P J Evans, Marilee: "Oo's a good kitty!" is, perhaps unflatteringly, the form of cat-talking brainmelt I seem to have acquired. But, yes, I have seen other versions.
One of our groups of acquaintances talks for their cat, who (through their mouths) says "Pet me, byeeetch" in a strangely specific faux Eastern European accent. We also talk for our cats, but they don't have accents. Mine says "what?" a lot.
Luthe @ 238: I haven't read Weber, but now am considering it -- the world needs more good trans characters, 't does.
Re: small pets and cats, a pair of my friends keep a number of cats that generally hovers around six or seven, plus a whole reptilian sub-household. They breed mice -- the smart ones are separated out as pets, the dumb ones are lunch for the ophidian denizens.
Housing the mice in a closed spare room keeps the cats off. I don't imagine this segregation would work for birds, who need lots of attention.
They’re not quite up into bus plunge range, but they’re a definite staple
I can see why. They all have these adorable hamster pictures. It's the baaaaabyanimals effect.
Re: hampster, one presses lips together on the "m", and in the transition to the "s" a puff of air usually comes out, making a ghostly "p" sound. It's thus almost a phonetic misspelling. You have to say hamster very carefully in order to not wind up with hampster.
Joy, from L.S. Baird's post: Being new to the area, I was excited and thrilled that there was a local publisher hiring for their acquisitions department. I thought having some serious experience with publishing could give me a real step up in looking for a publisher for my own work.
Networking in the arts, at the early stages, often winds up with people settling for dirt wages. I've seen this as a writer and I have friends in theatre for whom bitty stipends can be marks of prestige.
One thing I've learned is that actual cheap wrapping paper is the WORST thing you can wrap with. Yes, it may have Santas and so on, but it's slippery, crinkles up as soon as you breathe on it, and develops scratch-marks where the print rubs off.
For the same price, as far as wrapping small gifts is concerned, some inexpensive colored art paper can be acquired. The edges round instead of warping; the paper holds firm. It makes gifts look subtly classy. You can get a single piece of fine handmade paper, cut out geometric shapes, and glue them to the top of the package for tags. You can also roll corners in the art paper and create interesting shapes that would not hold with wrapping paper.
The year after I took a book arts class, I was broke for the holidays, so my newfound knowledge of paper came in handy. I gave people tiny cheap trinkets and wrapped them in fancy, absurd configurations. Nobody minded; they had enough fun opening the present that the fun quotient of receiving it was upped, so when tiny glass animals or single bars of chocolate came out, it still added up to a good present.
I'm sure my male-to-female transgendered friends will be glad to hear that soymilk can replace expensive hormone therapy except for the part where OH WAIT IT CAN'T.
With appertain rotor of screw setting pre ceiling on the under standing that screw no wield. May wield two-faced pressboard securing. Wield pre to begin with wiping ceiling of bilge dasto.
WARNING!!
* Prythee no sport with stingy or play asperity game. Winding finger have got bloodstream not wallk. Through of peril.
* Tad disport of time grown man tatelage.
* Till the cowcomes home. Wield toys damage, burn-in prythee wind to a close wield.
I imagine that some of the discrepancy between people's experiences at different borders has to do with physical appearance.
For example, one acquaintance (a US citizen from birth) complained of nearly getting kicked out of England for looking very, very Irish.
I'm amazed that I've never had trouble with any US/Canadian or other US checkpoint, but I think it has something to do with my being able to look and speak like the right kind of suburban-raised white person. Unfortunately I'm not joking.
this fusion
Sorry to bear bad news, but the link just leads to the local page. I wouldn't want anyone to catch it and report you to the department of recursion department of recursion department of recursion department of recursion department of recursion department of recursion department of recursion department of recursion department of recursion department of recursion department of recursion department of recursion department of recursion department of recursion invalid function call department.
O wow. The outpouring of creativity here is intense. Fragano Ledgister, I see you've mastered several forms.
As promised:
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The dreadfull word of falseness has assailed
That highest Muse which speakes within my screene,
Which Light Makes, thus illumined, thus prevailed,
Aboue the monstrous perill full vncleane.
Whilst gan the Beast pretend, we did full weene,
As discourse false on moderne film it gaue,
What greedy nature vnderneath had beene:
And vnderstood the treason of the knaue,
Whose ioy in gold fell ioylesse downe with none to saue.
--
Whew!
abi says, there is an impulse to make something good out of the bad.
Which rather puts me in mind of the Wergle Flomp Poetry Contest.
I still owe you beautiful people a real Spenserian stanza. I owe myself some sleep first, though. Like right now.
You may have been exposed to my case of creeping surrealism, contracted by hanging around with Discordians and other shady malcontents. I won't lie and say I'm sorry.
Thank you, (Teresa -- Ms. Nielsen-Hayden -- or whatever the correct polite form of address is from one who does not know you personally but is lurking around at your lawn party making stray pentameter. I'm always terrible at these things.) I'll strive to do up an actual one later.
Pantechnician, #72:
ask to have your (non-existent) product advertised, thus outing anyone who recommended the phantom product as a paid shill
Unless the company has a clause in their contract declaring that no one using their services lampoon them, I wouldn't actually think it hard to do up a website selling, say, little slips of paper rolled into tubes or tin-can phones or something else along those lines that if someone actually bought one you could easily supply; give the site and the product fancy names ("Zelda's Strange Goods & Sundries", "Can Communique") and go to. Nobody's actually going to go around on people's blogs seriously and earnestly recommending a tin-can phone. Okay, maybe some surrealists I know.
A fine solution made in Abi's verse;
As I perceive, a fifteen-penny tawdry
Won't hack it, and would surely stay more terse,
Revealing thus, by difference, their oddly-
crafted missives of imaginary worth,
That virtuous kind may take them well to task,
And banish these foul creatures of ill mirth
Arriving undisguisèd for the masque.
(...Maybe not quite a Spenserian stanza. Next time.)
With PayPerPost advertisers are willing to pay you for your opinion on various topics.
I wish that were true.
"My opinion on Joe Schmoe's Toothpaste: It tastes like toothpaste last I checked, no better, no worse, but I think you should buy from the other guy. They don't sink to paying stealth yes-men on the internet."
It would definitely offend my sense of dignity less to live in a country with a president who retains some principles, even if they're disgusting principles. (For argument's sake I'll hold that he does, just going from the quotes in the original post.)
Under such a charismatic, militaristic, opinionated guy, this country could be a Shakespearean tragedy, rather than low farce.
... I'm not sure that's a recommendation.
Entirely unsurprised. There was a moment somewhere in the Midterm Midtacular where I turned to my partners and said, "Someone's gotta write this slash," and one of them said, "It's guaranteed already happening."
Now, what I love even better is the fad amongst my friends for Mac/PC fic. As in, the "I'm a Mac," "I'm a PC" guys from the commercial. Someone I know actually writes this stuff.
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