Oh my. Scary! Best wishes to all.
Ryan #7: I have very fond memories of Lou's breakfasts, going back 20+ years to undergraduate days. When I had to be at the radio station for a 7 AM shift, I would stop in there en route and pick up glazed crullers still warm from the fryer. You can't go wrong with fryer-fresh donuts, but these were better than most.
When Word docs become intractably uncooperative, the problem is often corruption of something in the mass of hidden code that lives in the final paragraph mark of the document.
The cure: add a few extra blank paragraphs as a buffer to the end of the document, then copy the whole document *except for the last paragraph* into a new blank document.
(You will probably have to copy the headers/footers into the new doc separately, or recreate them from scratch if they're simple.)
The new doc, since it doesn't include the most evil bits of the old one, should be much better-behaved.
Was there ever a time in recent memory that people were routinely taught grammar in high school?
It certainly didn't happen at my school (the neighborhood public HS on Staten Island). I was crammed full of parts-of-speech during a brief private-school stint in junior high, but my classmates who had gone to the public I.S. were not. In high school, when SAT panic struck they several times, with increasing desperation, tried to get the English dept to offer them a real grammar-and-composition class, and were flatly refused: grammar-and-composition were not part of the H.S. curriculum, they should have learned that stuff in junior high, and just because no one had ever bothered to teach it to them was no reason to expect the H.S. English dept to make up the deficiency. Not their job.
This was 30 years ago. The good old days? I don't think so...
Yay! Everything's back where it belongs! One small corner of the world where all is now ok.
Most of the expungeable Xmas songs have already been mentioned -- for convenience, I'd just delete everything that's on regular rotation at a radio station that has adopted an "All Xmas Music All the Time" format. (The station that has the best morning traffic reports in CT has done that for a couple of years -- it can make a bad time of day almost unbearable.)
Nobody seems to have mentioned yet one of the Xmas songs that I really do like, though -- Bob Franke's "Straw Against the Chill".
"It was so long ago, but we remember still:
Star upon the snow, straw against the chill."
It has a beautiful melody, the lyrics are simple but eloquent, and I only hear it once or twice a year (on folkie radio shows) so it doesn't get stale for me.
2 false phishes here (BoA and Capital One). Beter safe than sorry, says I.
Coincidentally, my bank has recently posted a Consumer Alert about phishing on their website, which includes this useful tip: To verify the true URL of a website, cut and paste the following text into your Browser Address Bar:
javascript:alert("The actual URL of this site has been verified as: " + location.protocol + "//" + location.hostname +"/");
A small pop-up will display the true web address of the page you're viewing.
Another site similar to (yet different from) the one Stefan posted, which has been around for a while:
http://www.urban75.com/Mag/bubble.html
Yes, liquescent is indeed an actual word. Means melting, or becoming liquid. (In fact, bopping over to Google, that's the very phrase in the dictionary.) I don't think however that it's really synonymous with "limpid," which is often applied to liquids but actually means clear. I would frex call a decomposing corpse liquescent, but it would certainly *not* be limpid.
I've adored that poem forever! Somewhere on my bookcase is still the well-thumbed booklet that contains it, along with a number of other ... spirited ... works of the same era. It's been many a year since I had the occasion to join a chorus of "The Twa Perverts" or "Roddy McCorley's Moonshine Pub." Ah, those were the days!
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