I've got just three li'l itsy bitsy (kicksy me for that) things to get off my chest. I need the space, kidz, not just for my enormous jugs (titsy?) but for the advertising space. So now, without further fanfare, I present to you those three things:
- The word regime is not the same as regimen. Update before even posting this: In doing my research (because I'm not just a math geek, I'm a word dork), I just read on dictionary.com that I may be wr-wr-wr___; to wit: "A regulated system, as of diet and exercise; a regimen." However, I suspect that this definition has been included to accommodate modern poor usage, just like "alright" is now considered an acceptable alternative for "all right". I am quite the purist (please feel free to picture me in pilgrim garb, which, of course, is delightfully seasonal), so this rankles the hell out of me.
- I implore the cashiers at Gap and Banana Republic to refrain from saying, to the next customer in line, "May I help the following customer?" Please know that unless you have a roster of customers' names and will name the next one, as if it is preceded by a colon (the punctuation kind, not the visceral), this is just wrong. (See? I can type "wrong" when it is not I who is in it [the wrong].)
- "Everyday" is not the same as "every day". The former is an adjective, to be used when you desire a more syllabic alternative to "daily" or maybe "common". The latter is to be used when you mean you do something, uhm, every day. (It's self-explanatory!) Writing "I watch 14 hours of television everyday while in my baggy, elastic-decrepit underpants, sipping a chococcino" is wrong, and perhaps even more wrong than watching TV to excess and/or wearing shabby underpants and/or, yes, allowing the word "chococcino" out in the wild.
Oh, and one more thing: If you don't want me eating it, don't make them look so much alike:
At least make one wear a kicky wide headband, like Cathy did to set her apart from Patty in "The Patty Duke Show", okay?
fresh-baked at 10:16 AMDid you ever write on the disrespect thing? Its use as a verb should be outlawed! Also: "subbosably." Is this a word? Aren't users really in need of "supposedly?" (Also, should I be placing quotes inside or outside of other punctuation?)
Jenn
Offered by: Jenn on November 15, 2007 3:43 PMI contracted acute tonsillitis once, but that's the only acute contraction I'm aware of. And although I was unaware of the obscure 'penetrating' reference, I am keenly aware that you purpusely put it near the end; the reference to your end; the one that's hard to miss.
"Arrows at the ready, lads!"
"Let loose!"
Offered by: Ds on November 15, 2007 1:54 PMAh, Ds,
Lover of your Thesaurus (as I),
You KNOW I was calling the pre-ejaculate reference "obscure." It goes without saying that you are obtuse, bless your lil' heart.
As for my being "'cute" I'll have to assume you are contracting "acute." What with the apostrophe.
Hmm. that can be "dire, dreadful, terrible, awful, BAD", etc., or, (lesser-used, naturally) "keen, sharp, good", etc. - oh - and "penetrating." Must not be that variant.
You'll have to enlighten me. But thanks ever-so for being positive about my end. It's hard to miss.
Offered by: Kate on November 14, 2007 11:13 PMKate -
You may vacillate, shilly-shally, fluctuate, dither, waffle, waver, straddle, oscillate, seesaw, wobble, quiver, shudder, tremble, lurch, and scream in tongues all you want for all I care. But please, don't call me obscure. I'm obtuse.
But since you're 'cute, it all works out positiviely in the end.
Offered by: Ds on November 12, 2007 3:01 PMDs
I've been vacillating (as to your request) between, "That's what SHE said," and "Please keep your Cowper's fluid to yourself."
Shall we vote for the more obscure?
Offered by: Kate on November 11, 2007 5:00 PM"Ds, are you having Jamie hallucinations? She hasn't been here... yet."
...And since I am not a follower (because I can't "follow" My job in life is to sit pretty and smile every day, not worry my head with thinking and stuff.) I'm not comming either...woops! I...came, didn't I? It was the whole "tiny maggot regime marching up Jodi's thighs" fiasco that did it.
Since I'm here, what's a dicktionary, Ds? Do they sell those at Banana Republic?
Offered by: jamied on November 10, 2007 3:03 PMI'm sure the people at Banana Republic are also
saying "That's a whole nother story"?
Instead of "That's a whole other story" or "That's another story."
Redo your blog and add that please!
Offered by: Mrs. Z on November 9, 2007 5:43 PMDs, are you having jamie hallucinations? She hasn't been here ... yet.
Offered by: Jodi on November 9, 2007 5:03 PMjamie -
can you pass me a dictionary? I can't read the pictures placed in front of me well enough to spell 'desiccant' correctly.
Offered by: Ds on November 9, 2007 4:45 PMKate -
Can you pass me a dessicant. Jodi gave me a wet spot.
Offered by: Ds on November 9, 2007 4:43 PMJodi said head. I think my testosterone is flowing.
Offered by: Ds on November 9, 2007 4:41 PMAhhh! At long last! A burst of estrogen in a room heady with testosterone!
Offered by: Jodi on November 9, 2007 3:31 PMI am happily typing in this on my newly-repaired APPLE POWERBOOK, the use of which WAS my daily regimen and shall again be so. Hurrah AND Huzzah!
I don't think anyone is following me, but then paranoia was never my big problem.
I don't understand why people in "the East" don't just save those little desiccant packets and then put them in a basket or other such container and use them rather than an expensive DE-humidifier (the concept of which is a little difficult to understand when here in the "Mountain West" we often use humidifiers so that we don't have wanton constant nosebleeds or become so dessicated that we turn into mere wee DNA dust piles). I saved a whole bag-full of those desiccant packets and capsules as a clever gift to give to my Baby Brother and Sister-in-law the last time they were here (they live "back East," you know). They balked a little at the idea of taking a bag chock-full of those little things on an airplane.
So now I must wonder: CAN you make bombs from desiccants or could you just place them on unsuspecting people whilst they sleep and make them have small extra-dry spots?
Offered by: Kate on November 9, 2007 2:37 PMIf I were the first person in line, and the cashier kept asking the following person to step forward, I'd think after 10 or 11 of the people behind me passed me by to proceed with their otherwise patheticaly paltry lives, I might be forced to line-jump to the end of the line, where as the line prgressed, inevitably I, too, would end up being called before the poor sould I'd left in my stead in this terribly wretched game of follow the leader.
Offered by: Ds on November 9, 2007 1:48 PMKnowing your love of "the math" -- I feel compelled to pass this little gem on:
That is all, continue eating your silica.
Offered by: dan on November 9, 2007 1:10 PMRegime to me will always be your government in which you will force us lard-asses into a healthy regimen (although 75 pounds shed would make my time in your regimen short, affording me a faster entrance into your "stud stable".)
If any cashier were to say, "May I help the following customer", in MY presence. I would prevent anyone from going to the dolt until he read aloud the name of the customer he was going to help.
Word bastardization is how Latin and German spawned the love child that is Engrish.
So, which one did YOU want to "eat", Cathy or Patty?
Offered by: Thomas on November 9, 2007 12:34 PMChococcino? When I was young, we were happy to have a cup of steam... in a cracked cup... but we were happy then, even though we were poor. I remember getting up half an hour before I went to bed with nothing but a small frog and a slice of yak cheese to give me the energy to work those 8-day weeks. You wouldn't know about that would you? Safely tucked away in your Manhattan penthouse being fed peeled grapes (black ones) by adoring sycophants. Alas, all that decadence doesn't equal a dessicant sack of happiness, does it?
-Korean Korrespondent-
Offered by: MikeE on November 9, 2007 11:42 AMI'm going to say... yyyyno.
Offered by: Pete on November 9, 2007 11:38 AMIf there is a government of nuclear- (not nuke-u-lar, Georgy) weapons-bearing maggots festering in Jodi's shoes, would that qualify as a larval regime practicing a hateful regimen of munching and defecating in their conquest to take over the knees, following the following: a drizzly march up the stubble-infested plains of a pair of non-waxed thighs?
Offered by: Ds on November 9, 2007 11:32 AMAhhhhh, how I love my boy commenters!
Offered by: Jodi on November 9, 2007 11:31 AMI heard that if you eat silica gel (do not eat!), the packet absorbs water in your stomach and it expands until it bursts your stomach and then all of your food dribbles down the inside of your body to your feet where it pools and rots until maggots grow in it and then the maggots eat their way out of your toes and sit in your shoes where they form a rudimentary government to pass the time and then before you know it they have developed nukes which they use against your knees and so your knees blow up and you fall over and scream.
That's what I heard.
Offered by: Pete on November 9, 2007 11:23 AMThank you! "Daily Regime?" What, is this a banana republic (where the fashonable khakis are made for a few cents, not where they are sold for $79) where the government changes daily? If you mean regimen, say regimen. Secondary definitions are always (not all ways) bullshit.
I suppose the whole "following" fiasco is like the ofTen fiasco. trying hard, but at the end of the day, just not that smart.
And of course, since I used the word "following", you are now at the next paragraph, looking for a fiasco. Alas, I will make no references to colons.
Patty Duke? Well done!
Offered by: Token Fella on November 9, 2007 11:23 AMAny day that includes a reference to "The Patty Duke Show" is a good one. Thanks so!
Offered by: Boyd on November 9, 2007 10:31 AM





