Was thinking of going back to doing my YouTube channel, making video with the cap cut text to speech programs. ;3
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Why did they use monkeys for "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."
It's got something to do with the Japanese word for monkey, if I remember correctly. It sounds like a another word in Japanese that negates verbs, like "nicht" in German. So in a way it almost reads like monkey see, monkey hear, monkey speak. I'm probably getting part of that wrong, but I remember looking this up not too long ago.
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It kind of makes me think of "Mind your own business."
Um, you realize overindulgence is a personal value judgement? Wait until you experience PMS, and then talk to me about what level of consumption constitutes overindulgence.
That being said, I like vanilla.
I confess to a fondness for semi-sweet chocolate chips. That, and Three Musketeers bars, are my main sources of chocolate.
A friend of mine referred to chocolate chips as "chocolate of last resort." She said that the expression wasn't original with her, but it found its way into her vocabulary and now into ours.
Fortunately, few of them ever do.
And here's another random thought: Philip Marlowe starts off The Little Sister by swatting a fly. (Sorry to spoil it for you)
Um, you realize overindulgence is a personal value judgement? Wait until you experience PMS, and then talk to me about what level of consumption constitutes overindulgence.
That being said, I like vanilla.
You win.
Thank you. No doubt you'd topple my king in chess everytime, though.You win.
Unless the king was made out of chocolate. Then someone would eat it.
Probably me. (What? Just 'cos I don't eat too much chocolate doesn't mean I don't indulge sometimes).
But only if I can deliver checkmate.And speaking of which: checkmate!
And wouldn't you know it, someone actually set up the position on the board and showed why that position is definitely possible (and plausible). Props to Mel Brooks for doing it right.
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I spent a couple of days in the UP maybe ten years ago. Loved it and wish we'd had more time there. Saw Superior from the top of Sugar Loaf Mountain, once of the most amazing views I've ever seen.
I've yet to explore the UP.
My only experience was going to my husbands graduation back when we were in undergrad, staying the night, and helping him pack his dorm room and drive back to Maryland.
It's 2026 here.
Get out while you can.
Get out while you can.
Maybe you can serve as our scout, sending back warning as things develop, since we're all in it together.
Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!
I just noticed something in this scene, though: at the beginning, both Selma and Patty are wearing lipstick. At the end, they're not. Then, when Selma gets up at the end, she's wearing lippy again. (No big deal, I just noticed it).
But the entire sequence is genius. The randomness of the breakdancing ape. The lovely lyric "From Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Zee". Phil Hartman's singing.
Still one of my favourite Simpsons scenes.
Unlikely. I was Genghis Khan in my past life.
On the minus-side, my armies slaughtered millions, levelled their cities, and built pyramids of skulls. On the plus-side, all this depopulation meant that hundreds of thousands of trees sprang up in my wake.
I was the original eco-warrior. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, ya tree-huggin' greenies! ;-P
Some of these Lounge threads seem to be on members' New Year's resolutions hitlist. Rather than awaken the "If you click and don't post we'll show up at your door" thread, I'll post here.
My work wife has a desk that can be raised and lowered according to back pain, sciatica, all that. Someone suggested to her to occasionally sit on one of those giant exercise balls, help stabilise the core, support flexibility and reduce strain and tension. All very medicinal and laudable. Still looks ridiculous, though.
The thing about those exercise balls is the slow expulsion of air, loss of structural stability and counter-productive for back support. This morning, a commotion at the end of the large, open plan office (which we love so much), with my work wife and two colleagues trying to extract the stopper so they could use the hand pump to inflate the ball. I extracted the pin and work wife set about using the pump, except she was losing more air than introducing, so I took over, both of us crouched over, she holding the ball while I furiously worked the hand pump, our backs to our colleagues, when I said probably the worst thing possible in the circumstances.
"Is it getting any harder?"
We had to be peeled off the floor. It's a long time since I was left with stomach aches from laughing.
My work wife has a desk that can be raised and lowered according to back pain, sciatica, all that. Someone suggested to her to occasionally sit on one of those giant exercise balls, help stabilise the core, support flexibility and reduce strain and tension. All very medicinal and laudable. Still looks ridiculous, though.
The thing about those exercise balls is the slow expulsion of air, loss of structural stability and counter-productive for back support. This morning, a commotion at the end of the large, open plan office (which we love so much), with my work wife and two colleagues trying to extract the stopper so they could use the hand pump to inflate the ball. I extracted the pin and work wife set about using the pump, except she was losing more air than introducing, so I took over, both of us crouched over, she holding the ball while I furiously worked the hand pump, our backs to our colleagues, when I said probably the worst thing possible in the circumstances.
"Is it getting any harder?"
We had to be peeled off the floor. It's a long time since I was left with stomach aches from laughing.
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