YSaC, Vol. 481: Or is that vectorant?
2009 November 10
rastorant – $60000
45 set dlevary pick up bar and dining room un belevbal price if u like to by a rastorant dont miss this offer please call mr shak xxx-xxx-7888 or xxx-xxx-xxxx .
Pete sends this ad in, saying, “I want by rastorant! This is un belevbal! Please dlevar it to me right away! 45 should be plenty of seting. But where I to live while I run rastorant?”
$900 / 1br – besment and one bed room
a big suny nice besment and one bed room for rent if some one need pleace for rent $900 amant and evrything icolod so call xxx-xxx-7888
“Thanks Mr. Shak! The besment so suny! It should only take me amant or two to start making money from the rastorant you sold me! And phew, I was worried it would only be partially…icolod? But no, evrything is!”
Thanks, Pete!
If you like to by a rastorant?? Pffffft. I LOVE buying restaurants!!! It’s all I can do not to pick up a couple or three every time I go out!
I must say, though, that Mr. Shak and I definitely have one thing in common: “restaurant” is on the top of my list of words I can never remember how to spell. Please tell me that other people (besides Craigslist posters, who obviously have long, LONG lists) have those lists too.
I always misspell entomology the first time I write it down. Which is a problem, because my entomology professor grades on spelling…so I always have to double-check things. There are a few other words I misspell at first and have to change, but on a whole I was blessed with a damn good sense of how to spell things; I can usually spell things I’ve never even heard before if someone is pronouncing them correctly.
I spell entrepreneurship wrong on my first try every time, which is bad for me for the same reason entomology is bad for you. I’m in the Small Business Entrepreneurship program at my school and my prof told me that they won’t pass me until I can spell my major. I’ve only got one year left to learn so I hope he was kidding.
I have trouble with recommendation; I always want to put two “c”s in it.
Dan’s been making me read Terry Pratchett novels, and there was a sort of throwaway line in “Guards! Guards!” that made me double over laughing:
“His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.”
What I hate is that when I’m typing without thinking (TWT), I will sometimes exchange no for know and vice versa. It pays to proofread, but sometimes I get in a hurry, if you no what I mean.
Wasn’t it your last President who uttered the immortal quote “The problem with the French is they don’t have a word for entrepreneur”
http://www.allgreatquotes.com/stupid_quotes110.shtml
I’m pretty sure the “French don’t have a word for entrepreneur” story isn’t true — it’s just something that sounds like something he WOULD have said.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/bush.asp
oh I have a very long list, as you’ll no doubt see the more I post. Thanks heavens for spell checkers.
I just noticed something, our llama nun web boss had to be MADE to read Pratchett? What is the world coming to? *sigh*
I don’t have a lot of free time in which to do pleasure reading; I have to keep up with the research in my discipline, which means that most of my reading is academically oriented.
Dan is “making” me read fiction every so often. I quite enjoy the Pratchett novels — it’s just that it makes me feel guilty to read them because I think of the journal backlog on my desk.
as long as you’re enjoying them. I get the lack of time thing though, my last job was a nightmare in that respect
Judgement. Judgment. I always want to leave the e out.
I work at a law firm. You’d think I could get it.
Actually Lola, I did see a Merriam Webster that listed both versions as being correct and have always defaulted to that explanation [btw, I always wanna leave the “i” in this word].
And leaving the “e” out is the preferred spelling.
There is no “e” in judgment – which is why you want to leave it out.
I spent a year in law school – then I recovered my sanity and became an English teacher.
Shouldn’t your entomology teacher grade on your knowledge of insects and let the English teacher grade on spelling?
He grades on Latin spelling. He just prods me when I spell entomology wrong. Sees it as a slight, or something.
Oh, and my English teacher grades on composition and says “just know how to use spell check…I don’t care if you can naturally spell well”
Privilege. I always have to type it at least three times before it loses the red squiggle. And I always have to pause to think about whether occasion has the double C or the double S.
For some reason I always like to put an extra “r” in verry… damn it.
Refrigerator. I know how to spell it, but I always add a ‘d’ if I’m not paying attention. In my defense, however, “Fridge” has a ‘d’ in it, so it would make sense that “Refrigerator” would too.
I do that too! I always have to go back and delete the “d”; even though I know it shouldn’t be there, I always want to add it when I type.
Most people on CL do not know how to spell refrigerator, so I guess it’s OK…?
Maybe you have some Scots ancestry…
I thought scots ancestry only made you extra-hairy?
Restaurant always kills me. So does bourgeousie. My two word nemeses.
I have so many word nemeses, but restaurant is one of the biggies. However, I never think I would spell it “rastorant”. Rast-o-wraunt? Ra-stor-ant? Who talks like that?
I guess someone that thinks included is spelled “icolod” is in good company, then. Ike-ol-od? I don’t even get how you can come up with that spelling.
This is off-topic, but…
*points to 2Sly4You’s username*
I spot an obscure Dr. Horrible reference!
Ok, yeah bourgeousie is one word that I always spell wrong (when I have to spell it, which isn’t often)…I thought it was bourgeoisie?
The new local pizza shop has “deserts” on their menu. Don’t they know that the things we love to eat get two Ss because we want more than one?
I see that one a lot too Colleen
I like to eat deserts. Don’t discriminate 🙁
/om nom nom sand
I go back over thirty years to how I finally got restaurant to spell correctly every time.
Say it out loud until your mind can say it out loud:
rest – ay – you – RANT rest – ay – you – RANT
The rest of you rant while I spell restaurant. 🙂
Yes, I am proud of myself for coming up with that one as a teenager.
I do the same thing with “business.” I mentally pronounce it as “busy-ness” and that allows me to spell it correctly. Also “connect-i-cutt.”
Roger that on both of those.
Me too! JcT, I did that too. Tricky word, and then I learned to spell it in Russian. It looks like Pectopaw. But it’s pronounced Throat-Warbler Mangrove.
“But it’s pronounced Throat-Warbler Mangrove.”
So it’s pronounced exactly like the rest of the Russian language, then? 😉
I remember how to spell restaurant because I just say it in Spanish in my head. “Restaurante!” Being in Boston now, I can never remember how to spell Faneuil Hall. I always use the Google search bar with the auto-suggestion to double-check myself on words that I can’t remember how to spell.
I lived in Boston for 15 years and could never spell “Massachusetts.” In fact, I had to google it just now to get the spelling right. This is the true and secret reason I moved to Portland 5 years ago. Ahh, beautiful Oregon, how easy you are to spell.
Oh, place names. Cincinnati. That’s a hard one!
I adore spelling….I can spell almost anything you can throw at me.
But PRONOUNCING…..I can’t pronounce certain words no matter how much my husband coaches me. Reading out loud is one of my greatest phobias! Phonics didn’t do crap for me…… 😐
I don’t think we should be too hard on Mr. Shakespeare. Keep in mind that English orthography was not standardized in his day. Without a dictionary, those Renaissance dramatists had no single correct way to spell belevbal, rastorant and icolod. As a recent transplant to our era, he will need some time to get his act together.
Ohhh, I was wondering about the origins of his name. I thought maybe it was a clue about what type of rastorant I might be buying. Is it a shack? Does it serve shakes? Have a basketball theme?
It’s a “luvve shak, babbye, luvve shak”.
You might not want it then. I heard that its tiiiiiiiiiiiiin roof … rusted.
I have the hardest time with “bureau” and “refrigerator”, those are my top two I always have to spell check.
Dang it, this was supposed to go up there. *points to JuneJenny’s post*
I just can’t parse icolod. Anyone?
I can infer that it’s supposed to be “included”, but when I sound it out it comes out something like “ick-o-load”. I’ve got no idea what road they traveled to get to that particular spelling.
I’m sure it’s included. Some folks talk like this and spell words exactly how they think the words sound.
but…but…how…that doesn’t even SOUND like included!
Who’s that handsome sailor fella in your avatar, Ed?
Sarajean, that was me 20 years ago when I was still handsome.
Go go, fail-phonetics!
Ed, I love it. The stache, the eyebrow… You’re like a pretentious, white-hatted Mario. ‘Tis wonderful. 🙂
Included!
I was tending toward “isolated” or “insulated”, neither of which makes the least bit of sense.
Yeah…contextually I guess included is the only one that makes sense. I don’t understand how someone pronounces it that way, though.
Thanks Sarajean, now I’ve got Disney’s Ichabod Crane song stuck in my head… only with Ick-o-load:
Ick-o-load, what a name
Kind of odd but nice just the same
Funny pan
Funny frame
Ick-o-load
Icoload Crane
I want to buy a rastofarian-themed rastoraunt.
That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking.
“Come on in, mon. You want a menu, mon? Have the jerk chicken”.
Heeee. I’m sorry, but now I’m picturing you, a very very white girl, saying that, and I’m dying laughing.
It sounds even funnier than you can imagine.
And I’m even whiter than you can imagine. That’s me with a heavy tan. Think Wonder Bread.
White healthy white bread for white, white people… mon.
I make a really mean jerk chicken. I haven’t cooked that in ages. Thank you for reminding me Meredith!
Hello, new guy here. Love the site, LOVE the comments ( I have a particular fondness for the Soviet Russia jokes).
Anyways, definitely loving the idea of a rastafarian restaurant, though I’m not sure I’d touch any dessert there…especially brownies…
Hi, David! Welcome to the madhouse 🙂
In Soviet Russia, chicken jerks you!
…oh, wait.
Ew.
someone had to say it Lareina, I’m just glad you saved the rest of us from having to do it, and yes, EW!
Er … *pauses in everyone’s embarrassed silence after the Soviet Russia chicken joke*
Rastafarian Brownie?!? 🙂
Never let it be said that I won’t take one for the team, dev. 😉
and we thank you for it. At least, I think we do, or at least we will when we get that image out of our heads
In Soviet Russia, Rastafarian Brownies bake you!
Actually, I think that’s true everywhere.
I’m thinking he means a “special” brownie, if you get my drift
That’s what I was thinking too – meant to say (more clearly) that after that joke I’d offer the new guy one of the Special Rasta Brownies.
After a few bites, he may not care or remember the joke. 🙂
“Rasta Brownie, new friend?”
maybe brownies all round? I’m not sure I want to remember the chicken for too long either
Thanks Lola
*proceeds to slowly take the brownie from Lola’s hand and take a bite*
* All comments seem exceedingly funny now*
Can I have a brownie, too?
I brought ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ and ‘The Wizard of Oz’so we can watch them together.
And a lava lamp.
I’m going to light some incense – any suggestions?
I have lavender, sandalwood, and Old VW Bus Down by the River.
No patchouli?
Bummer, man.
I’m allergic to patchouli. Sorry.
I’m new here! May I have a brownie too????
~begging puppy eyes~
This post seems to be going into an odd spot, but as I scan below, I think…maybe I can have TWO brownies?? 😀
I never got brownies!
I’ll give you a brownie that I steal from them if you share some of it with me.
Deal! One for me, one for you, and split the last one!!!
But I already finished all the ale…..sorry! (It was Blue Moon, I couldn’t help myself!)
my immediate thought for chicken jerk was more OW rather than EW (the claws and all)
Jerk chicken, jerk beef, jerk pork. Is there any meat this man can’t jerk?
Can’t…breathe…laughing…too…hard…
*passes out*
He may be able to jerk a lot of meat, but more important, is it jerked well?
Half or badly jerked meat has never been my thing.
I’ll be honest, it’s a Hermes line from a Futurama episode.
I was scanning down to see if someone had made that point already! I want to have a rastarant too, I wouldn’t need to give any of the employees health insurance, more money for me! (and brownies)
Here in the UK there is this entrepreneur called Levi Roots who makes and sells Reggae Reggae Sauce (HOT HOT HOT); helps kids in deprived neighbourhoods; has a record out at the moment and if he ran a Rasta-Rant would more than likely serve *winks* Rastafarian Brownies.
With this new movie out about Woodstock let’s go back to the time of barefeet, music and special brownies.
I just scared myself because I could actually make out what those Klingons were saying in both of them.
Where’s the bleach and my copy of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury I can clutch to calm me down?
If you want my copy of The Sound and the Fury you’re welcome to it. I have tried reading it 4 times and can NOT plow my way through. I loved As I Lay Dying though. Go figure.
That’s because the first narrative is so hard to get through. I loved the fact that the sequence of events got easier and easier to piece together the further you got into the novel. Shake things up and read it backwards!
Or you could use your copy to hold up the missing leg to your normal smelling couch.
*grin*
First reaction: posted via cell phone, possibly one with only 10 keys. When I had to use that double-tap method for texting, I created some highly intriguing words. Being me, I backspaced a lot to fix them, but occasionally I was just in too much of a hurry. Someone who doesn’t share my fixation might not bother.
Second reaction: typed with a fork.
ib a typing with a fork right noe. its not so bad.
(Seriousslu I’m actually yping with 2 forks right now. Had to go find a second one so I could capitalize. I haven’t allowed the backspace key either and I’ve not looked up from the kryboard. How’d I do?)
Surprisingly well. Thanks for taking that on in the name of science!
It sounds like you’re speaking w/ a stuffed-up nose. I hope that clears up soon!
Hmm, I can’t decide if “Typed With a Fork” would be a good band name or a terrible one. Maybe it would look good on a T-shirt though.
I think I’d agree, better shirt than band that one
I think that it needs to be a new tag, to say the least.
I think it would be better as an album name.
I personally think Icolod would be a better band name. Maybe their first CD could be entitled Typed With a Fork.
If “icolod” means “included”…. What on EARTH does he mean by “everything included” in renting his basement?
Utilities, maybe?
Or, more likely, dead bodies and rats.
“What? Everything IS included. See…walls, door..window…more walls..”
Everything:
It puts the lotion on its skin…
AND it has a suny! A big suny. Pretty rare in the besments in my area.
I just googled “suny”. Apparently this besment holds the entire State University of New York.
900$ seems cheap for a besment that breaks the barriers of space. What’s that phone number???
I went to SUNY (Albany) as a grad student. If that basement is typical of a lot of the classrooms, it has graffiti, departmental politics that will make you insane, is depressingly institutional, and the bureacracy is a nightmare (though with good instructors).
I don’t care how cheap it is, it will also be holding, apparently, 438,361 students (that’s the whole system, incl. colleges, universitites and community colleges). No thanks!
But you would each only have to pay $ 0.002053 per month, which would be a real bargain!
but you’d be sitting on each others laps on the one bed. Might get a tad uncomfortable.
I like to think “icolod” is not supposed to be “included” but rather “Ichabod”. As in Ichabod Crane?
Maybe the apartment comes with a skinny, crazy-looking, pumpkin toting roomie? And since it’s just a “one bed room” you’ve got to share a bed with him. I’d pay $900 a month for that- JUST because I know I’d have some great stories to tell.
That was my first thought! “Ic…o…lod…Ichabod?”
I’m glad I’m not the only one who went there.
I’m leaning toward “ichthyoid” myself. Although I would want to see pictures of the ichthyoidal everything being mentioned. Is it like an “Under the Sea” prom theme?
I’d like the whole 45 set dlevary pick up bar and dining room IN my new besement and one bed room.
And I read this as a room for ONE and ONLY ONE bed. Not one room for the purpose of holding a bed.
I took it to mean there was only one bed for the room, like it is some odd shape like a triangle and there is only one bed in the world that would fit inside.
Maybe that’s just me.
“mr shak”
Pronounced “em are shak” it would be a half decent band name… or better yet a law firm:
Hear at M.R. Shak we make shure you’re treted like a humen beeng we dont’ get teh green unles you do!!1! if you have a bar or dining rom that injurd you when pick’d up call on of our freindly asocites for a free(!) consulation at a reasonable price of free!!1! her at M.R. Shak we put the focus on u! we dont lulz unles u do!
Twice in one week, I’m turning into lolbat.
Halp I bot a rastorant for a un belvbal price but it wus faltie!! Get me my monies M.R. Shak!!1!1
LoL u shud of lookt at teh rastorant failur rate its liek 60% w/in 2 yeers.
Initially I was thinking that icolod was some sort of marine invertebrate, like an isopod, or a chiton or something.
I at first thought he was trying to spell “isolated” or “isosceles”.
Read enough CL entries in any area where you’re dealing with people whose first language is not English (which I suspect to be the case here) and parsing spelling of things like this becomes easier. If a bit depressing.
I don’t know…I read the Twin Cities Craigslist semi-frequently, and there is a LARGE non-native English speaking population, and I haven’t gotten much better than when I started.
I got iColor. It’s the latest thing from Apple. Makes everything it touches turn one color. Like the Midas touch, only, you know, color. I don’t know; but I certainly couldn’t make that word be “included”.
I read “amant” as amount. I think drmk’s “a month” is a better interpretation, though. Scarrier, but better.
Honestly, I read “amant” as part of the much-beloved Latin conjugation. Amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatus, amant. 🙂
But, then I realized that the translation- “$900 they love” didn’t make any sense. Much like the rest of their posting.
If I try to think of a context in which “$900 they love” DOES make sense, I am drawn to imagine something kinky & possibly illegal. Especially with the aforementioned “Ichabod Crane” association….
Kudos on the Latin conjugation woofless!
But is what you’re saying that the rest of the post is Greek to you?
“$900 they love” sounds like something from Adult Services before outphasing.
am I going blind? I don’t see that term anywhere in the post
“$900 they love” would be from woofless’s translation from the Latin “$900 amant”.
so yes, I’m going blind is what you’re saying? lol. didn’t read it properly did I?
Maybe they Latinized an LOL, to make it seem classier.
As if that were possible.
Thanks for that, woofless. I had a mini-daymare about high school Latin class.
It seems likely that the besment apartment is under the rastorant, so this looks like a win-win situation! You rent the apartment; get on as the dlevary boy for a break in the rent; after the dinner rush, you can go to the pick up bar, and hit on the customers: “Want to go downstairs and see my icolods?”
Am I the only one who hears the first ad in the voice of Dr. Nick from The Simpsons?
No. No, you are not.
“Hi Everybody!”
“Hi Mr. Shak!”
I can sort of hear it now.
that makes at least three of us then
Four if you count Blah
ooops.
“refresh is my friend, refresh is my friend, refresh is my friend”
HAHA. You made a pun sarajean!
I hear my old landlord selling the “besment”. A man who, sadly, seemed to fit every “Asian” stereotype that’s ever been. He spoke in VERY broken English when showing us the townhouse, or when we would call about something that needed fixing.
“Window fine. We fix. We tape close. You no open anymore so stay fix. You open, you pay to fix window. You want to order lunch?”
Yeah, that’s because he also owned a Chinese takeout place around the corner, and no matter what you ordered, it would be there in “TEN MIIIINUT” How long??? “TEN MIIIINUT”. No matter what…and we could SEE the place from our window.
The day he was over fixing a problem, and we came home and caught him speaking in clear, concise English with barely a hint of an accent, was a hilarious day indeed.
Please note: I do not adhere to stereotypes of any form or fashion. I am stating a story of how someone played off of one.
I think the only way to combat that sort of thing is to reply in incomprehensible Southern Drawl. Think Boomhauer from King of the Hill.
Do I have to?
I know people who sound a lot like Boomhauer, they’re from up in the hills. My natural accent’s not that thick but I’ve actually used my version the dreaded Drawl when I’ve been up North.
You can get men to do all sorts of things for you if you have a deep Southern drawl.
I think Boomhauer is more of a case of Twang than Drawl. Also, he mumbles.
But (and JcT can back me up on this) he’s totally realistic. All the voices on King of the Hill are at most a tiny shade exaggerated.
My mother’s not from there, so the accent is different, but she looks just like Peggy Hill. I have had this confirmed by family members.
It’s weird. And detracts slightly from my enjoyment of the show.
Have you ever turned on your TV’s closed captioning and watched? It’s a hoot.
In Hungary in the 90’s (I think? Maybe it was earlier this decade), Discovery channel accidentally ran the same set of subtitles from a documentary about frogs for several shows, including a show about Hitler.
I wish, I wish, I had seen that.
There is a hilarious story that I think is in one of the Far Side collections, where one of the Far Side captions was accidentially swapped with the caption for Dennis the Menace. I think it had something to do with hamsters.
This is another one of those posts that immediately made me think of, “how is babby formed?” Humanity is doomed.
On a side note, I’ll be gone for a few days in order to have a REAL BABBY! I will miss the amazing wit of you all and will post as soon as I get back with baby details.
Congrtaurations on reel babby!!!!
Yes, good luck with the dlevary!
Mak soor they giv u teh epd-epy-epydoo….poky thing that makes it not hurt.
I had a reel babby 2 weeks ago. My wife and I still ask each other, “How was babby formed?”
Oh no! You still don’t know “how was babby formed?” and you have one?
I thought I knew, but maybe not …
*worries that now random babby will appear anyway despite birth control and/or celibacy*
If my Memaw is to be believed, babbys form under cabbage leaves beneath a full moon.
Lola, just post babby on CL. You might get, oh, maybe $30 if it’s a really good babby.
Windrose, you’re a genius. All right, not so worried then!
Whee! Congratulations!
Erm… to the actual babby-havers, that is.
Lola, I wouldn’t worry too much. That’s only happened once that I know of…
When will Babby be here? In Ten MIIINUT!
Thank you, Windrose, for making me choke on my own spit.
HA. And if you get two at once, you get a small white rice and two eggrolls.
There are benefits to ordering…er..making…several at once.
Actually it was extremely common around the dark ages. When it came down to being stoned to death for amoral behavior or reassuring everyone that you were inpregnated by an angel/demon, it was a pretty easy choice.
It kind of dwindled off with the Renaissance though. I guess all the randy supernatural creatures were basking in their collective afterglow… or maybe busy raising all their kids.
But who knows, the realm of the supernatural hasn’t gotten any in a while so Lola might have more to be concerned about than we might expect.
*hides*
*makes tinfoil chastity belt, a la tinfoil-hat concept*
*does not really feel safer*
not sure that works against supernatural beings Lola
What a good point, tacomagic.
I take it back, Lola. Be concerned. Be very concerned.
Lola – I think that only works for aliens.
sarajean –
I don’t know what else to use! Rosaries?
I’d need one of those big 1950s, worn-on-the-belt-by-Mother-Superior types.
Or, I could just trust science. … And stay away from cabbage patches.
maybe all of the above, just to be safe?
You could use an aspirin.
Just hold one between your knees, and there you have it; effective birth control through modern science.
I’m told (via the scientific method) that if you stop bathing it will prevent immaculate conception… and all other forms of conception as well.
How did we get through…everything up until indoor plumbing, then? People sure reproduced without bathing back then!
On a related side-note, has anyone seen the movie version of The Crucible? When I saw people kissing with those naaaasty crud-encrusted teeth I nearly wretched. Of course, I was in middle school and easily perturbed, soooo yeah…
Arallyn, it didn’t bother me.
It made me snort, and I was in class reading it out loud and gave John Proctor the BEST scottish accent ever, gave Hale a russian one, and gave guy-who-got crushed (too damned long ago) a british one.
I got them mixed up a few times… ‘Twas rather entertaining.
That’s because you’re a guy, and a teenage one at that. You’re all like that.
EDIT: Let me revise that…you’re mostly like that. A good friend of mine until we parted ways in high school was technically a teenaged dude, but he was so effeminate that it was easy to be fooled. The several hundred pounds of extra fat (no exaggeration) on him and his high voice made people mistake him from time to time. Now that he’s lost most of that weight and got a tummy tuck but still has loose skin on his hips, he makes a stunning Frank N. Furter.
How is babby formed? Looking at your avatar Heather, I would guess by a smaller jello mold.
Have a safe and joyous delivery!
Thanks, everyone! I cannot wait to see what MaleTraits he may be born with! I’m pregnant, which entitles me to end my sentences with prepositions.
I have a dirty mind, so I sometimes end mine with propositions. Wanna come up and see my icolods?
Sometimes jello can be difficult to get out of the mold, leaving little bits on the metal/plastic. May that not happen to your Jello with MaleTraits.
He might end up with FemaleTraits.
Second time I’ve spit some sort of liquid all over the room. Thanks.
Congrats, Heather!
Hm…I wonder if babby will drive an ERROR: CAR NOT FOUND when he grows up?
Congrats on the reel babbys, Heather and tacomagic ♥
Yay you! Congrats and good luck and come back with pictures!
Just for anyone who hasn’t seen the Caveman Shatner-
http://www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/babby.swf
At this point, I’m not sure we don’t deserve to be extinct…
Hope everything goes well – and remembwer, screaming and swearing is requid when giving birth – as is red wine thereafter
It’s worse than we thought. I just heard someone interviewed on the local PBS radio station say the practice is forcing down prices “globally all over the world.”
She must be from the Department of Redundancy Department.
Spending my evening laughing at all the posts I missed during my last hour of work. You guys are on a roll tonight!
You folks are the best audience I could ever wish for. 8)
On a side note, is it true that there is a limit to how many times a post can be replied to? (Dang, dangle, dangling) Seems like not all the responses have reply links at the bottom, or is it just me?
Windrose, that’s WordPress’ policy- this one won’t have a reply button. You can only reply so many times, after that you just have the discussion in the same reply zone. It’s pretty simple, once you figure it out.
Thanks Igor – everything is pretty simple once you figure it out. * now where is my Knit-A-Spaceship pattern* Windrush – I was wondering the same as you.
Tigprincess: Windrush! I like it. Probably the lentils, though. 8)
Igor: It’s the old magic or technology issue. I appreciate the enlightenment.
So the big question is: non-native English speaker or Montessori graduate?
Not gonna touch that one…just gotta say that I was in a Montessori school for three years and still made it to the state level of the spelling bee. I don’t know (or care) if they help, but they didn’t hurt my family.
He may not be able to spell, but he can do AMAZING THINGS at the water table station!
I just wanted to give the nod of respect to the graphics format joke in the headline for this post.
Yay! Someone got it!
icolod = included? Good god. That took me forever to figure out.
Soooo… Is this the LOLcat version of a Craigslist ad?
If you mean the site, then no…
But if you mean the language, then no- that would be so, so much more terrifying!
This site is so great when I haven’t slept for 36 hours! I mean, normally I love it, but more in a way that it makes me smile and chuckle when I normally feel like Marvin the Paranoid Android…I actually woke my boyfriend up from laughing and he isn’t even in the same room as me.
Win!
This site is getting addictive! I’ve been away from it for 36 hours – selling my soul for pieces of silver – and am back here for my fix before ‘working’.
Will they create isolation wards for YSaC-itis? Evidenced by Grammar Slapping and squirting coffee (or any liquids) from nasal orifices whilst reading monitors? and murmuring about LLama Nuns and Ostriches and tentikils?
Whoa! I feel a Twelve Step program coming on.
If we’re starting a 12-step program, let me be the first to say: I have a problem! Just the other day I skipped two classes because of the lively conversation on here was far more interesting than Lactation and Botany would have been.
Those are two separate classes, right? *shudders at the thought of milk-producing geraniums*
Lactating Plants? Wow, what a concept. o-O
If 36 hours is your sobriety time, you’ve got nothing to worry about. I check every site every 3-5 minutes or an hour maximum.
Site that I visit regularly*
For this one and others with comments, that’s about par, although at work it’s more like 15-30 mins if we’re not busy.
Slightly different topic:
For a moment there I was looking at your posts and couldn’t figure out why you weren’t in school … we don’t get a holiday here. The mail is closed, the courts are closed, there are dead and living people to honor, and we’re toiling.
Thanks very much to Ed and other vets who visit this site. I mean that.
haha, yes, very different. One for my Dairy Sci major, one for my bio major xD
Here is my list of spelling whoppers from Craigslist and eBay, in no particular order. I didn’t make up any of theese:
Ahmwore
Chord Wood
Goog
Crome
Prophane
Immation
Eelongated toilit
Vacume
Minuet mount
Baby carraige
Perfeshional clipers and sissoers
Plasmas
Commical
Therapeudic
Chimmy pipe
Mermade
Demention
Gospell
Powre
Seahell
Churb
Sequence (the shinny kind)
Latter rack
Window pain
Ressess
Lazor
Geraff
Chester drawers
Contorled
Wook
Trash shoot
Pedistal
Projectile tv
Affordabel Homie
Comoade
Hsower
Steal sign/Stainless steal
Bule
Slae
Reporduction
Knick knack
Fratility god
Dehumidifire
Defiantly
Rod iron
Meatl
Bargin
Precher
Sweal
Assoted
Scotter
Snow bowler
Whoola hoop
Asseries
Sadels
Masser for saler
Cunter top
Adjestable
Refigorator
Waking Stick
Striper/ fishing poll
Excesories
Religish
Threadmil
Subwolfer
*reaches for giant bottle of asprin*
Most of these I can figure out. However:
goog
churb
wook
bule
slae
sweal
asseries
have me making a total whiskey-tango-foxtrot? face.
Thumbs up on “cunter top,” though. I’m pretty sure that’s an article of clothing, right?
(Somewhere between a merkin and a codpiece.)
Ew?
Reasonably sure of:
slae = sale
asseries = accessories (probably)
Reasonable guesses for:
churb could be “curb”
wook could be a typo for “wool” or “wood”
sweal could be … “swell”? typo for “steal” or “sweat”?
No clue on goog or bule without context. (Edited to add: wait, “bule” is probably “blue”.)
Bule could also be an attempt to spell Boule.
goog is probably supposed to be “good”.
Ok firstly I’m playing the “I’m from England” card; secondly thanks for some of the translations drmk and Lola but I’m still stuck on Cord Wood. I’ve thought of cardboard and corduroy and cork wood (?) then my mind went on strike. Help!
drmk, I think you have them, probably … was thinking that context might help with these, though they’re still scary.
but … goog = ??!??
I’ve run this site long enough that I’m fluent in typonese.
1) If you take a goog look when you wook on your car, you will find engine sweals, bearing sweals, etc.
2) Churbs are young angles, sometimes called putty.
3) Plasmas are not only blood fluids or TV models; they are also nightclothes.
@444 I think my phrase for the forthcoming Christmas season will be “Churbs are young angles, sometimes called putty”