Happy Valentine's Day Massacre Anniversary to everyone! My wife and I celebrate this. Happiness to all!
Happy Valentine's Day Massacre Anniversary to everyone! My wife and I celebrate this. Happiness to all!
Do good work. —Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom
It's probably going to end up as a "stuff my kids watch" column at some point. They don't watch much of it, but they watch enough for it to make the column. Though next month is going to be YouTube videos!
As to nicknames, I don't like my legal name and never have. So I choose to go by Gillian, which is the name I chose for the medieval society I joined in college. I'm aware my legal name is "period" and therefore perfectly acceptable, but since I never liked it . . . .
Yesterday, with my camera located, I was able to go outside and take pictures of our snow. We found a snap bracelet Simon had been given that has a ruler printed on the back and stuck that in various places--the accumulation on our backyard shed was even deeper than the bracelet.
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Gillian
"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
"Wee man" is a phrase much used when addressing male children in Scotland. The children thus addressed almost never look delighted about it.
For some reason, every time I travel in the USA, someone, somewhere, at some time, will address me as "Big Guy". They seem to mean it in a friendly sort of way, but I always end up glancing behind me to see who the big guy is that they're addressing.
Grant Hutchison
sicut vis videre esto
When we realize that patterns don't exist in the universe, they are a template that we hold to the universe to make sense of it, it all makes a lot more sense.
Originally Posted by Ken G
I can sort of understand that, but I think those are not really nicknames. I always associated a nickname with something that people regularly called you specifically. Actually, I've never had a nickname (except once, in sort of exceptional circumstances), and when I was growing up we just didn't use them, so I guess it's a kind of cultural things.
With the "pseudo-familiarity" markers, I think they are kind of universally used, as you often have to address people whose name you don't know. I agree that they can be uncomfortable, so I really avoid using them except with close friends (in my time we used to say "cuz" or "dude." I sometimes use "sir" and "ma'am", but even then it doesn't make me feel that comfortable. In Japan, it's really overdone, so that you can call people you don't know by "big sister," "big brother," "daughter," "uncle," "aunt," "grandma," "grandma," "wife," and even "president" and "teacher," depending on the circumstances.
As above, so below
Vera Stanhope (I've been reading the books and watching the TV series) calls everyone "Pet". Including when she's just arrested them for murder.
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.
I am sure prof Higgins could locate people by their affectionate or aggressive pat names!
sicut vis videre esto
When we realize that patterns don't exist in the universe, they are a template that we hold to the universe to make sense of it, it all makes a lot more sense.
Originally Posted by Ken G
Now there's a statement you don't see every day, in these parts.
A patient once addressed me recurringly as "poppet", which is charmingly old-fashioned, but perhaps not an easy fit for the conventional roles adopted by patient and doctor. But you play the hand you're dealt. She subsequently wrote to the local papers about me, in glowing terms, but fortunately forgot my name. So that was one advantage to the "poppet" thing.
Grant Hutchison
A thoroughly unpleasant woman in my previous office began making it a habit to call me "kiddo." She was older than I but I was in my forties at the time. It came across as patronizing and as I was fairly new to the office, I had the impression she was trying put me in my place...or the place she thought I should be. I explained to her that I'd rather she not call me that and she should call me Brett. After arguing that I shouldn't mind, she replied "Whatever." I said, "No, it's not 'whatever' either. It's Brett." I didn't think that was really the end of it but she stopped.
Not relevant but perhaps revealing, this is the same women who upon hearing that I was transferring to another office, demanded that I leave my personal artwork for her. No. Just, no.
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Gillian
"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
I woke up early this morning and ran to the store for a household essential before the kids woke up. And had to brake for bunnies!
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Gillian
"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
I was just petting and grooming a Bunny. The long-tailed and short-eared variety. If we ever have a pet rabbit we'll have to call it "Kitty".
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.
I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them. - Jimmy Hoffa
Perseverance has landed!
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.
My niece has petting ones, but they bite anyway. I'll stick to cats.
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.
Cats bite, dogs bite, all God's chilluns bite.
Except vampire bats. They scrape.
"I'm planning to live forever. So far, that's working perfectly." Steven Wright
And mosquitoes. They suck (in both meanings!).![]()
As above, so below
As for the ‘petting’ bunny, he would bite when you hand fed him. I think he just got over zealous.
He did, however, have an affinity for chewing on wires, and ruined a few cell phone chargers. He was fast, and could cross a room and sever the cord before you could take one step. I don’t know how he never wound up electrocuted.
I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them. - Jimmy Hoffa