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Just be glad it's not grammar

That would have been sweet. Both of us were too stunned to think of a rejoinder, though.

Once, in grad school back in that horrid PC wasteland known as Cambridge, MA, I came into the office from outside during a rather cold and windy day. I mentioned to my officemate that "It's a little nippy out there". The resident PC gatekeeper happened to be passing by and said "That's a little offensive, don't you think?" (apparently unfamiliar with the etymology of the word)

I'm sorry, this town looks like an upscale Anchorage.

At least the only thing you won't be hearing is "So, how's the thesis going?"

If we have rules, we'll all be nice to each other and not wish, secretly, to kill each other in horrible bloody ways. Right?

They sucked then. They suck now. Of course, if people would stop *asking* for them....

Be excellent to each other!!!

more accurately, god bless eastern european girls and american publishing.

Guess I shouldn't have gone into geophysics... :-(

A partner and I were hiking up the approach to the climber's base camp on Mt Whitney. Just as we'd got out of the trees and bushes, I turn around for a look back down into the Owens Valley and coming right up at us from down lower in the valley is an F-15 going fast enough to be completely silent to us until it passed a few hundred feet over our heads. It continued to hug the face of the mountain until it flew up over the summit ridge and executed a arcing turn to the south. About five minutes after I'd summited Mt Cook in NZ, a tourist plane (a Pilatus Porter)buzzed the summit by a hundred feet. We couldn't see it coming because the actual summit was off-limits due to the massive rock-slide that had occurred a year or two earlier. Technically, an illegal fly-over according to the park but it's NZ after all.

After that post, it's clearer to me now how we end up with such losers in the White House...

And now anti-black as well? Tsk tsk...Wait until this hits the mainstream media... That would be a hoot if Obama asked that on TV. Will NOW, in a fit of pique and retribution, withhold support for him if he gets the nomination? Maybe someone at NOW ought to think a little further ahead.

How's that memory bandwidth contention working out for you ?

Apparently, if you're a woman, you're supposed to vote for Hillary. Did all of you get the memo?

Yeah, right. That always held Beckey back. Sounds like what you're looking for is a 'subsidy'.

I like that one, I'll have to remember it.

You need one o' these to shock the Mormon girlies

maybe the dhughd abides?

I see you got that can of spray paint you wanted for Christmas.

Everyone who thinks layton is crazy for leaving, raise your mossy wet hand.

Hey Mike, what's the matter? Get tired of bushwacking through devil's club in the rain? . How the heck have I run into Colin in the bc but not you? Go figure. Watch out for those Mormon girls.

So do you dislike the title Dr, as used by non-medical types, on general principals or only when they insist that you use that title while speaking to them. I'd say 99.999% of them never use it, except on stationery or in official correspondence (because it does tend to get more notice...go figure). However, having a PhD and using the title Dr is technically correct.

You know what I hate? Those situations where somebody does something that really torques your panties. Like saying 'colour' when they mean 'color'. See? Get's to you, too, doesn't it? But that's not what really bothers me. What really bothers me is when people change their mind, right in the middle of talking to you. And what really really bothers me, is getting your undies torqued, saying 'Please, sir, may I have another?', and then going home and posting a really really righteous screed on the Internet about the wanker that just torqued your undies. Except, the screed really isn't righteous and you just used the word 'wanker' instead of that all-American term: asshat.