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[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. :)