The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Wu Wei]

I read that it's related to both Cantonese & Mandarin.

All Chinese dialects are related by written Chinese but many cannot actually speak to one another. And admittedly I am no expert on origins of dialect, I have not seen Mandarin as related to Yue or Cantonese. Yue and Cantonese being Southern dialects and Mandarin being a Northern dialect. But I am no expert so I could be mistaken.

 

[Revoltingest]

All Chinese dialects are related by written Chinese but many cannot actually speak to one another. And admittedly I am no expert on origins of dialect, I have not seen Mandarin as related to Yue or Cantonese. Yue and Cantonese being Southern dialects and Mandarin being a Northern dialect. But I am no expert so I could be mistaken.

It all needs to be replaced by Meiguo hua (not Yinguo hua).

 

[sun rise]

Yeah, unique eh?

Really, don't you have vicars? How about Anglican churches?

We call them Episcopal churches.

 

[Stevicus]

Why did it take this long for SpaceX and NASA to share satellite location data? (msn.com)

That's a lot of stuff orbiting Earth.

 

[sun rise]

Why did it take this long for SpaceX and NASA to share satellite location data? (msn.com)

That's a lot of stuff orbiting Earth.

Someone needs to get out an almighty broom and sweep up the trash.

 

[Stevicus]

Someone needs to get out an almighty broom and sweep up the trash.

I think Wile E. Coyote's giant magnet was powerful enough to pull in satellites from space.

Manufactured by ACME, of course.

 

[sun rise]

Wile E's big problem was not using Consumer Reports to choose where he got his gadgetry from. He kept using Acme in spite of their obvious manifest design and manufacturing problems.

 

[ChristineM]

Europeans seemed to have kicked vicars off the ships when they came this way.

I knew you guys were good for something

 

[ChristineM]

We call them Episcopal churches.

Ok, good for throwing vicars off the boat but rubbish at making names up.

I blame the tea party, get rid of British rule and church names

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Ok, good for throwing vicars off the boat but rubbish at making names up.

I blame the tea party, get rid of British rule and church names

Episcopals we call "pissed off Catholics." Or, at least some people call them that.

 

[Wu Wei]

all those windy days this week, three actually.....20 to 30 MPH winds with stronger gusts, one of those days had 40 MPH wins with stronger gusts...... yesterday was one of those days.......DANG TREE LIMB is still hanging there, caught in other limbs.....

 

[Revoltingest]

Lucy decided yesterday to take one last tour of our grounds
yesterday, so we postponed her trip to the vet. She visited
the driveway, frog pond, hostas (yet to emerge), a rock garden,
& a cairn. But this morning she was ready for her final trip to
the vet. Off she went.
I dug a hole among the black eyed Susans visible from the
kitchen. She'll compost there soon. Hobbs is buried nearby
to keep her company.
RIP, Lucy, one of the best cats ever.

 

[ChristineM]

Lucy decided yesterday to take one last tour of our grounds
yesterday, so we postponed her trip to the vet. She visited
the driveway, frog pond, hostas (yet to emerge), a rock garden,
& a cairn. But this morning she was ready for her final trip to
the vet. Off she went.
I dug a hole among the black eyed Susans visible from the
kitchen. She'll compost there soon. Hobbs is buried nearby
to keep her company.
RIP, Lucy, one of the best cats ever.

RIP Lucy and my sympathy for you loss.

 

[Revoltingest]

RIP Lucy and my sympathy for you loss.

Zoe will be happier with her nemesis out of the way.
There'll be less hissing in the house.

 

[Revoltingest]

Patrick Stewart once had hair!

 

[ChristineM]

Patrick once had hair!

He once lived just a few miles from me. A sure way to shed a few follicals

 

[Brickjectivity]

Patrick once had hair!

He's lucky. Hair is, of course, one of our disgusting evolutionary throwbacks.

 

[Wu Wei]

He's lucky. Hair is, of course, one of our disgusting evolutionary throwbacks.

Fully agree....disgusting

 

[Stevicus]

I let it fly in the breeze
And get caught in the trees
Give a home for the fleas in my hair
A home for fleas
A hive for the buzzin' bees (buzzin' beeeeeeeesssss)
A nest for birds
There ain't no words
For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder
Of my...
Hair (Hair! Hair! Hair! Hair! Hair! Hair!)
Grow it, show it
Long as I can grow it
My hair

 

[Stevicus]