Author Topic: Quotes from work (Read 192012 times)

dkw · « **Reply #1225 on:** February 27, 2013, 09:33:19 PM »

Speaking of metaphors that just don't click for me . . .huh?

BlackBlade · « **Reply #1226 on:** February 27, 2013, 09:52:53 PM »

Well when you have an advanced word and learn it has an application you didn't know about, since they are called five dollar words, I imagine it's a similar feeling when you show up in the Philippines, and realize you don't even need to change your money.

pooka · « **Reply #1227 on:** March 03, 2013, 01:12:51 PM »

I've never been given more than 25 cents for a hoity toity word.

Perhaps the application of incubus in that description was relevant to the demon raping women in their sleep. Though it seems to me more likely he didn't quite have the word he wanted. He was just trying to use a noun he thought meant "really really bad." P.S. I think in this day and age, the "into a groove" phrase primes the sentence with a meaning that makes the use of incubus extra inappropriate.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1228 on:** March 28, 2013, 08:29:17 AM »

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Nephi tells his heart to rejoice: “Rejoice, O my heart” (2 Nephi 4:28).

Brinestone · « **Reply #1229 on:** March 28, 2013, 09:21:59 AM »

That made me laugh.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1230 on:** March 28, 2013, 09:34:11 AM »

It made me and my coworkers laugh, too. I think that's a good sign that it needs to be changed.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #1231 on:** March 28, 2013, 09:56:36 AM »

I laughed.

Anna · « **Reply #1232 on:** March 29, 2013, 04:10:12 AM »

Quote from: Jonathon on March 28, 2013, 09:34:11 AM

It made me and my coworkers laugh, too. I think that's a good sign that it needs to be changed.

Don't you like a good laugh?

pooka · « **Reply #1233 on:** April 03, 2013, 01:28:57 PM »

Three Nephites walk into a bar...

BlackBlade · « **Reply #1234 on:** April 03, 2013, 02:43:57 PM »

Quote from: pooka on April 03, 2013, 01:28:57 PM

Three Nephites walk into a bar...

I wonder if the Three Nephites would be bound by the Word of Wisdom.

Dobie · « **Reply #1235 on:** April 04, 2013, 06:10:14 PM »

Three Nephites who had become hardened and impenitent and grossly wicked, insomuch that they did reject all the preaching and prophesying which did come among them, walk into a bar...

pooka · « **Reply #1236 on:** April 05, 2013, 04:25:27 PM »

That almost works, except the three nephites by definition were highly virtuous.

Dobie · « **Reply #1237 on:** April 05, 2013, 04:49:32 PM »

I guess if the Returned Missionary can be in a beer commercial the Three Nephites can go into a bar.

pooka · « **Reply #1238 on:** April 11, 2013, 04:59:30 PM »

May it be the same bar the three musketeers went into!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #1239 on:** April 11, 2013, 07:07:11 PM »

I don't know why I had to click on that spoiler to figure out the answer.

Noemon · « **Reply #1240 on:** April 23, 2013, 11:28:36 AM »

"The logic is deeply embedded in the code."

Jonathon · « **Reply #1241 on:** April 23, 2013, 01:21:45 PM »

It's like a one-line poem.

dkw · « **Reply #1242 on:** April 23, 2013, 02:10:43 PM »

Or a line from a Matrix knock-off.

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #1243 on:** April 23, 2013, 05:37:54 PM »

Or a 21st-century koan.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1244 on:** April 23, 2013, 05:59:27 PM »

A koan was actually my first thought.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1245 on:** May 07, 2013, 12:18:35 PM »

The title of a real book that an author just cited: Utah in the World War: The Men Behind the Guns and the Men and Women Behind the Men Behind the Guns.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #1246 on:** May 07, 2013, 01:44:12 PM »

I think I need to weep.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1247 on:** May 07, 2013, 02:25:46 PM »

I think that's brilliant.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1248 on:** May 07, 2013, 02:54:31 PM »

One of my new coworkers just invented the word sustenation. (Yes, it's in the OED, but it's quite rare. I think she independently invented it.) You'd think the red squiggly line under it would have tipped her off that something was wrong. The weirdest part is that she replaced the perfectly cromulent word sustaining with sustenation because she thought that sustaining was nonparallel in context. I guess it sort of is (the other words in the list are noun, and this is a gerund, which is sort of a hybrid of a verb and noun), but it doesn't warrant that.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1249 on:** May 07, 2013, 03:53:06 PM »

Quote from: Tante Shvester on May 03, 2013, 08:11:35 AM

A beautiful example of the flexibility of the English language as is evolves over time.