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- Sun Oct 25, 2015 8:25 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Haiku (and haikai)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 20707
- Sun Oct 25, 2015 7:30 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Betcha can't say "Voldemort" ...
- Replies: 78
- Views: 24485
Re: Betcha can't say "Voldemort" ...
I do not pronounce the h in herb, nor do I recall it ever being done as a normal thing. I am speaking from the Mid-Atlantic. Nano has covered much of what I would otherwise contribute here. Most Yanks, even the relatively educated ones (my brother Jim excluded*,) tend to avoid pronunciations which r...
- Sun Oct 25, 2015 7:11 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Using "Would/Will be" in place of "Is"
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7763
Re: Using "Would/Will be" in place of "Is"
(edit: I hadn't read the other responses before implying...looks like we're on the same page.) The "would be"/"will be" forms carry with them an understood extra phrase, such as "a noise such as the one we are now hearing is usually." Put another way, "That was a c...
- Sat Jul 11, 2015 12:27 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: One Minute Time Machine
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8658
Re: One Minute Time Machine
Yeah, but...why do that? I think I have a very live and let live attitude here.
- Sat Jul 11, 2015 6:05 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: One Minute Time Machine
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8658
Re: One Minute Time Machine
Whose premise is it that consciousness can't also split? I submit that it replicates, mitosis-like, with all copies remaining viable.
- Sun Jun 28, 2015 8:02 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: A Modest Proposal
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16085
Re: A Modest Proposal
I cannot think of a time I have been in the presence of someone selfie-sticking. It is rumored to be ubiquitous, but I cannot attest to that. It is possible I appear in only the worst places, where no one else would actually like to go. As for selfies in general, I've been known to take them. Someti...
- Fri May 15, 2015 5:40 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Walden
- Replies: 44
- Views: 19226
Re: Walden
Dale, Carrie, all...you said what I hadn't yet tried to articulate. Yup.
- Thu Apr 30, 2015 6:49 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Walden
- Replies: 44
- Views: 19226
Re: Walden
There are Facebook posts on his page by relatives, providing updates, but they are grim.
- Thu Apr 09, 2015 6:27 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Marrow Goodness
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7796
Re: Marrow Goodness
Good. I'm completely in favor of heterorexia.Nanohedron wrote:while I refuse to be orthorexic about it
- Thu Apr 09, 2015 2:44 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Marrow Goodness
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7796
Re: Marrow Goodness
Nano, congratulations on using "unctuous" in a sentence, although based on the definitions I looked up, I have doubts that it was used properly. It means "resembling an uncle", right? I'm quite sure of that. :D avuncular? I'm not sure about any of this being on the Dean Ornish d...
- Mon Apr 06, 2015 11:23 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Unfortunate URLs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4798
Re: Unfortunate URLs
Tunborough wrote:I was typing the URL for a classical music website, and after I had typed "classical" the suggestion came up for a classic albums website. I was quite taken aback.
- Sat Mar 21, 2015 10:20 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: DNA of UK finally mapped
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5212
Re: DNA of UK finally mapped
Yes, from an ethnographic point of view, it's completely arguably useless to know these things. The main thing it provided was a few minutes of fun, when (before testing) s.o. and I concocted awards categories such as "Cousin of the Swedish Chef," "Best at Dancing with Wolves," a...
- Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:38 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: DNA of UK finally mapped
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5212
Re: DNA of UK finally mapped
I've done it Nano-- The mitochondrial (National Geo Genographic project,) the Y chromosome (used my dad's a couple years before he died,) and most recently, the autosomal (Ancestrydna.com.) It's certainly interesting, and gives you plenty to geek out about. Don't be so sure about assuming that non-E...
- Sat Feb 21, 2015 6:23 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Crocs (Poll)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12367
Re: Crocs (Poll)
Due to the moldedness of their nature they are, of necessity, modeled on an average last. The average last is not shaped, in the least, like my feet. Most clog-like shoes of the sort favored by medical personnel are similarly boxy. As are Birkenstocks. So, while I do not dislike them, in theory, as ...
- Fri Jan 16, 2015 6:21 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Survey: Watches
- Replies: 38
- Views: 12023
Re: Survey: Watches
I did give watches up around the time my increasingly large-screened phones offered to keep track of that for me. I like watches, but whenever I'd find one that I liked aesthetically, it would up and die after a year and a half or so. Then I'd buy an ugly one and not like it.