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A fine twist of inference there, oly. Only pull that off, could he, hmmmm?

I gotta have something to do while I drink my beer at work, eh? You want a hint on how to live a little longer?

You tried this one yet? I can't break the 24 second barrier... escapa

Why don't you go to a black neighborhood and start asking the people there about "uppity". Let us all know what you find out. Why don't you start asking me about what I think about people referring to all Poles as "dumb Polaks"? I will tell you that they are ignoramuses. But I don't take offense, nor get all self-righteously indignant, nor incite rioting over it. They're just ignorant douchebags. End of story.

Case In Point: Am I now to assume that the term "uncle" is racially-tinged? Shall I take offense when my buddy's toddlers race to their front door when I come over to visit and they yell in joyful unison, "Uncle Paul!!!1"? Porter is correct in his observation: language is a living thing. It evolves over time. What once was, is not necessarily any longer. Get over yourself and your self-righteous indignation.

"Uppity" is no longer a racially-tinged word. True, while its origin is from blacks in the US South almost 130 years ago, it's now a word in common useage throughout the English-speaking world, and I challenge you to prove that it's common knowledge of the word's etymology. Shit, I didn't know its etymology until I looked it up, and I've lived in the South for years. Fuck, I even call me sister uppity, cuz the bitch is. You should hear how she talks to our mom.

Not 'asking" anything, prole, merely observing that the media seems to like to take an everyday word in common usage, ascribe a pedigree to it, effectively creating a commentary on the user, all in the "interests" of reporting the "news." My rant here is with the media, not the nominees or who is commenting upon them. The piece could just have effectively been written without the use of the term racially-tinged, is what I am saying. That was added in an attempt to foment discontent, IMO.

Well, that's to be expected. They coined the term themselves, according to the source above. But Mr. Obama is from Hawaii, no? Is that now the New South?

WTF? "Uppity" is now a racial slur? Wow, I've been asleep too long... Seems pretty race-neutral to me... And even if you go with this etymology: That lineage hardly makes the term a racial epithet today. Must I now research the derivation of every remark I wish to make, lest I call someone a term of denigration by mistake? My, how far we have sunk.

Oooopsie!!!1 I just got an invite to this from Melissa, but I forgot that Fall Rigging is that same weekend. Sadly, no, kevin, it will not count as Fall Rigging training. I'll be driving in late from a couple days bid'niss over in Vancouver, so I might be a little slow to get moving on Saturday. Be there or be square.

oh goody! i have a long list...

does that mean we can start talking about global warming 5 pages early?

I'm no computer expert, but I recently took out the hard drives of a coupla old boat anchors lying around the house and turned them into external hard drives. If the hard drive ain't damaged, couldn't you just do that, and access your data from another computer via the USB port?

put the bong down now, and rest a while. expecting to see neener neener lizard in 3... 2... 1...

get your genders right...

It's OK in this day and age to be a SW nerd-boi. Re: the probe droid language, that I would like to hear you do. I can only fake it, not "reproduce" it.

Not to be a stickler, but I believe you are referring to Imperial probe droids, yes?

I just blew beer out my noze. That was even funnier than the vid!

And I thought they were such a peaceful people...

You do know what you should do now, rob, yes? Unless of course you lost your job to his kid. That could change things...

Jeepers, people, can we post this thing just one more time? Mebbe then it'll tie for the cluckers repost record.

I'd just like to add that had you been with me at Lightning Dome, we would have had the entire area to ourlseves, and you wouldn't have had to wait for anything. And that would have been a good thing, since I was partnerless. He bailed on me after we had made phone arrangements to meet at the campground, and I had descended into the canyon and lost cell reception. Didn't learn the full extent of the bail until two days into the weekend when I came up for air out of the canyon and got the "three beeps" on my cell. So, what I'm saying is at least you got to climb this weekend. Take solace in that, friend.

Cougar got the yummy... the vid was funny

it is right - rarely used, but right. look it up. Checked my huge tome (2,000+ pages) of the RHD. I humbly stand corrected. "You have to know these things when you're a king, you know." ---Arthur, King of the Britons Ouch! I guess you've earned a hearty "Touche'!" from me, Erik. But I must ask, do you trawl teh interwebs relentlessly, mining nuggets such as this?

You were missed at LD. My partner bailed on me.