Archived comment by Kat:
Y'all are acting as though you are in your dotage.

Archived comment by Jon:
That's a gouge-ous question.

Archived comment by ParU:
And how would you gauge the amount of gouge your bank was getting from you?

Archived comment by hypoxic:
do you have a mortgage on your cottage?

Archived comment by Paul:
For that matter, we could have a collage of cleavage hanging in her cottage.

And now I'd better stop before I end up in triage at the ER...

Archived comment by Paul:
Nice decollatage...

Archived comment by Kris the Girl:
Heh. Hot as potage, that's not one you hear every day.

uhm....I dwell in a...cottage....?

Archived comment by ParU:
at any age too.

Archived comment by Paul:
An homage to KtG, who is hot as potage.

Archived comment by ParU:
Well Jon you could've just been a Mage like Harry Potter.

Ba da dum.

Archived comment by Jon:
I think of it more as an homage, though I admit it really stinks like fromage.

Archived comment by ParU:
So Jon - if you get a numeric post, that means you have to imitate our Alaska/Okie's sign-off?

Just wondering.

Archived comment by Jon:
Dalmations post. That is all.

Archived comment by Kris the Girl:
100!!!
*does the 100 dance*
wee!

Archived comment by Obsidiana:
It was entirely too hot here last week as well...on Thursday we had a 100 degree heat index, and I got dehydrated and sick. Not fun. I'm glad it's cooled off.

Archived comment by Cebu:
My weather has been what it always is this time of year: 80's-90's and humidity that makes me wana cry. :`( See? There I go.

Archived comment by Kris the Girl:
We've had strange clouds here for the past few days. If I were still in OK, I'd be lookin' for the closest fraidy-hole. But here, all the clouds do is rain. It's been nice to see some actual rain, though, and since we have an open-burn ban, I think it's needed, too.
*grumble grumble let us take out the DEAD SPRUCE TREES, you stupid greenies grumble grumble I don't like living in a tinder box grumble*

Today is just pleasant. Very mild. I love Alaskan summers! heee.

Archived comment by Noyock:
Montreal's been having unseasonably hot weather this past week, though it seems to have broken now. But Monday through Thursday it was around 35 degrees and the humidity was through the roof. (That's about 95 degrees for all you Yanks, and for a Montreal June it's ridiculous.)

Archived comment by daen:
No, it's been cool and rainy here. By which I mean that it has rained Every. Single. Day. For the last five weeks.
If I *wanted* to live in a boreal rainforest, I'd move to Salt Spring Island.

Archived comment by Jon:
Sorry Matt, no sympathy here if your normal June temperature is about 67.

Archived comment by Matt:
My friend who used to work in a fish store told me that fish is only if they're all the same species. Fishes is for a collective group of fish of more than one species. So nyeah!

So anybody else been experiencing unusually warm weather lately? Yesterday it was 97 in San Francisco: almost 30 degrees above normal. I actually broke down and bought a fan for my room. Oh, the humanity!

Archived comment by steff:
here's the thing, paul... it's NEVER annoying when mr. fehr does it. ev. er. *gee-rin*

Archived comment by Noyock:
Ah, collective nouns, how I love them. Like rice. It's definitely a noun, no-one would deny that, but you can neither say "one rice" nor "many rice". Three cheers for the English language!

Archived comment by ladydilee:
Well, "fishie" in both those contexts is a singular pet name. Kind of like calling a cat kitty. The plural of fish can be either fish, or fishes.

Another singular/plural word is luggage, but I'm not sure if that is both singular and plural, or if it just isn't ever considered singular.

Archived comment by Paul:
Or when Antonio in "Deuce Bigelow" knocks on the glass and says, "Heeeyy, fishie fishie fishie..."

And yes, I do that when I got anywhere I see an aquarium, just to annoy the kids...

Archived comment by ParU:
Wait Kris - you mean when Ernie (of Burt and Ernie) goes Here fishie, fishie, fishie he's not correct????

I'm shocked.

Archived comment by Kris the Girl:
I've always loved that CITYbagel is Can I Touch Your Bagel. So nice that the acronym makes a word, and it makes sense with what the site is in reference to, kind of. This makes my mind happy. It's very symmetrical in a way I can't really explain.
That is all.

Oh: Fish. not fishies, fish. Look at all the fish.

Archived comment by Matt:
Faux-pas is its own plural. Like deer and moose and... can you think of any others, boys and girls? Anybody? I like this game.

Let's not forget, gender and sex are two different things. Gender is mutable (more feminine or more masculine), but sex is chromosomal.

I always thought it'd be great to have a superhero named Androgyno. "Androgyno! It has the power to befuddle people's minds! Watch, as its very presence causes people to stop and stare, to forget what they were doing!" "Look, over there! It's a man! It's a woman! It's Androgyno!"

Archived comment by Jon:
She used to go by such titles as Site Goddess... and someone must not be up on their Bible Studies to think Eve is a man's name.

I don't have anything against anyone choosing a screen name that does not denote gender, but if I make a mistake, you can't blame me.
*jk* Saying "you can't" has never stopped anyone from blaming me, nor should it.

Archived comment by ParU:
Well Saint - don't give away ALL my secrets. Nobody pays much attention to me anyway.

And jcharles - yeah I was sorta the one who came up with the idea, mostly cause I made a few major faux pas (what's the plural of faux pas?) and I dislike insulting/offending people.

But I absolutely, positively guarantee that Eve's female. I was there when she was born and I've changed her diapers - no doubt. And she'll probably nuke this post because I discussed this. ** I don't get no respect **

ducks and hides from Denise

Archived comment by Paul:
That was actually debated on CITYBagel first. It came because there was innuendo being tossed at people of inappropriate gender, causing much confusion and embarrassment. But past that, I doubt that anyone cares very much one way or the other.

Me, I find it better to know gender just so I know something of the person I'm addressing. No big rational reason, just my preference.

Archived comment by Saint:
There wasn't a debate about it--it was a directive passed down from the Unit. I don't know if all newbies are aware that they can ignore directives from the Unit.

Archived comment by Paul:
Hey, better not let Monk know jcharles's true gender. Otherwise China will hardly seem far enough away for her.

Archived comment by steff:
it just means that you have a "charles" in your screen name, and that we've all made a stunning leap of perception because of that... in spite of our being proved collectively wrong again and again. don't mind us.

as far as the m/f debate, it hardly matters unless we're going to be throwing innuendo your way. which we never, ever do.

heh. ya know what? it hardly seems to matter, anyway. carry on.

Archived comment by jcharles:
*Warning* long, completely unrelated and largely narcissistic post coming up...

So, I feel that the time has come to confess that I am actually a female. It started as a joke with a co-worker way back in the dawn of Inpassing, because he claimed that Eve was so funny and intelligent that she must actually be male. This, of course, infuriated me, and I decided to post on Inpassing without ever revealing my gender one way or the other... which made some sort of sense at the time. And many of you assumed I was male. I'm not sure what that *means* but since my friend is probably no longer reading, and you're all such nice people, I feel I should clear things up. So there you have it. 23 and female.

Oh, and if anyone could point me toward the "Should newbies post an m/f after their names?" debate, I'd be interested to read it. Obviously, I would have sided with the "Don't do it!" side of things.

Archived comment by jcharles:
Yes, China.

It's a lovely country, and has Internet access, so why not? I've been here for close on a year now, and I'm slated to stay for one more year. Normally I'm pretty busy and email is more than enough computer time for me, so I haven't stopped by Inpassing more than a few times while I've been here. At the moment, I have some time to kill while waiting for friends to finish up exams before we can commence wandering about the country, so... here I am.

I enjoyed the cell phone ranting no end - I am also a social deviant, as I have no cell phone, no computer, no car, and no desire for any of the above. While cars are not quite as common here in "small town" (only 500,000 people) China, we've seen people talking on cell phones while riding their bicycles and motorcycles. I hate them, because I need peace and quiet, but they're very useful out in the countryside, where towers are so much easier to put in than land lines. Lots of mountains in China. Very funny though, to see the farmer plowing with his water buffalo pull the cell phone out of his pocket.

Archived comment by ParU:
Ooohh good one Catri! One Loonie pt.

Archived comment by Catri (f):
Well, here in BC we seem to think Quebec is another country too...but we think the USA is just another province. ;)

Archived comment by Noyock:
Well, we here in Quebec think we're another country, at least judging by some of the stuff people were shouting yesterday...

Happy St-Jean Baptiste Day to everyone, by the way. Stupid "fete nationale"...

wanders off muttering defiantly in English

Archived comment by Paul:
I thought we also had someone from New Zealand, and I distinctly remember someone saying they were from France (probably scared them off with the "cheese eating surrender monkeys" bit)...

Archived comment by marinerd:
Joe Napalm - The Ethereal Plane

Archived comment by ParU:
Well I'm impressed - In Passing from China.

Let's see we've got the following countries represented (that I know of):

USA - most everybody
Denmark - peegee
jcharles - China
Australia - dave and a bunch of others
UK - Doughpoet and ???
Canada (almost forgot that one, I figured it was just another state) - daen, Katrina, Kelvin506 and ...

Anywhere else?

Archived comment by Paul:
*blink*

jcharles? And he's in China?!?

*blink*

Archived comment by Matt:
jcharles! Holy crap, man! It's been, like, forever! Always good to hear from the old crowd.

I know I've said that to you before, but it needed saying. Don't be a stranger, 'kay?

Archived comment by jcharles:
My classes (those would be the ones I'm teaching, here in China) just got out for the summer, so I wandered over to Inpassing to kill some time this afternoon. Ah. What lovely folks you all are. I had almost forgotten. And you were talking a bit of Chinese in a thread toward the bottom of the page.

And, for the record, I always remember cotton candy as coming in a bag. Or at least, I preferred it that way, because if you used your fingers to remove it from the paper cone you'd get all gooey, and if you tried to only use your mouth, the cotton candy would get in your hair and (worse) the paper cone would get soggy. I hate soggy things. But if it's in a bag, it doesn't fly all over the place while you're eating it piece by piece.

While there are many lovely things here in Maoming, I'm pretty sure cotton candy isn't one of them. I'm going to have to find something else made of pure sugar to ease my cravings.

Archived comment by Trent:
Y'know, I had cotton candy at Great America the other day, & it didn't even come on a cone. It came in a bag.

What's up with that, yo?

Archived comment by Shade:
Good point. I was thinking cotton candy=soft...so does goose down, and I know I've heard of down ropes. But, down must have a much toughere molecular structure. Oh well. Guess I'll have to put some more thought into it. (why? well...becuase... just because )

Archived comment by Paul:
Shade- while it might be possible to twist cotton candy into something that would look string-like, twisting the strings into a rope probably wouldn't work- sugar is brittle, so all its strands would break.

Just my best guess as an engineering type...

Archived comment by Shade:
Has anyone here ever made cotton candy? Is it possible to spin it tightly enough to make rope? Or string from which rope could be made?

Archived comment by Zedley:
Matt - woo! Eddie Izzard. I know that was halfway through the conversation, but it made me laff lots. Death Star Canteen was funnier :-)