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Main Forums => New Geeks on the Block => Topic started by: Rizzy on July 07, 2010, 07:47:52 PM
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Name's Maurissa, and I need something else to do to keep me from burning my genetics textbook at the moment (ugh, grad school...in biology...). Lo and behold, here I am.
I'm your typical nerdy mahjong-playing, ReBoot-loving, occasional video-game-playing bibliophile. Who likes to experiment in the kitchen. (And when I say experiment, I use that term to its full potential).
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... keep me from burning my genetics textbook at the moment ...
Are you cold?
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Hi, Rizzy! :-D
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Hey, I get it! Maurissa --> Rissa --> Rizzy.
amiright?
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I totally missed the word "textbook" and thought you were burning your genetics and I thought, "Wow, now that's suicide with dedication."
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I'm so cold, I'm viral.
No, it's just giving me a migrane, and I want to relieve some stress.
And yeah, that's I how I got that name. My friends made me make a Halo profile, and gave me that name.
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I'll be damned. Ivan is quick!
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... burning your genetics ...
I call that "cocktail hour".
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COCK LOL
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We're odd ducks, here. :-D
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I'll be damned. Ivan is quick!
I'm still working on "xolik".
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What's that terrible smell? Oh jeeze, it's my tagline. It's weeks old! Time to change it.
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We're odd ducks, here. :-D
The odder, the better ;)
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What was your latest kitchen experiment?
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@xolic: is xolik mean "exo"? then something?
@ivan: kitchen exp = i made cumin truffles, and a strawberry, black pepper, balsamic vinegar choc. cake.
My best has to be my sweet curry choc. cupcakes, though!
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Xolik is Xolik. I've always been and always will be. Z'oh-lick. It means nothing. From nothingness it arose and to nothingness it will return.
I'm gettin' all philosophical up in dis bitch.
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From nothingness it arose and to nothingness it will return.
Like the universe.
And people who stand outside with signs who say "god hates you, you will go to hell," (well, I hope they return to nothingness).
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*waves* 'Ello.
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so, is this theads title supposed to be kirby, or what? looks funny.
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Three huddled kittehs?
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yup. dancing kirby.
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Hello!
0'.')=0 0=('.'0
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Lol, kirby K.O.
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+ . . .
Sorry, you can't repeat a karma action without waiting 1 hours.
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I'll be damned. Ivan is quick!
Shhh!!! You weren't supposed to tell anyone that. It was supposed to be his secret....
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We're odd ducks, here. :-D
We also have the even contingent who are sharks, the irrational contingent who are leopards, and the imaginary contingent who are unicorns.
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We also have the even contingent who are sharks, the irrational contingent who are leopards, and the imaginary contingent who are unicorns.
fuckin furries :x
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I'm your typical nerdy mahjong-playing, ReBoot-loving, occasional video-game-playing bibliophile.
OMG U FUCK BIBLES????
Welcome! I like your style.
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To take a page from the Izzard (with obviously some choice vocab changes):
"Yes, I fuck your bible! I AM you bible, AND I fuck it!"
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Is that a sexy tune Mrs. Badcrumble?
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Hm, that's a pretty good avatar if I do say so myself.
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Hm, that's a pretty good avatar if I do say so myself.
Which one?
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Do you liiiike red?
elaborate please.
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I retract my epic fail and will leave you with simply this:
I can't get ze fucking trees . . Damn! I will kill everyone in the world!
/vegetarian painter
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Oh, rizzy's.
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Oh, rizzy's.
So why do you say "Hm, that's a pretty good avatar if I do say so myself"?
Did you design that avatar?
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Do you like bread? I'VE GOT A FRENCH LOAF!
'Ello Sue. I've got legs!
I retract my epic fail and will leave you with simply this:
I can't get ze fucking trees . . Damn! I will kill everyone in the world!
/vegetarian painter
-But where shall we go for our honeymoon?
Oh, in a ditch, covered in petrol on fire...
-How terribly romantic, Adolf!
Oh, rizzy's.
Thanks...? (Unless this is going somewhere as a topic that I am not expecting in the least).
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Guys, calm down. I'm just saying that it was an awesome avatar.
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I wish snow white really did have a gun - it would have made the disney movies less lovey-dovey. But then they wouldn't be the classic movies we all know and love, right?
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Hm, that's a pretty good avatar if I do say so myself.
Guys, calm down. I'm just saying that it was an awesome avatar.
Arnox, the phrase "if I do say so myself", when used correctly, is a disclaimer that acknowledges personal bias. For instance, if you were to bake a cake, you might say "It turned out quite well, if I do say so myself", meaning, "Of course, I am biased, since this cake is the result of my efforts, but nonetheless I consider it a worthy cake." Personally, I often use it ironically, to also imply that I don't give a rat's ass what people think of my personal biases, but it is more frequently used ingenuously.
I know that many people use this phrase as though it means simply "in my opinion", but many people are thoughtless butchers of the English language.
I hope this helps you in some measure, although I doubt you will take this advice in the spirit is was offered (an entirely disingenuous gesture of heartfelt concern). In any case, I'm glad I wrote this, for, if nothing else, it is yet another brilliant little gem of a post in a long line of brilliant little gems.
If I do say so myself.
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That was a good explanation, if I do say so myself.
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I think it sounds much better with an even prefixed to it.
Even if I do say so myself.
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That was a good explanation, if I do say so myself.
Ha ha hardy har har.
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RDRR
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Arnox, the phrase "if I do say so myself", when used correctly, is a disclaimer that acknowledges personal bias. For instance, if you were to bake a cake, you might say "It turned out quite well, if I do say so myself", meaning, "Of course, I am biased, since this cake is the result of my efforts, but nonetheless I consider it a worthy cake." Personally, I often use it ironically, to also imply that I don't give a rat's ass what people think of my personal biases, but it is more frequently used ingenuously.
I know that many people use this phrase as though it means simply "in my opinion", but many people are thoughtless butchers of the English language.
I hope this helps you in some measure, although I doubt you will take this advice in the spirit is was offered (an entirely disingenuous gesture of heartfelt concern). In any case, I'm glad I wrote this, for, if nothing else, it is yet another brilliant little gem of a post in a long line of brilliant little gems.
If I do say so myself.
Oh fine then.
I wish snow white really did have a gun - it would have made the disney movies less lovey-dovey. But then they wouldn't be the classic movies we all know and love, right?
Speak for yourself. :P
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Have I mentioned how much I love the fact that such a discussion (well, more like a statement with some retorts) is taking place? :-D
So many people misuse various parts of the English language that the mistakes have become commonplace to the extent where no one, (as in, the "average" person,") realizes they actually are mistakes. It's nice to see syntactical discussions for once!
On that note, I think it is perfectly acceptable for prepositions to be used to end sentences with.
>_>
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Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
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Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
In my mentally-fatigued state, reading that twice is something I had to do to make sense of..........it.....crap! I failed :(
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Case in point--average person. Most improbable that one could exist. A characteristic of a person may be compared to the same characteristic in others and an average calculated. For a person to be average, one would have to measure every conceivable attribute and there would need to be a person whose variance to every x-bar is zero. The existence of god is even more probable than that.
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Case in point--average person. Most improbable that one could exist. A characteristic of a person may be compared to the same characteristic in others and an average calculated. For a person to be average, one would have to measure every conceivable attribute and there would need to be a person whose variance to every x-bar is zero. The existence of god is even more probable than that.
more like average person in terms of what you learn in an educational institution when you're young. most either don't care, don't pay attention, or don't learn it, so most people don't know it. that's what i meant. Hence the ""