B. Durbin @26 and Tom Whitmore @34.
I really dislike it when TSA officials make jokes like that with me. There are signs all over the place about how, if passengers make jokes about bombs or terrorism or whatever, the TSA will take them serious and treat them as a threat.
Why should I feel less threatened when they joke with me?
Jokes only work when the joking relationship is reciprocal.
(In re: the Potluck Poetry Particle)
The greatest potluck song ever written:
Lime Jello Marhmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise
The Sniffle
In spite of her sniffle,
Isabel's chiffle.
Some girls with a sniffle
Would be weepy and tiffle;
They would look awful,
Like a rained-on waffle,
But Isabel's chiffle
In spite of her sniffle.
Her nose is more red
With a cold in her head,
But then, to be sure,
Her eyes are bluer.
Some girls with a snuffle,
Their tempers are uffle,
But when Isabel's snivelly
She's snivelly civilly,
And when she's snuffly
She's perfectly luffly.
--Ogden Nash
Start spreading the news. I’m leaving today.
I want to be a part of it, Newford! Newford!
These hob-enspelled shoes are longing to stray
Right to the faerie heart of it, Newford! Newford!
I want to wake up in the city where boggans creep
And find the pook of the hill! The Gruagagh’s keep!
Ankh-Morpork, tis of thee
Sweet land of…let me see…
Of thee I sing.
Land where the kings all died!
Land of Patrician’s pride!
(We sure hope he’s on our side!)
Let Old Tom Ring.
Thomas @132
Thanks so much. I think that may well solve the problem for me!
An open thread at this particular site seems like the perfect place to ask if anyone can give me a reliable bibliographical reference for the Asimov essay titled, "What Is Intelligence Anyway?" I've seen it attributed to his book _It's Been a Good Life_ but a thorough re-read of that work assures me that it's not in there.
My permissions editor is going nuts looking for this. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
You know, these puns take work. It's not like I just come in here and toss one off whenever I feel like it.
Eirin and Erik @ 24 and 25
You guys have me awfully tempted to take a whack at a pun.
I've been giggling helplessly over this story all day. But I just went and read the article that Teresa linked to, and I have been driven absolutely over the edge of hysteria by the beautiful missing antecedent problem in this sentence....
"if boys know pornography will make them gay, they'll never touch it"
John Donne wrote about it way before bio-ports.
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/ecstacy.htm
Pendrift
Fixing dropped stitches without ripping your knitting is easy and deeply satisfying.
You need a crochet hook, but in times of direst need, I've used a DPN, a toothpick, or a ballpoint pen.
Good video of instructions is here.
Pendrift-
What's the trouble?
Diatryma @#81
You'll learn nothing (other than patience) from making a scarf that you won't learn from making the same stitch pattern into a pot holder sized square.
If you don't want a scarf and aren't giddy with pleasure at the thought of wearing the one that you're going to produce, I'd highly recommend casting off and starting something in a lace pattern, since what you want to do is knit lace.
As a crocheter, you already know how to boss your yarn around. And if you're doing a scarf, you can knit, purl, and cast on and off. Additional lace knitting skills are trivially easy to pick up.
And if you want suggestions for patterns, I've got a million!
Quilts. Art. Use.
Everyday Use by Alice Walker, for those who might not know it.
Oh, lovely quilt abi!
I've just finished an enormous (6x6) lace shawl. I love the feeling of finishing up a big project, standing back, saying "Wow!" and "What next?"
Have you tried Half.com?
It's pretty good for textbooks.
Open-threadiness. Knitting. Things for giggling about. And, thanks to Fragano Ledgister for the topical segue...a hat.
It's familiar indeed. I find myself on pins and needles waiting for the next pun, as it's been a lawn while since I satin on a session like this.
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