Topic: Did you notice that? (Read 134630 times)

Carl-E · « **Reply #200 on:** 21 Aug 2013, 18:47 »

I prefer "Roxanne".

Oh, wait...

Kugai · « **Reply #201 on:** 21 Aug 2013, 18:58 »

It's the red dress, isn't it.

Sidhekin · « **Reply #202 on:** 21 Aug 2013, 23:01 »

My favourite is "St. George and the Dragon".

... it's all making sense now.

Thrudd · « **Reply #203 on:** 23 Aug 2013, 11:13 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 21 Aug 2013, 16:55

Their popularity ended?

They were popular?

Also there is no anagram for A K M R S T U

Method of Madness · « **Reply #204 on:** 23 Aug 2013, 11:16 »

GO HOME, RUMKATS, YOU ARE DRUNK

cesium133 · « **Reply #205 on:** 23 Aug 2013, 11:22 »

Of course. Starkum. That's how new stars are formed.

Thrudd · « **Reply #206 on:** 23 Aug 2013, 13:23 »

Awww, there is no love for the poor muskrat.

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Method of Madness · « **Reply #207 on:** 23 Aug 2013, 13:44 »

Jeph kind of ruined muskrats for me.

jwhouk · « **Reply #208 on:** 23 Aug 2013, 14:34 »

Dork Tower FTW.

Carl-E · « **Reply #209 on:** 23 Aug 2013, 20:03 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 23 Aug 2013, 13:44

Jeph kind of ruined muskrats for me.

The Captain and Tenille ruined them for me...

ankhtahr · « **Reply #210 on:** 24 Aug 2013, 12:52 »

And I've found another comic for my list of German titled ones. Right at the beginning of a new archive binge: Achtung Nippel. Achtung means Caution, I think the second word is pretty much obvious.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #211 on:** 24 Aug 2013, 12:53 »

Caution: Nipple! Someone should make a sign that says that.

Stybar · « **Reply #212 on:** 24 Aug 2013, 13:09 »

No, a babydoll t-shirt.
With cut-out boobs

Loki · « **Reply #213 on:** 24 Aug 2013, 14:29 »

Aprons with cut-out boobs are science for horny people!

Carl-E · « **Reply #214 on:** 27 Aug 2013, 05:03 »

If it's an apron, you may need other cut outs, too.

YMMV.

Stybar · « **Reply #215 on:** 27 Aug 2013, 05:07 »

I don't know, a woman wearing nothing but an apron is pretty hot on it's own. Don't need te cut our the nipples or other areas.

cesium133 · « **Reply #216 on:** 27 Aug 2013, 06:57 »

*ahem* Ya sure about that?

Stybar · « **Reply #217 on:** 27 Aug 2013, 07:09 »

Yes, I'm sure (somewhat NSFW)

ankhtahr · « **Reply #218 on:** 27 Aug 2013, 08:33 »

Did anybody notice the "ASSY POTATO LASERS"?

Zebediah · « **Reply #219 on:** 27 Aug 2013, 10:07 »

In that same one there is also "Doom Toaster".

Carl-E · « **Reply #220 on:** 28 Aug 2013, 00:52 »

...which always reminded me of the Amityville Toaster.

ChaoSera · « **Reply #221 on:** 28 Aug 2013, 03:31 »

I did notice the Doom Toaster, but not the Assy Potato Lasers. Sven's kitchen seems pretty dangerous.

Storel · « **Reply #222 on:** 28 Aug 2013, 22:46 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 28 Aug 2013, 00:52

...which always reminded me of the Amityville Toaster.

Haha, I never saw that one before. Cute.

Stybar · « **Reply #223 on:** 29 Aug 2013, 01:54 »

Maybe it's to scare of one night stands who try to make him breakfast or try to stay with him?

BillyxRansom · « **Reply #224 on:** 01 Sep 2013, 23:54 »

HERE'S A THING THAT I NOTICED

"JUDGEMENT"

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #225 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 00:46 »

My wife spells it that way as a form of civil disobedience.

pwhodges · « **Reply #226 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 01:06 »

I spell it that way because it's usual in the UK (though not considered correct in official legal writing); it's also not uncommon in other non-US English-speaking countries.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #227 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 03:03 »

I was corrected on my spelling of "judgement/judgment" in my first Law essay for uni, but I cannot for the life of me remember which spelling I was meant to use. Based on Paul's post I'd say the second one.

pwhodges · « **Reply #228 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 03:07 »

Correct. But I'm so habituated to the other spelling that the legal one looks wrong to me.

Redball · « **Reply #229 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 05:15 »

I'm good at spelling, but judgment is a problem. Muscle memory keeps inserting the e.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #230 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 05:29 »

I have the same problem with granfather (NO! Grandfather) and a few other words that I can't remember right now. There used to be a forumite called Darryl and I always spell it Darrly.

DSL · « **Reply #231 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 06:01 »

Quote from: Barmymoo on 02 Sep 2013, 05:29

I have the same problem with granfather (NO! Grandfather) and a few other words that I can't remember right now. There used to be a forumite called Darryl and I always spell it Darrly.

Oh, that was his other other brother.

Carl-E · « **Reply #232 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 06:40 »

The one that couldn't talk?

DSL · « **Reply #233 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 06:54 »

It was like some strange dream.

celticgeek · « **Reply #234 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 08:28 »

At one of my jobs, there was a woman who worked with a Darryl in her group (I was a member of that group) and did a lot of work for another group with a Darryl in it. And yes, she would introduce them as her brother Darryl and her other brother Darryl.

pwhodges · « **Reply #235 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 08:33 »

At work I interact routinely with six people called Claire; one's my line manager.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #236 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 09:05 »

How do you manage? Nicknames? Subscripts?

Zebediah · « **Reply #237 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 09:14 »

I had two uncles. Both were named Don. (My dad's brother and my dad's sister's husband.) I never really thought about it much when I was a kid; to me, "Don" was simply something you called an uncle.

My aunt's husband took a certain perverse pride in introducing himself at family weddings as "the other Uncle Don."

pwhodges · « **Reply #238 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 09:32 »

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 02 Sep 2013, 09:05

How do you manage? Nicknames? Subscripts?

In my group: "Claire B", "Claire S", and "Claire I"; outside just surnames when necessary. But even within the one group ambiguity is pretty rare - at least they work on different trials! For a time (no longer) the Trials Group manager and the newest lowly recruit had the same first and last names. We tried "Sarah 2", but that didn't work, so we got her reluctant permission to call the new person "Sarah-Jane".

My wife and I each have a sister called Frances; each Frances is married to a Stephen/Steven. (The similarity ends there - one is a priest, as poor as priests often are, while the other is an international shipping lawyer who I guess earns over ten times what I do.)

Method of Madness · « **Reply #239 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 09:42 »

The last initial reminds me of a good friend of mine from college, whenever we'd go to the bar and each start a tab.

Bartender: Ok, so you're Eric and you're...oh. Well you're Eric S. and you're Eric...damn it, really?

After a couple times of being amused, we'd just preempt all this and tell them that I was the blue card and he was the green card.

Also re: judgement/judgment, on the first day of law school orientation two weeks ago, the professor asked us to write down the word, to see how many people knew how to spell it. How I remember goes back way further than that. I was sick once in fourth grade, and called my friend to get the spelling words for that week (we had a spelling test each week). One of the words was judgment.

Me: J-U-D-G-E-M-E-N-T, right?
Friend: Nope, no first E, J-U-D-G-M-E-N-T.
Me: Really? Hmm...ok.

After I got the rest of the words, I looked it up, and was surprised to find out that yeah, it was judgment. That was over 15 years ago and seeing it spelled properly still makes me think of that.

pwhodges · « **Reply #240 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 10:11 »

The OED gives judgement as the primary spelling, with judgment as a variant used mainly in the Law and in North America. Merriam-Webster, naturally, gives judgment first, and judgement as a variant (with no comment about it).

Barmymoo · « **Reply #241 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 10:20 »

In my history class we had two Rosie Jones. One of them consistently got better grades than the other. Obviously (you can guess the punch line) the teacher got their end of year exams mixed up, and naturally the less-good-grades one resisted any attempts to switch them back.

On the stewarding team at the campsite I just got back from, we had two Eleanors. Last year, they acquired the nicknames Elf and Safety. This year we had two Emilys, so one of them became Spoon and the other, who was one of a pair of twins, became Emergency (her twin was Accident, aka Alice). Another team member arrived with the name Sparky. We also had four different Steves, who all acquired nicknames - Flower, Lockie, The Tool and one I can't remember. By the end of the week I had forgotten how odd these names all were!

Method of Madness · « **Reply #242 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 10:36 »

You'd think the smarter Rosie Jones would have thought to start writing her full name (middle name included) on all her exams. Also, since I've always known so many Erics, I've usually gone by my last name anyway.

Masterpiece · « **Reply #243 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 11:07 »

I just noticed: There are multiple references to peas with Emily involved, before the infamous "give peas a chance" arc:

Kugai · « **Reply #244 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 13:21 »

I think everyone's first instinct is to punch Pintsize.

ankhtahr · « **Reply #245 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 14:51 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 02 Sep 2013, 10:36

You'd think the smarter Rosie Jones would have thought to start writing her full name (middle name included) on all her exams. Also, since I've always known so many Erics, I've usually gone by my last name anyway.

Fun Fact: (not really fun) Middle names are not too common in German. You'll probably find more people without, than with a middle name. I have one, but I don't use it normally.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #246 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 15:15 »

Most people I know who have middle names (me included) never use them. I don't even mind the name itself (Alan), it's just useless, and official forms that require a middle initial kind of annoy me. It's not worth the trouble of officially getting rid of it, but I hate when official documents have my full name. Some of my friends have their mother's last name as their middle name, which seems kind of insulting ("we want our kid to have both our last names, but only one of them can be his real surname, with the other one hidden for the most part") or as a way to acknowledge a relative, but mine is neither of those. It's just a name that was picked to give me a second name.

ackblom12 · « **Reply #247 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 15:19 »

I will give middle names one benefit. They can make tracing your family tree a bit easier.

ankhtahr · « **Reply #248 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 15:22 »

Actually my parents gave me a middle name because they wanted to make it easier for me to go to the US and study, if I wanted to.

And I still love that my first name was chosen because of Star Trek and Classical music.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #249 on:** 02 Sep 2013, 15:24 »

If I have a son, and I can get my wife to agree with it, I see no reason to not make his middle name Tiberius. That's the one advantage of middle names, you don't really have to worry about the impact of giving them a cool one, because they're almost never used. Then again, I may drop the ball with the first name in that regard.

(Tyrion Tiberius Surname)

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