quote:Originally posted by Signora Del Drago, G.R.I.T.S.: Jay - Glad your electricity is back. I'd been wondering about that. Did you take your food from the freezer to your Mom's? Hope you didn't lose a lot.
It went out at 10:30 Thursday night. The food was bad by morning. Fortunately, we were low on groceries anyway.
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quote:Originally posted by Casey, off the deep end: That name is for your sake. In the time it would take to pronounce one letter of my true name a trillion cosmoses would flare into existence and sink into eternal night.* *50 points for reference.
Futurama. "The Day The Earth Stood Stupid."
Who needs to study when they've got points?
Points given cheerfully. I've tried to use that quote for years!
It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, but I need to wash the car. Sigh.
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Would you expect anything else from a redhead?
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W00t! I did it. I cohosted an event today with a Very Important Person, made my speech, got oodles of compliments on it, and didn't even flub up! In fact, Very Important Person flubbed his speech, but not me!
*happy dance*
Sorry for the LAM, but I am elated! And pooped.
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On the plus side, I don't have to wake up early again until January 8th!
On the minus side, I have two papers due next week as well as a final exam. And I think I did very poorly on the exam I took today. It was a multiple choice test and I think some of the questions were worded incorrectly, because none of their answers seemed correct. I know this material and I think my teacher flubbed up some questions. I have to wait until the answers are posted before I confront him, though.
He did have at least one proven wrong answer on the last exam, but refused to throw it out because "a couple people got it right". It's a multiple choice test. If only a couple people out of 80 got it right, I think it was a lucky guess on their part.
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quote:Originally posted by Cervus: He did have at least one proven wrong answer on the last exam, but refused to throw it out because "a couple people got it right". It's a multiple choice test. If only a couple people out of 80 got it right, I think it was a lucky guess on their part.
"Right" as in the right right answer or the right wrong answer? And since the answer was proven wrong, how could they have gotten it right at all?
Sounds like your teacher is a wee bit stubborn.
Seaboe
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I feel like crap. Abby cut the bottom of her foot at the end of last week on a piece of metal. I cleaned it and we medicated and watched it. It was healing good. Today Hubby noticed she was not putting weight right on it. She had one spot on it that was all infected and she never told me it hurt! I didn't see her limping. She was walking fine when she was helping me earlier. At least I thought she was. She was running and jumping anyways.
So we cleaned it up and put ointment and a bandage on but I still feel bad. Hubby thinks that she may not have started limping until after she had her socks and shoes on. He thinks they irritated it and that is what caused her to limp.
quote:Originally posted by Cervus: He did have at least one proven wrong answer on the last exam, but refused to throw it out because "a couple people got it right". It's a multiple choice test. If only a couple people out of 80 got it right, I think it was a lucky guess on their part.
"Right" as in the right right answer or the right wrong answer? And since the answer was proven wrong, how could they have gotten it right at all?
Sounds like your teacher is a wee bit stubborn.
Seaboe
Wow, Seaboe, that was confusing. And didn't help my writing of multiple choice questions one bit.
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Sorry, I'll clarify: The answer he claimed was correct was actually incorrect. The people who "got it right" according to him, chose the same incorrect answer that he claimed was true.
Our teacher is not stubborn, he is completely incompetent. He can't speak in front of an audience (literally every other word is "um" or "uh"), he can't pronounce scientific terms and names correctly, and he can't identify animals correctly. This is a zoology class. His lectures are so painful and horrible most people stopped attending after the first week and complained to the dean. Most of us wound up teaching ourselves the material or else correcting him during class. During the course of the semester he freely admitted he could not pronounce most of the names (he had no idea how to pronounce coelacanth or Elasmobranch, and refused to even attempt to pronounce the names of various dinosaurs). His entire lectures are full of stutters, pauses, ums, and uhs. Every single PowerPoint slide has at least one misspelling. For example, he always spells skull as "scull" and bury as "burry". It's like listening to a 7th grader give a presentation. He was hired at the last minute to replace a former professor, and the school chose the worst person possible. He knows he's incompetent. After a scathing mid-term teaching evalution (by the students), he asked two other professors to come in and lecture for the remainder of the semester. It was so great to have actual experienced PhDs explain the material! I think he was more disappointed in himself than mad at us, but we all got cheated out of an important class. However, he wrote our exams and his exams are almost as poorly designed as his lectures.
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quote:Originally posted by vfwchick: She got an official Dr Who postcard AUTOGRAPHED by David Tennant!! (ETA: her name is even spelled right.) And The Official Annual 2007 Dr. Who book. She is squeeing and bouncing all over the house. Even Dad is amused at her. Thanks for everyone's help, she is one happy camper.
I would be too. I am soooo envious. David Tennant, sigh.
The gift that y'all sent sounds lovely. It also sounds like you are raising a great chicky.
Gee thanks, I think she's pretty special too!
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One of the categories on "Jeopardy" this evening was Urban Legends.
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Just wanted to pop in and say "good luck" to all those snopesters who are taking their finals this time of year.
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Thanks Hollow Man. I wished they would hurry up and get over with.
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(On Jenn's suggestion not to start a new thread for these kinds of things...) 3000 posts! Yahoooo!
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Thanks HollowMan. I'll need as much as I can get.
The beginning of the George Mason vs Radford game was AWESOME! At halftime, Radford (my school) was ahead by 10 pts (32 to 22!)
But then...it got sad. And we lost 60-58. Which I guess isn't so bad, considering we were playing a Final Four team. It shows we both have good offense, good defence, and that we're pretty much equal.
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Hollow Man, thanks. Considering I'm surfing snopes instead of finishing my final paper or studying for my exams, I hope your well wishes aren't wasted on me, though. Just one more week, and then I can sleep again...
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The snopester named Silas Sparkhammer Is neither a dope nor a spammer All 3000 posts [Unlike others' mosts] Are fun and erudite in manner
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Wait...I'm confused...Wasn't it MapleLeaf who hit 3,000?
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I have no idea what to get my father for Christmas.
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quote:Originally posted by Mosherette: I have no idea what to get my father for Christmas.
Bottle of whiskey? I always exchange them with my Dad.
I don't know what to get for Mrs Fizz. She's given me a list of my bright ideas from previous years, that she would prefer I didn't repeat, though.
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I think I've just caused a friend to delete his entire blog. A couple of days ago I posted this rant in the December letters thread over in Rantidote. Yesterday I wrote a long post on my blog about a thought triggered by wearing a coat like one my Mum owns but included various key thoughts and phrases which had particularly annoyed my about my friend's original post. I looked at my sitemeter this morning and my friend spent half an hour on my blog in the middle of last night. And blogger now has no record of the url for his blog.
Posting as I did rather than confronting him may seem a bit passive-aggressive, but it seems to have made the point. I wonder if he'll comment.
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Cinnamon- have you shown your mum the blog post? It's beautifully written, and it's certainly something to be proud of.
AFA your "friend" goes...sod him. Why do you have to be there for him all the time, when he chastises you for choosing to be healthier? My thinking is that if he chooses not to talk to you again, it's his loss, because you are a wonderful woman that deserves so much more recognition for choosing not to drink than he's giving you.
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quote:Originally posted by Mosherette: I have no idea what to get my father for Christmas.
Bottle of whiskey? I always exchange them with my Dad.
I don't know what to get for Mrs Fizz. She's given me a list of my bright ideas from previous years, that she would prefer I didn't repeat, though.
Unfortunately I know my dad so little these days that I don't know if he even likes whisky any more (or if he's allowed to). Fortunately my sister has just emailed and said she spoke to him the other night and got some ideas, so we have come up with something. Phew!
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Mosh, I just realised our kitties look kind of alike! Aren't black and whites adorable? Max is currently sitting on the monitor, trying to attack the mouse pointer. Silly kitty.
Algae, thanks! I thought the pics were pretty cute myself.
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My boss just had to take the cat back to the vet (he's been constipated for several days and they have to do an x-ray). Who's gonna sit on my feet while I do excel spreadsheets now? . I hope he's okay.
As if that wasn't bad enough, that damn "Christmas Shoes" song came on. Ugh. Wham's version of "Last Christmas" came on after that though, which was good. If there's one person who can cure my glurge-induced nausea it's Andrew Ridgley. What? I'm tired ofGeorge Michael getting all the credit.
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Candy, I am so jealous! I would love to have a kitty with me at work.
ETA: I hope he's okay. Poor constipated kitty.
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Candy, may I suggest that you find a new job? I'm not sure why you want to work at a place where your boss sits on your feet while you work in excel. And why is the vet constipated?
I got it...
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I had the most odd fitting room experience last night at Target. They don't have separate fitting room areas for men and women, everyone just goes into the same place and gets in their little rooms. I was in my room, trying on my clothes, and this guy goes into a room directly across from mine. And this is what I hear: 'ooohhhm... ooohhhm...' He was chanting. And then he said 'ooohhhm thesepantswillfit... ooohhhm thesepantswillfit...'
I know that trying on clothing can be traumatic, but that was just too funny! I could hear the other people in the fitting room trying not to laugh too. Oh, and for the record, his pants didn't fit. He came back a few minutes later and had to do his 'thesepantswillfit' chant again.
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quote:Originally posted by candycane from strangers: My boss just had to take the cat back to the vet (he's been constipated for several days and they have to do an x-ray). Who's gonna sit on my feet while I do excel spreadsheets now?
I think I have an opening in my schedule.
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You know it’s about time to venture out and make some friends when you find yourself sitting alone during the wee hours, making sarcastic remarks at The Remains of the Day all by yourself.
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Dupont D'Ivry: Oh?
I'mNotDedalus, as Jack Lewis: Yes. Apparently, Darlington has employed some old geezer as under-butler! And the coot actually dropped a tray of sterling silver! Outside, even!
Dupont D'Ivry: Mais, Non!!!
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Ugh, I have a brutal cough. Please go away, cough, it's my birthday Saturday and I have a full schedule of parties to go to this weekend. I don't want to be forced to drink only hot toddies throughout.
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