I and my 2 housemates all got it at Christmas (end of my big family Christmas reunion; guests are fled to hotel and B&Bs.) We had considered ourselves immortal. ...With the new meds plus the shots,
we were all up and about (and testing negative) in about 4 days, and we aren't young..
Not really. You think of myths, myths involving flies, you think of Aeschylus (or I do, anyway). And I’d forgotten, if I ever knew, that Pence won’t have lunch with any woman not his wife. But no one could possibly forget The Fly. It won the debate.
I guess being the richest man in the world (at the time) comes with the license to mess with your kids' lives by naming them X AE A-XII (originally X Æ A-12, but “Æ” and “12” violated California law, so had to be dropped ) known as "X" and, Exa Dark Sideræl Musk ("Y"). No Billy or Betty for Elon. Clearly too common. Better to name your bouncing baby girl after the supercomputing term exaFLOPS, or the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations a second. That way, she can cause hundreds of eyes to glaze over during her lifetime with the explanation not only of her name, but of what a quintillion and floating point are. Now that he's focused on making another name for himself (delicacy prevents me from uttering it here...), there apparently won't be a "Z." Although with 10 kids (at last count), maybe he'll just start at the beginning of the alphabet for convenience sake.
I’m a longtime collector of bad names that I see in the news, or (from very, very long ago) run across while taking sports scores for the agate. Dorcas and Scholastic are positively melodic. How about Vegina and Philandrea?
I'm noticing your hair style (I use the term loosely) and I'm wondering if this is a choice, or did your head get caught in the elevator doors or something. Hmm. I guess this is more of a question, you can ignore it if you wish. Curious in Pennsylvania.
Well of course the name "Clisty" sounds yucky. It suggests "clyster." Did you not know that word or were you being uncharacteristically shy of anal humor?
As someone who follows developments in medicine maybe only slightly more than Gene, I'm a bit embarrassed to admit I completely missed the initial announcement of the Kourtney Kardashian breakthrough in vaginal health and sweetness. Yes --- there is now "Lemme Purr" gummies, consisting of pineapple, vitamin C and probiotics to target vaginal health and pH levels that “support freshness and taste.” As the reality TV personality-cum-gynecologist puts it on her Instagram channel: “Give your vagina the sweet treat it deserves (and turn it into a sweet treat).” Yum!
I went to Carnegie Mellon University, and being a design student, had some of the same professors that Andy Warhol had when he was there. One told us that the first indication that he was weird, was when he presented a painting of a man picking his nose.
"Anyone who tells you each day how many steps he has taken will find that in hell, his Fitbit resets to zero every night at 11:59 p.m. (Karen Lambert) "
I think it should revert to zero after every 10th step.
Gene, you may be right about "Dorcas" being THE worst name. It's godawful. "Scholastica" is right up (or down) there too. Maybe my #2, "Blois," isn't that bad after all. Hmm. After trying to say it out loud, spit it, actually, I'm thinking, "Yes it is that bad."
"...a bear that was killed after eating a human." Lead-in to a joke:
Two friends, one from Russia and one from the Czech Republic, were hunting bears. They surprised two bears, who attacked the hunters and ate them. The bears were then tracked and killed by government agents. In the autopsies, it was discovered that while the female bear had eaten the Russian, the Czech was in the male.
I and my 2 housemates all got it at Christmas (end of my big family Christmas reunion; guests are fled to hotel and B&Bs.) We had considered ourselves immortal. ...With the new meds plus the shots,
we were all up and about (and testing negative) in about 4 days, and we aren't young..
Sending healing vibes.
Paxlovid. Get is ASAP
Not really. You think of myths, myths involving flies, you think of Aeschylus (or I do, anyway). And I’d forgotten, if I ever knew, that Pence won’t have lunch with any woman not his wife. But no one could possibly forget The Fly. It won the debate.
I guess being the richest man in the world (at the time) comes with the license to mess with your kids' lives by naming them X AE A-XII (originally X Æ A-12, but “Æ” and “12” violated California law, so had to be dropped ) known as "X" and, Exa Dark Sideræl Musk ("Y"). No Billy or Betty for Elon. Clearly too common. Better to name your bouncing baby girl after the supercomputing term exaFLOPS, or the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations a second. That way, she can cause hundreds of eyes to glaze over during her lifetime with the explanation not only of her name, but of what a quintillion and floating point are. Now that he's focused on making another name for himself (delicacy prevents me from uttering it here...), there apparently won't be a "Z." Although with 10 kids (at last count), maybe he'll just start at the beginning of the alphabet for convenience sake.
I’m a longtime collector of bad names that I see in the news, or (from very, very long ago) run across while taking sports scores for the agate. Dorcas and Scholastic are positively melodic. How about Vegina and Philandrea?
I'm noticing your hair style (I use the term loosely) and I'm wondering if this is a choice, or did your head get caught in the elevator doors or something. Hmm. I guess this is more of a question, you can ignore it if you wish. Curious in Pennsylvania.
Well of course the name "Clisty" sounds yucky. It suggests "clyster." Did you not know that word or were you being uncharacteristically shy of anal humor?
Regarding great-great aunt Clisty's name, and its vaguely medical sound, "clyster" is a rather old word for "enema". So there's that.
As someone who follows developments in medicine maybe only slightly more than Gene, I'm a bit embarrassed to admit I completely missed the initial announcement of the Kourtney Kardashian breakthrough in vaginal health and sweetness. Yes --- there is now "Lemme Purr" gummies, consisting of pineapple, vitamin C and probiotics to target vaginal health and pH levels that “support freshness and taste.” As the reality TV personality-cum-gynecologist puts it on her Instagram channel: “Give your vagina the sweet treat it deserves (and turn it into a sweet treat).” Yum!
I went to Carnegie Mellon University, and being a design student, had some of the same professors that Andy Warhol had when he was there. One told us that the first indication that he was weird, was when he presented a painting of a man picking his nose.
"Anyone who tells you each day how many steps he has taken will find that in hell, his Fitbit resets to zero every night at 11:59 p.m. (Karen Lambert) "
I think it should revert to zero after every 10th step.
Gene, you may be right about "Dorcas" being THE worst name. It's godawful. "Scholastica" is right up (or down) there too. Maybe my #2, "Blois," isn't that bad after all. Hmm. After trying to say it out loud, spit it, actually, I'm thinking, "Yes it is that bad."
If evacuation is required, the toiled is conveniently nearby and unobstructed, at least by a door
"...a bear that was killed after eating a human." Lead-in to a joke:
Two friends, one from Russia and one from the Czech Republic, were hunting bears. They surprised two bears, who attacked the hunters and ate them. The bears were then tracked and killed by government agents. In the autopsies, it was discovered that while the female bear had eaten the Russian, the Czech was in the male.
I THINK I would have gotten the first runner-up if the punishment had been worded slightly differently. "Fly" instead of "Flies."