But maybe I'm complacent and we'll all die of avian flu or global warming or a meltdown in the financial markets causing a collapse of our civilisation. Or Zombies.
Oh, yeah, they say madness runs in our family. Some even call me mad. And why? Because I dared to dream of my own race of atomic monsters, atomic supermen with octagonal shaped bodies that'll suck the blood right out of you...
The passage cited above contains no fewer than 19 different Canadianisms.
In order:
* pogey: EI (Employment insurance). Money provided by the government
for not working.
* mickey: A small bottle of booze (13 oz) (A Texas mickey, on the other
hand, is a ridiculously big bottle of booze, which, despite the name,
is still a Canadianism through and through.)
* C.C.: Canadian Club, a brand of rye. Not to be confused with "hockey
stick," another kind of Canadian Club.
* beer parlour: Like an ice cream parlour, but for Canadians.
* skidoo: Self-propelled decapitation unit for teenagers, (Snow-Mobiles)
* muskeg: Boggy swampland.
* duplex: A single building divided in half with two sets of inhabitants
- each trying to pretend the other doesn't exist while at the same time
managing to drive each other crazy; metaphor for Canada's french and English.
* deke: found in the dictionary as a "skillful misdirection." As a noun,
it is used most often in exclamatory constructions, such as: "Whadda deke!"
Meaning, "My, what an impressive display of physical dexterity employing
misdirection and guile."
* chinook: An unseasonably warm wind that comes over the Rockies and onto
the plains, melting snow banks in Calgary but just missing Edmonton,
much to the pleasure of Calgarians.
* Mountie: Canadian icon, strong of jaw, red of coat, pure of heart.
Always get their man! (See also Pepper spray, uses of.)
* snuck: To have sneaked; to move, past tense, in a sneaky manner;
non-restrictive extended semi-gerundial form of "did sneak." (We think.)
* ghost car: An unmarked police car, easily identifiable by its
inconspicuousness.
* impaired: A charge of drunk driving. Used both as a noun and as an
adjective
(the alternative adjectival from of "impaired" being "pissed to the gills").
* S.O.L.: Shit outta luck; in an unfortunate predicament.
* Stanfields: Men's underwear, especially Grandpa-style, white cotton ones
with a big elastic waistband and a large superfluous flap in the front and
back!
* tuque : Canada's official National Head Apparel, with about the same
suave sex appeal as a pair of Stanfields
* chippy: Behaviour that is inappropriately aggressive; constantly
looking for a reason to find offense; from "chip on one's shoulder."
(See WesternCanada) shit disturber: (See Quebec) a troublemaker or
provocateur.
According to Katherine Barber, editor in Chief of the Canadian Oxford
Dictionary, "shit disturber" is a distinctly Canadian term. (Just remember that Western Canada is chippy and Quebec is a shit disturber, and you will do fine.)
"Last night, I cashed my pogey and went to buy a mickey of C.C. at the beer parlour, but my skidoo got stuck in the muskeg on my way back to the duplex. I was trying to deke out a deer, you see. Damn chinook, melted everything. And then a Mountie snuck up behind me in a ghost car and gave me an impaired. I was S.O.L., sitting there dressed only in my Stanfields and a toque at the time. And the Mountie, he's all chippy and everything, calling me a shit disturber and what not. What could I say, except, 'Chimo!'"
If we can accept that there are many universes, with new ones sprouting all the time, is there some constraint on how those universes are? That there might be an infinite set within a certain limit?
Fry: "So there's an infinite number of parallel universes?"
The local BJ's store insists on seeing the receipt each time I exit the store. The even punch the receipt. Do they assume we are thieves and should we act accordingly?
Caller: These kids don't respect veterans, we fought for your freedom! When I came back from the Australian-American War, I didn't get a heroes welcome... I didn't get a pack on the back from my friends and neighbors saying 'thanks for fighting for our freedom James!' After years of fighting in the trenches, I come back here and everyone's watching TV!
Lazlow: Now, can you tell me what this Australian-American war was... I never really heard of it!
Caller: God, not another one! Have you read a history book lately son? The Australian-American war the was the biggest war since the big one! I tell ya, I didn't do two tours and take boomerang shrapnel in my head to come back here and have a bunch of hippies deny our history! Those Aussies are ruthless! They even wired kangaroos with explosives... come hopping in the camp and knock out ten guys!
Meanwhile in India Reliance keeps cutting SMS rates. It is currently at INR 0.90. For the mathematically retarded, 0.90 Rupees~0.02 USD (Which is the same as 0.02cents if you are Verizon.)
And they also have unlimited SMS plans for around 2 USD. Want unlimited Internet on phone? That'll be another 3 USD. And it is perfectly normal to have a plan which does not have all these service and cost 5 USD/month. (4 of those 5 dollars are for talktime and 1 dollar service charge, tax etc)
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Excuse me sir, but we are discussing Age of Mythology here.
So that you can check your email while killing mercenaries and alien scum.
Read it as "ASUS Mothership Embedded with Linux"
For a second, I was faced with the horrific possibility that Independence Day was right after all.
Leave the celebrities the fuck alone, ....
So you are that guy/girl in the Leave Britney Alone video. That explains it.
And gets Karma.
At $20c, it ..
Let me guess, you work at Verizon.
or flash my TV
In Soviet Russia, people on TV flash you.
But maybe I'm complacent and we'll all die of avian flu or global warming or a meltdown in the financial markets causing a collapse of our civilisation.
Or Zombies.
Oh, yeah, they say madness runs in our family. Some even call me mad. And why? Because I dared to dream of my own race of atomic monsters, atomic supermen with octagonal shaped bodies that'll suck the blood right out of you...
Define "useful".
The passage cited above contains no fewer than 19 different Canadianisms. In order:
* pogey: EI (Employment insurance). Money provided by the government for not working.
* mickey: A small bottle of booze (13 oz) (A Texas mickey, on the other hand, is a ridiculously big bottle of booze, which, despite the name, is still a Canadianism through and through.)
* C.C.: Canadian Club, a brand of rye. Not to be confused with "hockey stick," another kind of Canadian Club.
* beer parlour: Like an ice cream parlour, but for Canadians.
* skidoo: Self-propelled decapitation unit for teenagers, (Snow-Mobiles)
* muskeg: Boggy swampland.
* duplex: A single building divided in half with two sets of inhabitants - each trying to pretend the other doesn't exist while at the same time managing to drive each other crazy; metaphor for Canada's french and English.
* deke: found in the dictionary as a "skillful misdirection." As a noun, it is used most often in exclamatory constructions, such as: "Whadda deke!" Meaning, "My, what an impressive display of physical dexterity employing misdirection and guile."
* chinook: An unseasonably warm wind that comes over the Rockies and onto the plains, melting snow banks in Calgary but just missing Edmonton, much to the pleasure of Calgarians.
* Mountie: Canadian icon, strong of jaw, red of coat, pure of heart. Always get their man! (See also Pepper spray, uses of.)
* snuck: To have sneaked; to move, past tense, in a sneaky manner; non-restrictive extended semi-gerundial form of "did sneak." (We think.)
* ghost car: An unmarked police car, easily identifiable by its inconspicuousness.
* impaired: A charge of drunk driving. Used both as a noun and as an adjective
(the alternative adjectival from of "impaired" being "pissed to the gills").
* S.O.L.: Shit outta luck; in an unfortunate predicament.
* Stanfields: Men's underwear, especially Grandpa-style, white cotton ones with a big elastic waistband and a large superfluous flap in the front and back!
* tuque : Canada's official National Head Apparel, with about the same suave sex appeal as a pair of Stanfields
* chippy: Behaviour that is inappropriately aggressive; constantly looking for a reason to find offense; from "chip on one's shoulder." (See WesternCanada) shit disturber: (See Quebec) a troublemaker or provocateur.
According to Katherine Barber, editor in Chief of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, "shit disturber" is a distinctly Canadian term. (Just remember that Western Canada is chippy and Quebec is a shit disturber, and you will do fine.)
"Last night, I cashed my pogey and went to buy a mickey of C.C. at the beer parlour, but my skidoo got stuck in the muskeg on my way back to the duplex. I was trying to deke out a deer, you see. Damn chinook, melted everything. And then a Mountie snuck up behind me in a ghost car and gave me an impaired. I was S.O.L., sitting there dressed only in my Stanfields and a toque at the time. And the Mountie, he's all chippy and everything, calling me a shit disturber and what not. What could I say, except, 'Chimo!'"
This post... useless without pics.
Its a Starcraft reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft#Gameplay
I power 2 300 watt CRTs, so we cancel each other out.
Actually it was her sister Lara who was the more famous Croft.
Fry: "So there's an infinite number of parallel universes?"
Professor Farnsworth: "No, just the two."
Kinda like furniture and beg bugs.
In other news, several telecom companies have offered to by old Pentiums for their billing systems.
Yeah Verizon reps need them.
Yeah, and the videos download at full speed too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brisbane Thats weird. Someone even got killed. And they were allies at that time!
The local BJ's store insists on seeing the receipt each time I exit the store. The even punch the receipt. Do they assume we are thieves and should we act accordingly?
Caller: These kids don't respect veterans, we fought for your freedom! When I came back from the Australian-American War, I didn't get a heroes welcome... I didn't get a pack on the back from my friends and neighbors saying 'thanks for fighting for our freedom James!' After years of fighting in the trenches, I come back here and everyone's watching TV!
Lazlow: Now, can you tell me what this Australian-American war was... I never really heard of it!
Caller: God, not another one! Have you read a history book lately son? The Australian-American war the was the biggest war since the big one! I tell ya, I didn't do two tours and take boomerang shrapnel in my head to come back here and have a bunch of hippies deny our history! Those Aussies are ruthless! They even wired kangaroos with explosives... come hopping in the camp and knock out ten guys!
Meanwhile in India Reliance keeps cutting SMS rates. It is currently at INR 0.90. For the mathematically retarded, 0.90 Rupees~0.02 USD (Which is the same as 0.02cents if you are Verizon.)
And they also have unlimited SMS plans for around 2 USD. Want unlimited Internet on phone? That'll be another 3 USD. And it is perfectly normal to have a plan which does not have all these service and cost 5 USD/month. (4 of those 5 dollars are for talktime and 1 dollar service charge, tax etc)