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How many spankings do you get? |
good to see she has better things to do than be here for her birthday. |
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i was just thinking - i think spider is 11 years younger than i. if i am remembering this correctly, that means today would be her 30th birthday - a milestone. she might be out of the country or something. |
there is no way spider is 30. that doesn't jive with my reality. |
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isn't spider turning, like, 15? |
Yes, I'm 30 today. I can't believe it either. |
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Speaking of dictionaries and favorite words, this dictionary is really cool because it tells you the exact differences among synonyms. Check it out: syn: DEADLY, MORTAL, FATAL, LETHAL mean causing or capable of causing death. DEADLY applies to an established or very likely cause of death <a deadly disease>. MORTAL implies that death has occurred or is inevitable <a mortal wound>. FATAL stresses the inevitability of what has in fact resulted in death or destruction <fatal consequences>. LETHAL applies to something that is bound to cause death or exists for the destruction of life <lethal gas>. syn: BEAUTIFUL, LOVELY, HANDSOME, PRETTY, COMELY, FAIR mean exciting sensuous or aesthetic pleasure. BEAUTIFUL applies to whatever excites the keenest of pleasure to the senses and stirs emotion through the senses. LOVELY is close to BEAUTIFUL but applies to a narrower range of emotional excitation in suggesting the graceful, delicate, or exquisite. HANDSOME suggests aesthetic pleasure due to proportion, symmetry, or elegance. PRETTY often applies to superficial or insubstantial attractiveness. COMELY is like HANDSOME in suggesting what is coolly approved of rather than emotionally responded to. FAIR suggests beauty because of purity, flawlessness, or freshness. I don't know why, but this kind of stuff fascinates me. I also love words like "defenestration," words that you can't really believe they made a whole word for that. Do you know what I mean? There's a word (too bad I can't remember what it is) that means the shy tone of voice you get when you speak of something you care a great deal for. I think it's neat that there is a unique word for that state, rather than a clumsy phrase. I also think it's neat that in Gaelic -- a language with very very very few homonyms -- the word for "truth" is the same as the word for "girl." |
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I have always wondered, if you throw someone through a window INTO a building, is that called "fenestration"? |
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I just started watching Battlestar Galactica. Why wasn't I warned that I would become addicted after the first hour of the miniseries? This is some solid gold crack right here. |
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so i just wish you happiness. |
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The 1st half of the last season just finished this weekend, so now begins the long wait until January to see the final 10 episodes :( oooooooooOOoooo i look forward to nerding out with you!! |
I'm torn between pacing myself so that I won't have such a long time to wait before the end of season four, and shutting out the world and watching all 3.5 seasons in one weekend. It's a pickle. And I tried so hard to avoid spoilers for last week's mid-season finale but I failed. ARGH. Edward James Olmos sends me into Acting Ecstasy. He is So. Grave. All the Time. And it's AWESOME. He made the mini-series for me -- he made everything seem so real. And SO SERIOUS. But without ever over-acting...that's just genius, yo. |
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