Cancer Posted December 8, 2023 Report Share Posted December 8, 2023 1 minute ago, Pariah said: Cereal box dominoes! Heh. On one of my last baby-sitting gigs ever, I was baby-sitting a 3-year-old girl who had a stack of those hardbound pre-reader story books that was nearly as tall as she was. After reading a few of those to her, I showed her how to set them up slightly opened, making chains so that she could play Book Dominoes. I don't think her parents were all that happy with me when she showed them this the next day.... Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rails Posted December 9, 2023 Report Share Posted December 9, 2023 Perhaps that was why it was one of your last baby-sitting gigs ever? 😃 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 9, 2023 Report Share Posted December 9, 2023 It might be, but I fled halfway across the state moved not long after that job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 16, 2023 Report Share Posted December 16, 2023 Trying to type while a cat is determinedly sitting on your lap is quite difficult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombrown803 Posted December 16, 2023 Report Share Posted December 16, 2023 Easier than when the cat is sitting on the keyboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 16, 2023 Report Share Posted December 16, 2023 Remember the original Battlestar Galactica, where Commander Adama made his log entries by speaking into a microphone and watching the words magically appear on his computer screen? It's pretty crazy that I literally just did exactly the same thing to post this. Rich McGee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 17, 2023 Report Share Posted December 17, 2023 And will Cylons come and kill you as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 17, 2023 Report Share Posted December 17, 2023 No deep thought on Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 22, 2023 Report Share Posted December 22, 2023 Muggle is a jazz aged word which meant that people smoked marijuana. That was on QI Rich McGee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich McGee Posted December 22, 2023 Report Share Posted December 22, 2023 20 minutes ago, death tribble said: Muggle is a jazz aged word which meant that people smoked marijuana. Louie Armstrong fans have been laughing about that one for 95 years now. Or at least since Sorcerer's Stone came out. The word is pretty much both the substance and the smoker. A muggle is a joint is a nail is a spliff is a bone, etc. but they're all roaches in the end. On 12/15/2023 at 10:33 PM, Pariah said: Remember the original Battlestar Galactica, where Commander Adama made his log entries by speaking into a microphone and watching the words magically appear on his computer screen? It's pretty crazy that I literally just did exactly the same thing to post this. I still own a flip phone because they will take away my Star Trek communicator when they pry it from my cold, dead hands. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 1 Report Share Posted January 1 Chocolate watch is back on. This is day 1. I have several bars so I think February will be the earliest I need to buy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 1 Report Share Posted January 1 Heh. I think I managed to get through all the chocolate I was given for Christmas 2022, but I might still have some buried in the morass. This year it's less of an issue, because we as a family agreed to give smaller gift ensembles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 2 Report Share Posted January 2 I had two cats sleeping on my lap last night, and I couldn't move at all. Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 2 Report Share Posted January 2 Oh, hey, it's twenty-nine below! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 3 Report Share Posted January 3 My American friend asked me if i parked out front as there was a spot. I replied to him: there was witches hats on the nature strip with a whipper-snipper so I parked down the road. He responded: "what does that mean"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted January 3 Report Share Posted January 3 That's.... Odd.... I can't speak for all Americans,obviously, but I don't personally know any that don't know what witches hats and nature strips are. That other thing- some sort,of cop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 3 Report Share Posted January 3 Traffic cone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich McGee Posted January 3 Report Share Posted January 3 (edited) 1 hour ago, Duke Bushido said: I can't speak for all Americans,obviously, but I don't personally know any that don't know what witches hats and nature strips are. Around here that would be traffic cones, and the space between the curb and sidewalk proper, which is frequently covered in grass. The cones would be a warning not park in street in front of them. 1 hour ago, Duke Bushido said: That other thing- some sort,of cop? Whipper-snapper (usually with "young" in front of it) is an insulting term for anyone younger than you who's being a snot-nosed little brat in the US. Used to be more explicitly reserved for actual kids, but it's become more of a general response to anyone who pulls out "Boomer" as an insult. No idea if that's the intent here, though. Maybe it does mean cop somewhere. Hmmm - digging further, it appears to date back to UK in the 17th century, where it started as "snipper-snapper" which meant a young street thief/scammer, then morphed into whipper-snapper (based on urban loafers who sat around snapping whips for amusement), which also might have originally meant "highwayman" (for obvious reasons) then became conflated with snipper-snapper in the sense of any young layabout or petty criminal. The modern for is somewhat less derogatory, if anything. There's also a variant that's basically just "a young boy" from the same period, but that's boring. Learns something new every day - or old, in this case. Edited January 3 by Rich McGee Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted January 3 Report Share Posted January 3 Thanks, sincerely, but I am quite familiar with the American uswage of whipper-snapper; i digured Australiqn might be different, since it will apparently keep you from parking near them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted January 3 Report Share Posted January 3 a whipper-snipper is a grass cutting device (specialized in grass edges, as opposed to a lawn mower) Old Man and Rich McGee 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich McGee Posted January 3 Report Share Posted January 3 10 hours ago, Duke Bushido said: Thanks, sincerely, but I am quite familiar with the American uswage of whipper-snapper; i digured Australiqn might be different, since it will apparently keep you from parking near them. I think that's more the cones/witch's hats. At least around here sticking on them on the curbside means "don't park, reserved" - if you put them in the street itself you'd block the space for whoever is supposed to be there. Having some impertinent young twit standing there waving you off would be a useful backup for when people ignore the cones, though. We had a guy shot last year for trying to keep someone from parking in a space reserved for delivery vehicles, and the shooter managed to add a hit-and-run to his crimes as he was fleeing the scene. 10 hours ago, dmjalund said: a whipper-snipper is a grass cutting device (specialized in grass edges, as opposed to a lawn mower) Locally that would be either an edger or a trimmer of some kind, with the trimmers that use spinning nylon cords to do the cutting also known as weedwhackers. Can't decide which sounds cuter, whipper-snipper or weedwhacker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 12 Report Share Posted January 12 November 1973. AC/DC were formed. Why didn't we make more of a big deal about this ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 12 Report Share Posted January 12 Because Acca Dacca is noise pollution. Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 13 Report Share Posted January 13 Who is the best US President? Ie overall best. and if you like, top 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 13 Report Share Posted January 13 11 hours ago, Bazza said: Who is the best US President? Ie overall best. and if you like, top 5. This conversation is probably better held in the Politics thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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