When referring to influenza, people typically just say “influenza”; but when referring to the flu, people typically say “the flu”.
I swear, the more you pay attention to the English language, the less sense it makes. …
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When referring to influenza, people typically just say “influenza”; but when referring to the flu, people typically say “the flu”. I swear, the more you pay attention to the English language, the less sense it makes. … [...] Cleaning a mercury-based oral thermometer under a hot water tap may seem like a good idea, but it really is not. … [...] Why are gun owners such lousy negotiatiors? The appropriate response to, “I am willing to sell X for $Y, OBO,” is not to write back and ask, “So, what is your bottom-dollar price?” Does the term “counteroffer” mean nothing to people? … [...] There are so very many things wrong with this headline that I am not even going to bother delving into the article that spawned it. And, no, unfortunately I was not at the theater at 0001 this morning… I plan on going this weekend, though not wasting my money on … [...] Jesus Christ on a holy pogostick – when did Examiner.com (link intentionally and willfully omitted) become such a gos-se-filled cesspool of pop-ups, pop-unders, pop-ons, and atrocious frakking scripts? … [...] Having a new vendor show you just how stone-age-ish your current vendor’s system is can be an… interesting… experience. … [...] Does anyone else find Jimmy Wales’ expression in a few of his “please, oh please send us money” banners on Wikipedia to be a little… patronizing? … [...] … a hybrid car without cruise control. … [...] On the one hand, maybe those kids will grow up without being hampered by an abject fear of heights like mine. On the other hand, you are hanging your baby out a gorramed window! (Courtesy of Dark Roasted Blend.) … [...] Given the choice, I will gladly take a Five Guys, Carls Jr., Checkers, or even Burger King burger over something that came out of a McDonalds… but this is just amazing, in a vaguely stomach-turning kind of way. … [...] I always thought it was kind of silly of me to show up at Home Depot in my Mustang. Turns out, I have nothing on the guy with the Factory Five Cobra clone:
I guess you could always hold stuff over your head… … [...] I really, really dislike it when television shows and movies use the Greek character “Lambda” – Λ – in the place of English “A”s. L != A. That is all. … [...] On the one hand, we now know for certain that aligators do, indeed, live in New York City’s sewers. On the other hand, the world just lost a bit of its mystique. Strange times we live in. … [...] Do people even use the “Insert” functionality on their keyboards any more? Why is that key/button still there? … [...] It always amuses me when people say inherently stupid things, like, say, this:
Well, not to point out … [...] Tangle-free flag rods should reall be called tangle-fewer. … [...] Speaking of things that I was a little slow in appreciating, at first glance, I could not figure out what Sarah was talking about regarding the image at the end of her post. Then I saw it. And now I cannot un-see it. What in the hell were the … [...] Given the sheer number of puns, interpretations, and general-purpose idiocy that could be made out of an incident like this, I am at a complete and total loss for words. Well, apart from, “Jesus may really have touched down…” … [...] The completely whacky thing about this all-too-crazy accident? The Porsche Cayenne that narrowly avoids turning into a pancake underneath the Pepsi truck just keeps driving. And, by “narrowly”, it looked to be somewhere in the “less than two feet” range. Me, I would at least have to pull … [...] If I ever happen to own/run my own commercial establishment (unlikely to happen, but we are talking hypotheticals here), like, say, a greenhouse/nursery/garden supply type place (because that actually holds some degree of interest for me) or perhaps a window tinting shop, its hours would probably be something along the … [...] |
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