all on a personal level, so I have filed you under H for "Hot yet accident-prone".

Cave woman! Uga!
Oh, it's out?

Ugh, booo! However, I do have to work this whole weekend, but around thanksgiving I have off from school so it seems much more likely that we'll get to actually hang out then!!!

"Someone found my blood filled syringe - dropped it! - and FLIPPED out. Poor busboy"

HA!!!

you're too SKINNY to be Vince Neil!

Long perhaps but definitely not boring.

I know it's not quite Ozzy, but my vote is for femme fatale Rita Hayworth in Gilda:

The guys asking those questions sound like jerks, but I'm wondering, since I don't have tattoos, if it's something people who do have them like talking about. Are there good questions to ask if you're just making small talk? I'm just curious, because I've read a lot of people on the site say they don't like it when people ask about their tats.

When I was going through college, I was a lit. major, and the question i dreaded was "What do you want to do when you get out of school?" I dreaded it not because of the question itself but how it was asked--mostly implying that a Literature degree was sort of worthless...which I guess it kind of is.

I can't even remember the last time anyone asked me any sort of personal question, dumb or otherwise. I just don't seem to incite curiosity.

I'm a reserved, quiet person until I get to know someone pretty well, and I don't really have any outwardly visible signs of being different. Strangers are always amazed that I'm a race car driver, travel the country to see punk rock shows, etc.

That is a truly remarkable backside!

2. People always tell me I'm skinny. Seriously. 6'1", 170 isn't skinny, it's what used to be normal. I look awesome.

3. Not at all. 'Tis lovely to behold.

4. Same thing happens to me - nobody can ever hear me. Seriously, just pay a little more attention. I sound normal, everyone else is just too damn loud.

Can't wait to see the new set.

Das ben wir aber noch!

Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!