Enforcer84 Posted March 16, 2012 Report Share Posted March 16, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. "I yelled at you. Literally. I was yelling at my computer." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted March 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. In Accounting class, we were preparing a materiels purchase budget for a hypothetical company making frozen pizzas. After the instructor finished leading us through the exercise, I got a laugh by saying "That's a lot of dough." Lucius Alexander The palindromedary wants one of those hypothetical pizzas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Heh. Ben Stein says one way to ruin your Financial Life is open a restaurant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted March 17, 2012 Report Share Posted March 17, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Heh. Ben Stein says one way to ruin your Financial Life is open a restaurant. "The way to make a small fortune is to start with a big fortune and open a restaurant." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Celt Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. "My friend in Hawaii needs to replace his drivers license" "And we know how hard finding a birth certificate can be." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drhoz Posted March 21, 2012 Report Share Posted March 21, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Weldun : thanks to MLP:FIM, I'll never look at that Tristar movies opening the same way again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted March 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Okay. I can understand stumbling over, say, "Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia." That's a mouthful. But how does someone manage to mangle "pediatric catastrophic illness" into (!?) patriotic castrophobic illness?? Lucius Alexander The palindromedary puts in a good word for St Jude's Children's Research Hospital and even manages to pronounce it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbywolfe Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Not a quote but at 67 years old my father got his first ever 29 point cribbage hand. Odds of getting the perfect hand? Less than 200,000 to 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John T Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. patriotic castrophobic illness Patriotic castrophobia: the fear of being emasculated for (by?) your country. Yep, I can easily see this as a real problem, these days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. "First and foremost: It's pronounced 'NUKE-lee-ur', not 'NUKE-ya-ler'. 'NUKE-lee-ur' has reference to the nucleus of an atom. 'NUKE-ya-ler' has reference to nothing at all because it isn't a real word, despite what you may have heard from our previous President. Say it correctly in my class, please." -Me, to my Honors Chemistry classes this week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John T Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Me: Libya has the potential, if the political situation stabilizes, to see explosive growth in tourism. If the political situation destabilizes, Libya will merely see plenty of explosives but little growth or tourism. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary suggests that Libya is a good place for the Old Man to go battlecruising More tourist explosions, even. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. "First and foremost: It's pronounced 'NUKE-lee-ur'' date=' [b']not[/b] 'NUKE-ya-ler'. 'NUKE-lee-ur' has reference to the nucleus of an atom. 'NUKE-ya-ler' has reference to nothing at all because it isn't a real word, despite what you may have heard from our previous President. Say it correctly in my class, please." -Me, to my Honors Chemistry classes this week If I was a physicist, I'd be on the lookout for some new particle to call a nucule. It seems kind of perverse, in that nucular would become a genuine word, but then at least people would have to get their pronunciation correct if they wanted to be clear what they were talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevelon Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. My folks were up visiting on my dad's birthday. Me: Look, I even made a birthday cake using Nana's recipe (holding up a box of Betty Crocker's angel food cake mix) Mom: No, she used Duncan Hines. (I normally scratch bake cakes, but I was trying to follow my grandmother's recipe for my dad...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. You have my sympathy. I am still learning to just smile and say thank you when someone cooks for me or does something for me or gives me a gift even if it is not perfect or not what I want. Even if it is useless. I will know I have made real progress when I stop throwing plates back at people who put pickles on them or on the sandwich. Also the Dunkin' Hines that existed in your Nana's day bore not the slightest resemblance to the mixture of chemicals, artificial colors, artificial flavors and sixteen tons of High-Fructose Corn Syrup that fills their boxes today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Now we know your weakness! Muahahaaaaa! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. The kids are watching TV when the trailer for the Avengers movie comes on: "Hey, was that Captain America?" "It is! And there's Iron Man!" "Are they going to show Thor?" "There he is! And there's the Hulk! Wow!" To my knowledge, these kids have never seen a Marvel comic book, let alone read one. I am so proud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Celt Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. The kids are watching TV when the trailer for the Avengers movie comes on: "Hey, was that Captain America?" "It is! And there's Iron Man!" "Are they going to show Thor?" "There he is! And there's the Hulk! Wow!" To my knowledge, these kids have never seen a Marvel comic book, let alone read one. I am so proud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevelon Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. You have my sympathy. I am still learning to just smile and say thank you when someone cooks for me or does something for me or gives me a gift even if it is not perfect or not what I want. Even if it is useless. I will know I have made real progress when I stop throwing plates back at people who put pickles on them or on the sandwich. Also the Dunkin' Hines that existed in your Nana's day bore not the slightest resemblance to the mixture of chemicals, artificial colors, artificial flavors and sixteen tons of High-Fructose Corn Syrup that fills their boxes today. I probably should have put in some joking smilies, as the whole exchange was very tongue in cheek. I'm not even sure if I (or anyone) could tell the difference between brands. It's all just puffed sugar foam. What really makes the cake is the orange frosting, which is homemade. A few years ago when my dad was up for his birthday, I was going to go all out and scratch bake an angel food cake. When I asked my mom for the recipe, she told me she used a box, and that my grandmother had been using a box mix for my dad's birthday cake for as long as she had known him. What really gets me is The Boy wants a yellow cake for his birthday, rather then a chocolate one. At least he's not asking for pie... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Yellow cake with Milk Chocolate frosting is my favorite. I also prefer the store-bought tub frosting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Yellow cake uranium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSgt Baloo Posted March 28, 2012 Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Yellow cake uranium. With Plutonium Frosting? Are we baking a cake for Gojira? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 28, 2012 Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Mm-mm, just taste those unstable isotopes, will ya? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 28, 2012 Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. IIRC there's a strong metallic taste when you're exposed to lethal doses of radiation. I could be wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 28, 2012 Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. A bit like licking a battery, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 28, 2012 Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Yellow cake uranium. With Plutonium Frosting? Are we baking a cake for Gojira? Thorium oxide in the candles will make them burn with a very nice bright white color. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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