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12874. alistairconnor - 12/23/2004 12:48:06 PM OK, carry on, soar like an eagle.
I will scuttle like a rat, and sometimes I will look up and admire... 12875. wonkers2 - 12/23/2004 3:22:39 PM In Detroit we have 8 inches of snow on the ground and more coming. 12876. alistairconnor - 12/23/2004 4:04:42 PM I have eaten industrial-grade charcuterie for lunch today and yesterday, and am farting like the donkey in a nativity pantomime. 12877. thoughtful - 12/23/2004 4:05:23 PM Max, i dunno...what. (I'm sure I'll be sorry...) 12878. alistairconnor - 12/23/2004 4:08:50 PM ... that was our christmas lunch for the department. We should never have sent unmarried men out to do the shopping. What do these guys eat at home, one wonders. They came back with about a kilo per person of ham, pork, mortadella, garlic sausage, etc along with a respectable amount of smoked salmon and foie gras.
They could easily have bought stuff at double the price per kilo (and double the price per bottle of wine and champagne) and there would still have been plenty -- and there wouldn't be the current problem of disposing of the leftovers -- can't get rid of the stuff. 12879. judithathome - 12/23/2004 8:22:29 PM Alistair...from Wordorigins.com:
Screw the Pooch
The phrase screw the pooch, meaning to mess up, commit a grievous error, was made famous in Tom Wolfe's book The Right Stuff. The phrase is a euphemism from US military slang. The original expression was fuck the dog and meant to waste time, to loaf on the job.
Fuck the dog dates appears in print for the first time in 1935, but in 1918 another euphemistic version, feeding the dog, appears. The original sense dates to 1918. Over the decades, the meaning shifted to the current sense and the screw the pooch wording took the place of the original phrasing.
12880. PelleNilsson - 12/23/2004 8:37:42 PM Judith emerges as the Safire of the Mote! 12881. Ms. No - 12/23/2004 9:03:31 PM That's cool, Juditha! I knew what the phrase meant but I didn't know where it came from. 12882. PelleNilsson - 12/23/2004 10:14:09 PM I'm glad because I just heard on the radio the greatest Christmas song of all time: Elvis's Blue Christmas. His Santa Bring my Baby Back is not bad either. 12883. judithathome - 12/23/2004 11:18:56 PM I've been listening to Sirius radio all day...Classic Blues Artists. Primo stuff! 12884. Ms. No - 12/23/2004 11:43:37 PM Ooh, good stuff, Jude. I've got streaming Radio Paradise going. That's my preferred work listening. 12885. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 12:43:46 AM Bob LOVES Sirius. He doesn't even watch tv, except for Seinfeld reruns. 12886. PsychProf - 12/24/2004 1:34:46 AM Arky...Good choice of TV...Happy Festivus to Bob. Buy him the recently offered DVD's. 12887. Ronski - 12/24/2004 4:25:17 AM arky,
Are you in the part of the state that got snow? 12888. angel-five - 12/24/2004 5:44:33 AM I managed to completely sucker my GF into wrapping all the presents this year (all but two, which were necessary to convince her that she should do the rest).
I love this time of year! 12889. angel-five - 12/24/2004 5:47:39 AM To be honest, she does do a marginally better job than me, and is much quicker at it. But you know how these things are, the key to success in a relationship is to get other people to do the work while you relax on the couch and verbally assist them.
12890. woden - 12/24/2004 5:51:51 AM Yes, we know that trick, when you don't feel like doing something around the house, offer to do it once, and execute the task with the skill of a palsied baboon.
It was worth it to see the look on your face when you said "do you want me to wrap these for a while" and I said "yes, as a matter of fact I do."
12891. woden - 12/24/2004 5:52:41 AM P.S.: Gold and metallic blue and silver and christmas tree paper don't match. 12892. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 6:35:59 AM Thanks Prof! I put the bug in Mose's ear to get those for her dad. Guess we'll see Christmas day if she took my suggestion. If not, my parents gave us some Christmas cash so hopefully we can find them next week. Don't know if you heard, but my parents won a Harley Davidson motorcycle. Never having ridden one there was no way they were keeping it, and they finally sold it a few weeks ago so they felt like having a green Christmas. Easier for them, and we appreciated it. 12893. arkymalarky - 12/24/2004 6:37:32 AM Hey Ronski!
We got 1/2 inch, maybe and it's still really icy. Supposedly it was quite a bit more north of us. Little Rock got hit pretty good, I think. They said 4-6 inches in parts of the state, which is a lot for us.
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