Category: the odes

02/10/12 11:29 - ID#56041

So this is how it happened

I wouldn't put it past him.

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02/05/12 07:16 - ID#56027

Counting Crows

Unlike the band, the million-strong murder of crows that suddenly decided to alight on the tree outside my window are producing a racket that can only grace the soundtrack to the remake of the ghoulies.

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01/14/12 10:44 - ID#55913

Solar Headrock

Meet Tomy

and random stoned baby (possibly with a concussion).

Tomy is so happy the sun is out that he dropped the stoned baby on its head? And I thought only the Japanese made the weirdest toys. This is Chinese.

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01/12/12 12:23 - ID#55891

The Island Spatula

A spatula to whack all the other spatulas to the ground.

It could be exactly what I have in mind. But then when did a picture ever tell the truth? We will see how it holds up in my kitchen warfront.

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01/11/12 10:06 - ID#55889

The Apple Pushers

I want to see this documentary.

Has the coming of Pricerite with its massive produce section to Elmwood increased access of underprivileged residents of the area to affordable fresh produce. YES!

tinypliny writes at 07:52:41 01/12/12 - Comment #67165: Right from the moment the opening credits roll, the movie is an epitome of cool!

metalpeter writes at 07:51:52 01/12/12 - Comment #67164: Think it is the Norton Version I have but Haven't seen yet?

tinypliny writes at 07:38:04 01/12/12 - Comment #67158: And it has Aerosmith's daughter!!!!!!

tinypliny writes at 07:37:51 01/12/12 - Comment #67157: I love love LOVE that soundtrack and have probably heard it a million times! Its so pitch perfect!

tinypliny writes at 07:36:29 01/12/12 - Comment #67156: Yeah. some else was hulk earlier. But who cares, I don't remember his name... or come to think of it, face either!

tinypliny writes at 07:35:31 01/12/12 - Comment #67155: OH. MY. GOD. You haven't see the edward norton version!!

OMG.

OMG.

OMG.

I cannot believe it! YOU HAVE TO RENT IT OUT TODAY!!!!

metalpeter writes at 07:33:44 01/12/12 - Comment #67153: I May Have Spelled his Name Wrong he Play Bruce Banner on the TV show and then Lou Guy Played the Hulk in the show.... I haven't seen the Edward Norton Hulk Yet... Got it on DVD But I saw the one before it with I can't think of the guys name....

tinypliny writes at 07:21:13 01/12/12 - Comment #67151: Who the hell is Bill Bixby? That lou guy played the security guard in the incredible hulk movie. The new hulk is Edward Norton!!

metalpeter writes at 07:16:05 01/12/12 - Comment #67150: Bill Bixby is Dead.... You mean Lou Feringo .... Or do you mean Can't think of the guys name the new hulk actor?

tinypliny writes at 07:03:13 01/12/12 - Comment #67146: The hulk is narrating. How can it be possibly bad?! ;-)

metalpeter writes at 06:54:25 01/12/12 - Comment #67142: I'll bring the Stoli as the Russians Call it...HA.... This does look interesting... But hard to know if one will like a certain Documentary from a preview or from a description....

tinypliny writes at 06:46:46 01/12/12 - Comment #67140: I want to see documentaries with you someday, (e:metalpeter)! It will be so much fun!

metalpeter writes at 05:43:26 01/12/12 - Comment #67131: Does look interesting I love the Part about hard work.... Maybe cause I'm going to do a post about loyalty and work.... Or maybe it is because I know that many Americans are lazy and don't want to work hard so Companies go to places where the labor is cheap or where the work is better like Japan and Steel.....

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Category: the odes

01/06/12 09:47 - ID#55862

Adjective Subtext

You have to love those quoted adjectives in trailers.

"Delightful"
oh, was the popcorn tasty?

"Terrific"
oops terrible?

"Stunning"
had a cataract surgery
"WONDERFUL!"
We were stoned.
"Masterful"
full of what?

"Spendid!"
you didn't!

"INTOXICATING"
say no more
"Charming!"
give it a rest already

"Captivating!!!"
drunk. no doubt

"Seductive"
so you have a crush on the actress

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PS: wish there was a way to float words right. would have made it even more authentic. heh.

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12/15/11 04:42 - ID#55748

December Skies

Ominous plus plus

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12/15/11 09:43 - ID#55744

Metric units, non-metric spelling

US doesn't follow SI or metric units but yet, MS Word and other US spell checkers insist that I spell metres as meters.

A meter is usually a suffix for an instrument that measures something.. like a thermometer, an odometer etc. The SI units of distance is always spelled metre.

Enforcing a blatant misspelling of units you don't even use borders on the ridiculous.

tinypliny writes at 02:17:28 12/15/11 - Comment #66771: OMG!! I want to write in Polish!! Some vowels need to be shown their rightful place... with the eraser or backspace button! :)

uncutsaniflush writes at 02:09:05 12/15/11 - Comment #66770: Thanks for sharing Pat Naughtin's thesis on meter versus metre. I love stuff like that. I've been fascinated by language and linguistics since I was a child. I find English to be a capricious and arbitrary language. Just like Mr. Spock from Star Trek, I find that I am drawn to the illogical; but, unlike him, I think I see beauty in the chaos where others only see confusion.

fwiw, English is my second language and Polish is my first. So I'm no native speaker of any sort of English rising up to defend my native tongue.

uncutsaniflush writes at 02:02:31 12/15/11 - Comment #66769: I suggest that you don't write your Thesis in Polish, the bloody wanker euro-trash Poles don't even have an "e" in the word "metr" So ha!

tinypliny writes at 01:37:16 12/15/11 - Comment #66764: Here is a 15 page thesis that touches a bit on my obvious lack of delight, given my background. :::link:::

Enjoy! :)

tinypliny writes at 01:34:14 12/15/11 - Comment #66763: If you had to make 142 replacements in a document you just slogged through, delight isn't particularly high on the agenda. lol

uncutsaniflush writes at 12:37:53 12/15/11 - Comment #66762: My 1971 compact edition of the Oxford English Dictionary lists meter as an alternate spelling for "metre" and also that "meter" is is the U.S. spelling of "meter". If meter is good enough for the fine folks at Oxford, it's good enough for me.

I suggest you direct your complaints to them using the contact information at :::link::: since many of the world's English speakers view the OED as THE reference for English.

I, for one, delight in the all the regional variations in spoken and written English. I think it is a testament to both the strength of the English language itself as well as a testament to the uniqueness of human beings.

I am saddened that the diversity in the world's Englishs doesn't delight you as it does me.

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12/14/11 09:08 - ID#55739

A bit too much...

for that one woman in the corner, don't you think?

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12/14/11 07:40 - ID#55735

I want (fill whatever here) for a bogus gift-giving day.

Christmas should be called Consumermas.

I still can't get over the weirdness of people demanding random things from other people in their lives for the birthday of some random bloke from waaaay back that most of them don't emulate in real life and worse, don't even identify with.

When did shameless extortion get associated with a religious icon's birthday? Why not just call it what it is and not candy coat the entire extortion cycle in some pretentious gift-wrap of religion (that most are actually leery about)?

What I find even more laughable is people who place seemingly "reasonable" things on their extortion list. As if it is okay to extort "gifts" if it is some "reasonable" thing.

I am an outside observer but I find the whole culture of extortion and consumerism surrounding one's own birthday and the birthday of some centuries old hippie as extremely weird and venal.