Yada
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 01, 2017 at 08:27 PM UTC
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Yes, wrote:
I always wanted to start a moped "biker gang" just so I could use the pun Buena Vespa Social Club.
C-
jrpa
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 01, 2017 at 08:30 PM UTC
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Yada wrote:
Yes, wrote:
I always wanted to start a moped "biker gang" just so I could use the pun Buena Vespa Social Club.
C-
I think you're grading harshly. It works both as a pure reference but its also a sly, self-aware joke about how a group of scooter riders cannot pass themselves off as a rough and tumble biker gang; the most menacing they can qualify for is a "social club". I think it's a solid B+ name.
Sidehatch
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 02, 2017 at 01:49 PM UTC
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I do love that drums translates to: batterie
on french liner notes
also the french use MDR (mort de rire) in place of LOL
c'est tout
sweetcell
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 02, 2017 at 06:25 PM UTC
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Side wrote:
I do love that drums translates to: batterie
on french liner notes
batterie, from the verb
battre, "to hit". so
batterie would be the noun generated from the verb to hit, in other words in french you are essentially calling drums "hit" or "hitter".
batterie is always singular, since it is a collective noun a la Borg.
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Sidehatch
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 02, 2017 at 08:40 PM UTC
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sweetcell wrote:
Side wrote:
I do love that drums translates to: batterie
on french liner notes
batterie, from the verb battre, "to hit". so batterie would be the noun generated from the verb to hit, in other words in french you are essentially calling drums "hit" or "hitter". batterie is always singular, since it is a collective noun a la Borg.
</french_grammar>
more of an onomatopoeia too
I think the person who hits is cooler than the person who drums
hutch
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 02, 2017 at 08:58 PM UTC
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same in spanish… at least in Argentina
drums = bateria
playing the drums = tocando la bateria
drummer = baterista
Sidehatch
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 02, 2017 at 09:04 PM UTC
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yeah….sounds more like bastard that one who beats
you m-f'in baterista!
sweetcell
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 02, 2017 at 09:14 PM UTC
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actually, sounds like someone who should be making me a frappuccino instead of all that noise…
Space Freely
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 03, 2017 at 10:41 PM UTC
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religious terrorists strike again????
kmdobrz
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 04, 2017 at 12:54 AM UTC
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Space Freely
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 04, 2017 at 01:41 AM UTC
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You know your life sucks when your kid gives your dog too many treats, the dog barfs on the carpet, you pick the puke up nd try to flush it down the toilet but it doesn't go down because your kid took such a monster dump that it clogged up the toilet. Thank you to the inventor of the plunger.
hutch
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 04, 2017 at 10:52 AM UTC
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I did not need to read that
Sidehatch
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 06, 2017 at 01:19 PM UTC
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black cat adding third floor and leasing out ground floor…no talk of a pool tho..
https://dc.curbed.com/2017/6/2/15731670/black-cat-addition-lease
jrpa
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 06, 2017 at 01:31 PM UTC
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BrownHatch wrote:
black cat adding third floor and leasing out ground floor…no talk of a pool tho..
https://dc.curbed.com/2017/6/2/15731670/black-cat-addition-lease
It's almost as though the owner of the Black Cat is not transitioning to walrus.
hutch
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 06, 2017 at 02:31 PM UTC
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I guess that outdoor deck never got approved?
Space Freely
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 06, 2017 at 04:48 PM UTC
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herman otto
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 06, 2017 at 06:28 PM UTC
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if you are into that, I guess that was pretty cool, or pretty dumb, depending on how you look at it. he looks nice with his shirt off too, so there's that.
jrpa
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 06, 2017 at 06:37 PM UTC
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The lack of ropes to purchase is the most fiscally responsible way to rock climb.
hutch
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 06, 2017 at 06:44 PM UTC
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worried i may drop dead if i finish this last brat but i'm going for it… if you never hear from me again know i died at the hand of an aldi's brat..at least it was inexpensive… julian, come up with some witty epitaph for me.. oh wait, you already did that.. ok make sure its on the stone..later..
Yada
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Re: random . . . randomness
June 06, 2017 at 07:07 PM UTC
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Space wrote:
It doesn't get much more amazing than this.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/05/531584651/alex-honnold-scales-el-capitan-without-ropes-and-the-climbing-world-reels
the palms of my hands are sweaty just reading this.