Stupid things you have said or heard

[Deloria]

My dad on why tethering through his pager doesn't always work: "It has some bad memories from having previously connected."

On another note, in defining transitive vs. intransitive, you should have dived into a discussion of transitivity, ergativity, ditransitivity, and morphosyntactical alignment in general. (See, I've heard of wikipedia. )

I would have, but she didn't even know what the indicative was. I highly doubt she would have been able to follow.

[Delling]

But! That's very much the point! If she knows that you will always respond with far more information than she thinks she will ever need and/or could even follow, then she may very well stop asking.

[Deloria]

I was cuddling with my favourite kitty on my bed when she suddenly decided to lunge at my face and tear the inside of my nose open. Since I was bleeding profusely and it hadn't clotted after several minutes, I called my mother upstairs, telling her that I was losing a lot of blood. She then asked from where and I answered her, whereupon, not knowing the backstory, she asked how endometrial cells got into my nose.

[PirateKingChris]

 

My cat once randomly attacked my nose similarly and it didn't really hurt too much but it bled more than I ever have! A little discomforting.

[Deloria]

Indeed. It looks like someone's been murdered on my sheets.

[Delling]

pauvre Nez de Reine... she was the queen's favorite at court... until the queen's favorite cat got jealous and murdered her in her sleep.

The endometrial cells comment was HILARIOUS and well-delivered too.

[Haids1987]

I called my mother upstairs, telling her that I was losing a lot of blood. She then asked from where and I answered her, whereupon, not knowing the backstory, she asked how endometrial cells got into my nose.

LOL!  Haha, that's the best!  I'm actually laughing out loud! 

[Delling]

two things from conversations with my dad:

Dad: "Whatever happened to Catastrophe Theory?"
Me: "It's obvious, isn't it? It got turned down."

Me: *proposes that Spanish missed an opportunity to improve on Latin by having an inclusive vs. exclusive "we" forms (nostodos vs. nosotros was the idea)*
Dad: ...but Brandon, you know how languages are: they don't improve--they decline.  

Awesome points to be awarded to anyone who gets the first one.

[Deloria]

Me: *proposes that Spanish missed an opportunity to improve on Latin by having an inclusive vs. exclusive "we" forms (nostodos vs. nosotros was the idea)*
Dad: ...but Brandon, you know how languages are: they don't improve--they decline. 

*groans*

Lithuanian is an improvement over PIE...*grumbles something about no one being able to appreciate 11 cases and 5 numbers*

[Delling]

ok, ok...but do you get the other one? (think Greek)

[Deloria]

Too busy extolling the virtues of LITHUANIAN.


Um, kata is "down", among other things?

Or the fact that, sometimes, a catastrophe is the part of the play where the audience experiences catharsis, which is traditionally when the plot goes downhill?

[Delling]

If kata is "down", what's "strophe"?

(hint: it is a noun related to trepo/tropos (in fact, in ?Doric? IIRC, many words beginning with an m or a t in Attic have an s in front... and the o-grade of a stem was commonly employed for the formation of nouns))...

[Deloria]

If kata is "down", what's "strophe"?

(hint: it is a noun related to trepo/tropos (in fact, in ?Doric? IIRC, many words beginning with an m or a t in Attic have an s in front... and the o-grade of a stem was commonly employed for the formation of nouns))...

Oddly enough, I learned both strophe and trepo, but my professor explained that there was a distinct difference between the two. Obviously both mean to turn.

[crayauchtin]

Or the fact that, sometimes, a catastrophe is the part of the play where the audience experiences catharsis, which is traditionally when the plot goes downhill?

Actually, in theater terms anyways, the catastrophe is the final event that "raises the stakes" in the plot, and that comes before the climax -- which is when catharsis occurs.

Look me using my college degree!

[Delling]

If kata is "down", what's "strophe"?

(hint: it is a noun related to trepo/tropos (in fact, in ?Doric? IIRC, many words beginning with an m or a t in Attic have an s in front... and the o-grade of a stem was commonly employed for the formation of nouns))...

Oddly enough, I learned both strophe and trepo, but my professor explained that there was a distinct difference between the two. Obviously both mean to turn.

And thus a catastrophe is a down-turn... so: "Catastrophe Theory got turned down."

[Deloria]

I was waiting for my train when I was approached by someone from a charity that gives poor children in Africa crutches.

Him: Could I have a moment of your time?
Me: I'm sorry, but you would be wasting your time. I'm misanthropic.
Him: what's 'misanthropic'?
Me: I see how they got you.

[Delling]

Poor guy probably thought he'd get some money from you to...

Still... really good reply

[Haids1987]

I was in class once in high school and the teacher asked if anyone knew which two countries the US has the friendliest relations with.  A kid in my class raised his hand and proudly says, "London and Britain."

[Farquhar]

A friend of one of my co-workers actually though the Dalai Lama was a llama.

[Haids1987]

The Great Wise and All Knowledgeable Llama.