What's the word for....

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Still no google ads for me....maybe it's because I am at school and the watchdog filters them out?

[Savvy]

Acne is a teenager's nightmare. Let's see if they can help us find a cure???

[Ken, Moderator]

Chocolate

[Carol]

I have ads now . There is one for energy syrup drink or vitamin water. I am only twelve years old why do I need hemorrhoid medicine and energy water. (Is that deceiving enough for the ad guys).

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I still have no ads.....

[Carol]

I have auto insurance right now. no chocolate

[Savvy]

Chocolate...Cocoa...CHOCOLATE....COCOA
LATTES....CAPPUCINOS...MOCHAS....

[Ruth]

Test drive the Nissan LEAF.

I like the chocolate sauce that gets hard when it hits the cold ice cream. I make it with cooking chocolate, sugar and butter. My kids used to go nutz for it.

[Carol]

Are they targeting the ads for my computer, because I have car ads now.

[Stephen]

Been following the ads talk here but am unsure which ads you're talking about... Below the discussion search window there's a sponsored books block then one ad (which for me now shows Verizon) is that the block you're talking about. ...Misleading chocolatey goodness now..

[Carol]

Yes those are the ones. Now there are super white page ads. Crazy huh.

[Savvy]

No, it's not working!
It works well on my google mail though!

I'm getting vampire books and clothing ads...

[Carol]

Yes teacher I will chose acne. Is that how it is done . I need to get rid of these breakouts.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Yes Gabi! Wanna come over here and give me a break!!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

i don't even have the sponsored books block anymore!

[Carol]

They don't like you Debbie.

[Stephen]

Gabi wrote: "Maybe you don't get them if you don't use Google. What else is there? I keep getting confused between search engines and internet supplier ..."

OK but if we discuss this much we'll ALL be getting internet provider ads.

Your Internet provider MAY be the phone company or the cable TV company or something else. Verizon, and Bright House are the biggies in my area. There are even a few satellite feeds available as well, not to mention a number of dial-up services for those who haven't moved to broadband.

Search engines are a websites that you can surf to regardless of which internet provider you use or what e-mail or what web browser you use. The most common are Google, Yahoo and the newbie BING. Most offer browser add-ons that allow you to search from any web page by adding a toolbar to the top of your screen.

Web Browsers are the programs that present web content. The most common are Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari (for Apple). My first was Netscape back when you actually BOUGHT web browsing software.

[Scribble]

couldn't have put it half as good

[Ruth]

Wall Street Journal
Instant Grammar Checker

[Scribble]

I'm just being told to break through to the word of life and get published.

must be a poor little (misguided) wight...

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I got ads!! I am now at home so it is the school watchdog blocking google ads. At the moment they are for jackets and custom suits (maybe they think I need a strait jacket!!!)

[Scribble]

Debbie wrote: "I got ads!! I am now at home so it is the school watchdog blocking google ads. At the moment they are for jackets and custom suits (maybe they think I need a strait jacket!!!)"

customised, of course.

i'm being bombarded with 'get saved'...must be a candidate for redemption?

anyone ever heard of magnuss vantegard?

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Nope....but now they want me to buy Von Dutch....

[Scribble]

Mary Poppins

halitosis

scurvy

get rich quick

let's see what that generates ... all these see the light blurbs are blinding me

[Ken, Moderator]

I only get one ad at a time. Keen shoes this morning. Never heard of them. Wonder if the company has sole.

[Carol]

staples office equipment

LinkedIn
That is all for now

Oh and a book called "The Genius Theory"
haahahahaahhahaa

[Ruth]

Verizon.

(My Keen sandals are great, NE.)

[Carol]

Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine

I get 4 free issues

[Savvy]

This is what all the talk about CHOCOLATE got me for an ad..... :-(

[Ruth]

vitamin water?

[Scribble]

at least you all get some variation! i'm stuck with being told to break through to the word of life.

ad nausaeum

[Ruth]

Who the hell is Taylor Swift?

[Ken, Moderator]

Audible.com

Taylor Swift is some singer who gets awards swiftly ripped out of her hands.

[Carol]

I finally received an ad for M&M hahahaha
And a book called The Lightkeeper's Bride. I don't recall us talking about bodice rippers oops now I have done it.

[Ken, Moderator]

I think I'll make a new thread for this. Ads or somesuch.

Now back to "What's the word for... thread drift?"

[Ken, Moderator]

What's the word for the top part of a door frame.

[Carol]

door-head next

[Carol]

door-frame. Frame to which a door is hung set in a reveal in a doorway. The verticals of the frame are the door-checks, -jambs, or -posts, and the top part is the door-head.

[Ken, Moderator]

No, because I'll know it when I see it. The This Old House guy would know (not that I know who the "guy" is, anymore).

[Carol]

How about stiles then?

[Carol]

ah yes I think that is it.

[Scribble]

Newengland wrote: "What's the word for the top part of a door frame."

Do you mean the structural (as in weight-bearing) or the finishing? Lintel if weight bearing (and not usually visible to the eye, because of the finishing). Otherwise architrave, which refers to the moulding or finishing around the doorway.

[Ken, Moderator]

I was thinking lintel, but if GN is RIGHT, then I'm wrong because the lintel is hidden by the architrave just like my heart is hidden by my chest.

[Scribble]

Gabi wrote: "Are you fishing for compliments, again? We know you're gorgeous. Get over it.

I suspect that G N is always right. Or else!

Love you all, signing off, crap day, going to bed."

sorry to hear you had a lousy day, Gabi. Hopefully tomorrow will see you feeling better. Sleep well and dream sweet, grandmere.

[Scribble]

the collective noun for slugs?

not escargatoire please.

[Savvy]

gastropods???

[Scribble]

Susanne (Savvy Suz) wrote: "gastropods???"

Hey Savvy Suz, hello. I meant collective noun for the situation where a 'group' of slugs are having a slime-in. 'group' sounds...well...odd.

[Stephen]

G N wrote: "the collective noun for slugs? not escargatoire please."

Sorry words fail me and so does http://www.rinkworks.com/words/collec...

An alternative site http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/ suggests a "cornucopia of slugs" but that doesn't seem quite right to me. ... and how much faith can one have in a site that includes "A whored of prostitutes" and a "wiggle of Elvis impersonators" among their collectives?

I suppose in a pinch one could resort to the generic "an infestation" but then, it's probably best NOT to pinch slugs...

I think in cases like these it's best to create one's own. And they are hermaphropitic so it's not like we need two. Perhaps a slither of slugs or a slime of slugs or even a shaker of slugs since salt is known to kill them. But, best NOT to use that particular appelation around Santa Cruz California where a banana slug named "Sammy" is the mascot of the University of California at Santa Cruz!


Gee! I'd hate to be on THEIR track team.

[Savvy]

Oh ....that is easy!...

A SLUGFEST! ;-)

They are a plethora of them here in the Pacific Northwest!

[Carol]

LOL good one Savy