Snowy Friday Rambly Bits

[gnomi]

-- It's snowing. Significantly. For the first time this season. And again my theory that people become really stupid during the first storm of the season has been shown to be true. The drivers on the road this morning were just nuts (no, cutting off the bus when the roads are slick is not a good idea. Really).

-- Am I the only one who periodically prolongs conversations with people to hear their accents for longer? Yeah, probably. But I'm a sucker for accents.

-- You know that old saying, "Find a penny, pick it up, all day long you'll have good luck"? Does "all day long" mean for the rest of that day (so if you find a penny at 11:59 you have only a very short window to have good luck) or for the next 24-hour period?

-- The Boston Globe needs better copyeditors. Big photo caption on the front of Tuesday's City & Region section, about the snow that was predicted: "A Tiem to Enjoy, A Time to Prepare." In their defense (only slightly), spellcheck likely wouldn't have caught this, since the Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Public Security is named Le The Tiem and so "Tiem" is likely in their custom dictionary. But still, a human should be reading everything before it goes to print.

-- A brief conversation at Chez mabfan and gnomi
(Our heroes are watching TV, and an ad for the movie "Rent" comes on)

mabfan: I'm interested in seeing that, but not enough to see it in the theater.
gnomi: Well, we can wait until it comes out on DVD, and then we can...
*Much laughter ensues*

(icon in honor of the fact that yesterday my parents finally went and saw "March of the Penguins," at the only local theater still playing it. Gotta love the Arlington Capitol.)

Comments

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

and this morning i was actually kind of impressed that the worst driving i saw was people going slowly. altho i was (also slowly) cut off by a truck from some electric company going around the fresh pond rotary. o.O i'm mostly concerned about finding a place to park when i get home, because they never plow my street and the mayor of somerville in his infinite wisdom has called a snow emergency. i probably should've gotten up an hour earlier so i could take the bus to work. oh well.

*throws a snowball*

that caption in the globe depresses me. they should be embarrassed.

pengies!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

that caption in the globe depresses me. they should be embarrassed.

I was equally distressed and amused. Amused that it could make it past people. Distressed, since I know a number of people who could make good money doing copyediting for them if they were hiring copyeditors.

Yay, pengies! :-)

[csbermack.livejournal.com]

I know it as "the rest of the day you have good luck", and I'd go with the colloquial day, as in "until you go to bed"

[riverdoe.livejournal.com]

You're lucky you have snow. I had it a week ago but it was gone the next day, which sucked big time. Had plenty of frost as well but that's just cold and no fun.

And no, you're not the only accent-lover. My friends have an obssession with the way I say "Not funny" and I love hearing different accents to the point where if I'm walking down the street and stop, my friends all disappear on me.

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who periodically prolongs conversations with people to hear their accents for longer?

No.

It snowed here last night but not nearly enough. Only about 3 inches and the roads are completely clear. Of course, practically every school in the State of Maryland is closed.

snowy... and Rent

[ianrandalstrock.livejournal.com]

Well, apparently everyone got some snow... except us. The news just told me Manhattan officially got six inches of snow. I look out the window here in Brooklyn, and if there was an inch of new snow, it was a lot. I'm kind of disappointed.

We saw Rent just before it opened. Good movie; it's not "let's film a play and put it on the screen" although there are a number of times in the movie when I thought I was watching a stage-musical (but it was cool how they did those parts). I didn't realize it was quite so heavy a topic as it was, but we enjoyed the movie. I don't think it's one that will lose a lot viewing it on a smaller screen.

[cellio]

I think "all day long" means for the rest of your day (until bedtime). If they meant "for a day" they should have said so.

[quarkwiz.livejournal.com]

Eee! Penguins! Must have that DVD. Hope a certain someone (WINOLJ) notices it's on my wishlist.

[gingicat]

Oh, I definitely do the accent thing. It always delights me when people are carrying on long conversations on the T in interesting accents, too.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I do worry about idiots driving in snow, but by the time we went out it was bad enough that everyone had to drive slowly, because all you could see of the cars around you were the taillights.

I think the "day" means until midnight in this context.

Hissssss! for the caption! Argh! Yes, they definitely need more human oversight...