V2: a pictorial ode to obsolescence

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motherinlaw
SocialPanda wrote:

Yes, I remember, insomniacs are those that steal things from stores even when they have money, right? 

Yes, you're right.  I do that, too.

SocialPanda

But it´s not really your fault, you do that while you are sleepwalking Smile

motherinlaw
SocialPanda wrote:

But it´s not really your fault, you do that while you are sleepwalking 

Sure, that's what the security cameras show, but you know how they fake those things.

bigpoison
SocialPanda wrote:

I don´t need a book about how to sleep, I have a master degree on that 

12 hours nap, are not uncommon 

I'm pretty medicore at most things, but I think I could be competitive in world class sleeping competitions.  Any time, any where, I can sleep. 

I once took a nap on the expanded metal catwalk of a drilling rig during operation.  It wasn't a very long nap, and being awoken by the kick of a steel toe boot wasn't ideal, but it was worth it. 

motherinlaw

(22 second scene from Airplane!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CM7hlk2e34

DrSpudnik

Ah, the classics!

Will we still have comedy in the future?

SocialPanda

The old way to get motivation in the morning, before everybody got 3 bathrooms in every home (at least in the US Tongue Out):

I don´t remember that player Frown

SocialPanda

Don´t spoil your happiness!!!

If you have false teeth, I can help you! Smile

SocialPanda

I know that some members collected the 150 cards!

But I don´t know if they looked like the kid in the pic Laughing

SocialPanda

Now, time for a serious question, I got an observation for using the word "thrice"... really? I can´t use that word? It seems like the reviewer didn´t know it... looking for it, it says:

thrice

Thrice is an old-fashioned way to talk about doing something three times. You could say, "I swung the bat at the piñata thrice."

You're most likely to come across the adverb thrice in a book, since it's a stiff, formal way to say "three times." Just for fun, you could use it in a note to your cat sitter: "Please feed Fluffy thrice daily," to scold your younger brother: "I've asked you thrice not to throw that ball in the house," or to brag about your travels: "I've thrice been to Madagascar."


So... I can´t use that word as an option because English speakers have forgotten it? Motherinlaw? Do you remember that word? Frown

What alternatives do I have? Cry

motherinlaw

Of Course I remember thrice!  My doctor used to prescribe pills for me to take thrice a day, betimes.  Oh, wait -- I think that was my barber, Theodoric of York.  And it wasn't pills, it was poultices.  Because my humours were out of balance.  (I used to be pretty unbalanced, but I got better.)

winerkleiner

Hmm Hostess  Am I too young to know what poultices are?  Smile

DrSpudnik

...thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd

Stuff witches say in MacBeth. Nowadays (a word I hardly hear either nowadays) witches stop after saying something twice and insert: "But I repeat myself."

When my humour get out of balance I fall down laughing!

Crazychessplaya

2016 is the "Year of Shakespeare", btw.

DrSpudnik

Where the bee sucks there suck I!

motherinlaw

Ah, Medieval times --"Take two poultices, and call me in the morning," my barber used to say.  And then he'd repeat himself.  I think he just trying to humour me.... but he didn't have to tell Me thrice!

(First person to say "Get thee to a punnery!" gets treated with leeches.) 

motherinlaw

Scurvy made gums "spongy."  You learn something new every day, don't you?

winerkleiner

Only gums, maybe brains too?

motherinlaw
winerkleiner wrote:

Only gums, maybe brains too?

Only if you practiced "poor brain hygiene."

DrSpudnik

Use mental floss!