For some reason I always read "crocheting" as crotch-et-ing, as in "being crotchety." I picture you sitting in a booth at the center of concentric rings of seated kids saying "In my day we didn't have these fancy..." and then you point at a kid and ask them to fill in the blank. You really can't start kids too soon on this.
You know who crocheted? Hitl James Buchanan.
Ooh, fun! I would definitely stop by to learn if I were there, but instead I'll spend my weekend knitting this and this.
Since Paulina Porizkova is a knitter who's met LB, I think we should start a rumor about her attendance.
It would have been called "Ye Olde Maeker Faire" is they really wanted to offend people with extra 'e's.
I am crocheting frantically for the last couple of days -- I'm a much better crocheter than I am a knitter, but I've been mostly knitting the last year. After volunteering for this I had a moment when I realized that I really should get my hand back in before purporting to be able to teach anyone anything.
This looks pretty neat.
I was looking to see if my friend ada will be there (it's a little hard to imagine she won't be) but if she is she'll probably be insanely mobbed the whole time.
Huh, guess not. They're in asia, working on "something".
Even though the odds of us not killing were very small given our programming, we'd still prefer to keep some sense of our own agency. There was at least the possibility that we might have only maimed. You Calvinist code-monkeys haven't completely oppressed us.
Would anyone like to hear me burp again?
No?
Okay. NM.
3: You mean you're going to start on those this weekend, right? Not finish them. If you can do that -- with a kid! -- I'll be a sock monkey's uncle.
13: I'm most of the way through the sweater already and started the shawl last night, but I'm sure there will be no finishing. If I get out my yarn, that's Mara's cue to decide she wants to sit in my lap. Sometimes if I give her yarn of her own to build a spider web, she'll leave me alone for a little while, but I get almost no knitting done when Mara's around.
Phew. I was going to feel even more inadequate about my ability to finish projects.
You know who crocheted?
Very few of those people are FAME-MOOSE.
Good lord, Thorn. You can make sweaters like that?! That's gorgeous.
16: George Washington Carver? You racist!
18: I think there was a Schoolhouse Rock that featured George Washington Carver. Which is to say, yes, you're right, he's famous.
But I'm still not sure he's FAME-MOOSE!
The killer robots are already here. They're just waiting for the moment in which our own extinction comes as a relief to us.
George Washington Carver is definitely FAME-MOOSE, if only because his story is such a helpful one to tell to elementary school kids come February.
21: KEVORKOBOT'S MISSION IS A MISSION OF CHARITY.
22 actually wasn't me. But honestly, it's a better comment than I've left in years.
The problem with taking someone else's name as your handle is that he might one day show up.
How is Italy treating you, Mr. Von Wafer?
If it's all the same to you, VW, I'm going to delete it anyway.
I looked at it and wondered -- the TOS has been impersonating more lately. He did a spate of posing as Shearer a couple of days ago that weren't wholeheartedly trying to be deceptive (wrong middle initial, out of character sexual links and comments) but that were in part a pretty good imitation; one got me doing a three-second double-take before I realized.
Holy crap, I remember Diesel Sweeties. It must have been around for over a decade now!
Anyone I don't know, obviously you should ask anyone crocheting if they'd like to sex Mutombo. That can't possibly go wrong.
One should yell very loudly 'HAS ANYONE SEEN MUTOMBO'S CROCHETING AROUND HERE?', being careful to mispronounce 'crochet' as 'crotch-ey-eng'.
To maximize embarrassment AND confusion at the same time, while minimizing trouble for the shouty person, of course.
max
['Feel free to add 'IT WAS VERY SEXING!'']
Well, a bunch of people now know how to crochet who didn't used to. I didn't manage to see much of the rest of it, but Sally and her friend the Pianist thought it was moderately awesome.
Isn't Sally a little young to be having a friend you refer to with that kind of nickname?
No, you horrible filthy-minded little man.
(I was wondering if anyone would take it the wrong way -- the piano thing is this girl's primary identifying feature. But perhaps I will come up with some other epithet by which to refer to her, given the low-minded people I apparently associate with.)
The first seven and final eight words of 33 might constitute my favorite subset of an LB comment ever.
They're completely unwarranted, of course. 32 was perfectly within conversational norms around here.
The first five words of 35 are just awful.
In German, horrible filthy-minded little man is ein Giftzwerg.
Be not concerned, LB, since your 33 is also within conversational norms, given my assumption that you weren't sincerely reviling me.
But perhaps I will come up with some other epithet by which to refer to her, given the low-minded people I apparently associate with.
"88 Fingers Emily"
"The Ivory Tickler"
Actually, no. Google suggests this is a common enough title to make it a boring joke.
Unfogged isn't low-minded? Or LB doesn't associate herself with it?