quote:Originally posted by Fat Cramer: There's an ice cream shortage in New Brunswick.
It MUST be Irving's fault!
From: Vancouver, BC, Canada | Registered: Dec 2003
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cleome46
or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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I went to the foot doc today and got prescribed anti-inflammatory meds and a mini-brace.
On the plus side, he agreed with me that the nurse practitioner the HMO insisted I go to first was... er, not the sharpest tool in the shed. (She diagnosed a problem I clearly didn't have, then wrote me a prescription for some stuff my previous GP had told me to not take, based on my medical history. Pphht. I don't think all nurses are idiots, BTW. Just this one.)
On the minus side, I'm so spaced out from the meds right now that I can barely sit upright in my chair. Oy.
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For a while I consulted over in England, and I loved picking up English idioms. One of my favorite is the phrase "I can't be arsed" basically meaning, "I can't be bothered". Though I'd love to incorporate that into my vernacular, I don't have enough panache to actually use the pronunciation "arse" so the few times I've tried to Americanize it and say, "I can't be assed," people always misunderstand and say, "You can't be asked to do what?"
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I never fix my watch for daylight savings. I just know in the summer I'm off by am hour.
(I only wear it when I'm in a suit).
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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cleome46
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The weather was darn near perfect all weekend. Tomorrow the heat's supposed to roar back big-time, though.
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From: Vanity, OR | Registered: Dec 2008
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I've never really gotten the phrase "You can't have your cake and eat it too."
I mean, granted. But who the hell wants to just have cake without eating it? What's the point?
Seems like a pretty easy choice to me.
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I used to post on the SciFi Channel boards as "AACR2", which stands for Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition, a standard reference for library catalogers.
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