Nekkid Malcolm in the Middle, or nekkid mice? Eek
It's been statistically proven that people that celebrate the most birthdays live the longest.
Nekkid mouse hunting for top!
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I fully approve of this. It reminds me of the Malcolm in the middle episode where Francis became a mouse hunter and made a rather boss outfit out of mouse hide/pelt.
I probably could have at least made a hat by now. Seriously though, the trap I keep in my cubicle - I've been using it for about 8 years now. It's got 11 kills. It is stained with dried blood and bits of what might be little mouse brain.
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Maybe it's my carribean background, but I never had a problem with being called sir, even in my teens and 20s. I actually insisted upon it. Calling me Mr. (insert last name here) I had an issue with, as my father is still very much alive and the head of the family.Sorry to hear that. The first time one of the 20 somethings here at work called me Sir I nearly freaked out. If it makes you feel any better, I'll be 40 in May.So I go to the same gas station everyday, sometimes twice a day. And there is this cutie that works there, young guy, like 20 or something. And the other day hubby says he is flirting with me. And I start to think maybe he is, and am all flattered. Then...then I knew better.
I went in Wed, got my stuffs, went to pay. Kid is all smiles, rings me up, and then.. He... He..** spoiler omitted **
Ugh, this whole gonna be 30 in Aug thing is starting to really get to me. :(
What about Mr. <<Insert First name>> which is a normal mode of address down south?
Maybe it's my carribean background, but I never had a problem with being called sir, even in my teens and 20s. I actually insisted upon it. Calling me Mr. (insert last name here) I had an issue with, as my father is still very much alive and the head of the family.What about Mr. <<Insert First name>> which is a normal mode of address down south?Sorry to hear that. The first time one of the 20 somethings here at work called me Sir I nearly freaked out. If it makes you feel any better, I'll be 40 in May.So I go to the same gas station everyday, sometimes twice a day. And there is this cutie that works there, young guy, like 20 or something. And the other day hubby says he is flirting with me. And I start to think maybe he is, and am all flattered. Then...then I knew better.
I went in Wed, got my stuffs, went to pay. Kid is all smiles, rings me up, and then.. He... He..** spoiler omitted **
Ugh, this whole gonna be 30 in Aug thing is starting to really get to me. :(
But Mr. Jim Bob has a weird ring to it. ;) I kid!!
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On another note:
WOOHOO! Got my big report finished and sent to the secretary before I left work earlier today. So when I get in the office on Monday, all I have to do is email the thing out! One less thing to worry about before I go spend two weeks in Virginia. Looking forward to getting some serious overtime! And as much as I hate being away from the family, I love that my job gives me a chance to visit the ships and work with the sailors directly.
Sometimes, MY JOB ROCKS!!!
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With one breath, with one flow
You will know
Synchronicity
A sleep trance, a dream dance,
A shared romance
Synchronicity
A connecting principle
Linked to the invisible
Almost imperceptible
Something inexpressible
Science insusceptible
Logic so inflexible
Causally connectible
Yet nothing is invincible
If we share this nightmare
Then we can dream
Spiritus mundi
If you act as you think
The missing link
Synchronicity
We know you, they know me
Extrasensory
Synchronicity
A star fall, a phone call
It joins all
Synchronicity
It's so deep, it's so wide
You're inside
Synchronicity
Effect without a cause
Sub-atomic laws, scientific pause
Synchronicity.....
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Another suburban family morning
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our Rice Crispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so.much heartache he can take
Many miles away
Something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake
Another industrial ugly morning
The factory belches filth into the sky
He walks unhindered through the picket lines today
He doesn't think to wonder why
The secretaries pout and preen like
cheap tarts in a red light street
But all he ever thinks to do is watch
And every single meeting with his so-called superior
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
Many miles away
Something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish loch
Another working day has ended
Only the rush hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now looming in his headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away
There's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake
Many miles away, many miles away
I was going to skip the almost 200 posts but then I got to the Ma'am part... and was laughing too hard not to read the rest.
Yes Sir.
I don't know too much about the South, but according to my southern (read: Brooklyn) wife, calling someone Mr (insert first name here) is just fine when it's kids referring to adults. Not sure how it is for adults referring to other adults.
Maybe it's my carribean background, but I never had a problem with being called sir, even in my teens and 20s. I actually insisted upon it. Calling me Mr. (insert last name here) I had an issue with, as my father is still very much alive and the head of the family.What about Mr. <<Insert First name>> which is a normal mode of address down south?Sorry to hear that. The first time one of the 20 somethings here at work called me Sir I nearly freaked out. If it makes you feel any better, I'll be 40 in May.So I go to the same gas station everyday, sometimes twice a day. And there is this cutie that works there, young guy, like 20 or something. And the other day hubby says he is flirting with me. And I start to think maybe he is, and am all flattered. Then...then I knew better.
I went in Wed, got my stuffs, went to pay. Kid is all smiles, rings me up, and then.. He... He..** spoiler omitted **
Ugh, this whole gonna be 30 in Aug thing is starting to really get to me. :(
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But Mr. Jim Bob has a weird ring to it. ;) I kid!!Maybe it's my carribean background, but I never had a problem with being called sir, even in my teens and 20s. I actually insisted upon it. Calling me Mr. (insert last name here) I had an issue with, as my father is still very much alive and the head of the family.What about Mr. <<Insert First name>> which is a normal mode of address down south?Sorry to hear that. The first time one of the 20 somethings here at work called me Sir I nearly freaked out. If it makes you feel any better, I'll be 40 in May.So I go to the same gas station everyday, sometimes twice a day. And there is this cutie that works there, young guy, like 20 or something. And the other day hubby says he is flirting with me. And I start to think maybe he is, and am all flattered. Then...then I knew better.
I went in Wed, got my stuffs, went to pay. Kid is all smiles, rings me up, and then.. He... He..** spoiler omitted **
Ugh, this whole gonna be 30 in Aug thing is starting to really get to me. :(
Well there is that idiosyncrasy where they call you by your first and middle names. I hated that.
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Many miles away
Something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake...
Many miles away
Something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish loch...
Many miles away
There's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake
Many miles away, many miles away
These are my favorite lines of Synchronicity II.
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I hold out for higher forms of address than "sir."
As I mentioned on FB at one point, I've been anamored with the "Your Grace" title ever since watching The Tudors.
I would also accept "Your Lordship" or "Your Excellency."
Bonus points for those who realize they are so far beneath me they should address me in the third person:
"Does His Excellency require anything else? Shall I bring His Excellency another soda?"
I don't know too much about the South, but according to my southern (read: Brooklyn) wife, calling someone Mr (insert first name here) is just fine when it's kids referring to adults. Not sure how it is for adults referring to other adults.
Speaking as the Wasp-iest of Wasps (northern yankee culture), the program is, Mr. (insert last name here) until you're given permission to call someone by their first name. Calling servants/employees by their first name is expected; calling an underling "Mr. (insert last name here) is sign of respect. Mr (insert first name here) here is childish at best, far too familiar between adults.
I hold out for higher forms of address than "sir."
As I mentioned on FB at one point, I've been anamored with the "Your Grace" title ever since watching The Tudors.
I would also accept "Your Lordship" or "Your Excellency."
Bonus points for those who realize they are so far beneath me they should address me in the third person:
"Does His Excellency require anything else? Shall I bring His Excellency another soda?"
It's nice to see the move to L.A. hasn't changed you a bit, CH. ;)
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I also really like the song Invisible Sun. But I was always very interested in "the Troubles" and that conflict. I lived over in London towards the end of that and there were more than few incidents while I was there.
I don't want to spend the rest of my life
Looking at the barrel of an Armalite
I don't want to spend the rest of my days
Keeping out of trouble like the soldiers say
I don't want to spend my time in hell
Looking at the walls of a prison cell
I don't ever want to play the part
Of a statistic on a goverment chart
There has to be an invisible sun
It gives it's heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done
It's dark all day, and it glows all night
Factory smoke and acetylene light
I face the day with me head caved in
Looking like something that the cat brought in
There has to be an invisible sun
It gives it's heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done
And they're only going to change this place by
Killing everybody in the human race
And they would kill me for a cigarette
But I don't even wanna die just yet
There has to be an invisible sun
It gives it's heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
It gives us hope when the whole day's done
I hold out for higher forms of address than "sir."
As I mentioned on FB at one point, I've been anamored with the "Your Grace" title ever since watching The Tudors.
I would also accept "Your Lordship" or "Your Excellency."
Bonus points for those who realize they are so far beneath me they should address me in the third person:
"Does His Excellency require anything else? Shall I bring His Excellency another soda?"
Not to butt in (too late!) but demand that they call you "My (insert honorific here)"; seriously, the my/your thing is important in feudal societies.
Isn't that a lot of trips to the gas station? Hehe
Maybe, but they have sales on soda all the time, I grab smokes, gas, sodas, snacks for Kellen, and they bake donuts daily and have a donut and coffee special, so I will have coffee and Riley bug will have the donut. It just adds up.
I was going to skip the almost 200 posts but then I got to the Ma'am part... and was laughing too hard not to read the rest.
Glad I could entertain you. *sniff*
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Demolition Man, by far has the best bass riff. It just drives right into your skull.
"Demolition Man"
Tied to the tracks and the train's fast coming
Strapped to the wing with the engine running
You say that this wasn't in your plan
And don't mess around with the demolition man
Tied to a chair, and the bomb is ticking
This situation was not of your picking
You say that this wasn't in your plan
And don't mess around with the demolition man
I'm a walking nightmare, an arsenal of doom
I kill conversation as I walk into the room
I'm a three line whip, I'm the sort of thing they ban
I'm a walking disaster, I'm a demolition man
Demolition, demolition
Demolition, demolition
You come to me like a moth to the flame
It's love you need but I don't play that game
'Cause you could be my greatest fan
But I'm nobody's friend, I'm a demolition man
I'm a walking nightmare, an arsenal of doom
I kill conversation as I walk into the room
I'm a three line whip, I'm the sort of thing they ban
I'm a walking disaster, I'm a demolition man
Demolition, demolition
Demolition, demolition
Tied to the tracks and the train's fast coming
Strapped to the wing with the engine running
You say that this wasn't in your plan
And don't mess around with the demolition man
Tied to a chair, and the bomb is ticking
This situation was not of your picking
You say that this wasn't in your plan
And don't mess around with the demolition man
I need to learn it someday before my fingers give out.
Off to see John Carter in 3D with mom, no less. The movie's on me because I haven't been to the movies with mom in a long time.
Anyone wants a review of the movie, let me know.
quick Hi from hotel
grandma birthday went well
tomorrow Leipzig
In Germany the normal form of adress is Herr Lastname (Mr.) and Frau Lastname (Mrs) in school the teachers stop calling you by your first name when you are 16 and call you Mr. Lastname.
Usually you use first names only with close friends and people your own age and soemtimes co-workers but it is quit common that two germans share a office or are neighbours for 25 years and never get to first names
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Around here I refer to my customers as Mr/Mrs <Surname>. I expect my kids to use the same, except for close friends when Mr/Mrs <first name> is acceptable. Outside of that I use first names, unless I dislike you, then it's the last name ONLY.
Of course I use nicknames (buddy,etc.) a lot, and don't mind them used at me... except son/boy/kid... those are fightin' words.
In Germany the normal form of adress is Herr Lastname (Mr.) and Frau Lastname (Mrs) in school the teachers stop calling you by your first name when you are 16 and call you Mr. Lastname.
Usually you use first names only with close friends and people your own age and soemtimes co-workers but it is quit common that two germans share a office or are neighbours for 25 years and never get to first names
I'm really asking, not being mouthy: how does Fraulein figure into that? A unmarried woman of 16 or older still reserves the right to withhold her first name as a form of address, right? Like a spinster, I mean.
(Whatever, go read the kotaku-male-privilege thread, this is just the way I think.)
Around here I refer to my customers as Mr/Mrs <Surname>. I expect my kids to use the same, except for close friends when Mr/Mrs <first name> is acceptable. Outside of that I use first names, unless I dislike you, then it's the last name ONLY.
Of course I use nicknames (buddy,etc.) a lot, and don't mind them used at me... except son/boy/kid... those are fightin' words.
Can I ask where you are Moorluck? No insult, just curious, regionally speaking.
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Can I ask where you are Moorluck? No insult, just curious, regionally speaking.Around here I refer to my customers as Mr/Mrs <Surname>. I expect my kids to use the same, except for close friends when Mr/Mrs <first name> is acceptable. Outside of that I use first names, unless I dislike you, then it's the last name ONLY.
Of course I use nicknames (buddy,etc.) a lot, and don't mind them used at me... except son/boy/kid... those are fightin' words.
South Carolina, I'm born and raised here but my family is from VA.
South Carolina, I'm born and raised here but my family is from VA.Can I ask where you are Moorluck? No insult, just curious, regionally speaking.Around here I refer to my customers as Mr/Mrs <Surname>. I expect my kids to use the same, except for close friends when Mr/Mrs <first name> is acceptable. Outside of that I use first names, unless I dislike you, then it's the last name ONLY.
Of course I use nicknames (buddy,etc.) a lot, and don't mind them used at me... except son/boy/kid... those are fightin' words.
Sure, that makes sense; the first time I was in Virginia and heard a child call an adult Mr. (insert first name here) I was all, "It's a world gone mad!" No insult, regional dialects are interesting is all I'm saying. :)
(I'm a yankee.)
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South Carolina, I'm born and raised here but my family is from VA.Can I ask where you are Moorluck? No insult, just curious, regionally speaking.Around here I refer to my customers as Mr/Mrs <Surname>. I expect my kids to use the same, except for close friends when Mr/Mrs <first name> is acceptable. Outside of that I use first names, unless I dislike you, then it's the last name ONLY.
Of course I use nicknames (buddy,etc.) a lot, and don't mind them used at me... except son/boy/kid... those are fightin' words.
Sure, that makes sense; the first time I was in Virginia and heard a child call an adult Mr. (insert first name here) I was all, "It's a world gone mad!" No insult, regional dialects are interesting is all I'm saying. :)
(I'm a yankee.)
I've always thought the same myself. I've thought before when someone laughs at what I say that they sound just as funny to me. ;)
Heading off to see John Carter. Bryce is very excited to go to the movies.
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So I go to the same gas station everyday, sometimes twice a day. And there is this cutie that works there, young guy, like 20 or something. And the other day hubby says he is flirting with me. And I start to think maybe he is, and am all flattered. Then...then I knew better.
I went in Wed, got my stuffs, went to pay. Kid is all smiles, rings me up, and then.. He... He..** spoiler omitted **
Ugh, this whole gonna be 30 in Aug thing is starting to really get to me. :(
30... really? 30 is a tragedy of some sort? No sympathy from me, love.
40 and lovin life.
I was 30 once....maybe twice
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Sometimes I like to call people by their full name, even if they usually go by a shortened version:
- I work with an Albert who always go by Al.
- Also a William who usually goes by Bill.
- And a Robert who usually goes by Bob.
There's also a guy at work who's actual name is Terry, but I almost always call him Terrance, as in Terrance and Phillip from South Park. I've been doing it so long, I've got at least 5 other people who think his name actually is Terrance.
And not two times 30! /shakes limb