Active voice: I love your book.
Passive voice: Your book is loved.
Passive-aggressive voice: I love how you felt the need to write a book.
(stolen from Twitter)
AJ
Active voice: I love your book.
Passive voice: Your book is loved.
Passive-aggressive voice: I love how you felt the need to write a book.
(stolen from Twitter)
AJ
"Have you ever thought of writing a book?"
If you do, you'd be a bookie.
That would be a 'wanna be bookie'.
But since bookies are those who REALLY enjoy reading, I suspect the correct term is 'booker' (for someone who wants to write a book that they can then collect with all their others.
In that case, it would be a 'wanna be bookie booker!'
That would be a 'wanna be bookie'.
He who makes "book" is called a bookie. (not that I'm a gambler)
He who makes "book" is called a bookie. (not that I'm a gambler)
I made a book once but it was just a fun competition - no money at stake, only pride.
AJ
"Have you ever thought of writing a book?"
"No. It's a lot easier to just buy one."
or
"No. It's easier writing a check at the cashier."
Your book is perfect..!! A year long joy.
730 pages, just right for the outhouse I use once daily.
Your book is perfect..!! A year long joy.
730 pages, just right for the outhouse I use once daily.
Except for leap years ;)
AJ
That's what fly covers are for...
That's a relief. I'd hate for you to be two sheets to the wind, especially when you're allowed to propose ...
Evil Nigel
Allowed...??!!!
"For traditionalists, just once every four years, on February 29 (Leap Day), a woman is allowed to take her destiny in her own hands and ask a man to marry her."
https://metro.co.uk/2016/02/25/this-is-why-women-traditionally-propose-on-a-leap-day-5718135/
AJ
"For traditionalists, just once every four years, on February 29 (Leap Day), a woman is allowed to take her destiny in her own hands and ask a man to marry her."
I'm well aware of the tradition, it's the idea of needing 'permission' that offends. 'Allowed' forsooth..!!
But if the woman does the asking, how can she be sure the prospective husband's family is prepared to pay the dowry? ;)
AJ
Is your watch set to the correct century...??
Dowry is outdated, besides, we get far more in the divorce.....
Is your watch set to the correct century...??
That explains it. My watch died recently and it wasn't just the battery. I bought a new one and I obviously haven't set the century hand correctly :(
AJ
My watch died recently and it wasn't just the battery. I bought a new one ...
On the subject of winding up timepieces, I was surprised that I was unable to find any cheap wind-up watches - they only seem to be available as expensive connoisseurs items.
What will happen after the Zombielypse, when there are no five-year-olds left alive in the Congo to mine cobalt for lithium button batteries? After a time, we won't even be able to take our own temperatures because modern digital thermometers are battery powered, analogue mercury thermometers having been banned.
AJ
In the UK, I asked at a large, national pharmacy chain and they said they didn't sell them. I found them advertised on the internet but they were double the price of digital. I guess they're not so widely available in the UK, and what counts as reasonable is subjective.
I keep asking friends to smuggle a mercury thermometer from abroad in their luggage, but they're afraid of getting arrested for it :(
AJ
I keep asking friends to smuggle a mercury thermometer from abroad in their luggage, but they're afraid of getting arrested for it :(
That's odd! Down here we still have some companies handing out promos of their business with a small mercury room thermometer that's as tall as your hand built into the fridge magnet with the company details.
In the UK, I asked at a large, national pharmacy chain and they said they didn't sell them. I found them advertised on the internet but they were double the price of digital.
That's odd, on the website for one of the largest national pharmacy chains in the US, the mercury free analog oral thermometer lists for $8.29, while digital body temp (they aren't all oral) thermometers range from $5.49 to $55.99
I keep asking friends to smuggle a mercury thermometer from abroad in their luggage, but they're afraid of getting arrested for it
I just checked Amazon and couldn't find one that wasn't mercury free. But ... go look under veterinary supplies. And just like many other things meant for our furry, hairy, or scaly friends, I found one for about $6.
Not like I have to worry too much about not having a couple of mercury thermometers around the house, anyway. Minor detail, married to a nurse.
The ban is EU-wide. There doesn't seem to be any law against owning or even buying a mercury thermometer, just stocking them for sale. Even so, a few brave souls offer them as 'antiques' on eBay,co.uk at inflated prices.
AJ
The ban is EU-wide.
The Mad Hatter's party will be over by the time they're available again. :-)
Now that halogen bulbs are being banned, we're supposed to move to LED light bulbs, which I understand are not yet fit for the purpose - problems include noise and an excess of blue-wavelength light, warmer pink shades being more expensive and less readily available :(
Still, the energy that they save offsets the energy wasted by car running-lights.
AJ
I forgot to wind my calendar this week. :)
Lay it over your shoulder and gently pat its back ;)
AJ
Lay it over your shoulder and gently pat its back ;)
Amusing, but:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wind
See d(1)
wind verb (3)
ΛwΔ«nd
wound ΛwauΜnd
also winded; winding
Definition of wind (Entry 4 of 6)
transitive verb
1a obsolete : weave
b : entangle, involve
c : to introduce sinuously or stealthily : insinuate
2a : to encircle or cover with something pliable : bind with loops or layers
b : to turn completely or repeatedly about an object : coil, twine
c(1) : to hoist or haul by means of a rope or chain and a windlass
(2) : to move (a ship) by hauling on a capstan
d(1) : to tighten the spring of wind a clock
(2) obsolete : to make tighter : tighten, tune
(3) : crank
e : to raise to a high level (as of excitement or tension) βusually used with up
3a : to cause to move in a curving line or path
b archaic : to turn the course of especially : to lead (a person) as one wishes
c(1) : to cause (something, such as a ship) to change direction : turn
(2) : to turn (a ship) end for end
d : to traverse on a curving course the river winds the valley
e : to effect by or as if by curving
d(1) : to tighten the spring of wind a clock
SIGH! I knew that's what you were alluding to.
Merriam Webster doesn't seem to have the appropriate entries for winding a baby. Don't you colonials use that expression?
AJ