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RDCanecutter

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  1. You complement me, sir. I am way too riffraff for the likes of them.
  2. I get the general point, but just wanna point out that sinking a million into something that might make a big 200 thousand, when the price goes up and down, means that company will always be a couple of years from its next crisis. My goblin overlords insist that I go for things that make at least 200% profit over costs, not 20%.
  3. Well at least you're doing stuff. Me I got lazy and quit exercising.
  4. First time I had some bad numbers, was able to get them back in line by lots of little walks.
  5. I've got $5 on the rednecks. They can't catch the Teslas, but they can ram the charging stations.
  6. Talking about post ww1-- the Communists and the Nazis hated each other... until they signed a treaty to split Poland, then the Germans barely had to keep anybody in the east while they hit all their western neighbors.
  7. In the 30s that was the French and British plan for dealing with the Germans and Soviets.
  8. That's not far off for some of those old-school Greek and Latin classes. In the 90s I was lucky enough to take a couple that would have been right at home in the 1890s. We'd take our turns translating lines of Lysias, and then it'd be instant verb analysis: person, number, tense, mood, bam bam bam. We got to be Forrest Gump reassembling that rifle. I lived this all across muddy-ass Gaul:
  9. Maybe it's more like Dunlendings resenting the influx of Haradrim and Easterlings. huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhu [milk out nose]
  10. ALL WOULD FALL INTO DISORDER. (Actually not sure if they do that much anymore. The best language learning technique, the one that works, is to get drunk with someone you find attractive who only speaks the target language.) But me yeah I love to get an overview of the verb system. Same reason I prefer a militaristic Anglican church service to some lah-dee-dah-dee non-denominational snooze-fest-- Johnnie Froggy's not backing down until we back him down... Wait for it... WAIT for it... Conjugate! Amo Amas Ama Amamos Amáis [panic among the recruits--"we never learned the vosotros form, we--" "SHUT yer bleedin gobs and SAY IT."] Aman
  11. I just had three eggs. Now off to dive into the vault of gold coins.
  12. His Dr. Evil bit is getting better. Just one shaved head and a house cat away from getting his mojo back.
  13. I dunno if I ever mentioned what I do to make the most of drawing time. At least once a week I'll get stuck somewhere boring for an hour or two. When I know that's going to happen, I take a couple of Sharpies and at least a dozen "baseball card" panels I have chopped out of wine box (a beautiful honey graham cracker color with fine corrugation.) Then I draw, draw like the wind. At shows I will put mini-shoeboxes of these drawings on the corners of my front table at 5 bucks or 3 for 10, and they stop people like they've been tased. Then after somebody loosens up and relaxes, they might look up and get interested in larger paintings. Or just get a scad of these little ones. S'all good.
  14. Fans trying to get a stay in the Birmingham Jail after wallowing in wet grass on logo. For their sake I hope the AC isn't working.
  15. The way it usually works here is that those strikes in the SW will slide NE up I-59, just dragging their asses over the stadium uptown.
  16. Yep. I am at home with flu-recovering wife, and don't feel like inflicting fresh flu on myself by sitting in a bowl of drizzly rain. Got a new roof at home, heater works, and tamales for tonight. Y'all have fun out there!
  17. I know almost no Creole, but I was listening to a Haitian radio station one day, and dang if they didn't occasionally slip into expressions that I last heard in the north of France in Picardy. Probably an interesting story behind that.
  18. Yep. When I was teaching languages, occasionally some administrator would chime in that I should point out all the reasons for learning them, the reasons why I myself learned them. And I would come up with some set of advantages to language study, because I've found that administration is a humorless Shoggoth if you ignore it, but truth be told, I didn't study any language for a reason, other than they make me happy. Don't make you happy? Do something else.
  19. If we're ever gonna be in the same place, let's use our age and treachery against her youth and idealism. We can learn some short Gaelic dialogue and just rattle it off. I'll be impressed with your fluency. You give me a beer and some food. Deal?
  20. Only if the courses are drinking binges where Diego shoots out the juke box, then Tina Modetti slanky-dances with Frida.
  21. Yo-u no-u se-ii perro tall vezz suh-ree-uh la sa-loo-shion.
  22. Won't fit through the hoop.
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