I am confident that should, God forbid, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness and wishing to signal for help, that streak of safety orange will serve you far better than the more stylish but sadly unobtrusive gray and black, which you wisely, in the name of your very survival, decided to forgo.
I believe the word for stashing small items is "secret" and that "secrete" is more for mucus and the like. I suppose someone will come up with a dictionary that says otherwise, but I'm already sad, so fuck it.
You are (to the best of my knowledge) correct about secrete, and SB's question really adds something -- it'd be like a really, really weird superhero power.
36: well then there's yet another possible meaning, which is that slol secretes into locations unknown all and only those things that he has to carry in his cummerbund (though what those things might be is beyond me).
I'm sure there's some reason that's not like this, but I don't know what it is.
Unlike for articles, the English and French rules for infinitives conflict: you either get grammatical English that offends the French, or vice versa. Since it was an English sentence I offended the French.
Nicer than us, you mean?
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 3:56 PM
He means real people. We're just pretend.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 4:01 PM
You're going to love those colors for years to come.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 4:11 PM
But it will be nice for holding your packets of Andro-Gel.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 4:12 PM
You're feeling threatened by my metrosexuality, aren't you?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 4:19 PM
"Ballistic nylon"? Can you carry that on a flight?
Posted by Anderson | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 4:25 PM
I suppose that was the best pair of colors available.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 4:25 PM
in brown/orange.
Never would have figured you for a Browns fan.
Or are you a Bengals man?
Also, poor Ann Richards.
Posted by M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 4:26 PM
Well, if you think of an inattention to esthetics as masculine, it'll make you look manly. So that's something.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 4:27 PM
I am confident that should, God forbid, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness and wishing to signal for help, that streak of safety orange will serve you far better than the more stylish but sadly unobtrusive gray and black, which you wisely, in the name of your very survival, decided to forgo.
The brown, though, has no possible defense.
Also.
Go on, remind me that I like the metal-sided nuclear-code suitcase-o'-cash briefcase. See if I care.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 4:42 PM
Slol just secretes whatever he needs to carry around in the folds of his cummerbund.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 4:51 PM
I am trying very hard to figure out how that "secretes" could have been intentional, since it's Wolfson and all, but damn.
Posted by DaveL | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 4:54 PM
Slol just secretes whatever he needs to carry around in the folds of his cummerbund.
Probably looks better than that bag, too.
Posted by Tarrou | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 4:54 PM
Precious, but small, documents.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 4:55 PM
Slol just secretes whatever he needs to carry around in the folds of his cummerbund.
Does the PP attach to the VP or the NP?
Posted by standpipe b | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 4:56 PM
Secrete has more than one definition.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 4:56 PM
Does the PP attach to the VP or the NP?
You abide by a mysterious grammar, SB.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 4:59 PM
Your grampa, however, is a model of clarity.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:00 PM
It's a valid question, and relevant to the (apparent) polysemy of "secrete."
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:01 PM
I stopped a woman in the store and said, "Is this ugly?" (Meaning the bag.)
It would have been mortifying if she had thought you meant your penis in your hand.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:01 PM
I believe the word for stashing small items is "secret" and that "secrete" is more for mucus and the like. I suppose someone will come up with a dictionary that says otherwise, but I'm already sad, so fuck it.
Posted by DaveL | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:01 PM
I just want to know whether your cummerbund is doing the secreting or the carrying.
Posted by standpipe b | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:02 PM
You are (to the best of my knowledge) correct about secrete, and SB's question really adds something -- it'd be like a really, really weird superhero power.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:03 PM
I understood more than I professed.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:04 PM
24 to 19.
Okay, everyone stop talking about my cummerbund. Some things are personal.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:05 PM
it'd be like a really, really weird superhero power.
I can't find my keys! Fortunately, I'm wearing a tux.
Posted by standpipe b | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:05 PM
DaveL believes wrongly.
While I understand the ambiguity SB's question points out I don't know how to answer it correctly. Wah.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:05 PM
Fuck. Wonder where along the way I picked that one up.
Posted by DaveL | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:06 PM
26: Exactly.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:07 PM
Actually, I don't think the answer to SB's question has anything to do with the ambiguous meaning of "secrete."
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:10 PM
Ogged, now that your bag identifies you as a blogger, you're pretty much committing to keep blogging, eh?
Posted by mrh | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:11 PM
The cummerbund is just minding its own business.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:13 PM
I don't think Ben's intended meaning really works if the PP attaches to the NP.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:13 PM
I know I have a sense of dignity in here somewhere....
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:13 PM
26 would be right if I had said "into", not "in".
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:13 PM
26 would be right if I had said "into", not "in".
If cummerbund's folds are the loci of secretion, "in" works no problems. Also eeeeeeewwww.
Posted by standpipe b | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:17 PM
Hey, slol, it could be worse. You've seen ogged's new bag, right?
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:18 PM
If cummerbund's…
Sorry, didn't mean to tutoyer your garment, slol.
Posted by standpipe b | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:19 PM
Yeah, but I really need to see ogged with the new bag to get the proper effect.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:19 PM
You all are sick, sick people.
Posted by cummerbund | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:19 PM
36: well then there's yet another possible meaning, which is that slol secretes into locations unknown all and only those things that he has to carry in his cummerbund (though what those things might be is beyond me).
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:21 PM
I'm sure there's some reason that's not like this, but I don't know what it is.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:22 PM
So did you get her number, ogged?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:29 PM
I'm sure there's some reason that's not like this, but I don't know what it is.
Unlike for articles, the English and French rules for infinitives conflict: you either get grammatical English that offends the French, or vice versa. Since it was an English sentence I offended the French.
Posted by standpipe b | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:31 PM
Take that, the French! Hon hon hon!
Posted by standpipe b | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:32 PM
Don't listen to the haters, the T2 is the better bag. And for brown/orange, which is normally an icky combo, those shades aren't bad.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:39 PM
It's perfect for the opera, too.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 5:43 PM
OMG
Posted by yoyo | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 6:09 PM
Oh, no. I posted the wrong link to the Human Skin Bag in the earlier thread.
Here is the right one.
Posted by Gaijin Biker | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 6:29 PM
Look at the bright side, Ogged. Your new bag doesn't smell like a funky wetsuit.
Posted by Paul | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 8:14 PM
49: Thank goodness. I was going to tell you that I thought you had been skinning something other than humans, but I didn't want to burst your bubble.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 09-14-06 8:17 PM