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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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Good lord, I don't know. I am a truly gifted monolinguist. Studied Greek and Latin roots in grade school... Spanish in high school and college... it has given me great facility in English but no abilities at all in any other language.
Not disappointed! But there are fishes involved in the movie...since we are on the subject :/ ! lol
I studied Latin in 8th grade, but don't remember a thing, other than a few trite expressions "ite missa est."
I studied one year of Spanish in high school and for the most part I learned it on my own. Forgot a lot of vocabulary, though, as I no longer get to practice it. Still have no probs with verb conjugations. It's just that my memory is failing me.
It's Cheech and Chong. On the same album as the "Dave" skit. I found a wav file of it, but it was in a zip file and I couldn't download that at work.
Sorry. We just got back in. Evening was somewhat of what we planned. Started off in a rush because we forgot Jr. had youth choir practice. We got him there and it's okay.
Had dinner, then wife and I went to the Cheesecake Bistro. There is nothing within miles of there on South Beach.
Then went by the Great Walmart of China. Didn't do all the Thanksgiving shopping. But got a couple of things we needed for tomorrow. Wife is getting ready for class in the a.m.
Thanks.
Sam, it's 18 years.
Did you survive W*lm*rt, or were you forced to sacrifice a small child to the throngs of shoppers out for the perfect turkey?
Fallujah delende est. :-)
Good night to all and thanks for the welcome.
Got gotta close the lid on things for tonight. Have some plumbing work to do first thing tomorrow.
Back when I was doing convention planning we did a meeting at [shudder] the Opryland Hotel in Nashville. (It's about twice the size it was when we were there and then it had 1,800 rooms).
Anyway, I got right fond of going to "Rhett's" and ordering "Jack with a Splash."
Dangerous stuff tho.
":-)"
Risus abundat et orum stultorum.
Just trying to remember some latinorum here. Don't take me seriously.
Carpe diem. Or my personal motto, carpe draconum.
I once spent an afternoon with someone trying to come up with a Latin-ish curse spell to kill... we ended up with "Mors cruciabliatus" which she said translated more or less to "die a very painful death".
Famous last words. :-)
But then again... welcome to "the hole". We're a pretty messed-up bunch around here.
:-)
1) We barely survived. Went to the urban assault Walmart. It was on the way home from the restaurant.
2) We didn't do the Thanksgiving shopping yet. Wife will finish that up tomorrow.
You'll fit right in. Welcome.
Oh, dear... your poor, poor wife. I went in today and I wasn't sure I was getting out.
No grocery stores until Friday. No malls after Thursday. I can still go to the B&N, but only in NinjaStealthMode.
The one where she worked won't be so bad. It's more suburban. The one we went to tonite was the "the world will end tomorrow if we don't stop at Walmart" store...
We were out of coffee.
The world won't end without caffeine. It just won't start tomorrow morning.
My plan to do all my shopping at used bookstores is being foiled by their evilly not having the Heinleins I want to get my the bothers... I might have to brave *gasp* The Mall.
I really hate crowds...
You could check Amazon to see if anyone is selling used copies.
g'nite. I'm up way too late.
Good night!
I don't trust my neighbors not to steal packages off my doorstep.
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