Wordwizard

In my book, the display on the wall above the shelves is called "signage." So, in current slang (as trolley has pointed out) I would call this a "signage fail." On the other hand, since the stuff on the shelves is moveable, and the sign(age) above is less so, this could be called an assistant manage...

Erik_Kowal wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 20, 2019 7:21 am

And that would definitely be a mistake.

It's why I come here: to incur wrath and commit preemptive occurences of reality. Ok -- I get it, Phil ------ nix-on the super-fluous-dashes.

Tony h, you can view a YouTube video of Red Skelton's work at the United Nations by googling "Red Skelton pantomime." Oh never mind -- let me just do it for you. Enjoy!
Unfortunately, you have to tolerate a few minutes of vintage TV commercials.

Stevenloan, the phrase "social awareness" is too broad to describe just what this person is lacking. Chiefly, he lacks any respect for the labor, time, and cost that others have put into laying the pavement, which indicates he has some "antisocial personality disorder." (That's what the docs say now...

It's correct to say he's a frigging idiot.

So, a mistake could be called a premonition of truth? A preemptive fact? One thing life has taught me: all my worst mistakes will be revealed at the worst possible moment. Count on it. I don't really mind seeing the emojis/smilies in my screen -- I just hesitate to choose them over the old keyboard ...

No linguistic scholarship here, just a beautiful novel about some folks trying to make it in 19th century America. I had never read anything by Sebastian Barry before, and judged this book by its cover at a free book exchange event. Barry is henceforth on my list of "go to" authors (meaning, I go to...

Thanks for that link, Erik. Takes me back to the "Master and Margarita" days, my first book read in its entirety without turning a single page. I've read a few books on my computer since then, but I still prefer books with paper pages to flip through, highlight, dog-ear, annotate, and otherwise abus...

Well, gee, I don't know what else you'd call them. Untenable alternatives?

P.S. Somehow, I like the old emoticons better . . . ;^)

I can appreciate that "person" or "woman" of one's word doesn't scan as well as "man of his/you/my word". That might be what tony h was getting at when he says the inclusive versions "don't work." There are ways around it though: "I/you/she/they had better keep my/your/her/their word", for example.

Of course, this idiom might become ambiguous if you asked it of your garage mechanic, or your home insurance claims adjuster, after an accident or disaster. Just sayin'.

Hah! Kind of like being asked to represent all the tribes of the world when you're the only indigenous soul in the room at the moment. The pressure mounts: what if I'm wrong? What if I make a mistake? So, women love this joke, Phil. They love, especially, the word-for-word repetition of the setup, b...

Around here, Stevenloan, the big sign on the car proclaims, "STUDENT DRIVER". Those two words say it all: no need to beg for patience or understanding. Everyone should know, automatically, to give you lots of room. Good luck and be safe!

Hah! That was great, Phil, thanks for the laugh.

tony h wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 21, 2019 2:03 pm

It reminds me of a conversation on the train with a surgeon. She specialised in Hymenoplasty . . .

tony h, yer killin' me.