People like that set my teeth on edge, and that's the tooth. Maybe you could've played along. The next time someone asks for a dentist, put them on hold, then pick up and cheerfully say something like "Dale's Dentistry! You break 'em, we take 'em!" (Or just the classic: "Moe's Tavern, where the elite meet to drink!")
One of the earliest women's association football (soccer) was Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C., founded in 1917. The Football Association banned women's football in 1921, but the club continued to exist until 1965.
I heard about that. Wasn't it because so many men were away in the war, so the ladies banded together to show the lads how it was done? As for the name of the women's football club including the word (or name???) "Dick" ... sigh. No comment, m'lud. That's because they were Dick Heads.
Ah, OK. Thanks for correcting me, Naomasa! (I note there is no rebuttal to the fact that the FA in 1921 were dickheads)
Most of the winter I've been longing for a traditional snowfall and it finally arrived, and then some. And more expected tonight. So now I'm beginning my traditional longing for spring. Always longing for something else, I guess.
I did a google search a couple of hours ago for the name of a thing that comes up in a story I'm writing and the first item on the list as searched by google was a thread from this forum. And it answered my question. You people are useful after all.
I would make the perfect protagonist for a survival horror movie/game. You can be 100% certain that, given a choice of two directions to go (e.g. come out of the station, and turn left or right), I *will* choose the wrong one. I am capable of getting lost by turning round and going back the way I came. I suspect I would be the one suggesting we split up and look for clues. "I'll go with the hot girls, you go with the dog."
In the words of Tyrion Lannister, "I know things" - but for the life of me I have no instinct for left and right. It doesn't come instantaneously to me. I have to think about it before determining which is which, sometimes having to raise the hand I write with, and saying to myself, okay, this is right. I think this is a very left-brained characteristic.
I searched for some technical data related to one of my other hobbies (RC cars) and found a decade-old forum posting (rc forum, not this one) asking for the exact same information. I was the asker, and the question had been answered.
[QUOTE="Iain Aschendale, post: 2044711, member: I was the asker, and the question had been answered.[/QUOTE] Just remember the mind is the second thing to go. Don't ask about the first, I forget.
Are you sure you didn't join the Klatchian Foreign Legion? It's usually in a ... um, I forget. Big hot place. Sand. Dates. Um ...
I recently picked up my old -- nearly ancient -- copy of Douglas Adams' More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide (To the Galaxy), that compendium of stories the first of which was published more than 50 years ago, that last about 47 years ago. When I first read them, I was bedazzled by the wordplay and stretched concepts of science and logic. I still am. My mind, to use the colloquialism still new back then, was blown, One observation I found that struck me today as utterly prescient [besides predicting the smart phone] was this: "The major problem -- one of the major problems, for there are several -- with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. "To summarize, it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting himself made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. "And so this is the situation we find: A succession of . . . Presidents who so much enjoy the fun and palaver of being in power that they very rarely notice that they're not. "And somewhere in the shadows behind them -- who? "Who can possibly rule if no one who wants to do it can be allowed to?" Enough said, lest this be kicked into the debate room.
I remember this. IIRC, at some point in the books, we find out that although the President is Zaphod Beeblebrox, the real Ruler of the Universe is Spoiler a little old man in a run-down shack who talks to his cat. I like that. Spoiler Perhaps the cat ought to rule the universe. Maybe not. It'd swat the planets around like marbles.
Good thing that I just got to that point (it's been so long that the book is mostly like new to me); otherwise I'd've been pissed at the spoiler.
I remember that one from Adams. My personal corollary to that is that all high end politicians are thieves, liars, cheaters, and thugs regardless of any other political trait or persuasion. By definition, you must possess all of those qualities to ascend to the pinnacle of office.
This reminds me of reading about how a startling percentage of successful business leaders are sociopaths/psychopaths.
*sociopathically changes grahams password in the middle of the night, then changes his email address so he can't reset it..* some moose would set the world on fire so they could warm their antlers on the flames
