A thread to discuss all recent undiscussed events since there is clearly a need to create a new thread for every minute detail of the ongoing shitshow

[shorty]

@Unnamed TrialistAh so you admit you are on trial there…

Edited June 9, 2022 by shorty

[Unnamed Trialist]

33 minutes ago, shorty said:

@Unnamed TrialistAh so you admit you are on trial there…

I went to PEI by ferry so the trial is long over.

[shorty]

Ferry = a long time ago. Discuss:

[Cheeta]

Geezus, would you just look at that?

Not a toe molding to found anywhere on those baseboards.  Shabby.

 

[shorty]

Some other parts of the baseboard are moulding, though. Oh well, in every dream home a heartache. 

[Admin]

I looked up Toe Mold to post a picture, and you can all thank me I didn't do it. 

[Unnamed Trialist]

9 hours ago, shorty said:

Ferry = a long time ago. Discuss:

Well I actually have Bryan Ferry stories, but prefer this. In the excellent documentary Helvetica, which I highly recommend, there is this section with David Carson, who was a post-punk graphic designer who did Raygun, a classic magazine from the 80s. And one of his most brilliant manouvers was related to an interview with Bryan Ferry (starting m. 2.15)

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/helvetica/david-carson-2

[shorty]

“… just because something is legible doesn’t mean that it communicates, and more importantly doesn’t mean it communicates the right thing…”

It’s like David Carson predicted this very thread. Mind blown. Everybody type in Zapf dingbats from now on.
 

In fact we should re-brand the members of this forum as the Zapf Dingbats. 

[Unnamed Trialist]

3 minutes ago, shorty said:

“… just because something is legible doesn’t mean that it communicates, and more importantly doesn’t mean it communicates the right thing…”

It’s like David Carson predicted this very thread. Mind blown. Everybody type in Zapf dingbats from now on.
 

In fact we should re-brand the members of this forum as the Zapf Dingbats. 

Back then they didn't have Unicode, or at least not applicable. 

Hermann Zapf was a sort of genius too. 

[narduch]

I always though Roxy Music was too easy listening....

...ducks...

[El Hombre]

4 hours ago, narduch said:

I always though Roxy Music was too easy listening....

...ducks...

Are you talking about that movie with Will Farrell and Chris Kattan?

[El Hombre]

On 5/26/2022 at 9:10 PM, El Hombre said:

Only a halfwit, a moron, or an idiot would use an oxford comma.

This was something I posted earlier that didn't get enough love, so I thought I'd repost here.  It really is genius.

I NEED internet validation!

[shorty]

 

I did love your Oxford comma joke, though it wasn’t originally from this forum, and wanted to be sure that was clear. 
 

Parenthetical commas, however, are nice too. 

Edited June 10, 2022 by shorty

[dyslexic nam]

Annie Shapiro was a Canadian apron shop owner who was in a coma for 29 years but suddenly awoke in 1992.  

[shorty]

The talented business-woman, who had run two apron shops near Toronto, Canada, before her illness, fell into a coma on Nov 22, 1963, aged 50.

Parenthetical commas abound  

 

[narduch]

Aren't parenthetical commas for people with ADHD?

[dyslexic nam]

2 minutes ago, shorty said:

The talented business-woman, who had run two apron shops near Toronto, Canada, before her illness, fell into a coma on Nov 22, 1963, aged 50.

Parenthetical commas abound  

 

Well played.  

[shorty]

3 minutes ago, narduch said:

Aren't parenthetical commas for people with ADHD?

My father has undiagnosed ADHD and no filters. He uses parentheretical commas

[shorty]

22 minutes ago, dyslexic nam said:

Annie Shapiro was a Canadian apron shop owner who was in a coma for 29 years but suddenly awoke in 1992.  

Sadly she missed all of Roxy Music. Took her the rest of her life to catch up

[dyslexic nam]

3 minutes ago, shorty said:

Sadly she missed all of Roxy Music. Took her the rest of her life to catch up

Also sadly, she was wide awake during Night at the Roxbury.  

[shorty]

5 minutes ago, dyslexic nam said:

Also, sadly, she was wide awake during Night at the Roxbury.  

Fyp.
 

But yes, very sad. 

[Unnamed Trialist]

@El Hombreis still confused about his parents, Margaret Thatcher and Ted Bundy.

[Kingston]

On 6/8/2022 at 6:03 PM, Bison44 said:

..pick up your marbles....beuts are worth 2 cats eyes, Alleys 5....clearies are crap, dont even bring them to school!!  

That's some old-time slang.  Did you go to school in the 1920s?

[Bison44]

1 hour ago, Kingston said:

That's some old-time slang.  Did you go to school in the 1920s?

That is dead on the nose pally boy.  If your good, I'll give you a peppermint stick and tell you how I came up with the black and white soccer ball.  

[Joe MacCarthy]

On 6/9/2022 at 11:37 AM, Cheeta said:

Not a toe molding to found anywhere on those baseboards.  Shabby.