Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Page 40

pshrynk · 09-15-2008, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

Editing the Burton translation of The Thousand Nights and A Night.
It has over 1,400,000 words and nearly 5,500 footnotes. I may be some time, especially because I keep reading the stories and the salacious footnotes.

I'm sitting here, thinking that Patricia is a Goddess among mere mortals. Of course, that's why she's my running mate.

Patricia · 09-15-2008, 11:37 AM

Actually, I just like salacious stories with some Orientalism thrown in.

pshrynk · 09-15-2008, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

Actually, I just like salacious stories with some Orientalism thrown in.

Yet another reason to be my running mate.

vivaldirules · 09-15-2008, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

Editing the Burton translation of The Thousand Nights and A Night.
It has over 1,400,000 words and nearly 5,500 footnotes. I may be some time, especially because I keep reading the stories and the salacious footnotes.

5,500 footnotes? How could you possibly deal with that many? I would have thrown my hands up at a couple hundred. You are simply unfathomable, Patricia. But if and when you finish, I'm first in line to delve into salaciousness!

Patricia · 09-15-2008, 05:49 PM

Actually, VR, I find people who live in Texas unfathomable. RickyMaveety has reported encounters with big spiders, scorpions, snakes and mountain lions. The humidity seems most unpleasant. And then there are those hurricanes... (I'm really glad that you're ok.)
Truly, you Texans must be very hardy people.

zelda_pinwheel · 09-15-2008, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

Actually, VR, I find people who live in Texas unfathomable. RickyMaveety has reported encounters with big spiders, scorpions, snakes and mountain lions. The humidity seems most unpleasant. And then there are those hurricanes... (I'm really glad that you're ok.)
Truly, you Texans must be very hardy people.

or insane.

probably both.

(i'm with you on this one, patricia. also you forgot the cockroaches the size of your arm.)

then again, i also agree with vr about you, so maybe i'm insane too.

just less masochistically so.

RickyMaveety · 09-15-2008, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

Actually, VR, I find people who live in Texas unfathomable. RickyMaveety has reported encounters with big spiders, scorpions, snakes and mountain lions. The humidity seems most unpleasant. And then there are those hurricanes... (I'm really glad that you're ok.)
Truly, you Texans must be very hardy people.

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

or insane.

probably both.

(i'm with you on this one, patricia. also you forgot the cockroaches the size of your arm.)

then again, i also agree with vr about you, so maybe i'm insane too.

just less masochistically so.

Yes, I'm pretty sure it's both. I just got off the phone with Amazon and the US Post Office. Both swear up and down that they delivered a package to me on the 11th .... problem is, I didn't get it. So ... who did they deliver it to??

It would have been a good sized package, so they either would have placed it in the lock box at the top of the hill (and put the key to the lock box in my mail box) or, they would have stuck a note in my box telling me to pick the item up at the post office.

Neither actually happened. So, where the heck is my package?? Or ... perhaps I never really ordered it?? And it was all a dream. Or, perhaps I'm going hardy ... I mean insane.

Patricia · 09-15-2008, 06:00 PM

Those doggies have been eating your mail notifications and/ or the keys to the lock box.

nekokami · 09-15-2008, 06:00 PM

Maybe the cats took it? Do you have any double-pawed cats who might have signed for it while you were out shopping for paint?

zelda_pinwheel · 09-15-2008, 06:13 PM

trust a cat to sign for a package and then hide it from you...

RickyMaveety · 09-15-2008, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

Those doggies have been eating your mail notifications and/ or the keys to the lock box.

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Originally Posted by nekokami

Maybe the cats took it? Do you have any double-pawed cats who might have signed for it while you were out shopping for paint?

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

trust a cat to sign for a package and then hide it from you...

Nope .... I already thought of that. I do have one cat who has been known to steal mail and hide it from me. However, she is kept well away from the mailbox these days. And ... all the keys to the lock boxes are actually in the lock boxes.

It is a puzzlement. However, Amazon is sending me a replacement via UPS (a company I actually trust, unlike the US Postal Service). So, I should be getting my package on Thursday.

Greg Anos · 09-15-2008, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

Actually, VR, I find people who live in Texas unfathomable. RickyMaveety has reported encounters with big spiders, scorpions, snakes and mountain lions. The humidity seems most unpleasant. And then there are those hurricanes... (I'm really glad that you're ok.)
Truly, you Texans must be very hardy people.

Y'all left out sharks, little Black Widow spiders, rabies, tornadoes, lightning storms, 24hr temperature shift from 25 degrees C to snow and ice, and back to 25C in 24 more hrs, droughts, grass fires, floods, javelinas (wild peccary, a form of native hog - most dangerous), lots of guns, mesquite trees, huisach trees, prickly pear, pincusion cactus, and alligators (both actual and alligators gars (up to 8 feet in length with jaws 2-3 feet long)).

To us natives, home sweet home. (Sorta explains why the gov't has used Texans for shock troops since the US Civil War...)

nekokami · 09-15-2008, 07:32 PM

My karma fortune still says I might easily be mistaken for a Texan, and I have to say I find that rather improbable.

Greg Anos · 09-15-2008, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

My karma fortune still says I might easily be mistaken for a Texan, and I have to say I find that rather improbable.

Anybody can be a Texan, it only requires three things,

1. Willingness to live in this harsh environment without complaint.
2. Joining the Texan ethos rather than criticizing it.

and

3. Putting up with the rest of the world sneering at you (and not shooting back without permission... that's the toughest one.. ).

nekokami · 09-15-2008, 07:43 PM

I'm not especially interested in criticizing anyone's ethos, but I'm not sure what you consider the Texas ethos to be, so I'm not sure I'd "join" it, either.

Issues of shooting are entirely moot, as I don't own a gun and consider it extraordinarily unlikely that I ever would. (That might disqualify me right there....)

09-15-2008, 11:37 AM	#587
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	Actually, I just like salacious stories with some Orientalism thrown in.

09-15-2008, 05:49 PM	#590
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	Actually, VR, I find people who live in Texas unfathomable. RickyMaveety has reported encounters with big spiders, scorpions, snakes and mountain lions. The humidity seems most unpleasant. And then there are those hurricanes... (I'm really glad that you're ok.) Truly, you Texans must be very hardy people.

09-15-2008, 06:00 PM	#593
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	Those doggies have been eating your mail notifications and/ or the keys to the lock box.

09-15-2008, 06:00 PM	#594
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Maybe the cats took it? Do you have any double-pawed cats who might have signed for it while you were out shopping for paint?

09-15-2008, 06:13 PM	#595
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	trust a cat to sign for a package and then hide it from you...

09-15-2008, 07:32 PM	#598
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	My karma fortune still says I might easily be mistaken for a Texan, and I have to say I find that rather improbable.

09-15-2008, 07:43 PM	#600
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	I'm not especially interested in criticizing anyone's ethos, but I'm not sure what you consider the Texas ethos to be, so I'm not sure I'd "join" it, either. Issues of shooting are entirely moot, as I don't own a gun and consider it extraordinarily unlikely that I ever would. (That might disqualify me right there....)