Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Page 375

Wetdogeared · 06-06-2009, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by desertgrandma

OMG How much more spoiled can we get???

Well a combination housekeeper/maid/butler/chauffeur would be nice (my current job). I just want the beeping to stop.

WDE.

desertgrandma · 06-06-2009, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Wetdogeared

Well a combination housekeeper/maid/butler/chauffeur would be nice (my current job). I just want the beeping to stop.

WDE.

The beeping will stop when you change out the laundry.

The smell in the kitchen will go away when you wash, dry and put away the dishes, and wash down the counters.

I'm just sayin'...................

ShortNCuddlyAm · 06-06-2009, 02:40 PM

My washing machine has been reading this thread and has just beeped at me! I've had this one a year, and I'm still not used to it beeping at me! However, it is about the nicest looking washing machine I've come across, so I can forgive it the beeping.

desertgrandma · 06-06-2009, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

My washing machine has been reading this thread and has just beeped at me! I've had this one a year, and I'm still not used to it beeping at me! However, it is about the nicest looking washing machine I've come across, so I can forgive it the beeping.

Does your washing machine know Daffy's washing machine?

You know, she just may have had a point with that thread.........

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...367#post475367

MickeyC · 06-06-2009, 02:54 PM

While you all are fussing with household appliances, I'm loafing on the balcony of our hotel mindlessly looking at the ocean off the west coast of Oahu. Life is good.

dreams · 06-06-2009, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by cassidym

While you all are fussing with household appliances, I'm loafing on the balcony of our hotel mindlessly looking at the ocean off the west coast of Oahu. Life is good.

Sure, rub it in. You're having a great time while we poor drones are stuck in drudgery at home

Just kidding!! Hope you ARE having a really great time in the islands!

desertgrandma · 06-06-2009, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by cassidym

While you all are fussing with household appliances, I'm loafing on the balcony of our hotel mindlessly looking at the ocean off the west coast of Oahu. Life is good.

enjoy for all of us.............

zelda_pinwheel · 06-06-2009, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

This is a more likely translation.

thanks yvan, that really was out of my grasp today.

that's a very good translation.

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Originally Posted by Wetdogeared

I have a good grasp of English, a mediocre grasp of French and know how to use BFish. Between them all I think I got the drift of your message.

This was BFish's translation. It sounds oddly poetic.

i love bfish for the inadvertantly surrealist phrases it comes up with. hours of entertainment !

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Good to know your English hasn't abandoned you.

(I too was celebrating a friend's birthday yesterday. We went to a house party just off Kitsilano Beach. The day was hot, we drank too much, I'm using Chrome this week and haven't learned how to, if I can, install a spellchecker, and I'm somewhat hung over.)

WDE.

heh, you too hey ?

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Originally Posted by Verencat

Ok, let's make this the official hangover in MR day! So far I can count Queen Z, WDE, alpha and me...

sweet fuzzy squirrels, let's not make this a repeating holiday... i'll take doughnuts instead of a hangover any day !

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Originally Posted by cassidym

While you all are fussing with household appliances, I'm loafing on the balcony of our hotel mindlessly looking at the ocean off the west coast of Oahu. Life is good.

i hope you at least have a hangover like the rest of us !! if not that's just too mean !!!

i'm kidding cassidy, i hope you have a great holiday, enjoy the view and the hotel ! send us a postcard !!!

ShortNCuddlyAm · 06-06-2009, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Does your washing machine know Daffy's washing machine?

You know, she just may have had a point with that thread.........

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...367#post475367

It'd be kinda scary if all our appliances could talk to each other. Don't think I'm ever going to get an internet connected fridge!

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Originally Posted by cassidym

While you all are fussing with household appliances, I'm loafing on the balcony of our hotel mindlessly looking at the ocean off the west coast of Oahu. Life is good.

Verrry nice - enjoy!

Moejoe · 06-06-2009, 06:12 PM

Currently: watching Bela Lugosi in Dracula and all in *shiny* Hi Definition Video

nekokami · 06-06-2009, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by desertgrandma

I remember, years and years ago, seeing a poster. (bear with me here.)

It was silhouettes of planes, as tho you were looking up at them from the ground. Each type of plane had a different silhouette, and the idea was to be able to recognize what was flying over you.

Obviously this was during WWII and the planes were war planes.

I always thought that was a neat thing........to be able to glance up and know what was flying overhead.

Does anyone else remember one of these?

They also made playing cards with spotter silhouettes. About 20 years ago I remember reading a comic book in which one of the characters could change into things and had changed into a large pterodactyl sort of thing, and was flying over Tokyo. The Japanese schoolkids were shown with spotter cards and arguing about whether or not it could be Rodan, Gappo, Gyaos, etc....

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

fêter l'anniversaire d'une copine j'ai été. ronde comme une queue de pelle je suis. jour il fait dehors. me coucher je vais aller. dormir je veux, et que personne ne me réveille !

Y'know, I can sort of read French, and I was able to get the gist of this, but is this regular French syntax? Even Yvan's translation seemed unusually worded. My French is pretty basic, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if this is perfectly normal syntactic structure that I just don't happen to have ever seen before....

zelda_pinwheel · 06-06-2009, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

Y'know, I can sort of read French, and I was able to get the gist of this, but is this regular French syntax? Even Yvan's translation seemed unusually worded. My French is pretty basic, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if this is perfectly normal syntactic structure that I just don't happen to have ever seen before....

no, that is drunk, 5:30 in the morning syntax.

yvan's translation is quite accurate. ("round as the handle of a shovel" is an expression meaning drunk).

desertgrandma · 06-06-2009, 09:29 PM

Currently watching Miami Vice Season 1.

I can already see the rest of the seasons in my future.

The show holds up beautifully..........the music as haunting as it was then....

Verencat · 06-06-2009, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

Y'know, I can sort of read French, and I was able to get the gist of this, but is this regular French syntax? Even Yvan's translation seemed unusually worded. My French is pretty basic, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if this is perfectly normal syntactic structure that I just don't happen to have ever seen before....

See, Z was pretty much out there, so she did everything backwards (writing in French would be one of those things) including her syntax.
Darn alcohol!

nekokami · 06-06-2009, 09:33 PM

Ok, I feel a bit better. (I don't drink, so I have no idea what I'd do if drunk. Probably say everything in a mixture of English, Chinese, and Japanese, the way I do when I'm dreaming.)

06-06-2009, 02:40 PM	#5613
ShortNCuddlyAm WWHALD Posts: 7,879 Karma: 337114 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Mitcham, Surrey, UK Device: iPad. Selling my silver 505 here	My washing machine has been reading this thread and has just beeped at me! I've had this one a year, and I'm still not used to it beeping at me! However, it is about the nicest looking washing machine I've come across, so I can forgive it the beeping.

06-06-2009, 02:54 PM	#5615
MickeyC Grand Sorcerer Posts: 16,731 Karma: 12185114 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida Device: iPhone 6 plus, Sony T1, iPad 3	While you all are fussing with household appliances, I'm loafing on the balcony of our hotel mindlessly looking at the ocean off the west coast of Oahu. Life is good.

06-06-2009, 06:12 PM	#5620
Moejoe Banned Posts: 5,100 Karma: 72193 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South of the Border Device: Coffin	Currently: watching Bela Lugosi in Dracula and all in shiny Hi Definition Video

06-06-2009, 09:29 PM	#5623
desertgrandma Enjoying the show.... Posts: 14,270 Karma: 10462843 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Arizona Device: A K1, Kindle Paperwhite, an Ipod, IPad2, Iphone, an Ipad Mini & macAir	Currently watching Miami Vice Season 1. I can already see the rest of the seasons in my future. The show holds up beautifully..........the music as haunting as it was then....

06-06-2009, 09:33 PM	#5625
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Ok, I feel a bit better. (I don't drink, so I have no idea what I'd do if drunk. Probably say everything in a mixture of English, Chinese, and Japanese, the way I do when I'm dreaming.)