Turning into someone's driveway is actually a very useful power in chases. They're coming after you--and then all they see is an extra driveway! Where'd he go?
I am obviously not in tune with the Grand Theft Auto world. I'll just link to this, then.
For some reason I can't get this video to play in firefox (it works in IE), but it should be shown in all driver's ed classes.
Having only twiddled with any of the GTA series (including the prequel based on the Italian job, old version), I have to ask: do they really have some homeboy walking down the street with an RPG in San Andreas or did they fake that up for the commercial?
ash
['Big fan of RPG's.']
Dang, now Ogged doesn't read the site. He's going the way of Unf.
No, I remember that, I just chose to comment on it here. Is that ok, Matt?
ogged cranky. Someone poke him again.
Did the Tivo just reset? That seems anticlimactic.
Uh, kidding at 11, if that wasn't clear. And 13 was supposed to be the follow-up.
I'm appalled that you didn't ban SCMT from the site for his egregiously insensitive use of the sexist term "MRS degree", ogged. Sure, you reprimanded him, but we all know that that kind of nod-and-a-wink wrist-slapping in the face of truly hurtful language is just one more way that the patriarchy maintains its hegemony.
(How was that, poke-wise?)
I think I just put my peanut butter in your chocolate, ogged. NOW the Tivo has been reset, albeit accidentally.
For PG:
My hedgie lies over the ocean
My hegdie lies over the sea
My hedgie lies over the ocean
Oh bring back my hegemony.
(14: Clear, no worries; 12: I'm ignoring you; in general: was 'poke' in 9 indicative?)
Chopper, I have no idea of what you're talking about in 17, but I will never be able to enjoy s'mores ever again. Thanks.
We rename the animal Hegemonical Trevor.
You put peanut butter on your s'mores? What are you, a commie?
I especially like how the last line doesn't scan.
No, 24 is praise. Really.
Matt: You're ignoring me? Why? Just because I implied that you let ogged ride your baloney pony?
SB: Not s'mores. Old Reese's Peanut Butter Cups commercial.
What's wrong with the last line? It doesn't work if you pronounce "hegemony" correctly, but of course in these situations one lets pronunciation be subordinate to rhythm. HEgeMOny.
Yes, I know, but whenever I do that, DE gets on my case. So I was hoping to foster some writers-of-verse-that-annoys-DE cameraderie going.
I used wrote too many verbs.
Er, it would be counterproductive to say "'camaraderie'," wouldn't it? So I won't.
I always assumed that was part of little dress-up games. ogged is the mommy, Matt is the baby, somebody has a boom-boom, and then even my mind doesn't want to take it any farther.
Matt, you sly paralipsist, you.
Well, in the comment that you linked to in 27, "w-lfs-n" sure is a funny way to spell "DE".
I used a canonical element instead of quotienting by an equivalence class.
Google sez:
paralepsis, 720 hits
paralipsis, 973 hits
Let's call it an acceptable variation.
Even better, wikipedia includes "paraleipsis" as an alternate.
Didn't we used to call that 'praeteritio'? I can't find the original Alameida post so I may be spelling it wrong. Or maybe I should've kept away from the blue acid.
I wanted to use the agent form of praeteriteo, but I hadn't the slightest idea what it was. "Praeteriteodor"?
Dude, I'm not even going to mention the picture below that post.
Wasn't that originally a picture of a star-nosed mole?
Praeterititor? On the supposition that the "eo" at the end is a basic verb (eo, ire, ivi/ii, itum) in front of which a bunch of stuff has been crammed.
Ash, the RPG really is in the game, and you can walk down the street with it should you choose to do so. (You can't run with it, though, and it's tricky to aim.)