Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Ecce Eduardus Ursus scalis nunc tump-tump-tump occipite gradus pulsante post Christophorum Robinum descendens. Est quod sciat unus et solus modus gradibus descendendi, nonnunquam autem sentit, etiam alterum modum exstare, dummodo pulsationibus desinere et de eo modo meditari possit.
Deinde censet alios modos non esse. En, nunc ipse in imo est, vobis ostentari paratus.
Oh, and the footnotes, which this blogger didn't reproduce, I recall as being priceless. Something about 'oh, you dont like chariots? Let's see you try to put 'turbo-charged' into Latin.'
That's what I was thinking he meant, that it should be modifying the implict masculine 'you'. My Latin is way, way rusty, but I think he's wrong -- isn't vestrae an adjective modifying amicae, and therefore properly matching it in gender regardless of whose girlfriends they are?
I'm so rusty that my vocabulary is almost gone, but through a combination of memory and process of elimination, I thought it was 'your'. If it's a noun, what does it mean?
Dude, I am so in the throes of trying to figure out a career change it isn't even funny. Spending all this time commenting is symptomatic of a major professional crisis.
If I ever get a job I like, I'll check in occasionally to say hi, but not like this. (Of course, if I get fired, on the other hand...)
There's always the possibility of banning remaining commenters, Gary.
I had just (about ten seconds ago) resisted clicking the link to that article from the Times's front page, being naturally unwilling to give in to the "something something and sex" teaser.
I've thought about grad school -- econ sounds like fun, but I can't afford it right now, what with the debt and the kids. Anyway, I'd have to take a bunch of undergrad prereqs first, having squandered my actual undergrad education on physics and medieval lit.
The way it worked out, I actually know very little of either. (Three semesters of physics, realized that I wasn't going to excel to the point where my future looked terribly exciting, and I was bored. Changed schools, took courses at random, and after a year or so had a panicky moment with the course catalog trying to shoehorn the courses I'd already taken into a major that would let me graduate in four years. Medieval Studies was it.)
Generally, it's not a good idea to ban words, because it has unintended consequences, and blocks stuff you don't want blocked. I can unblock the word if you all promise to use it responsibly. Though I don't understand why "passing gas" and other creative euphemisms aren't enough for you.
"I had just (about ten seconds ago) resisted clicking the link to that article from the Times's front page, being naturally unwilling to give in to the "something something and sex" teaser."
Not enough mystery?
But who's right? The sexy woman pro-environmentalist? The anti-sexual-display feminist? The male environmentalist? Col. Mustard in the Study?
In honor of the word that may now only be used with great delicacy and responsibility, I offer to the assembled this early seventeenth century poem about a matter of some historical import.
I was thinking about this lately, about mystery and sexiness and etc.
Since Gary is trying to stir up shit (we can say that, right?), I'll say that that article makes it seem as though the anti-display feminist's position has no merits. (I had typed something about how her points are no good, but... well, don't let's go there.) "We are against the stereotype of a woman as a sex object" seems in this case to amount to "We are against acknowledging that women have sex and can be desirable"--the ad even says "The man I choose," and the picture is hardly revealing at all.
I might worry that the ad would be ineffective, because no one will read the fine print about how turtle eggs don't work. But that's another issue.
(Disclosure: I went to college with the poet-naturalist's daughter. Actually that's not disclosure, it's name-dropping.)
Mills was headed to Belgium, last we heard, and I have no idea where Michael's been.
I'm still in NYC for a short while yet tying up loose ends and occasionally reading unfogged et alia. But commenting just tends to lead to more commenting, and I really need to get stuff other than commenting on blogs done. I haven't seen Michael, but then I've been avoiding the Mineshaft for the same reasons mentioned above.
Plus, you know, with SB on hiatus, Unfogged is just a pale shadow of its former self.
Soon I'll be back in Texas for a week, and then off to Greece to rejoin the fiancee for our small thin Greek wedding, before we finally settle in Belgium for the duration of the soon-to-be-wife's studies (and perhaps longer).
LB said, "I am so in the throes of trying to figure out a career change."
Matt said, "How about getting a job you like that still requires massive procrastination"
You know LB, lots of people move to teaching law from private practice. I just met someone yesterday who did that. It wouldn't require more school, you could still pay bills (though it might require some downsizing), and as Matt points out we could still enjoy the occasional comment from you.
I've used the term in my life, but don't have any recollection of using it here recently. Could you kindly link to the comment you are referring to, please?
Incidentally, while there's Little Going On Here, my blog is chock full of entertainment value with a number of posts from today and yesterday perhaps informative and amusing, or perhaps full of some wacked ass stupid shit. You be the judge. Commenting is even allowed, and everything. Including cock jokes.
Speaking of people who haven't commented for a while, what about L? Anyone hear from her lately? "Hi! Welcome to Tulane. We're glad to have you here. Now please evacuate." I feel for ya, kid.
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Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 12:15 PM
Ecce Eduardus Ursus scalis nunc tump-tump-tump occipite gradus pulsante post Christophorum Robinum descendens. Est quod sciat unus et solus modus gradibus descendendi, nonnunquam autem sentit, etiam alterum modum exstare, dummodo pulsationibus desinere et de eo modo meditari possit.
Deinde censet alios modos non esse. En, nunc ipse in imo est, vobis ostentari paratus.
Winnie ille Pu.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 12:19 PM
And, of course, Baby Got Back in Latin.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 12:24 PM
Large buttocks are pleasing to me, and I am unable to lie concerning this matter.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 12:27 PM
Yes, it's a shame the blog is so lacking in comments.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 12:27 PM
O colleagues
[What is it?]
O colleagues
[What is it?]
Do your girlfriends have large buttocks?
[They certainly have!]
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 12:32 PM
Ave Maria?
Posted by Sam K | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 12:45 PM
"Omnia quia sunt, clunes sunt." - Heraclitus
Posted by My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 12:52 PM
Also, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but there is something with the translation,
Unless this song is about lesbians, of course.
Posted by Sam K | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 12:53 PM
I'm not getting it, Sam K. Is the problem with vestrae?
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 1:10 PM
Oh, and the footnotes, which this blogger didn't reproduce, I recall as being priceless. Something about 'oh, you dont like chariots? Let's see you try to put 'turbo-charged' into Latin.'
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 1:14 PM
That's what I was thinking he meant, that it should be modifying the implict masculine 'you'. My Latin is way, way rusty, but I think he's wrong -- isn't vestrae an adjective modifying amicae, and therefore properly matching it in gender regardless of whose girlfriends they are?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 1:15 PM
Yes. The adjective matches the noun it modifies in number, case, and gender.
Cala imperatrix mundi.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 1:20 PM
Ave!
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 1:22 PM
Vestrae is noun, actually, but I can't back this up with, you know, proof.
Posted by Sam K | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 1:23 PM
I'm so rusty that my vocabulary is almost gone, but through a combination of memory and process of elimination, I thought it was 'your'. If it's a noun, what does it mean?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 1:25 PM
here's the one with the footnotes.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/quislibet/164084.html
Posted by Ian D-B | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 1:26 PM
Yea, actually, you seem to be right. I was thinking it was gen. pl. for you guys.
Turns out they didn't make it a song about lesbians! Yay!
Posted by Sam K | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 1:28 PM
In Latin and cock jokes, the Unfogged bench is deep.
Posted by Kriston | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 1:36 PM
Ave formosissima,
gemma pretiosa,
ave decus virginum,
virgo gloriosa, ,
ave mundi luminar,
ave mundi rosa,
Blanziflor et Helena,
Venus generosa!
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 1:37 PM
Bibit hera, bibit herus,
bibit miles, bibit clerus,
bibit ille, bibit illa,
bibit servis cum ancilla,
bibit velox, bibit piger,
bibit albus, bibit niger,
bibit constans, bibit vagus,
bibit rudis, bibit magnus.
bibit oggéd, bibit blogger!
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 1:42 PM
Elcomeway ootay eethay Ineshaftmay!
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 1:44 PM
BIBIT CALA.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 1:52 PM
at non est magnus sate me asser accommodare
Posted by Sam K | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 1:56 PM
24 to 22
Posted by Sam K | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 1:57 PM
Sic semper tyrannis.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 2:05 PM
Sic semper fontanis.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 2:09 PM
I was just this afternoon wondering why I'm commenting so much on this site all of a sudden. That's it! Wolfson and Standpipe are gone!
Posted by pjs | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 3:02 PM
Do you mean you're picking up the slack, or breathing freely at last?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 3:08 PM
The second one.
Posted by pjs | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 3:09 PM
I knew the Latin was killing the blog!
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 3:13 PM
Non illegitimis carborundum
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 3:21 PM
So, is Michael off on a bender or something? Haven't heard from him in a while.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 3:23 PM
And did Mitch Mills go back to China?
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 3:25 PM
Mills was headed to Belgium, last we heard, and I have no idea where Michael's been.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 3:28 PM
Also, no one answered when I asked about Austro last week.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 3:43 PM
You could always call B.
Posted by Kriston | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 3:46 PM
I'd forgotten about Austro. Wow, lots of regulars missing.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 3:47 PM
Austro is like a superconsultant, right? He's probably ears-deep in some Austrian banking merger.
The person we should be amazed by is LB: high-powered lawyer by day, voluminous blog commenter by... um, day.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 3:50 PM
Wow, lots of regulars missing.
And that doesn't even count Bob and Unf.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 3:53 PM
. . . and high-powered lawyer by night.
Posted by Kriston | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 3:53 PM
Dude, I am so in the throes of trying to figure out a career change it isn't even funny. Spending all this time commenting is symptomatic of a major professional crisis.
If I ever get a job I like, I'll check in occasionally to say hi, but not like this. (Of course, if I get fired, on the other hand...)
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 4:06 PM
Where do people get the idea that they can just leave like that?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 4:10 PM
Here's something you might start another food fight over sex with, if you like, Ogged. It's a freebie for you.
"Wow, lots of regulars missing."
In August. What strange timing.
But I'll continue to feel sorry for you for the lack of comments your blog is getting; it's so very, very, sad.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 4:12 PM
There's always the possibility of banning remaining commenters, Gary.
I had just (about ten seconds ago) resisted clicking the link to that article from the Times's front page, being naturally unwilling to give in to the "something something and sex" teaser.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 4:14 PM
LB: How about getting a job you like that still requires massive procrastination? Lubbock optional.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 4:15 PM
MW: isn't that what graduate school is for?
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 4:18 PM
I've thought about grad school -- econ sounds like fun, but I can't afford it right now, what with the debt and the kids. Anyway, I'd have to take a bunch of undergrad prereqs first, having squandered my actual undergrad education on physics and medieval lit.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 4:23 PM
Cala--It needn't stop with graduate school! It stops with tenure denial.
Now back to that syllabus.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 4:26 PM
Since SB isn't here to say it, I will.
physics and medieval lit
[swoon]
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 4:37 PM
The way it worked out, I actually know very little of either. (Three semesters of physics, realized that I wasn't going to excel to the point where my future looked terribly exciting, and I was bored. Changed schools, took courses at random, and after a year or so had a panicky moment with the course catalog trying to shoehorn the courses I'd already taken into a major that would let me graduate in four years. Medieval Studies was it.)
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 4:52 PM
LB, if you want him to stop stalking you, just admit that you fart occasionally. (Or you can soak up the adulation!)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 4:56 PM
Matt's got a point. Physics, Med-Lit slacker is hardly less swoonworthy.
But that other word I'm going to have to add to the blacklist.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 4:57 PM
Labs? Alameida? Bob? Someone with posting privileges? Can we have a fart thread?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:01 PM
52: It's a fair cop.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:01 PM
Too late, apostropher.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:06 PM
Hmm, I just tried to post a comment and your script told me the comment was being held because the post was over two weeks old.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:07 PM
Ogged! You didn't!
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:09 PM
I did!
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:09 PM
From now on, the act of passing gas is known on this blog as "ogging."
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:10 PM
That's fine, as long as I don't have to read that horrible other word.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:12 PM
Trying to think of what words suffer the fate of "socialism"...
oggher is the only one I can come up with. and I guess you can always substitute uggher.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:15 PM
hm, you can say 'cialis'.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:16 PM
What with the cock jokes, there might be good reason to use the word Cialis.
Posted by Kriston | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:18 PM
Generally, it's not a good idea to ban words, because it has unintended consequences, and blocks stuff you don't want blocked. I can unblock the word if you all promise to use it responsibly. Though I don't understand why "passing gas" and other creative euphemisms aren't enough for you.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:19 PM
phart phart phart phart phart phart
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:21 PM
I will ban every letter of the alphabet!!!!
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:23 PM
I promise to use it responsibly. I doubt that we all will so promise.
(If someone starts an ogg thread, can we use it there? You don't have to look.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:24 PM
Ok, it's unbanned. In the unlikely event that one of my co-bloggers posts, there's not much I can do.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:25 PM
He never has to look. He can smell it.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:26 PM
he said co-blOGGers....
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:29 PM
Somebody ogged.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:30 PM
Huh?
What word are we banning?
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:44 PM
The Anglo-Saxon for flatulence.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:52 PM
That was very considerate, LB.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:54 PM
While my feelings aren't as strong as yours, I have a certain amount of sympathy for them.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 5:57 PM
Don't see why you miss BW and SB.
Posted by Kriston | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 6:21 PM
How about getting a job you like that still requires massive procrastination?
Hurrah for academia.
Posted by cw | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 6:56 PM
"I had just (about ten seconds ago) resisted clicking the link to that article from the Times's front page, being naturally unwilling to give in to the "something something and sex" teaser."
Not enough mystery?
But who's right? The sexy woman pro-environmentalist? The anti-sexual-display feminist? The male environmentalist? Col. Mustard in the Study?
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 08-25-05 6:58 PM
In honor of the word that may now only be used with great delicacy and responsibility, I offer to the assembled this early seventeenth century poem about a matter of some historical import.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-26-05 6:22 AM
Why is it that Standpipe is gone again? I miss her/him.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 08-26-05 8:24 AM
I was thinking about this lately, about mystery and sexiness and etc.
Since Gary is trying to stir up shit (we can say that, right?), I'll say that that article makes it seem as though the anti-display feminist's position has no merits. (I had typed something about how her points are no good, but... well, don't let's go there.) "We are against the stereotype of a woman as a sex object" seems in this case to amount to "We are against acknowledging that women have sex and can be desirable"--the ad even says "The man I choose," and the picture is hardly revealing at all.
I might worry that the ad would be ineffective, because no one will read the fine print about how turtle eggs don't work. But that's another issue.
(Disclosure: I went to college with the poet-naturalist's daughter. Actually that's not disclosure, it's name-dropping.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 08-26-05 8:59 AM
Mills was headed to Belgium, last we heard, and I have no idea where Michael's been.
I'm still in NYC for a short while yet tying up loose ends and occasionally reading unfogged et alia. But commenting just tends to lead to more commenting, and I really need to get stuff other than commenting on blogs done. I haven't seen Michael, but then I've been avoiding the Mineshaft for the same reasons mentioned above.
Plus, you know, with SB on hiatus, Unfogged is just a pale shadow of its former self.
Soon I'll be back in Texas for a week, and then off to Greece to rejoin the fiancee for our small thin Greek wedding, before we finally settle in Belgium for the duration of the soon-to-be-wife's studies (and perhaps longer).
Also, enjoy!
Posted by Mitch Mills | Link to this comment | 08-26-05 11:41 AM
I was 3/4th through this movie before I realized that the kid was farting. I thought he was squeaking.
Posted by Joe O | Link to this comment | 08-26-05 12:25 PM
I feel as though this is my fault.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 08-26-05 12:35 PM
"Since Gary is trying to stir up shit...."
And here I thought I was trying to stir up thoughtfulness, and consideration.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 08-26-05 2:37 PM
Well, "food fight" was your term.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 08-26-05 2:39 PM
Anyway, I didn't keep the next two commenters from talking about oggs.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 08-26-05 2:40 PM
in taberna quando sumus
non curamus quid sit humus
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 08-27-05 8:51 AM
ego sum abbas!
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 08-27-05 9:15 AM
circa mea pectora
multa sunt suspiria
de tua pulchritudine, Cala.
Posted by Anonymous | Link to this comment | 08-27-05 9:17 AM
LB said, "I am so in the throes of trying to figure out a career change."
Matt said, "How about getting a job you like that still requires massive procrastination"
You know LB, lots of people move to teaching law from private practice. I just met someone yesterday who did that. It wouldn't require more school, you could still pay bills (though it might require some downsizing), and as Matt points out we could still enjoy the occasional comment from you.
Posted by cw | Link to this comment | 08-27-05 9:43 AM
If you're thinking of taking cw's advice, I retract the part about "Lubbock optional."
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 08-27-05 10:42 AM
Yes, it's not a career that's very compatible with strong preferences about where you live. I've escaped my lubbock equivalent, for now.
Posted by cw | Link to this comment | 08-27-05 11:12 AM
"Well, 'food fight' was your term."
I've used the term in my life, but don't have any recollection of using it here recently. Could you kindly link to the comment you are referring to, please?
Incidentally, while there's Little Going On Here, my blog is chock full of entertainment value with a number of posts from today and yesterday perhaps informative and amusing, or perhaps full of some wacked ass stupid shit. You be the judge. Commenting is even allowed, and everything. Including cock jokes.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 08-27-05 4:29 PM
Gary: comment 44, this thread, which was the first time you linked the Mexican advertisement story.
Sadly, I am not ideally situated to make cock jokes on your blog right now--Monday?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 08-27-05 5:29 PM
Speaking of people who haven't commented for a while, what about L? Anyone hear from her lately? "Hi! Welcome to Tulane. We're glad to have you here. Now please evacuate." I feel for ya, kid.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 08-27-05 5:45 PM
I don't know about you, but I spent a good portion of my first week at college evacuating, reverse peristaltically.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 08-27-05 9:01 PM
"Gary: comment 44, this thread, which was the first time you linked the Mexican advertisement story."
Ah. Sorry; I thought you were referring to another thread; my mistake.
"Sadly, I am not ideally situated to make cock jokes on your blog right now--Monday?"
Suck me, baby.
I've been writing quite a bit this weekend so far, it turns out, though perhaps I'll slow down tomorrow. Who the hell knows? I'm a wild and crazy guy.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 08-27-05 9:02 PM
Re: 98
I was just thinking the same thing. Hopefully L.'s okay.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-28-05 2:46 PM
Back
I have woefully neglected my Blog and the Frathaus throughout July and August.
Two excuses.
a) July and Early August. Mega stress with some difficult types from Poland.
b) Last two weeks. Holiday with the kids.
I even got to read Pale Fire: Thanks for the tip.
Oh and thanks for asking! :)
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 08-29-05 6:55 AM
http://www.sexeici.com/gai/mmmak/gays/auctions/man.html dimlyfingeringwelcomed
Posted by space | Link to this comment | 01-17-06 1:46 PM