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The Rolling Stones are in New York for a 12-12-12 benefit concert to aid the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Producers say the event “will have unprecedented and historic global distribution, similar to that of the Superbowl, the Academy Awards®, and the Grammys®.” The concert will live-stream from 29 web sites including YouTube and will also feature Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Dave Grohl, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, Roger Waters, Eddie Vedder, Kanye West and The Who. Celebrity presenters include Jon Stewart, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Combs and Chris Rock.
Will Over Easy eventually become known as just OE on FDL?
Here is a true statement:
Kellen Christensen @kdc824
What a weird time we live in; the sheriff just mentioned the #clackamasshooting hashtag
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Internet slang refers to a variety of everyday languages used by different communities on the Internet. The new becomes known within a matter of hours. Is Time an Illusion?
1. InternetSlang.com reports its current trending terms (most looked up). As of December 10, 2012, the top five are acronyms:
1. YOLO You Only Live Once
2. SMH Shaking My Head
3. OOMF One Of My Friends/Followers
4. YMCMB Young Money Cash Money Billionaires
5. OOTD Offer Of The Day or Outfit Of The Day
No one can hear you scream on Twitter.
The military uses acronym, and so do the stock market and climate change communities. While the United States Supreme Court is set to review a controversial issue best known by its acronym, a D.C. Circuit Judge Calls Use of Acronyms ‘Painful.‘ Judge Laurence Silberman explains:
“Here,” the judge wrote in June, “both parties abandoned any attempt to write in plain English, instead abbreviating every conceivable agency and statute involved, familiar or not.” Recognize these? The examples Silberman highlighted: SNF (spent nuclear fuel); HLW (high-level radioactive waste); and NWF (Nuclear Waste Fund).
2. Text (((hugs))) have magical powers, even if the person cannot see them. At least that is true in our community.
In October we learned that Firedoglake beloved front page editor John Chandley, aka Scarecrow, had been diagnosed with a serious illness. Hugs are in order: (((John/Scarecrow)))
3. Engaging a troll in fact-based rational discussion is futile. Hence the acronym DNFTT. Or, the flag:
Margaret January 18th, 2012 at 10:05 pm 6
Flagged…
There are various types of trolling:
The book lol…OMG! is “very good, and an easy read. But not lighthearted — these kids don’t realize that what they post is like their official school record, which follows them practically forever.” (hat tip msmolly) lol…OMG! on Amazon.
Ever heard the terms ‘Dead Man Troll’ or ‘necrobully?’
4. WOOT: WOOT is “Hurrah (Wow, Loot!).”
Petrocelli February 17th, 2012 at 10:05 pm
3
*wOOt !* *wOOt !* … {{{{{ SUZ }}}}}
The Onion’s Plan For Solving The Fiscal Cliff Crisis. Why didn’t we think of these easy solutions? WOOT!/s
STEP ONE: Eliminate school breakfast and lunch programs, Medicaid, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, Medicare, PBS, New Mexico, elk, the Coast Guard, and all dams.
STEP TWO: Eliminate all nonessential public school programs entirely and offer only three courses: Corn Farming, Nuclear Weaponry, and Print Journalism.
5. On FDL, this person:
I’m waiting for the day when EPU’d threads become like underground salons where the hipper-than-thou FDLers hang out and chat once the …
is talking about threads where the discussion has ended and most everyone has moved on to another (EPU’d threads).
6. How are you feeling today, on 12-12-12? Pick from this list of emoticons and let us know!
An SAT Disappointment Story, in Emoticons
7. Snark
Gmail outage provokes snark, anxiety among users
/s
OmAli December 10th, 2012 at 8:23 am
I’d be thrilled to power my house for $2500/ yr with photovoltaics.…
Doing that research and manufacturing here, right?/s
In unique end-of-comment evolution, Over Easy: Monday Science author Boxturtle removes the / symbol and inserts a concise and brief parenthetical ‘take’:
BoxTurtle December 11th, 2012 at 8:04 am 2
Your link to salon is bad.
Boxturtle (You horrible person, you!)
8. SOPA
Protect IP/SOPA Breaks the Internet
A Half-Time Analysis of the Summit That Could Shape the Future of the Internet
9. Twitter is ready for 12-12-12
William Howard Taft @WilliamTaft27
I was president the last time it was 12/12/12!
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Pete Cashmore @mashable
12-12-12 Sandy Relief Concert Will Be Largest Event in Music History http://on.mash.to/W3Ayq5
10. LOL, WOOT! This is Over Easy, not the end of the world…
When did you first encounter acronyms, emoticons and other slang? What terms have you recently looked up? Please feel free to share perspective over coffee, tea, juice or breakfast! Or else, be the one who grabs the 12:12:12 12/12/12 comment:)
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ZED
Far out, you ZED’d me! Confession: I had to ask what this is. Mason says it’s the first to comment, and it is “an old Firedoglake thing.”
Good morning Crane and may I say, exeptionally well done! The ZED is indeed the first comment and dates back to the earliest days at FDL.
Good morning all yet to arrive Dinerzens.
Thanks, C-S, snif, you take me back to days working on the Alphabet Soup that our government departments’ initials used to be called. But I don’t tweet, so am not Of The Body.
Woo Hoo! I get honorable mention in another Over easy thread! I’m famous!!
Boxturtle (But then why do I still get asked for ID when I write a check?)
We were late to Twitter; joined during the Egypt revolution, and one must have an urban dictionary in hand for the government stuff!
I don’t tweet either. Nor do I have a facebook, myspace, or youtube account.
Boxturtle (yet the government can still find me quickly)
What a fun post, Crane-Station!
ZED dates back to when FDL was changing over to a new comment numbering system, and the first comment was numbered “zero” or 0, and folks started using “ZED” as “zero.” Correctly, it’s NOT zero, but the name stuck, and FDLers claimed “the zed” if they were the first comment.
Wikipedia: Zed (or Z), in Commonwealth English, is the name of the twenty-sixth and final letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet (Americans pronounce the letter zee.)
And EPU is named after a commenter named “Evil Parallel Universe” who used to arrive very late to a thread and leave a comment in “EPU land.”
Truly unique, and a great example of nuance. I remember asking Mason, “What about the paranthetical end-of-comment summary.” He said, “Oh, that’s Boxturtle with an end-thought.”
Good morning CS! Thanks for the post and host. This is wonderful! Thanks too for shouting out my crew, the YMCMB.
That just goes to show you are old but slow NSM.
12-12-12 NBD unless you reverse the middle digits which then takes on a wholly different matter, not that that number matters either………. maybe ?
You were talking to me. Does that make me famous by association?
I like to think of it as BT’s punch line.
Good morning CS, fellow firepups.
I tried to get the Zed this AM but may settle for EPU land.(no teaching today)
Thanks for the history. Slang takes its own personality within communities, very interesting. I thought the EPU was derived from motherboard technology, but wasn’t sure.
Nobody has a myspace account anymore. Duh.
As a cabinetmaker my favorite customers are the DINKs ( Double Income No Kids)
Jeez, I’ve got the slang dictionary up in a separate tab now!
The EPUland in yesterday’s post was active until after 8 last night. Tons of fun.
Of course!
I don’t tweet, nor do I really follow anyone on Twitter. I do have Facebook, because a couple of years ago my son said, “If you want to keep up with the kids (my grandkids), that’s where they are.”
Another fun thing some of us who have been around here awhile was when we could link our Facebook profile to our FDL account, and then the little “f” Facebook symbol would show up next to our name at the top of a comment, and clicking on it would go to our Facebook page. That was a fad that sorta died out, and now the current FDL technology doesn’t (AFAIK) provide that capability.
That’s too funny!
I wish I was a DINK.
avoiding EPU @ Attaturk’s thread…
JSIDB, ranting against having his pocket picked by unions… hmmmm, no mandate for membership, eh Joe? Freeloading on the back of collective bargaining…Joe Scarborough the new model of welfare queen.
BoxTurtle said the parenthetical at the end of his comment dates back to older Internet commenting systems. I will let him explain, cause I’ll muck it up.
You can still set the URL that the hyperlink of your name (only at the top of a comment you author) will go to.
The hyperlink of your name at the top of your comments currently goes to your FDL member profile, but can be changed to anything you want.
The hyperlink of your name in someone’s reply goes to the comment that they are replying to.
Twice as good as a SINK!
Fess up, Box. Is this a Usenet thing?
I just read that Ravi Shankar has passed away.
My friends say I do that because I always have to have the last word.
Boxturtle (Dunno how they got that impression)
Try to stay away from NINK -
Which so many of us are.
I was around back then lurking, but didn’t start commenting until after Valerie Plame was outed.
I immediately began specializing in having conversations with myself at the end of epu’d threads.
I remember bits and pieces of things from the early days.
Don’t you guys have parrots?
You can look at it as reflected glory if you wish.
Boxturtle (Memo to self: Must work on modesty before Santa notices)
Seething at the news stenographers on local news saying Right To Work makes it illegal to charge union dues to workers. No mention that they get all the benefits, none of the obligations.
I didn’t have one before it was cool. I must be a Hipster!
Boxturtle (Can I be one without hanging around obscure coffee shops?)
Splendid and fabulous piece, m’ dear.
Recommended.
That does make you a hipster.
And if the hipsters in your neighborhood hang out at obscure coffee shops, hanging out at obscure coffee shops is no longer cool. By default, you are hipster-er than they are.
I haven’t bothered, but I think now that the “f” symbol doesn’t appear next to your name even if you link your Facebook profile.
Here are a couple more that I *think* are local to FDL.
*g* is “grin” and *G* is “huge grin”
Wow, that’s too bad. I heard him play in concert a few years ago. With his daughter, I think.
Didn’t know you were a teacher!
Well, I started doing it back on Compuserve (anybody remember them?)and then migrated to Usenet.
In the old days of Usenet, there was a concept called a signature block. Some people took it to extremes, with ascii art and such to the point that their block was typically longer than their post! It typically included a disclaimer that your post was yours alone and did not reflect the position of the posting host, meatspace contact information, and something humorous.
I hated the ones who went to extremes, as I was dial up at the time. And the ISP’s were all going to a generic disclaimer on their home pages, so that part of the block was pointless. I finally decided that the humor was the only thing worthwhile and if I couldn’t fit it in a single sentence I was being too wordy.
Boxturtle (Should I have begun this with “once upon a time”?)
I just learned that Norah Jones is his daughter. I enjoy her singing.
Congrats!
You’re comment 12 on 12-12-12.
I’m all for Judge Silberman, I cannot remember acronyms or what they are supposed to be shortened descriptions of.
Good Morning Pups, nice diary Crane-Station.
So, it began as a type of disclaimer, very interesting. Succinct humor/satire is most useful.
Only if you end it with,
The signature “blocks” over at Koz are ONE of the reasons I don’t read there. The comment threads are way too hard to follow, and everyone has a “signature” that is often a saying. Blech.
(NOTE that I said “one” of the reasons.)
No parrots but the CBL is an avid bird watcher.
My disclaimer was “I don’t speak for anybody but myself and sometimes I disagree with me” or “If this post offends anybody, not only am I prepared to retract it but I’m willing to deny under oath that I ever said it”.
Boxturtle (Disclaimers became pointless once my cats learned to log in)
I will never do anything that awesome again, no matter how hard I try.
Thanks for pointing it out Mason. It’s all downhill from here.
Blog sites are e-ghettos.
Like ghettos, most develop their own argot. For the most part, I think this is a good thing.
I started teaching way back in 1976.( and still love it).
Nice observation, oldgold, and I agree. It can seem cliquey to newcomers, though. Sorta like the “in” crowd thing we all endure (from inside or outside” as middle schoolers.
Is this the same guy with that unsolved dead intern issue?
The birds of Avid are particularly nice to watch.
and in RTW North Dakota workers locked out by American Crystal Sugar over 16 months now, get no unemployment benefit. I boycott.
CEO arrogantly justifies based on his definition of longterm outlook. I think his model’s wrong and self-serving… along with his multimillion dollar compensation. oh, and there’s the debt pile on for the growers. He fits right in with the Bain model…and Armey politics.
GAH. Wish we had edit here. I can spell like a champ, but my typing is crappy.
Attending a school board meeting this past week and the HS administrator gave a four sentence report containing about nine acronyms, describing new approaches to learning, several special upcoming events and three state-wide organizations. I couldn’t even write down the acronyms fast enough to look them up later.
I don’t think anyone else attending the meeting did much better than me, in understand what was said in the report.
Since I am a constant at FDL and at eschaton, I mix them up and sometimes am not clear at one or the other, but think it adds a certain Je ne sais quoi – something I have to come here to italicize.
Actually, there is much truth to this. It makes the linguistics difficult to study; since sites develop their own terms or shades of meaning, standardization for study purposes is really difficult.
Thanks. My brain had constructed that link to birds and I’ve always wondered about it.
Is American Crystal the brand? I will boycott too. Although I buy very little sugar.
If I boycotted everything like that, I’d never eat.
If someone arrived just now from a prior century, they would have a hard time figuring out what we were saying. I’m kind of old school, I think acronyms need to be defined, because they do have alternate meanings.
The changed regulations during Reagan to now, have taken the Board of Directors from being there to protect the basic company to an advocate for investors. No longer does a company count as a producer of product, salaries, and security for a locale, but is all disposable cash cow for putting money into investors’ pockets. This is very much a criminal offense against the economy as a whole.
You should write or call him and point out that his update was incomprehensible to the average attendee. I suspect it is unconscious. I know from being a techie in my career that I often used terms that “laypeople” didn’t understand. They were part of my daily language, so I didn’t realize others were mystified.
A status report isn’t much use if nobody understands it.
It was a dark and stormy night, much like any other, and things started off innocently enough, when suddenly a dog barked.
;) Thanks for the reminder….Not to be forgot.
Morning Folks….
Rocket from N. Korea…what next? World is very interesting,
isn’t it?
When I have a guest, I have to go get a small container of white sugar from the whole food market here. My boycott of pizza shops is every bit as meaningful.
I’m boycotting things I don’t even realize are evil.
Posted on a WI blog this morning:
..where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.
Ronald Reagan, September 1, 1980
Id est demonstrandum.
Nice, and of course, he was all about enslaving workers.
I am compiling a couple of specific acronym reference lists. As you say, each organization or professional field has their own special language, I believe to protect their own self-perceived or group conferred importance.
That’s ok, you’re teachable too.
Hi CS.
This post may have a picture soon! I was having trouble finding one.
Talk the talk, and then, turn your back. History repeats.
Good morning, spuds, very nice to see you!
Not altogether, if I understand correctly. If you had prepared term and research papers without using initials like, for instance, ff. for following, you are aware it’s a huge time saver.
I’m passing the brown sugar anyway.
I have not and I was not aware of that specific instance. I did not finish college. I take your very valid point. Thanks.
You remind me of one of my children asking what on earth they need to study Latin for, and my flip reply was ‘so you win at Scrabble’. There are all sorts of uses of the initials.
Some of that is undoubtedly true (even in my instance of geekspeak). But trust me, some is unconscious use of what in his world is the prevailing language.
Raising your hand and politely asking for on-the-spot translation would have been ruder, but also probably effective at making the point.
HYGOMC
“Get Off of My Cloud” (Hey you get off of my cloud)
“The Stones have said that the song is written as a reaction to their sudden popularity after the success of “Satisfaction”. The song deals with their aversion to people’s expectations of them.
I prefer to pronounce this phonetically as: Hi Gomk
Best to use when we hear the phrases “You should have known better”, or “I expected more from you.”
The best response would be: “Hi Gomk MF” :>)
Thanks C-S
Not sure I agree with you there nonquixote. In my business (manufacturing) we have a language all our own that is not understandable for outsiders. Not because we are trying to keep secrets but because it is a world that is full of technical terms that lend themselves to abbreviation.
Huh. So, the first one fizzled, and now this:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/12/world/asia/north-korea-rocket-launch-analysis/?hpt=hp_c2
“I don’t interact with you folks for enlightenment.
I do it to boost my ego.”
I gave a bit of thought to your words and concluded that rarely do I hear such a degree of insightful, unvarnished honesty from anyone.
And is not knowledge of one’s self the ultimate form of self-enlightenment?
Just thinking out loud.
C-S: Not intending to derail anything but just to give credit where credit is due.
good morning scooter boy -
“Fitz!” preceeded “zed!” in the earliest days of FDL
Mornin’ OEC !
Funny one!
Ha! That’s the spirit. Thanks for the bit of history as well, cool to see you this morning. Is there a more precise meaning to the emoticon :>) than a smile. Is it a laugh?
Try this one. FYYFF.
I think it’s impossible to derail a slang thread!
I stand corrected. Thanks oldnslow. I guess I get that feeling at times when I’m attending something like a school meeting where people are encouraged to attend and participate and then the language of that particular group earnestly used and it is assumed to be understood immediately by everyone. It does not bother me as much as I fear I have indicated here this morning.
Was that the days of waiting for Fitzmas, the anticipated indictment of the Iraq war criminals for outing Valerie Plame – treasonously?
Woot!
Off to punch a clock, thanks C-S, pupses. All the best.
x2
Have a great day at work, nonquixote.
Good morning your own self. I for some reason was thinking the zed morphed into the fitz. I stand corrected.
I missed those days here, but just barely. I arrived following a link from somewhere else, just after the Libby trial. Although my career was in IT, I was a n00b at blogging.
And I have the t-shirt! Some one guessed Fiscal Year …
Oooh I just looked that up. Naughty boy! LOL.
This thread takes me way back, when I felt totally out of my depth, didn’t know the commenters, didn’t want to be stoopid and tiptoed in.
did the gloves help out this morning ??
p.s. yhs :D
I was mighty proud of that comment. I thought it had been EPUd.
That was a refreshing walk. Only took 45 minutes to walk to the school and back.
Lexi missed the bus.
Yes and :)
Good morning.
I am still recovering from the news about the Clackamas Center shooting. It’s the place I go first to do shopping at REI, Macy’s (not so much there because of their CEO involvement with pushing Austerity) and a myriad of smaller stores.
Not that I like these centers, but one cannot escape them either. Maybe I use on line more. No one has invented online bullets that kill or maim.
My own acronym, which I probably won’t interpret here is FYVM. The last two letters stand for “very much”.
I might have been at Clackamas yesterday.
Damn!
yes. :D
seems a lifetime ago, yet only 6 years
You have the SIFUAB t-shirt cause FYYFF is in the drawer here. JFYI
Me too, Ruth. It took a little while to understand the “norms” and that not every comment you make will get a reply, and that you’re not being ignored or slighted. I also tiptoed, but I’m not shy so often I just jumped in.
This thread has evolved from Internet slang to reminiscing about the early days of blogs in general and FDL.
Maybe the first blog I read was TPM, which has changed hugely since then.
When the news first came up here, I was struck by the resemblance to a shopping center in Portland near a friend visited this past summer, and yes, wonder about the disasters I’ve avoided.
Had to look THAT one up, too. I prolly wouldn’t wear either, because around conservative South Bend it might be difficult to explain.
Sometimes, no comment gets a reply!
Then I do something else.
The daughter goes there also. Didn’t have to worry long as she had it up on FB minutes after it was reported. Glad for both of you.
Consider this appropriation by email.
I can relate; although Mason came to FDL in the earliest days, prior to that I signed up for two Usenet groups: the GasNet (related to anesthesiology) and a Medical Ethics net. I first saw ROFLOL in the early 90s and thought it was really funny, although I felt ‘out of it’ all the time…never knew the hippest slang (that was back when my connection was 2400 baud- yes!)
So you are in Portland also?
OMG that is scary. I didn’t connect it with your location (which you mentioned yesterday).
I closed my eyes; spun around clockwise 3 times; then anti-clockwise 3 times; repeated the ‘lord’s’ prayer backwards, and still ain’t got no frickin’idea what ‘FYYFF’ means.
I need a bit of enlightenment here, friend.
I began really oddly, saw Jeff Jarvis on a news report, and dipped my toe in at buzzmachine, just at the beginning of the 1999 campaign. What went on then I’ve watched repeated over the course of many years, and am blessed or cursed with a long memory.
I suppose, but if the thread comments are interesting I often just read. I usually have at least one other site open in a separate tab, and switch around if the conversation lags.
I also sometimes take it as a hint that I need to get off the laptop and on to other things. So easy to kill a couple of hours doing this.
I phoned my family last night, frantic, because my brother teaches at David Douglas (I grew up in Portland).
Another tragedy:(
Fuck you you fucking fucks.
You’re welcome :)
Google is your friend.
FYYFF
Thank you so much for helping me with this. I am a deer. In the headlights!
Right! I was on dialup for the early years, kept down the exposure level.
Not much help needed, just a bit of reassurance. Ya did good! And look at all of the (mostly on topic) comments!
I think Spuds is in Pennsylvania.
In fact, I pass the intersection to Clackamas at least once a week because my favorite New Seasons store is a couple of miles east, on the road that passes the major entrance to the Center.
That will be today. New seasons offers a 10% discount to folks over 65 on Wednesdays. I like that particular store because the people there are almost like family. If we miss a Wednesday there, it is noticed.
What a pity that now it is tarnished, if only slightly.
Oh, well, I can take a back road instead. Nicer drive too.
When I don’t understand a post…
Flame wars! And thanks – okay, time for me to stir the soup I’m using to warm the house this a.m.
this just happened in our house day before yesterday – youngest is ‘intern’ for internet sports news station – on the field reports at high school football playoffs
he tweeted something mildly catty about one of the quarterbacks and simply did not understand the two old people explaining to him that “a journalist” simply doesn’t do such things and worse, it’s there now forever and could hurt his career down the road
That’s correct. He has a daughter and her family, in Oregon.
I also have another site, but it’s mostly technical (Adobe Forums).
“I need a bit of enlightenment” Yes you do so we’ll start with something easy. I am not your friend.
I live in the DD school district and am political at the neighborhood level, so I know some of the faculty and board folks there.
My SO is a graduate of DD.
Yes, good point. I am always sneaking around looking for clues. I never want to admit I don’t know the meaning of something. I mean, what if everyone in the world knows but me? Fortunately, I have an in-house talking dictionary that looks an awful lot like a spouse.
Kids don’t realize that it’s just like email with buds, but goes to the whole world and they’re not all friends. There need to be guidelines like the ones you get and sign off on having read, when you work for/with any print org.
I prefer FYVM. It’s more polite and really gets the message across.
My pea soup needs stirred, as you in PA say.
You’re married to Google?
*waves to Mason*
He teaches science, I think, but anyway, this is a very large district, in a beautiful area. One never expects to hear of a shooting, but this would have been one of the last places…well, anywhere in Portland, if you don’t mind…
My daughter lives in Yoder land south of Canby.
It can get even worse. Read the book C-S cites above “Lol. OMG”
My now-18 year old grandson put up a lot of questionable stuff — could have been deliberate, but I doubt it, cuz he’s basically a good kid. Fortunately not any porn, but comments like “it’s so gay” (which has no connection to LGBT).
He posted a picture of refugees at a concentration camp with some snarky comment, not realizing that’s what the picture was. He took it down and apologized to my Jewish DIL (his stepmother). At one point he had “I am gay” in a post, claimed a friend hacked his FB but he didn’t take it down.
Nothing at all wrong if he IS gay, but he’s not, so IMHO it was a put-down. He’s also used “retard” on occasion.
I rarely comment on his FB posts, but I’ve sent him private messages when I think something is over the line.
Next time you need to use FYVM, just drop this link into the thread.
This is actually a disguised morning aerobics class, people just don’t know it, my washboard six-pack stomach muscles are hard from laughing, do you hear me?
OMG!
The picture!
Thank you so much for this Kit, much appreciated!
And it’s a law dictionary. A twofer!!
Kit is perfect. Great picture.
As for OMG, I’ve taken to using ‘Ermahgerd!’ I think it’s even snarkier.
Sniff, I’m all nostalgic. Love that town. Miss it too. When I think of ‘home’ I think of Portland to this day.
it doesn’t help that some of the biggest names in his field made their names by trash talking and entire blocks of broadcasts are devoted to it
of course, look how naive oldnslow and I sounded about journalistic integrity – lol
At one point I chided the above-mentioned grandson about something he said on FB, and he replied “I just sent it to my friends” and I had to remind him that he has no control over where THEY send it.
I hope college makes him a bit more savvy. A good kid, and smart, but clueless too.
I have known of people who have had their probation or parole rescinded due to photos or posting on the social sites, Facebook in particular. I have FB, but never cared much for it and rarely visit.
Wonderful country. There is a great little town south of Canby, Aurora, which specializes in antique stores. My favorite Queen Anne style home is in Aurora. Every time I go there, I make it a point to walk by. I would buy it in a heartbeat, if it were available and if I had the money!
Too bad we can’t post photos in the thread.
Clever photo caption. Yes, very likely!
I look at FB about once a day. My daughter posts stuff, my grandkids do, and a few longtime friends I haven’t seen for years. Not much other value there, in my opinion. (Or that should be “IMO” to comport with today’s topic.)
Now I gotta get outta this chair. My choir sings a noontime concert at the Downtown Rotary and a fellow singer will be picking me up in 45 minutes.
This was fun, and I hope you take another Over Easy day occasionally.
Put it on Flickr and link to it. Would love to see it.
LOL…CS YHFTMTOYH (You have far too much time on your hands)
Then you probably know Oregon City and it’s “suburb” Canemah, the riverboat captains town. Another place to get caught up emotionally.
I photographed the old houses of both Oregon City and Canemah 30 years ago. It was supposed to be published but never was.
Oregon City is the first seat of government in the Oregon Territory in the 1800′s. Some neat old homes, many with a partial wagon wheel in the apex of the roof gable.
The original plat of SF resides in Oregon City, to the dismay of a succession of SF mayors!
Like Facebook et al, I don’t do flickr. Too much theft of images on sites like that.
The Yoder family owns about two square miles of trees on a mountain just south of the Molalla river. I go there to nest with sasquatch when ever I can.
Ermahgerd! I love saying Ermahgerd! It is just so delightfully snarky.
Ha! I thought I was the only person who actually SAID it.
I use that shit in conversation.
I have about four photos on Flickr, put up only for the ability to post them here. They’re nothing I care about that would be stolen.
I know of that family.
Of course. I would also, but in this case I have to be circumspect about posting it there.
LATFH.
Know it well, matter of fact; my father was Chief of Staff at Willamette Falls before he co-founded a clinical lab; we lived technically in West Linn, but at the border of Lake Oswego, so my mother was on the original staff at Lakeridge and that is where I went to HS (class of ’78)
Beautiful, beautiful town.
Well, it looks like 12-12-12 is done for until next century. Along with 11-11-11, 10-10-10, etc.
And no 13-13-13! But we could reduce those numbers to their fadic value, then 13-13-13 becomes 4-4-4. But to be completely accurate, we must tell the entire year. so 12-12-12 become 12-12-2012 reducing to 3-3-5.
At least for numerology.
That’s good. Ruth and I were just there over the 4th of July so next time maybe a meet and greet is in order. I’ll be the one with the whiskers and black gold pan. Ruth is the nekid one.
West Linn hosted a very nice arts festival the last two summers.
I lived in Lake Oswego in 1961, for 6 months while I underwent field training for Tektronix. Imagine! They moved me and my family from Chicago to Portland for 6 months, with a stipend as well for covering the additional Cost of living. Over and above salary.
Gotta go get ready for a photo shoot tomorrow.
That makes her Ruth-less, I suppose!
The nekid one wearing a lampshade.
Don’t know the family, but have logged some time intertubing on the Molalla. Back in the day.
LOL, there’s the naked truth and the naked ruth!
I love this post!! I did not know any of the acronyms listed in #1.
I could do Portland talk all day. Hear of a Tectronix guy named Polits?
Thanks, part of my goal was learning, because I constantly don’t know what the stuff means, and although I am no linguist, well, this is our new language.
Yep. Chuck Polits, Director of Engineering when I joined the company.
BTW, here’s the latest on Fukushima…
So it is likely that the strange doctored video I posted a couple of days ago actually obscured some helicopters full of workers landing at Fukushima. Yeah, I’m staying out of the rain today.
Super nice family, man did they ever have a lot of money. Lived near Council Crest, if memory serves. His son was my 1st boyfriend. Think the father may have been a pilot. Son was an accomplished skier.
Good memories!
I go up the Molalla to Pine run, then about a half mile up pine run where I rappel to the bottom and work the moss on the rocks. I haz a spot.
Creepy hair up on your neck, somethings watching you kinda place. I love it.
Christ. Maybe the world is going to end on 12/21.
Thanks for the update ysd. This is terrifying news.
Have to disagree on that one. Zed came first, was temporarily replaced by Fitz diring the Plame. Then zed never quite made it back, pro’ly since so many new peeps/pups came for the Plame.
Before Plame was Jane’s Ned Lamont campaign — ahh, late nights w/TRex and Ned the Fighting koi!! Interesting campaign, wherein was demonstrated the folly of trying to reform the Dem party by working within it.
Yep. Those first few acronyms made me think that I’m not spending enough time on the internet. lol.
Bowl of Apple Jacks for breakfast. FTW.
Oh Lord. What are they going to do now? They had yet another earthquake over there, just recently. Sad situation, and serious, not over yet. That #4 pool was a problem from the start…
It really is scary. Worse yet, there is virtually no news about what is happening at Fukushima being widely distributed. TEPCO seems to be actively blocking information from reaching the people who will be affected. I wish I had my own radiation detector.
Eggs.
Fuck it.
They can be had from Amazon for as little as $30.
Yes, the latest quake, 7.3 IIRC, is what caused the latest problems there. It is disturbing that no news or warnings about potential danger is out. It’s like there is nothing that can be done about it, so why bother spooking people? December 21, 2012?
I shouldn’t say rappel. It’s more like hang on to this rope or YBYFA.
Where’s Box Turtle when you need him?
Remind us, BT, what happens if SPF#4 collapses.
Gotta buy prezzies for the kids first, whether there is radiation in the air or not.
Ah! I have found that to find an acronym, just type ‘acronym FFYYF (or whatever) into your search box. There are several sites that have lists of them and defs. BTW, this one is ‘eff you, you effing effer’.
That is my memory as well. It seems a long time ago.
EPU topic,
cbl just termed our President’s interview with Barbara Walter’s as the “Full Orszog” which led to me suggesting a bumper sticker reading”I asked for a FITZ and all I got was the Full Orzsag”.
*G*
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Best Lulz I’ve seen on the internet today.
Sounds like a spiritual or energy Vortex.
Well CS, congrats on a seriously hoppin’ first Over Easy post.
We’ll have to have you sit in more often. This was fabulous.
It was a lot of good fun, thank you!
I hope everyone has a lovely 12-12-12
“Is there a more precise meaning to the emoticon :>) than a smile. Is it a laugh?”
Since you insist on TOSC (tugging on superman’s cape), rather than getting prolix, one example is worth a tome or two:
‘While birds of a feather may flock together,
Birds that fart flock apart.’
So, did you smile or laugh?
Or did a raucous chortle issue forth from your inner self and scatter blobs of your morning coffee hither thither and yon? :>)
No. More of a , You just entered the food chain sensation.
“Lexi missed the bus.”
Is a ‘Lexi’ a Japanese ‘Tin-Lizzie’?
A ‘Lexi’ is my 11 year old daughter.
Just a drive by to say, “What a great topic, CS!” I spend too much time on the toobs and enjoy the slang, slinging it or slamming it.
yes. Boycott American Crystal sugar.
Birds, prolix, superman, wind and language made me think of Airplane!
Let’s see. With a little remodeling of this
:>)
you get Santa Claus
*<|:-)
It's funny, and seasonal!
And it is so cool that you walked her to the bus, many parents miss out on the morning walks these days.
Yes, it is a lot of fun, kind of phenomenal that we are learning a new language and making it up at the same time.
” ‘Lexi’ is my 11 year old daughter.”
Through the miasma of my mental meanderings I actually conjured up an image of an adorable child person to whom you had legal title.
But I thought it would be fun to pull your chain a bit.
So consider your chain pulled and may you and your family continue to enjoy the gift and pleasure of life
Me
From here in EPU-land,,,
“Is there a more precise meaning to the emoticon :>) than a smile. Is it a laugh?”
It’s a smile from a person who has a large nose. Other attempts at ascii portraiture include 8), a smiling person who wears glasses, and ;{) , a winkie from a person with a mustache. It’s not a very, um, plastic medium.
Excellent OE, C-S, and good company as well. Thanks for the post’n'host. Was particularly happy to spot the elusive CBL this am. (waving, if you are still about).
I did feel a pleasant tugging sensation.
I thought it was because my skinny jeans were too tight.
/hipster
Wow. Neat thread. Sorry I missed itz.
(sent from epuland)
OK, Buttercup, since you asked for it with the Santa Claus shtick, here’s one for your ruminating pleasure:
Where did Santa Claus and his tiny reindeer come from?
Well, the story of Santa Claus has been traced back to ancient Lap or Finnish legends about a very special type of mushroom that grew in the forests of the Baltic States and the Arctic Circle.
But this was no ordinary mushroom, for it was red and white and when consumed by the reindeer, the shamans of these people collected reindeer urine (no, I don’t know how they did that, but I would think rather carefully), dried the urine, and ate it.
And then, heavens to murgatroyd, the shaman experienced hallucinations, of course in red and white, of themselves flying behind miniature flying reindeer.
Exhaustive quantum mechanical studies conducted at CERN have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is the true source of the Santa Claus legend.
This myth was also tested by many inhabitants of the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco in the 60’s and found to be spot one. :>)
Also exhaustively researched and voted equally true.
“I thought it was because my skinny jeans were too tight.”
Let’s cast aside the pleasantries and just call it the way it really is:
Can skinny jeans every really be too tight?
From my XY point of vantage there is no such thing as shapely XXs wearing anything that is too tight.
Or,
Who can really argue that tight in many matters is not the best of all possible worlds? :>)
I had a tight squeeze once that actually was too tight to squeeze, if you take my meaning.
What an interesting evening that was.
“BTW, this one is ‘eff you, you effing effer’”
I bet you say that to all of the boys, and
‘
‘FUATHYRIO’
Oh, and the rough translation: May you know unlawful carnal knowledge with yourself and the same goes with the equine which carried your bum into this poor excuse of a town.
Again, just a rough translation. :>)
“I had a tight squeeze once that actually was too tight to squeeze, if you take my meaning.”
At this stage of life’s game, I would offer for your perusal the following cosmic truisms:
You can’t fall off the floor.
Tight is better.
If it has white feathers, an orange beak, and webbed feet, there’s a damn good chance it’s a duck.
And, last but not least,
There are very few problems which money, an attorney, and a few sticks of dynamite won’t immediately remedy.
By the way, did you consider dynamite?
12 12 12, 12 12 12
test
On edit: What’s fun about being able to edit a comment?
Answer: You can cheat, and edit the time!
But wait….no you can’t, darn, it’s only 10:33
Back to HTML/slang graduate school!
That’s what I see on your comment header :) You pulled it off!
Now – how did I respond @216 to a comment @217?
I’m a fucking unicorn.
And now it has changed yet again.
Like a sir.
Crane-Station – your comment one ’12 12 12′ is just riding down the page as I type more comments.
This is magical!
Starbuck, if you are here or return, Charlie Pierce had a post today that discusses, among other things, the Clackamas shooting.
Another Tragedy, Another Missed Opportunity To Talk About Gun Control
Here at MyFDL you can edit your own post, and your own comments. Other posters can’t edit either.
Oh, that’s bizarre. My comment in reply to yours is now ahead of it, and an hour earlier. And they’re both Pacific time and I’m Eastern, so here it is after 2:00 p.m.
*dizzy*
You’re fucking a unicorn? Is this a fuck thread (another old FDL tradition, usually at Late Night)?
Note to self: Never edit the time on your own post, using the edit button.
Could you please pass the dunce cap?
I tried to own time, and it didn’t work!
Now the comment is back in the right place. Weird!
Any thread can be a fuck thread!
Dried urine is a gateway drug. It leads to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xam01uaj6Vg
Right place, right time. Before it was right place, wrong time.
HaHA! You don’t know how true that is!
True, but they’re usually when chilluns is sleepin’ and not in broad daylight.
I had not heard of the Clackmas shooting, so I Duck-duck-goed it. This is what came up first.
Human extinction, IIRC.
*<|:-)
Winner!! And…am I the only one who sees kissy lips in <3 instead of a heart?
Thanks for the heads up.
And if an enemy you must be, then:
Keep your friends close, but, keep your avowed enemies much much closer.
So, consider youself a very very close enemy.
And here’s back at you:
FUATHYRITO
At the top of that page is a link to an update on the shooting.
The first thing that came up for me was a news broadcast video.
I admit I have a hard time seeing the heart there.
Missed saying hello earlier! Hi cbl, good to see you.
great list! thx C-S!
I just had to add a couple…
LTPFO: Latest TeaParty Freak Out: someone pulled a tent down in Michigan, FOX employee gets punched
and,
BAMO: Somebody said something rancid, you’ll hear of it again but won’t want to, hence: Be Aware, Move Along
I’ll just leave this here for anyone who cares to listen.
Excellent, thank you. Very clever.
88888888
(clapping)
Beautiful, listening now, and thank you. I am always asking my son to send me music vids. Ever hear of Beirut?
You may be Zed, but I’m Last.
Folks, if you are interested in seeing The Concert for Sandy Relief Live Stream, here is the link:
http://bostinno.com/2012/12/12/live-stream-the-12-12-12-concert-how-to-watch-the-sandy-benefit-concert-online-video/#ss__273178_251595_0__ss
This concert will be live on YouTube and other sites, and the performance is at Madison Square Garden.
Not.
LOL, Hi OmAli!
That’s Christy Hardin Smith’s invention
Hope she’s doing well
Presented by Chase!
Springsteen’s kicking it off, let’s try Time Live Stream:
http://entertainment.time.com/2012/12/12/watch-live-the-12-12-12-sandy-relief-concert-starring-springsteen-mccartney-and-the-stones/
12-12-12 Sandy Relief Concert at Madison Square Gardens.
Lisa is Live-blogging
http://firedoglake.com/2012/12/12/live-blog-12-12-12-concert-for-hurricane-sandy-relief/
Oh the irony…
Far out, I was hoping, thanks, folks please go to Lisa’s Live-blog, hat tip nonquixote:
http://firedoglake.com/2012/12/12/live-blog-12-12-12-concert-for-hurricane-sandy-relief/
*G*
Fantastic debut, C-S!!
Abu says good job !
Om
Thanks, Om, much appreciated!