CHip @ 213: It's been a while since I read it, but I think vg'f abg jung gur ernqre naq gur snzvyl abj xabj, vg'f jung pna or cebirq va n pbheg bs ynj. Fvzba jnf arire sbhaq thvygl bs nal pevzr, fb gurer'f ab erfgvghgvba nf cneg bs n pevzvany ireqvpg.
Gung yrnirf n pvivy ynjfhvg ol gur arkg nygreangvir urve: ohg gur nygreangvir urve vf nyfb Fvzba'f erfvqhny urve naq vf abj va cbfrffvba! (Sebz gur grkg, Fvzba'f fvfgre vf pyrneyl gur arkg urve ohg abg zhpu qrgnvy vf tvira. V nz nffhzvat Fvzba qvrq vagrfgngr, be gurve cneragf' jvyy cebivqrq sbe Fvzba'f qrngu jvgubhg puvyqera ). Jvgu abobql gb fhr naq ab batbvat ybff, ab yrtny npgvba vf arrqrq.
Gurer zvtug pbaprvinoyl or n fhvg ntnvafg gur gehfgrrf gb erpbire nal vapbzr tvira gb Fvzba orsber ur jnf 21. Ohg nf gur gehfgrrf npgrq va tbbq snvgu naq gurve npgvbaf jrer ernfbanoyr, vg'f abg yvxryl gb fhpprrq. Nyfb vg jbhyq or ehqr.
janni@20:
"...I am prepared to offer £50 for the name and address of a
literary agent who is capable of getting the better of a publisher. I
am widely acquainted with publishers and literary agents, and though I
have often met publishers who have got the better of literary agents, I
have never yet met a literary agent who has come out on top of a
publisher. Such a literary agent is badly wanted. I have been looking
for him for years.
I know a number of authors who would join me in enriching that literary
agent. The publishers are always talking about him. I seldom go into a
publisher's office but that literary agent has just left (gorged with
illicit gold). It irritates me that I cannot run across him. If i were
a publisher, he would have been in prison ere now. Briefly, the manner
in which certain prominent publishers, even clever ones, talk about
literary agents is silly." - Arnold Bennett, 1908
I have no actual evidence, but I think "exploded" may be a pair with "bubble" (as in South Sea Bubble), and then got used for the end of any short-term fashion.
John Stevens at 61: Minor factual point - the current party of government in the UK is still plain Labour on ballot papers, in its constitution, and on its website (http://www.labour.org.uk, unlinked to prevent spontaneous projectile vomiting. I count one "new Labour" in a slogan and eight plain "Labour" - nine counting the URI).
Those last two aren't verbs ending in c, though.
"Tic" as in twitch becomes "ticcing", not "ticking". Collision avoidance with "tick"?
Russ @203:
"My nerves are shot to hell. I shall tonic myself with a very large whisky and a very small soda."
A bit of a stretch, I admit.
Tonic and magic can both be verbs, but neither "-cing" nor "-cking" feels pleasant for either, so I think my general rule is "write the sentence some other way".
(Shorter BBC: "Everything's -cked")
P J Evans @225:
Rosslyn Chapel, near Edinburgh, was built in the 1480s and contains an identifiable carving of a maize plant with corn cobs. (Unfortunately cf. Dan Brown / T*e D* V***i C**e). The fellow who commissioned the chapel was a Prince of Orkney and a sea-goer in the North Atlantic. Also, of course, the building was started in the 1480s and finished many years later, so it's by no means clear that this particular carving is pre-Columban. Still fun to speculate, though.
iain @ 44:
Having had it sucked out of my arm last Thursday, I can confirm that a UK unit is 470-475 ml, the same as a US unit...
Dorothy Rothschild @ 139: Scheveningen? Via alt.fan.pratchett. If it is, then it's "ch as in loch". Me, I break down coughing.
Peter Erwin @ 546
"51.
This appears to be the first uninteresting number, which of course makes it an especially interesting number, because it is the smallest number to have the property of being uninteresting."
- David Wells, Curious and Interesting Numbers
CHip @ 121:
Canada geese are endemic in most of the UK, not just Kew. Yet goose is still expensive in the shops. Humph.
Cicada> Excellent! Whole new, creative ways in which I can hurt myself, duly bookmarked for later (-:
(Not meaning to pick on you, but it makes me physically uncomfortable to discuss playing with fire without throwing some safety talk in.) My experience is in fire juggling, which is to say liquid fuel and low flame temperatures, but these are a few guidelines I find useful:
Distinguish between safe area, prep and assembly area, and performance area. (The performance area may also be temporally distinct.)
No flames or sparks anywhere at all except in performance (performance includes testing). No fuel in the safe area, and keep your medical resources and your spare person looking out for trouble here, too.
If in doubt, abort.
Only keep as much fuel on hand as you will actually use; if you need more, shut the whole performance down while moving it from secure store to prep and assembly.
Think about your clothing: natural fabrics char, most synthetics melt. Melting is worse.
If in doubt, abort.
…you would not believe how much better I feel for that. Shame I couldn't find something more interesting for first comment here, but hey. Now I shall go and set my laundry on fire. It's a renewable resource, y'know.
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