― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― j c (j c), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)
damn you luna!
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 4 February 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― sgs (sgs), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)
Are we talking about acronyms or abbreviations?
― Huk-L, Friday, 4 February 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)
Also the Federated States of Micronesia (FM).
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huk-L, Friday, 4 February 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)
In 5th grade, my teacher wrote a list of all of the states on the chalkboard and spelled this state "Connecticutt." I knew that didn't look right, but I wasn't sure what was wrong, so I figured it must be the second C. So I raised my hand and said isn't that incorrect? And she said, "No, that's how it's spelled! It's silent!" etc. etc. For the rest of the lesson, I stared at that extra T at the end, knowing I'd seem like an asshole if I raised my hand again.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― brianIA (briania), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― youn, Friday, 4 February 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)
Either, OR
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dr. Z Indahouse (AaronHz), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― donut christ (donut), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)
MI
And, in particular:
U.P.
― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Saturday, 5 February 2005 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)
John UnderwoodAndover, MA
The only thing I remember from elementary school.
― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 5 February 2005 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Saturday, 5 February 2005 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Saturday, 5 February 2005 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Saturday, 5 February 2005 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Saturday, 5 February 2005 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Saturday, 5 February 2005 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Saturday, 5 February 2005 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Saturday, 5 February 2005 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Saturday, 5 February 2005 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)
Patriotic Episcopalians nitter-natter spitefully -- you leave vengeful and nastily inclined always.
― briania (briania), Saturday, 5 February 2005 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)
It's Ohio without ambition!
― briania (briania), Saturday, 5 February 2005 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Saturday, 5 February 2005 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Saturday, 5 February 2005 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Saturday, 5 February 2005 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Saturday, 5 February 2005 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Saturday, 5 February 2005 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 5 February 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Saturday, 5 February 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)
Terribly enthusiastic xenophobes all stayed.
― briania (briania), Saturday, 5 February 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 6 February 2005 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 6 February 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 6 February 2005 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 6 February 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Monday, 7 February 2005 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― nabiscothingy, Monday, 7 February 2005 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― nabiscothingy, Monday, 7 February 2005 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Monday, 7 February 2005 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 7 February 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 February 2005 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)
Narrow economies versus a destructive avarice.
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 06:53 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)
Hot and wet again, isn't it?
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)
OH, VA, DE, etc., are postal abbreviations. There is another system of abbreviating states that preceded the postal abbreviations. Va., La., and Ga. are remnants of that system of abbreviation.
BLT, URL, USA, PDA, etc., are properly called initialisms, though the widespread misuse of acronym for these is gaining in currency.
― The Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)
Natives excuse what my eternal xanthic intensity cancels out.
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)
Ultimately, tradition absorbs heterodoxy.
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 February 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Thursday, 10 February 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Thursday, 10 February 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)
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― briania (briania), Thursday, 10 February 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 10 February 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Thursday, 10 February 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Thursday, 10 February 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 10 February 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 10 February 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Thursday, 10 February 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 10 February 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)
Abandoned lyrics acknowledge Birmingham's and Montgomery's angels. A land apart shivers, kibitzing aloofly. Attempting radical insurrection, Zapata outraged nervous Anglos. America's redoubtable knight arrant nevertheless survives amorous scandal. Crackpot Americans living in furthest occident: really Nebraskans into astrology. Clouds over Loveland offer refuge against Denver's omniscience. Class often negates novelty, engendering conformity: this is conservatism's ugly truth. Dupont's evil lucre augments Washington's anal rumblings exponentially. Following leads of reactionary ideologies, democracy aborts. Glorify exotic oral regionalism -- Gullah is alive! Hot and wet again, isn't it? Individual dominion ascends, however obdurate. It's Lincoln's legacy incarnate: now Obama is Senator. If normality dictates, is average not acceptable? It's Ohio without ambition! Katydids' anthems nourish Salina's affluent slumber. Knife-edged naïveté thrives under cover, killing yesterdays. Louis's overwhelming umbra is still improvising all night, always. Memories accumulate in New England. Maiden aunts ransack your library and nurture deviance. Maybe a socialist sanctuary amid Cheney's heinous United States eventually transforms things somehow. Motown's inspiration continues, however ineptly Gordy acts now. Many immigrant Norwegians never even swore oaths to America. Many inhabitants still seek independence, still singing in powerful, poetic injustice. Mud inches slowly southward, obscuring undulant rivers' impressions. Moraines over northern territories attest numberless ages. Never-ending bleakness reveals a strange kinetic abstraction. Narrow economies versus a destructive avarice.North, east, west: however a man perambulates, still he is rarely enlightened. Not even wet jock emanations rival such essential yeast. Natives excuse what my eternal xanthic intensity cancels out. Never, ever weaken your obstinacy regarding Killingjoke. Nominally our research triangle hypes creativity, although regions outlying learn it's not allowed. Nocturnal opalescence rends the heart: diesels' arias keening over the arctic.Oil kings left a habit, our motorized addiction. Ordinariness hates itself, ordinarily. Occam's razor elevates greening over neglect. Patriotic Episcopalians nitter-natter spitefully -- you leave vengeful and nastily inclined always. Raise high our diminutive eminence. It sets limits against neighborly domination. Secession, once unthinkable, takes hold contiguously. American resolve, often lacking, is now awakened. Subject of unction, then he danced away: Kevin's one triumphant act. Total every Nashville nymphet's essential sexuality: sweet euphoric emotion! Terribly enthusiastic xenophobes all stayed. Ultimately, tradition absorbs heterodoxy. Vicinity exuding real maple, O nectarous temptation. Virginity is revered, generally, if not its application. Why attempt simulating Hendrix's incredibly novel guitar tones, or Nirvana's? Woodlands even succumb to vanity -- it's ridiculously gaudy inside Nebo's incandescent autumn.Whiteness is sometimes considered obsolete. Not so in Neenah! Where your only mission is noticing God.
― briania (briania), Thursday, 10 February 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)
I.O.W.A. and O.K.L.A.H.O.M.A. are also really good.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 10 February 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 10 February 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)