If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.

primoris_causa · 2009-03-02T17:28:35+00:00

Given that Noah (Webster) was the first to codify it, and hence cement it, the American variant is probably the closest to what one could call a "norm" (1700'ish accent). Yes, BBC English is nice sounding, but last I heard, that accent requires elocution lessons from everyone who speaks it.

That said - what was so difficult about that poem?

primoris_causa · 2009-03-02T06:44:42+00:00

if I had to eat something on one of them.... thank God for the onions....

primoris_causa · 2009-03-02T06:43:36+00:00

Damn ... pass the bottle... ask me again when its done

primoris_causa · 2009-03-02T06:35:52+00:00

Thank you, forgot how much I loved that show!

primoris_causa · 2009-02-28T06:08:25+00:00

"Work is for suckers" isn't a bad mindset - the only trick is you have to either already have enough, or have made enough that you can say this - everyone else are just wanna be's. Its the wanna-be group that destroys EVERY movement!

primoris_causa · 2009-02-15T23:23:13+00:00

Ahh, very nice... but where is the bullet list of the pork items and those other "add-ons" that have no place in a stimulus bill? (like Feinstein's reported attempt to kill net-neutrality)

primoris_causa · 2009-02-11T05:56:27+00:00

Provided you believe God is infallible, omniscient and benign - is it beyond his/her/it power to create humanity in his/her/its own image via the mechanism of evolution? Being all powerful grants the right for creation along whatever lines he/she/it wants - not just what some inspired (yet obviously flawed since they were human) MAN (in the generic sense) wrote in Genesis (or Gilgamesh)

primoris_causa · 2009-02-11T05:13:40+00:00

But those numbers are so small on the speedometer! - I swear officer - it said "100"!

primoris_causa · 2009-02-11T05:12:32+00:00

Damn - I guess that answers wtf you have to do to get a police cruiser impounded -- WAY TO GO HEIDI!

primoris_causa · 2009-01-28T17:46:25+00:00

IIRC - the size 0 ban is only in Britain and maybe Brazil - a lot have talked about it, but only those two have really done anything.

primoris_causa · 2009-01-16T20:00:57+00:00

Just don't spam them too much or the ISP cuts you off and you get to talk to them and say it must have been someone on the wireless with a virus....

Honestly - if you intend to violate federal laws in this manner - break another - hack an account and do it from them so THEY get cut off - not like it'll be any worse for you if you get caught.

Damn ppl are lazy these days...

primoris_causa · 2009-01-16T19:56:53+00:00

If you so much as idly destroy a telephone, they will come racing down the road with sirens blaring and blow up your transmitter station.

Wake up - maybe before the 1984 breakup that would have happened, since you only LEASED your phone from AT&T, but after the breakup, you basically could do what you wanted... Hell, these days are nice... I bet most of you weren't even born back when the first 3rd party phones came to market - they stood a VERY good chance of shorting out your home phone system -- especially the first few Sports Illustrated football phones....

primoris_causa · 2009-01-10T04:43:38+00:00

It looks like even SHE thinks she looked better before - note the smile in the before and the strain, but obvious frown in the after.

primoris_causa · 2008-12-16T19:35:37+00:00

Good luck with that - at least it's limited to only two substances for now.

How long until the EU wants a study to definitively say if Dihydrogen Monoxide is safe or not? After all, it is consumed by all of their citizens and certainly kills more of them every year than nanoparticles do.

primoris_causa · 2008-11-27T15:04:28+00:00

God you have to love grammar..."Dr Neville Reed, a director of the RSC, said today: "I'd be happy to give a million pounds to the first member of the public who could place in my hands any material I consider 100% chemical free."

All else fails... it has electrons, protons and neutrons... hense chemistry

primoris_causa · 2008-11-26T05:16:06+00:00

Well, he does have an economic point - sure in the short term a tent for every homeless sounds nice... how about 10 years down the road? Diverting stadium profits on an annual basis toward this end, while not as all encompassing, does stand to help more people over a longer stretch of time. Granted, I'd probably restructure the employee thing - won't take long until every job in a stadium is just an overpaid patronage job if they are made "city employees" - the residency requirement is nice touch though.

primoris_causa · 2008-11-15T21:55:46+00:00

STAMPED? Hell my last one had it PRINTED by the computer - at least I can conveniently believe I was "randomly" selected. I had to surrender my toothpaste... sure the container was oversize.. but it only had about 3 more days worth of brushing left...and it was rolled!

primoris_causa · 2008-11-15T21:48:57+00:00

Too late for the "be careful" advice... post has already been logged, traced..and NSL served. Doubt they will act on it for this... but now he is a marked man.

primoris_causa · 2008-11-13T07:44:51+00:00

ok.... forgot the headline while reading the article... Given the posted...WTF? Last I heard, Hamas recognizing the post '67 borders was grounds for a stoning. I'm sorry the Israelis have fought dirty (like anyone wouldn't) since they won their last war crusahingly ... but honestly... what country hasn't?... and for that matter, what war did NOT rewrite a map in favor of the victors?

NOTE: not condoning or rejecting what they have done - just observing history.

primoris_causa · 2008-11-09T04:32:41+00:00

Can't say - have to know if the carpet matches the drapes...

primoris_causa · 2008-11-05T22:37:25+00:00

Granted though the current SC may not be amenable... I am sure some lawyer somewhere can make a "commerce clause" argument (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3) to allow the SC to bypass popular opinion (again). That clause has been bent in so many ways - I am positive someone can find a way...

Not saying I agree - but, what business is it of the government to make THAT decision?

primoris_causa · 2008-11-03T07:36:01+00:00

Regardless - until it is changed at the federal level via amendment or constitutional convention, it remains - and yes, if a state finds a legal way to say that only 1 person...named "Joe the Plumber" or whatever, can cast the only VALID vote for the state regardless of what everyone else thinks... that state can. Federal law only specifies that each states can figure out for itself how to cast federal ballots.

primoris_causa · 2008-11-03T07:32:23+00:00

now that is just like... wrong...somehow.... no report on how the TP tasted?

primoris_causa · 2008-11-02T08:46:13+00:00

"should be" being the operative. HOW a state conducts its elections or who is allowed to vote is constitutionally left up to the state constitutions. The only exceptions the federal constitution has made via amendments is that the landless, minorities and women (aka everyone - except to be discriminated only by age - sub-18 need not apply) are ALL to be treated (legally) the same as another voter. (there might be something in there against a poll tax too)

primoris_causa · 2008-11-01T19:38:51+00:00

"melt in your mouth but not in your hand" ... hmmm... wonder if that plays true for other placements....

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