Are English-speaking people that egocentrical that they feel they need to capitalize "I"?
Are English-speaking people that egocentrical that they feel they need to capitalize "I"?
I've been spending way too much time here. WHy??!?
You're just another bastard.
You have been sucked into the vortex of time wasting.
Hmm... but I registered much, much earlier than you did and yet you have more posts than me...
Oh, the 2004 members here are craaaaazy posters. Don't even try to match us.We're a new race of cyborg-like posting machines.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
I just learned that "rule of thumb" came from the Patriarchal idea that a husband could lawfully beat his wife so long as what he used was no wider than his thumb.
I was wondering, where did "stiff upper lip" come from?
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!
Yeah I knew about the rule of thumb. I think that used to be part of American law too, until the 19th c. or something.
It means you look serious; your lip isn't bent in a smile or a frown. I believe.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
Oh! That makes sense. I've always heard it used to describe a degree of toughness. I thought fighters had to keep their lips stiff for some reason!
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!
This may seem like a stupid question, but is everybody here literature majors or doing something in that field?
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
That's a good question. I'm gonna go for visual art of some kind, but if the school had majors/minors, I'd say I'm minoring in literature. I find it to be more interesting, but art just happens to come most easily. Even if I'm uninspired I can pick something from life. Not many people would pay just to read a description of a street scene or something.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
I am majoring in Greek and Roman Studies, an oh so useful major when applied to job searching after graduation.
Wow, when did I become a Bibliophile instead of a Book Worm?
historically.... who were the death heads brigaide??? I keep on hearing about these guys in computer games set in WWII... but never learned about them on hist. channel or in class. Does anyone know?
Told by a fool, signifying nothing.
ajoe -- when you hit 200. You can make up a status now.
Fool, I'll ask my dad. He plays an MMO WWII game all the time. And he's also ammassed a formidable amount of knowledge on Nazi Germany, so he may have heard of them in that context.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
Great. Look at me, I'm FOB of the board! (And darn proud of it!)
You're just another bastard.
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