I grasped the calorie-exercise continuum when I had knee surgery at age 22. I have always been very athletic and active, but had 25 extra pounds that I just couldn't shed since age 16. The surgery I had was extremely painful and kept me laid up for weeks. Virtually no exercise besides hauling myself to the bathroom on…
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I read about a man who cut his hand slicing an apple or something while he was watching TV. He didn't want to miss the show by getting up to treat the wound; apparently he had been drinking. He felt he wasn't bleeding too badly, I guess, so he put a pan on the floor to catch the blood from his hand till the show was…
Just remember what happened to Bon Scott (RIP).
You're so wide of the mark. Why so nasty suddenly BonBon? Something wrong?
Oh stop being so nasty BonBon. Twelfie and I decided it was his grammar checker betraying him, and I urged him to disable it and trust his own instincts if you bother to read the whole chain. Misunderstandings abound on message boards, and I inadvertently fuel them sometimes, I guess. Give up on screenwriting? Not…
I guess this Mamet effort is once again proof that talent does not necessarily spawn talent. But considering the discipline, creative originality, and dedication of countless young musicians with no connections and no money, honing their skills while surviving on junk food, hope, and no rent; the rejections, the…
To each his own, truly, but grammar checkers are a wobbly, unreliable crutch, as proven by those apostrophes. Spellcheck is a great tool. Never hit send without spellchecking. But as far as grammar, I'd rather eat my own errors (and protect my own writing style) than rely on some bumbling automaton. You're probably…
Point taken. However, if you feel confident of your grammar, and it seems you do, why not just disable that grammar checker? That's the first thing I always do with a computer. The program can't think, and any utility that regularly inserts mistakes is not only corrupt, it's damned annoying. Those apostrophes in…
Allow me to ask why this guy is claiming credit for his summary execution? If the Allies were capable of taking the worst Nazis alive and putting them on trial, then why just out-and-out murder Bin Laden, unarmed, and "martyr" him. Wouldn't it have been better to capture and try him for his crimes against humanity?…
Please stop apostrophizing plurals. The plural of Nazi is Nazis. What makes people feel they have to add an apostrophe to a plural? It's not a possessive; it's not a contraction. It's wrong, it's a needless keystroke, and it's annoying to read —- besides calling into question the credibility of what comes after,…
That is godawful, Complete strangers reach out and touch you? I've said before, as a white woman, I find white men, both younger and older, far scarier and creepier. In my youth, white men were the silent followers and stalkers; the ones who tracked you in their cars as you walked along. I never had a man of color do…
I remember one incident when my daughter was about 5 or 6 —- my father-in-law was a real boor and a jerk to me. He never liked me and made me the butt of coarse jokes from my wedding day on. My husband, who had been his victim too, was intimidated by the old man and couldn't stand up to him. The dad gambled…
What is wrong with you? That level of excoriation is way unwarranted.
That "Dracula" looks some like some hustler you'd meet in Medocino circa 1969. When Stoker says "old" he means OLD. A domed forehead means bald with maybe white hair flowing down from the circlet of remaining hair. A wispy white mustache, not this David Crosby style; a fierce deep scowl and wrinkles in the brow. I…
It's free rein not free reign. The metaphor is of a horse without the guidance of its reins, which shows how old the saying is. BTW, that is not your only reasoning problem.
Actually, a mantis "shrimp" is not a shrimp at all and is not even related to a shrimp. It's a type of crustacean called a stomatopod.
Library science is not a matter of shelving books in school and shushing kids or campaigning against Lady Chatterley's Lover. Library Science is a far more comprehensive science —- and I do mean a science. It does indeed incorporate the Internet and beyond and serves vast online scientific libraries and professional…
From a short story:
Keeping cats indoors is just responsible. Read some of the stats on the little animals and birds that outdoor cats kill. It will take your breath away. Their instinct is to hunt, and hunt they do. A single outdoor kitty actually wiped out a whole species of bird. Not to mention the horrible accidents I myself have…