Low posting volume?

It seems that I return from my journey through the western US, hauling freight under the guidence of a trainer, and I there's very little messages!

If anybody cares, I was out driving a big orange truck (Schneider) for the last two weeks. It was a lot of fun; went to LA, to Delano (California), to Las Vegas, up to Reno, onward across Donner Pass through Sacramento to Modesto, back to Delano, down to Calexico to drop a load which would be taken across the border, back to Delano (big Sears account there), through Las Vegas on our way to Salt Lake City, Utah, right back to Delano, and was dropped off back home here in Fresno.

Still haven't seen any of those Daria mudflaps. ;)

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 22:32:59 GMT, [email] (Tarvok) wrote:

I have noticed that decline of messages, too. I think I'll wait with the release of my "Sleeping Daria" (estimated date of of completion 24/9/99, if I get this *�$�!!x��� left arm done) till activity increases. Releasing something controversial is no fun if people are too sleepy to react to it :-) And I guess it will be better anyway if I release a picture of Trent at the same time as Daria. It adds a certain symmetry. In the meantime, to get a sneak preview, I can only advise everyone to visit the local library and get a book on Renaissance art that has Giorgione's "Sleeping Venus" in it. Close your eyes, visualize the picture, replace the scenery with the couch in the Morgendorffer living room, replace this red cushion-thing with one of the Morgendorffer's ugly cyan cushions, finally replace Venus with Daria and there you go. MSB

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 23:07:32 GMT, [email] (Matthias Benkmann) wrote:

Er, I hate to nit-pick -- okay, I admit it, I *love* to nit-pick -- but cyan is a shade of blue. The Morgendorffer couches are a shade of red. Maybe a deep plum, or a rich mauve. :-)

Martin
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In article ,

"Jane your an artist, what color is this?" "Cranapple". There ya go.

cheryl (who has no idea what just happened)

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 20:26:17 -0400, [email] (Martin J. Pollard) wrote:

Matthias Benkmann wrote:

Try "throw pillows". For what it's worth, that's the term used for them. All right, I admit that I have thrown throw pillows a time or two, but I don't think they were designed for that purpose, so the origin of the term remains a mystery. Any etymologists around that can clear this up? And while we're at it, what's the name for the cylindrical, tasseled pillows that go on the ends of some sofas?

MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

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In article , [email] (Claudio Loro) writes:

Throw pillows is the general term in the US. That's what all my interior decorating books and HGTV (I'm an closet decorator <g>) calls them. I believe I read somewhere that they are called "throw pillows" because they were pillows you were meant to take off the furniture and "throw" wherever you needed it... They were intended to be mobile as opposed to the cushions (once also called pillows) on the furniture which was not meant to be taken off of the furniture.

On the bed, they're called neckrolls. I don't know if there's a different name for the ones meant for sofas. I couldn't find one but that doesn't mean that there isn't.

Marie

"Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death." -Edna Ferber

over here they're called cuchions, like MB said.

i'm sure i know, but i can't remember right now. my brain is all fluffy.

[email] wrote:

As one who gets his brain cleaned regularly by professionals I've got two words for you. Heavy starch.

On 20 Sep 1999 05:54:07 GMT, [email] (Claudio Loro) wrote:

Again, it's one of those US things (referring to the "Atishoo" versus "Ashes" discussion on another thread). Being from an ex-British colony, I too know them as "cushions" and NOT as "throw pillows."

There should be like an American-RestOfTheWorld dictionary out there so we can at least get some of these definitions straight!

Confused in America, Nicle Chbat, Eelcitreon of Midol Also known as LadyKender on IRC and ICQ. The Darianite Revolution at http://members.xoom.com/nlsy/daria.htm Kendermore at http://members.xoom.com/nlsy/

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Nicole Lee wrote:

I wouldn't know why we call them "throw pillows", exactly, except maybe to differentiate them from the things we do call "cushions" on couches, i.e. the polyfilled rectangular pieces which lay flat on the sitting surface of the couch and are used as the things one actually sits on (instead of the cloth covered box frame which makes up the hard, fixed portion of the couch). Don't know if there are any couches out there with cushions used in the back rest area though.

Oh great, I've gotten technical about a piece of furniture. *Great*. Fantastic.

Diane

[email] wrote:

Help! I'm trapped in a .sig file and can't get up!

[email] wrote:

*guffaw*

You started it!

But since I'm such a kind-hearted soul I've changed the .sig file. Hope you're satisfied.

Diane

[email] wrote:

<in best peevish childlike voice> Did not!

I was number two. Can't remember who put your complaint in their .sig file, but they were number one.

Hope

<in best renfaire voice> Whatever that pleases you, pleases me, m'lady.

[email] wrote:

(howling with laughter)

Well, you were first in this little exchange between you and me. So there. LOL.

(getting weird picture now of you set right in the middle of all the action in "Fair Enough"...strangely you're dressed like the "duke" Upchuck in the cartoons Andrea drew that were in the "database"...hm....)

Diane (puzzled)

[email] wrote:

Stop picking on me! I'm telling! MOM! (anybody want some giggles? I've got a whole case of them.)

m'lady.

action

the

Whoa boy! Better nip this right in the bud. If anyone wants a mental picture of me, think 'enraged wookie'.

[email] wrote:

LOL..."No Mom, he's the one who started it! He picked on me first!"

"enraged wookie"? Might as *well* be the Duke Upchuck then. ;)

(unless you happen to look like Nick Rhodes or David Bowie or early '80s David Sylvian...THEN...heh heh heh heh...*lusting*)

Diane

In article , [email] wrote:

<snip>

If anyone wants a mental

Alright, who had to go out and beat the wookie? Han said to let the wookie win, but noooo someone else had to win, and now we have an angry wookie running around:-)

A.J.

In article , [email] wrote:

Heh, I *just* got back from renfaire 15 mins. ago. Ahhhhh, the Faire...

cheryl

On the mountaintop, wicka_chick spake thusly:

Did you buy me anything? ;-P

-Mindy the Besotted Falling asleep at the keyboard, giving herself a bad case of qwertytis

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In article ,

thusly:

Faire...

Ummmm, *points behind you* Hey look over there! *quietly runs away*

cheryl

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 23:27:50 GMT, wicka_chick wrote:

*catches you as you run out, grabs you by the arms and marches you back over to Mindy*

Kyle

He complained when I hit him. All my friends do. Wusses.

i hate dolphins. they aren't remotely cute. and i bet the only reason they aren't covered in shit like pigs are, is because they live in the sea and the water washes it off.

hahahaha, "characters"? i found them completely unbelievable. you have all these *good* poor people and these *bad* rich people, but there are two or three *good* rich people, and one of the *good* poor people runs off with one of the *good* rich people, but then there's this horrible tragedy and the *good* poor bloke dies. they might as well have given them black and white hats, to make it even easier for the idiotic hordes of Leonardo di caprio fans to distinguish between the *good* people and the *bad* people.

On the mountaintop, [email] (Howling Lunatic) spake thusly:

*prepares you for a noodle-whipping you won't soon forget* So, Cheryl, did you, or did you not, buy me something at the Ren Faire? *glares menacingly*

-Mindy

"Well bust my legs and call me shorty." -Daria Morgendorffer, "Daria"

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Faire...

ARGH!

So were you able to get the dagger you wanted?

In article , [email] wrote:

LOL! I put that *just* to annoy you Jon. No, I can't really back that up.

Ha! LOL! That's a good one! Like I would ever have money! Whew, you're too good. I did see a good one though, and I plan to pick it up next paycheck...

Nicole Lee writes:

The division is probably American / British Commonwealth, which I suppose comprise the two halves of the English speaking world. Here's a few entries for one. Words in square brackets are where I'm not sure of the US-specific word.

Commonwealth American

crisps                  chips
chips                   fries
pavement                sidewalk
brackets                parentheses
hash (#)                pound
full stop (.)           period
period                  [menstruation]
down-and-out            bum
bum                     fanny
fanny                   [cunt]
condom          rubber
rubber          eraser

I think there are a lot of words where rather having a one-for-one translation you probably need a single head word with two definitions, one for each country. Eg. ISTM that in the US "socialism" is term of abuse, ie. I get the impression that calling a liberal politician a socialist is much the same as calling a black person a nigger, whereas in Europe socialism is a specific political ideology which advocates the economy being controlled by the people rather than by the wealthy. (Not that this stops it being used as a term of abuse by right-wing politicians who oppose it though.)

-Shez.

On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:12:33 +0100, Shez wrote:

Brackets, in america, refer to to {}, parentheses refer to ()

Period is used in America, mestruation is the more formal term.

condom is used, rubber is just goofy slang.

Kyle, The Manny Alexander of alt.sports.baseball.chicago.cubs

"Kissing is touching your lips to the better end of 66 feet of intestine"

these are in my experience usually called "squiggly brackets." this cannot be the correct term, but nobody seems to know what the official "name" is.

I think they're called braces, but I always call them curly brackets. Perfecting the art of drawing them is an important part of growing up. I recall spending an enormous amount of time during maths lessons drawing curly brackets in the back of my exercise book.

-Shez.

our maths teacher confused everyone when she used curly brackets in some equation once. "what? what are those? what's wrong with ordinary brackets? why are you trying to make things more difficult than they already are??"

On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 03:07:28 +0100, Shez wrote:

Okay here's my two cents: As I see it at least in the (US) computer literature I've read {} are called "(curly) braces" , [] are called "(square) brackets" () are "parentheses" and <> are "angle brackets". And I remember how my maths teacher complained that my curly braces were too ugly. They just look like a (very shaky) vertical zigzag. MSB

endless, nameless wrote:

OK, here's what I refer to these:

( ); [ ]; { }

as

( ): parentheses [ ]: brackets { }: braces

I refer to the opening and closing of HTML tags (< >) as "tags", but could also see myself referring to them as "angle brackets". And of course in mathematics they're the "lesser than" and "greater than" signs, respectively.

Much easier system IMO.

Diane

i always called them "pointy brackets."

"endless, nameless" wrote:

And here I was, thinking that "angle brackets" are L-shaped pieces of metal that you screw to wood pieces in order to hold them together.

Ain't linguistics a trip?

rich.

"Woooo, what a racket!" -- General Buck Conroy, Publisher, Brutal Mercenary Magazine.

In article , [email] wrote:

What about the square ones: [ ] ?

"Angle brackets"?

In article , Bear wrote:

No, Angle Brackets are the kind that are used in HTML to indicate tags. <b>like this</b> .

I am not sure what the square brackets are referred to, other than square brackets.

--.\\<-H--

On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 01:39:04 +0100, "endless, nameless" wrote:

'Braces' I believe. But I call them 'curly brackets'.

I thought braces were what you called suspenders. Here we have braces on our teeth.

Dagny

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Dagny Scott wrote:

     Well, not *all* of us do. At least I don't...anymore...thank God. As
though the junior-high school years weren't hard enough without forcing a poor
kid to wear headgear.
     Incidentally, I call "{}" "curly brackets" as well. "[]" are regular or
square brackets, and "()" are, of course, parentheses.

MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

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Dagny Scott writes: {}

They're both curly brackets and for holding your trousers up. In engineering terms a brace would also be a support of some kind, eg. to stop a wall falling over. All in all braces are very useful things, holding together everything from multi-line equations to buildings and clothing.

I think we call the tooth things braces too, I don't think they're quite as common here though, as it's not illegal to be seen in public with imperfect teeth like it is in America. There's a BBC tv presenter (Kirsten O'Brien) who has very irregular teeth, I recall an occasion when she interviewed an American boyband and they stared at her like she was from outer space. They'd probably never seen a TV presenter with natural teeth before. I wonder if Brittany Spears teeth are natural. They seem to glow with an unnatural phosphorescent whiteness, I bet they're made from some kind of luminous plastic.

So what do you call what *we* call suspenders?

-Shez.

I doubt any bit of Brittany Spears is natural, personally.

Dagny

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On 24 Sep 1999 22:45:20 GMT, [email] (Dagny Scott) wrote:

I couldn't care less. if they are or not.

Kyle

He complained when I hit him. All my friends do. Wusses.

i hate dolphins. they aren't remotely cute. and i bet the only reason they aren't covered in shit like pigs are, is because they live in the sea and the water washes it off.

fake ones are 'orrible, though. ;)

On 24 Sep 1999 23:47:48 GMT, [email] (Howling Lunatic) wrote:

Then you are not following the trend. I saw a report on tv that said there's a back-to-nature trend in the US. Just think of Pamela Anderson. And they said the porn industry is also picking up this trend. MSB

This is a Daria newsgroup - don't need no steenking trends to follow! :-)

DJ

Howling Lunatic of writes:

In the UK we have brackets, curly brackets, and square brackets, whereas I believe Americans have parentheses, brackets, and I'm not sure whether you call the other brackets square brackets like we do? Actually "parenthesis" is used in the UK too, but I think it's considered to have a sort of stilted formal air, more likely to be found in a textbook than in conversation.

-Shez.

On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:12:33 +0100, Shez wrote:

[...]

I'm from Britain, but I've lived in the US for nearly a year now. I _still_ get caught on the 'divided by a common lamguage' stuff sometimes. Case in point: just today a cow-orker described a place as 'clicky'. I had absolutely no idea what she meant... I could only think that there was lots of clicking noises there, or something. It took us a while to work out that she was saying what I would pronounce (and spell) as 'cliquey'.

Was useful to learn, though, because now Daria's comment in 'The Lost Girls' make a whole lot more sense...

In article , [email] (Bob Mellish) wrote:

I've heard people in England pronounce it "clicky" as well.

Lazy speech patterns? It's easier to prounounce "clicky" than "cleekie".

I don't know what they are called, but they would make great substitutes for foam bats when the "acting out" just isn't working...

DJ

[email] (Tarvok) wrote:

Sorry-- I've been swamped. It's a looong story. Right now, let's just say that I'm running a shelter for everything from shaking Shih-Tzu dogs that won't leave me alone, to screaming newborns, to a bird that makes Chiquito look civilized. *Sigh* Damn hurricanes.

rich. (Psycihic refugee...)

Jake: The horror, the *horror* ...

I haven't been posting much 'cause my #^$%@ landlord is redoing my bathroom. It was SUPPOSED to take him 1 weekend to do it, but 9 days later, we still have no functioning bathroom in the house. So we're staying in his guest house w/ no computer no phone no cable tv no motorcar not a single luxury (sorry 'bout that!) but I still sneak over here to post occationally.

Pardon me for my absence, it's just that on top of my now-intensifying school and work duties I'm trying desperately to deal with this darn US governmental bureaucracy...aggggh...won't bore you with details as to what I'm trying to do, just ask Jordan 'cos he not only knows but is also going to try to help me (is that right? better be. LOL). And I'm feeling increasingly lethargic, almost like how I felt when I had anemia. Ick. PLEASE don't tell me I'm going to have to take those blasted iron supplements again....

Um, on the positive side my Barry just got back up online so that's a good thing. *g* And I have been a bit foolish money-wise...hey, what can I say, a girl's gotta have the "Breakfast Club" soundtrack, Duran Duran's "Rio" on CD, and yet another copy of Depeche Mode's "Construction Time Again"...LOL.

Diane

In article , [email] wrote:

Another observation by Cheryl:

I have noticed that Diane is practically the only one that laughs at her own jokes...and does it alot as well. Just observing...and nearly falling into a deathly deep sleep.

"huh? What do you mean, I'm awake!"

cheryl

wicka_chick wrote:

Actually, I wasn't laughing at any "joke", I was being amused by my own pitifulness. I could hear in the back of my head, "loser!", and I couldn't help but snicker in return. I do consider my obsessive fascination with music and how I manage to place it in every single avenue of my being as being slightly ridiculous, although I do fully know that it's to be expected as everyone should have an obsession or two (or more).

She who is so exhausted she's about to fall asleep right now,

Diane

In article , [email] wrote:

Oh, I was just making an observation, because when you write something funny it's usually followed by a 'lol'. No criticism intended. :)

She who has already fallen asleep,

cheryl

On the mountaintop, [email] (Tarvok) spake thusly:

<snip>

Sorry. Mindy just got a boyfriend and is so psychotically happy she doesn't want to inflict herself on everyone. Trust me, it's better this way.

-Mindy Who bought sparkly d4s and d6s over the weekend

"Well bust my legs and call me shorty." -Daria Morgendorffer, "Daria"

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On Sun, 19 Sep 99 17:22:46 GMT, [email] (Mindy) wrote:

*looks sad* I'm happy for you, really.

*to himself* "Well, time to move on."

Kyle, The Manny Alexander of alt.sports.baseball.chicago.cubs

"Kissing is touching your lips to the better end of 66 feet of intestine"

Howling Lunatic wrote:

Hey, I thought Erin was supposed to be the best thing to happen to you since...well, I guess sliced bread or something.... :)

Unless....  ;)

Diane

On the mountaintop, [email] (Howling Lunatic) spake thusly:

Well, there's always Alli... *grins, ducks flying thrown bottles*

-Mindy

*throws more bottles*

;P

In article ,

hauling

Hey, I wanna know about this boyfriend of yours. Any Trent resemblance? No but really, tell me!

cheryl

Mindy said:

Congratulations, Mindy. Who's the lucky guy? Sincerely Yours, Jordan

"Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction." (Dean William R. Inge)

On the mountaintop, [email] (Jordan S. Bassior) spake thusly:

*grins foolishly* A guy I met at smart camp (Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth Accelerated Learning Program - now you know why I just call it smart camp) who lives about an hour and a half away. He DMs for our AD&D group. His name's Randy (same as my stepsister, which promises to make life Very Confusing when she moves in). And thanks. *grins besottedly*

-Mindy

"Well bust my legs and call me shorty." -Daria Morgendorffer, "Daria"

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DJ wrote:

And all ya gotta do to join is wait until it comes around again on the git-tar.

Or Harmonica. Whatever.

Peace Kevin

On 27 Sep 1999 01:12:06 GMT, [email] (Wammy2) wrote:

If you take a look at the (unfortunately unquoted) preceding message, you will notice that the back-to-nature trend I was referring to is about not getting breast implants or getting breast implants removed. So it would prabably be better to call it a back-to-natural trend. MSB

Hmmmm... You're right, I do remember that - I saw the "back to nature" phrase a while after I had read your previous post, and zoomed off on a tangent. Sorry!

DJ

On 28 Sep 1999 02:31:24 GMT, [email] (Wammy2) wrote:

No problem, dude. We can just as well discuss tree-hugging and live-action-little-red-riding-hood-RPGs if you think that's back-to-nature :-) MSB

In article , "R. K. Henry" writes:

Really? When I read this, I heard the Twilight Zone theme music start playing...

Or possibly the shower music from Psycho...

Depends how you look at it...

Marie

"Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death." -Edna Ferber