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[Enigman]

Hmmm...Is the sisterhood still active?
Or did they dissolve?

 

[dkotschessaa]

I can't order an odd number of pizzas for math club that favor pepperoni or plain. I always have to split it right down the middle. 2.5 pepperoni and 2.5 plain.

 

[Pythagorean]

2 pep, 2 plain, 1 sausage and mushroom with light tomato sauce and a sprinkling of oregano, spun three times on the tip of a blessed dowsing rod and kissed by a virgin.

 

[OmCheeto]

One of the strangest things I've ever seen:

http://imgur.com/gallery/opNnoOx

There be monsters in my brain!

 

[DennisN]

One of the strangest things I've ever seen:

http://imgur.com/gallery/opNnoOx

There be monsters in my brain!

Yes, that's really fun. I also like the very simple Leaning tower illusion.

 

[OmCheeto]

Yes, that's really fun. I also like the very simple Leaning tower illusion.

I like that too!

Brains are funny.

 

[OmCheeto]

What are the kids standing in line for at the Crystal Ballroom?

Who the hell is Matt Nathanson?

I can't keep up.

Good night.

 

[lendav_rott]

2 pep, 2 plain, 1 sausage and mushroom with light tomato sauce and a sprinkling of oregano, spun three times on the tip of a blessed dowsing rod and kissed by a virgin.

why ruin a good pizza with the last 2 things

 

[Evo]

Hmmm...Is the sisterhood still active?
Or did they dissolve?

Lisab and I are the only 2 still very active, ~christina~ comes and goes, MIH pops up for my birthday, and TSU left a long time ago.

 

[Pythagorean]

why ruin a good pizza with the last 2 things

Because you have at least one ridiculously complicated pizza in every party-sized order. It's blasphemy not to. As an appeal to my own authority, I am a 33rd degree pie spinner of the fifth dimension.

 

[Enigman]

Lisab and I are the only 2 still very active, ~christina~ comes and goes, MIH pops up for my birthday, and TSU left a long time ago.

Might need your help someday soon...The 'problem' is more in your line anyway...
(If I my memory serves me right; Wasn't MIH the Barbie mentor?)

 

[Evo]

Might need your help someday soon...The 'problem' is more in your line anyway...
(If I my memory serves me right; Wasn't MIH the Barbie mentor?)

Yes, her name came from the talking barbie scandal when the doll said "Math Is Hard".

 

[DennisN]

I like that too!

Brains are funny.

I just looked around for a good illusions site and found this, it seems pretty cool (106 examples): http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/. Some examples:

• Stepping feet (this one really annoyed me, I had a hard time believing it )
• Motion Aftereffect
• Silencing by Motion
• Spiral Aftereffect (this is really cool, IMO)

 

[Astronuc]

LONDON (Reuters) - A U.S. atom bomb nearly exploded in 1961 over North Carolina that would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that devastated Hiroshima, according to a declassified document published in a British newspaper on Friday.
. . . .
But the newly published document said one of the two bombs behaved exactly in the manner of a nuclear weapon in wartime, with its parachute opening and its trigger mechanisms engaged. Only one low-voltage switch prevented a cataclysm.

http://news.yahoo.com/atom-bomb-nearly-exploded-over-north-carolina-1961-230654850.html

 

[zoobyshoe]

http://news.yahoo.com/atom-bomb-nearly-exploded-over-north-carolina-1961-230654850.html

Read things like that and there's pretty much nothing to say. You're too appalled to speak.

 

[lendav_rott]

Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

 

[OmCheeto]

http://news.yahoo.com/atom-bomb-nearly-exploded-over-north-carolina-1961-230654850.html

I wonder how the song would have been written?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LFqWIKayIE​

And hey, babe, the sky's on fire, I'm dying, ain't I?

hmmm... Perhaps there are multiple universes.

ref to the quote, in case you were too lazy too listen to the song...

 

[OmCheeto]

I have 994 thread subscriptions.

I think I have a drug problem...

 

[drizzle]

I have a stomach problem. T_T

*goes check expiration dates*

 

[Astronuc]

I know this (iOS7's new display) happened just to annoy me. Well - it really pissed me off.

http://www.tuaw.com/2013/09/20/ios-7-after-a-couple-of-days/

After a couple of days, I'm still exasperated.

 

[AlephZero]

As an appendix to the intricate discussion of ducts, ducks, dukes, dooks, doeks, etc, in another thread ...

What's the opposite of a diphthong? Is it a monophthong?

 

[zoobyshoe]

As an appendix to the intricate discussion of ducts, ducks, dukes, dooks, doeks, etc, in another thread ...

What's the opposite of a diphthong? Is it a monophthong?

It might be a monadphthong, or it might just be a phthong or it could be a uniphthong.

 

[jhae2.718]

I think it's time for a new signature.

 

[AlephZero]

or it might just be a phthong or it could be a uniphthong.

I thought a phthong is something you wear if you have a lisphth.

This may be all greek to some people, but "uni" is latin - so I don't buy that one either.

 

[Enigman]

$$\frac{di+phthong}{2+sounds}$$
So etymologically en(a?)phthong or just phthong sounds logical. But by definition diphthong is a combination of two vowels so it should be just $vowel$.

 

[lisab]

An old pillow without a pillowcase...looks like a bandage from a Civil War field hospital.

 

[AlephZero]

Well Liddell & Scott says I guessed right. http://perseus.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.47:4:64.LSJ

 

[drizzle]

It's thundering...

 

[OmCheeto]

An old pillow without a pillowcase...looks like a bandage from a Civil War field hospital.

I have a bunch of those. What does one do with a dozen old pillows?

 

[Borg]

I know this (iOS7's new display) happened just to annoy me. Well - it really pissed me off.

http://www.tuaw.com/2013/09/20/ios-7-after-a-couple-of-days/

After a couple of days, I'm still exasperated.

Have you read the terms and conditions for iOS7?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Well Liddell & Scott says I guessed right. http://perseus.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.47:4:64.LSJ

A uniphthong, then, is a phthong that can be worn by lispers of either sex.

 

[Magna Visus]

Common sense ain't so common nowadays.

 

[edward]

An old friend called yesterday and said he and his wife would be stopping by in about 15 minutes. My wife and I got more cleaning done in that 15 minutes than we usually do in a week.

 

[drizzle]

Chilies and cherries in dark chocolate: the best!

I always buy this lovely chocolate brand that coats the chocolate with a love poem. :!)

 

[Evo]

An old friend called yesterday and said he and his wife would be stopping by in about 15 minutes. My wife and I got more cleaning done in that 15 minutes than we usually do in a week.

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one that does that.

 

[Astronuc]

A poem, apparently posted somewhere at or near Race Point, Cape Cod National Seashore.

Each day we die a little more ;
Stale custom takes its toll:
It is the unexpected Thing
That brings life to the soul.
-Harry Kemp (1883 – 1960)

 

[dlgoff]

An old friend called yesterday and said he and his wife would be stopping by in about 15 minutes. My wife and I got more cleaning done in that 15 minutes than we usually do in a week.

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one that does that.

I invited some friends for a cookout a couple weeks ago. That's the only way I can get the house cleaned.

 

[lisab]

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one that does that.

I once had to fill the oven with dirty dishes because there was no where else to put them . In my defense, I had just given birth a few weeks before and my then-husband was on a business trip. Someone wanted to 'just drop by to see the baby'.

 

[Evo]

I once had to fill the oven with dirty dishes because there was no where else to put them . In my defense, I had just given birth a few weeks before and my then-husband was on a business trip. Someone wanted to 'just drop by to see the baby'.

I got a call that an old friend was stopping by, I grabbed a large trash bag, gathered everything that was lying around, mail, magazines, kid's toys, and tossed it into the basement. I did the "dishes into the oven" once, my neighbor saw me outside and said, I've got something for you, I'll be right over. NOOOOOO.

 

[drizzle]

A poem, apparently posted somewhere at or near Race Point, Cape Cod National Seashore.

Each day we die a little more ;
Stale custom takes its toll:
It is the unexpected Thing
That brings life to the soul.
-Harry Kemp (1883 – 1960)

Nice one Astro. :)

 

[lisab]

It must have been a productive day today. Lots of stuff got done and my back hurts.

But it seems to have gone by in a flash, or maybe a blur. A blurry flash?

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

I will occasionally think up witty remarks to say to snarky customers whilst I'm working, should I ever encounter any (and I do).

But usually what happens is something like this:
The customer, implementing some hyperbole: "About time! I've been sitting in the drive-thru for half an hour already!"

Me: "I'm sorry, sir. We're doing the best we can."

Customer: "Well it sure doesn't look like it."

He, your everyday megalomaniac, proceeds to be an unnecessarily difficult customer, often guffawing at the simplest of questions as if I just asked him to take his pants off.

But here's what, at the time, I wish I could have said:
The customer, implementing some hyperbole: "About time! I've been sitting in the drive-thru for half an ho-"

Me: "Sir, can you count?"

Customer, presumably startled and confused: "What kind of question is that?"

Me: "Well, if you could, then you would realize that there are a mere eight employees currently working, only three of which are working on the drive-thru. With it being night-time, when we're the most busy, I would go so far as to say that, presently, there are at least 50 customers, many of which have multiple items they're ordering. Doesn't it make just a little bit of sense to you that you had to wait for ten minutes?"

Customer: *Breaks down into tears, acknowledges that I am entirely right, and then proceeds to give me $100 as recompense for his ignorance.*


One can dream...

 

[zoobyshoe]

I will occasionally think up witty remarks to say to snarky customers whilst I'm working, should I ever encounter any (and I do).

But usually what happens is something like this:
The customer, implementing some hyperbole: "About time! I've been sitting in the drive-thru for half an hour already!"

Me: "I'm sorry, sir. We're doing the best we can."

Customer: "Well it sure doesn't look like it."

He, your everyday megalomaniac, proceeds to be an unnecessarily difficult customer, often guffawing at the simplest of questions as if I just asked him to take his pants off.

But here's what, at the time, I wish I could have said:
The customer, implementing some hyperbole: "About time! I've been sitting in the drive-thru for half an ho-"

Me: "Sir, can you count?"

Customer, presumably startled and confused: "What kind of question is that?"

Me: "Well, if you could, then you would realize that there are a mere eight employees currently working, only three of which are working on the drive-thru. With it being night-time, when we're the most busy, I would go so far as to say that, presently, there are at least 50 customers, many of which have multiple items they're ordering. Doesn't it make just a little bit of sense to you that you had to wait for ten minutes?"

Customer: *Breaks down into tears, acknowledges that I am entirely right, and then proceeds to give me $100 as recompense for his ignorance.*


One can dream...

Many years ago I worked at a bakery/coffee shop. A lot of customers couldn't pronounce the word croissant. This irritated me.

So, this girl who worked there and I made a big poster with all the mispronunciations on it all crossed out in red marker, and at the end, the proper French one.

We had to take it down because some customers complained to the owner that it made them feel stupid. That, of course, had been exactly what we set out to demonstrate. However, it turned out, to our surprise, telling your customers they're stupid is bad for business.

 

[inotyce]

Failed at all exams (got C- 's)

 

[AlephZero]

Talking of croissants ...

Once on a business trip to France, we had arrived at a company by car to start the day's work. This was the sort of company with lots of security - the visitor's car park was outside a high fence and wall. We were looking around, a bit bleary eyed, figuring out where the entrance was, when an ancient and battered french car came screaming across the car park, did a four-wheel slide on the gravel, missed our car by a few millimeters and stopped a few millimeters from the fence. Several people piled out of it, including one of our hosts - who emerged from the left hand side front door with both hands, and mouth, all full of hot croissants and butter.

Being Brits who drive on the other side of the road, it took us a few seconds to realize the significance of "the left hand side front door." I guess "driving under the influence of croissants" is not listed in the French legal code!

 

[wolram]

I hate the word GOT, only because it sounds horrible, could you get through a day without saying GOT, i bet a $1
you can not.

 

[Borek]

I hate the word GOT, only because it sounds horrible, could you get through a day without saying GOT, i bet a $1
you can not.

You just lost.

Unless you come here and force me to discuss Goths. One Goth is "got" in Polish.

 

[Evo]

Failed at all exams (got C- 's)

Awwww. That's not failing!

BIG {{{HUG}}}

What happened?

 

[Magna Visus]

Talking of croissants ...
who emerged from the left hand side front door with both hands, and mouth, all full of hot croissants and butter.

Your story and description of the croissants...You are evil

Being Brits who drive on the other side of the road, it took us a few seconds to realize the significance of "the left hand side front door." I guess "driving under the influence of croissants" is not listed in the French legal code!

Trust me, if anything, the delicious smell of a hot croissant au chocolat, or a croissant au fromage would easily disturb all of your senses except smelling, see nothing, hear nothing, feel nothing. But no worries soon it will make its way into the French legal code

 

[Evo]

Talking of croissants ...

Once on a business trip to France, we had arrived at a company by car to start the day's work. This was the sort of company with lots of security - the visitor's car park was outside a high fence and wall. We were looking around, a bit bleary eyed, figuring out where the entrance was, when an ancient and battered french car came screaming across the car park, did a four-wheel slide on the gravel, missed our car by a few millimeters and stopped a few millimeters from the fence. Several people piled out of it, including one of our hosts - who emerged from the left hand side front door with both hands, and mouth, all full of hot croissants and butter.

Being Brits who drive on the other side of the road, it took us a few seconds to realize the significance of "the left hand side front door." I guess "driving under the influence of croissants" is not listed in the French legal code!

French people are crazy! (I'm French)