THE THREAD!!!

[gladiatt]

ORIGINAL: sprior

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

France is a great place to vacation. Everyone was very friendly there last year. I recommend the Normandy beaches.

Great for me and my son. Not so good for wife and 17 yo daughter. I think we're going to head SW and get a place by a beach.

I would recommend to you to avoid SE (east of Montpellier toward Italy) : nice countryside, but people not friendly.
Around Carcassonne, Toulouse, Perpignan or else, nice countryside, and friendly people. Good luck !

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Given your kids' ages, I'd say that this must be purely academic. Unless, of course, you were the teenage boy with the loose bladder on the receiving end of all that once upon a time. [:D]

Academic? No, Onime, it's just planning. You see, life will go exactly as I ordain. There are to be no deviations from the path I charted out for my kids some time ago. Thus, my son will be a left-handed starting pitcher for the Oakland A's prior to his stint on the Supreme Court of the United States. My daughter has her course (aforementioned) too. What could possibly go wrong?

As for myself, I take the 5th. [;)]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: sprior
Apparently he's not asked her out yet but is going to.

On Facebook, no doubt.

Facebook? That is so...yesterday. I'm surprised that he hasn't 'tweeted' her out on a date.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/201 ... ymoon.html

That's so weak on so many different levels...[:@]

[Chickenboy]

Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

The winners are:


1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.


2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.


3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.



4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.



5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.



6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.



7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.



8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavored mouthwash.




9. Flatulance (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.




10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.



11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.




12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.



13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.



14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.



15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.



16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.



The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are this year's winners:


1. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.


2. Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

3. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.



4. Giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.



5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit, and the person who doesn't get it.



6. Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.



7. Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness.



8. Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)



9. Karmageddon (n): its like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.



10. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.



11. Glibido (v): All talk and no action.



12. Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.



13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.



14. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.



15. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.



And the pick of the literature:



16. Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

[sprior]

5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit, and the person who doesn't get it.

I like this one.

[sprior]

PS. The "cute" top wasn't too bad, at leats it reaches down to her belt line. Shame it doesn't reach up to her neck.

[Grollub]

... now THIS is geek humor ... [:D]

[sprior]

Or a Playmobile recreation.

[sprior]

The scary thing? I've played GDW's games and have some in my loft...

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: gladiatt

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

France is a great place to vacation. Everyone was very friendly there last year. I recommend the Normandy beaches.

i am surprised, but happy, to read this. We are not supposed to be the most friendly inhabitants to foreigners (wich is not my fault).
Happy to learn it was ok for you.

We were there almost 2 weeks. There was one person who was not nice. I am sure if you were over here you would encounter more than one person who was not nice. I had used Rosetta Stone French for 6 months before we went. I think that helped. I also think it was common courtesy for me to try and speak French. It helped me because I was able to read menus, street signs, brochures, etc.

[BrucePowers]

Ah ha! New page[:)]

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Given your kids' ages, I'd say that this must be purely academic. Unless, of course, you were the teenage boy with the loose bladder on the receiving end of all that once upon a time. [:D]

Academic? No, Onime, it's just planning. You see, life will go exactly as I ordain. There are to be no deviations from the path I charted out for my kids some time ago. Thus, my son will be a left-handed starting pitcher for the Oakland A's prior to his stint on the Supreme Court of the United States. My daughter has her course (aforementioned) too. What could possibly go wrong?

As for myself, I take the 5th. [;)]

What could go wrong?[X(][:D]

[BrucePowers]

Has anyone played Empire Total War?

[Grollub]

I have. Stunningly beautiful, especially the naval battles. Not a lot of depth though.

[BrucePowers]

I have depth with this game. I was thinking about something fun tp play but not as time consuming.

[Grollub]

Then it's worth a try [:)]

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Has anyone played Empire Total War?

Very nice! [:)]

BTW, I started with Shogun: Total War! [;)]


Leo "Apollo11"

[USSAmerica]

I still have the first Medieval Total War installed on my computer.  Own the second, but, well, I got WitP and then AE was released.....  

[USSAmerica]

Parole - Tithe. [&o]