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WORD/QUOTATION of the DAY
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Patricia
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Jun 13, 2012 10:25AM

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I heard about the book a couple of years back, didn't know the author had a movie deal. Cracks me up every time I see the trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X58RPS...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Eo766...

:-P"
I heard Meryl Streep turned down that role.

Come to think of it, I've got to google a lot of the words/terms I see on the internet.
Had to find out what the Encyclopeda Dramatica.
"The official Twitter website is a marmite affair: some people hate it, while others really hate it." --http://www.techradar.com/news/interne...
Sorry, the moderator had an accident and more threads got wiped than the one he was moving into a new thread/folder...
Duh.
Duh.

Duh."
Oh, good. Thought you were losing it...
Kench. No, I just want that particular discussion where I can find it easily, and out of the word of the day thread. Unfortunately, in the process I also lost the quote about the Japanese "swearword". Duh. Too bad.
"Why do cyclists have to look like suicides waiting for a place to
happen?" -- Andre Jute (found on the net)
happen?" -- Andre Jute (found on the net)
Patricia wrote: ""I admire a man who has the nerve to quote himself."
-- Patricia Sierra"
What I do for a living, dahlink, speak quotable words. I do it so well that people steal from me.
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar...
In some cases the theft is wholesale.
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar...
Some of the by-effects of being quotable are hilarious.
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar...
-- Patricia Sierra"
What I do for a living, dahlink, speak quotable words. I do it so well that people steal from me.
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar...
In some cases the theft is wholesale.
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar...
Some of the by-effects of being quotable are hilarious.
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar...
You know you've arrived when the Wall Street Journal quotes you out of context -- and makes you sound like a capitalist.
Sounds like you were too smart for them, Sierra. Difficult to quote "and" & "the" out of context...
Sounds like you were too smart for them, Sierra. Difficult to quote "and" & "the" out of context...

My suggestion was that the government hire speed readers to plow through all the science fiction they could find because the solution may have already been dreamed up by an author.

I don't think the reporter was indicating that my suggestion was a good one; just that it was weird enough to publish. Sort of like the idea from someone else that we all drive golf carts from now on.
Guy I clicked with in the Pentagon, to whom I was consulting on saving the lives of Navy pilots of whom too many were dying in their training, told me that book (this was before the movie came out) had a solid base in reality.
No, they were flying jets into the back ends of aircraft carriers. The solution we came up with was a yellow stripe on the back end of the carrier as a visual marker of both height and movement. Worked too. Saved a lot of lives.
Helicopters are intrinsically much more dangerous than fixed wing aircraft.
Helicopters are intrinsically much more dangerous than fixed wing aircraft.

Good one, Patricia!
Hmmm, Day of the Condor, know I saw the movie, cannot remember a single thing about it...
"Yes, but the angels on your pin are exiguous whereas mine are only anorexic" -- Andre Jute, on being accused, by a notorious hairsplitter -- of hairsplitting
