Only one group [of immigrants] has managed to resist in significant numbers the temptations of English. I refer to the speakers of the curious dialect that is known generally, if mistakenly, as Pennsylvania Dutch. The name is an accident of history. From the early eighteenth century to almost the end of the nineteenth, Dutch in American English was applied not just to the language of...
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Great. There's a centipede in the bath tub. It's not a very big one, as far as centipedes in my bath tub go, but it's enough to send me sqealing like a little girl out of the room. I guess I can't take a shower, which generally wouldn't bother me on a lazy saturday, but I'm taking my daddy out to lunch and then to...
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zaksmith:
i caught some of strange days last week--i can't get into the cooking shows really, but i can pretty much watch any nature docs.
right now we got some crap about musicals or jazz or something.
right now we got some crap about musicals or jazz or something.
zaksmith:
ok, it's about the Mamas and the Papas and Michelle is hot but it's not workin for me. i'm waiting for "A Murder is announced" i figure...
It's a fact!
The Vikings believed that one of the best ways to cheat death was to keep their fingernails clean and neatly trimmed, because in the Underworld there was an unfinished boat made entirely of the finger- and toe-nails of untidy warriors. If a Viking warrior didn't keep his nails neat and trimmed, it could cause him to meet death before his time was...
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The Vikings believed that one of the best ways to cheat death was to keep their fingernails clean and neatly trimmed, because in the Underworld there was an unfinished boat made entirely of the finger- and toe-nails of untidy warriors. If a Viking warrior didn't keep his nails neat and trimmed, it could cause him to meet death before his time was...
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felicia_____:
Norse Mythology always makes me think about The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams.
It does sound like a fun project to have. Keep us posted on the Viking oddities!
It does sound like a fun project to have. Keep us posted on the Viking oddities!
thenutmeg2000:
Viking Mommy's all had to keep their little Viking Warriors tidy with a great explanation.. And that is truly the best one I have heard in a while... 
Dear My Subconscious,
I get it, okay? I get the point. My job is tedious. It's beneath me. It doesn't interest me or stimulate me in any way. At one point that was useful to me, and it's not anymore, but there's nothing I can do about it now. So can we knock off the dreams please?
I'm really not as pissed off as that...
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I get it, okay? I get the point. My job is tedious. It's beneath me. It doesn't interest me or stimulate me in any way. At one point that was useful to me, and it's not anymore, but there's nothing I can do about it now. So can we knock off the dreams please?
I'm really not as pissed off as that...
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archernu:
It would take a lot for me to hang up on you.
archernu:
For the record: my phone was actually dying. It turned itself off not two minutes after I started eating my pizza. I still haven't charged it.
The sun is shining, the trees are green, the neighborhood kids are outside beating each other vigorously with lacrosse sticks, and I have a bucket of buttermilk fried chicken and some limeade.
Ah, springtime.
Now I'm going to study the books I got from the library on Norse mythology and continue making notes. My brain is boiling on this idea I have, and I can't...
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Ah, springtime.
Now I'm going to study the books I got from the library on Norse mythology and continue making notes. My brain is boiling on this idea I have, and I can't...
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shad:
I'm at that point in writing where the need to write is so bad, so hungry, that I can't write enough. I'm breaking myself, I spend so much time scribbling stuff down, editing, reading, re-reading. I write so much it hurts. It's terrible. It's like being addicted to something, but no matter how much you do it just makes the craving worse.
Saturday in the mail I got a form reject from my agent-of-choice. Also got my latest copy of fantasy&science fiction, which included stories by two authors I despise, whose writing is pap. Hugo-nominated pap. Blech.
Saturday in the mail I got a form reject from my agent-of-choice. Also got my latest copy of fantasy&science fiction, which included stories by two authors I despise, whose writing is pap. Hugo-nominated pap. Blech.
shad:
I didn't really feel it, didn't feel sick with it, until I was about your age. Up until then I couldn't, I don't know. Get my shit together. Or something.
Great. Now I feel old. Great.
Great. Now I feel old. Great.
I think this is what I do for a living:
Moromancy: n. telling the future by observing the behavior of fools.
I predict the future will be stupid.
--
In other news, I wrote myself a letter:
Dear Me,
Stormish Thorgerson is the best name ever. Please write me a story about a Swedish rock god named Stormish Thorgerson.
Kisses,
Keri
I think I...
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Moromancy: n. telling the future by observing the behavior of fools.
I predict the future will be stupid.
--
In other news, I wrote myself a letter:
Dear Me,
Stormish Thorgerson is the best name ever. Please write me a story about a Swedish rock god named Stormish Thorgerson.
Kisses,
Keri
I think I...
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dogslife:
I know a handful of people who would sign off a letter to themselves with "kisses".
No, actually it's just you.
No, actually it's just you.
mistersatan:
That guy rules! "SEATTLE POLICE! DABBA DOO ZIP FLABBA DAPP FLEEBA SHABBA DOO!!!"
My sister has twenty staples in her head, along a large C-shaped incision on the left side of her skull. Staples are supposed to leave a smoother scar than stitches because the skin doesn't pucker, it lays flat. She's supposed to keep the incision dry, which means that after a shower she has to wear her wet hair up, exposing her half-shaved head and meandering...
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zaksmith:
"more hard-core than me"?
hot.
hot.
archernu:
The version of Trival Pursuit that I played on Saturday night was archaic.
Case in point:
Q: "Where is the Black Forest located?"
A: "West Germany."
Case in point:
Q: "Where is the Black Forest located?"
A: "West Germany."
Last night I went to a party where everyone was at least 20-40 years older than me, and I brought a lemon strawberry cheesecake, because it's not a party without one.
I had a fantastic time. I had a conversation with a blind woman about the intricacies of adjusting to blindness in your thirties. I had a conversation with a woman who had the same...
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I had a fantastic time. I had a conversation with a blind woman about the intricacies of adjusting to blindness in your thirties. I had a conversation with a woman who had the same...
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mk700c:
Done and done.
I went to this place called the Derby. It was teh good.
I went to this place called the Derby. It was teh good.
Even if I had not been looking to buy soba noodles, I would have bought these as soon as I read the cooking instructions.
HOW TO COOK "ASS! SOBA"
1) Put 2 bundles of ASS! into boiled water and stir gently for 5-5 minutes.
2) Adjust heater to avoid overflow boiled water.
3) Take out those sobas into basket rinse. Then remove water. After remove...
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HOW TO COOK "ASS! SOBA"
1) Put 2 bundles of ASS! into boiled water and stir gently for 5-5 minutes.
2) Adjust heater to avoid overflow boiled water.
3) Take out those sobas into basket rinse. Then remove water. After remove...
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ginny:
Honest, if I'd known about this earlier I would have been preparing the couch for you. Sadly, I'm lame and I don't hear of these things on time.
alukh:
Thank you. Yes, I made all the clothes that are hanging up in my workroom.
Holy crap, do I love etymology.
furciferous: [fur-SIF-er-us] an adjective meaning 'like a rascal'. From a Latin word meaning 'fork-bearer', which, by analogy with the forked yoke put on the necks of criminals, also came to mean 'jailbird'.
Also, did you know that the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex is the chicken?
Today's learning brought to you respectively by the OED and PBS.
furciferous: [fur-SIF-er-us] an adjective meaning 'like a rascal'. From a Latin word meaning 'fork-bearer', which, by analogy with the forked yoke put on the necks of criminals, also came to mean 'jailbird'.
Also, did you know that the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex is the chicken?
Today's learning brought to you respectively by the OED and PBS.
lilviciousone:
That's a fun and interesting fact -for-the-day. lol
good luck with your kyoto and keep me posted. I'll do the same
good luck with your kyoto and keep me posted. I'll do the same
No cranial leakage!
Okay, I can go back to being cryptic and heartless now.
Okay, I can go back to being cryptic and heartless now.
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xip:
You're INSANE.
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flux:
Watch out for tummyaches!
I was in a bit of a funk earlier, but then I got a phone call. My sister called me and said, "Bring me some ice cream now." So I got up, put some pants on, danced a little jig and brought my sister some gourmet ice cream.
It's like she just snapped out of it. Sure, she's a little slow and wobbly, and...
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shad:
Yay for gourmet ice cream!
adjunct:
When I was in the purgatory of greyness, I was wondering how things went. I'm happy to hear she's doing well.
[Edited on Apr 08, 2005 2:28PM]
[Edited on Apr 08, 2005 2:28PM]
let me know as soon as you get a chance
thanks!
So yeah .. real deep!
I notice your humour is dry as ever, keep that up