What's the [straights-speaking-of-] lesbian equivalent of 'clean and articulate'?
"Married."
In this case, where the context is a rightwing nutter attacking young socialists because they're supposedly all cowardly traitors, you should as it shows that yes, the very same people demonized by the right do have physical as well as moral courage. Just like e.g. it is important to emphasise that the guy on flight 93 was gay too....
"Not conspicuously handy with the renovation of Victorian houses"?
Should you emphasize the fact that the heroes are lesbians or not?
It's okay, just make them Armenians.
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What's some good phrasing for politely letting my new boss know she keeps transposing two letters in an important acronym? It's a mistake that makes sense as a slip of the tongue, and I believed she was aware of it and working on it, but it seems to be solidifying as she just made the same slip in writing.
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5: In the US, long hair would probably qualify you more as being a lipstick lesbian, but sensible Scandanavians tend to have more practical hairstyles.
Did they run and hide? No, they're lesbians.
Love this.
What's some good phrasing for politely letting my new boss know she keeps transposing two letters in an important acronym?
"Ha! Every time I see abDCe, I keep mispronouncing it in my head LIKETHIS!"
This really is a great story. Norway's a monarchy -- can they be knighted or something for it?
16: Nobel Peace Prize! Then we need the song, the movie, the Broadway how and the TV series and they win!
The 1821 Nobility Law (Norwegian: Adelsloven) initiated a long-range abolition of all noble titles and privileges, while the current nobility were allowed to keep their titles for the rest of their lives. The man who seems to have been the last titled Norwegian nobleman, Count Peder Anker Wedel-Jarlsberg, died in 1893.
16: yes, they can. Norway has an order of chivalry (Order of St Olaf) though they would presumably be damed rather than knighted.
There are also non-chivalrous honours that might apply, like the Medal of Heroic Deeds.
Knighthood? Pshaw, they're valkyries.
What's some good phrasing for politely letting my new boss know she keeps transposing two letters in an important acronym?
Keep transposing two letters in her name and when she corrects you, scream "OH YOU MEAN LIKE HOW YOU KEEP SAYING NRA WHEN YOU MEAN RNA?"
I've been wondering what the polite thing to do is when someone calls you by the wrong name once, and then you assume it's just a slip of the tongue, and then they do it again, and you're all "wait, but?" and you're already down the hall, and then suddenlytime has passed and the person has definitely thought for at least six months that your name is something other than it is and you have nodded enthusiastically as if it were.
Say, "Oh that's my Liberian name".
11: "This is just a tiny nitpick, but you wrote ACB instead of ABC." If she looks pissed about it, you could turn it into a getting-to-know-you moment where you sincerely ask if she finds it annoying when other people proofread for her.
There are also non-chivalrous honours that might apply, like the Medal of Heroic Deeds.
That is the least imaginative name for an award of honor that I have ever read. Come on, Norway.
Oh, the name isn't very imaginative, but the Medal does come with a sled-trained reindeer with barding and a lifetime supply of reindeer feed, as well as the right to park your reindeer in reserved parking throughout Norway.
What if the reindeer dies? Do you get a lifetime supply of reindeer, too?
If the cause of death is anything other than old age (or, of course, in case of an invasion of Norway, death in battle) the Medal is retracted for failure to properly maintain the associated reindeer.
That is the least imaginative name for an award of honor that I have ever read. Come on, Norway.
Here's a big old list of Norwegian public honors. How about the "Medal for Noble Deeds at Sea"?
It's as if I'm the only person on the blog who remembers their eighth grade Comparative Civics course.
29: Not bad, but "Military Gold Medal for Marching"? Come on, Norway. Up your game! "It is with baubles that men* are led," per Napoleon.
* And now women, I guess.
What Gjøvik lass would not swoon at the sight of a Volunteer Shooting Organisations Badge for Biathlon Capability?
21: A colleague once popped into my office to inform me that he just had a half hour conversation with the president of the college, and only at the end of it realized that the president thought that he was me.
Neither of us were sure who comes off looking better for being mistaken for the other.
Do you actually look alike? That is, was he confusing similar faces, or did he not know at all which name went with which face.
We both have had long hair at various times and sometimes show up at the office looking like we are there to help a band unload their van in exchange for some beer.
Once again, Life imitates The Onion (if 13 years later):
June 27, 1998
FALMOUTH, MA--Near-tragedy turned to joy Monday, when Phillip and Karen Widman and their two children were rescued from their burning house on Locust Street by Kevin Lassally, a homosexual man...
"The older child started crying, saying that her parents were still in the house," said Lassally, who prefers the company of men to women. "So I had to go back in for them." ...
Lassally is modest in the face of so many tributes: "I've always believed that one [homosexual] really can make a difference.">>
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-homosexual-saves-four-from-fire,1553/
21: move town and never, ever visit that person again .. or that's what I did.
26 and 28 are splendid.
But I like the Medal of Heroic Deeds. It has a vaguely D&D sound to it. And it's a lot easier to understand than some of the British honours whose names are frankly obscure or risible (George Cross? Victoria Cross? Sound like suburban shopping malls. Order of the Bath? Order of the Garter? ffs. Order of the British Empire? also ffs, given it's now basically the Order of the Falklands, Bermuda, Various Caribbean Bits And Pieces, Diego Garcia, And, Arguably, A Chunk Of Antarctica.)
38.last: Gibraltar? Pitcairn Island? Tristan de Cunha? I'd call it strategically positioned to ride out the apocalypse.
Not sure the Antarctic treaty will survive the apocalypse, but if it does, the British bases are all on the opposite side of what's left of the continent from the MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, which are -- like the spaceship THE THING landed in -- nearer the magnetic pole*, and thus in Russian Anarctic territory I believe.
*Or where it used to be, I see it's in the sea these days.
40: that's not altogether a good thing because it gives the Russians unchallenged control over the only known population of shoggoths, a potential strategic asset of unimaginable importance. Gentlemen, we cannot allow a shoggoth gap!
(See "A Colder War", http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm, the first and still the best story by Stross I've ever read.)
See what you can get done when you wear comfortable shoes?
The article is hitting the US mainstream news, finally -- Yahoo News article this morning.