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Can't wait to wear it to work, though.
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Are you people not here because you are working on your own Opera novels?
Where are you all?
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I got this:
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what are you having?
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GECKO: stay up a little while. I just made cupcakes for school.
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I mailed in my absentee ballot last week, and had so much fun filling it out. Actually having the time to go through every candidate on the ballot-city council, judges, conservation district people- was awesome.
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@vaquero: I understand why people are pissed, and I get that it casts doubt on memoirs in general, but if I liked his writing, I'd read him anyway. I'm just not a fan. To be fair, I'm often alone in my choices, so perhaps I just have bad taste.
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Hi all!
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Are there any thirsty terrorists hanging out in Bergen County on election night?
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@nolongerinacubiclestillawhore: Evening!
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Come on, take pity on a girl whose hands are so chapped from work that she's typing this while wearing gloves, hoping to keep the copious amounts of lotion she just put on from smearing on the computer.
By the way? Mouse touchpads don't work so well while wearing gloves. Lesson of the day.
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from:[www.phrases.org.uk]
Three sheets to the wind:
Meaning
Very drunk.
Origin
Our colleagues at CANOE, the Committee to Ascribe a Nautical Origin to Everything, have been hard at work and, to their great pleasure, they can add this phrase to their list. 'Three sheets to the wind' is indeed a seafaring expression.
To understand this phrase we need to enter the arcane world of nautical terminology. Sailors' language is, unsurprisingly, all at sea and many supposed derivations have to go by the board. Don't be taken aback to hear that sheets aren't sails, as landlubbers might expect, but ropes (or occasionally, chains). These are fixed to the lower corners of sails, to hold them in place. If three sheets are loose and blowing about in the wind then the sails will flap and the boat will lurch about like a drunken sailor.
The phrase is these days more often given as 'three sheets to the wind', rather than the original 'three sheets in the wind'. The earliest printed citation that I can find is in Pierce Egan's Real Life in London, 1821:
"Old Wax and Bristles is about three sheets in the wind."
Sailors at that time had a sliding scale of drunkenness; three sheets was the falling over stage; tipsy was just 'one sheet in the wind', or 'a sheet in the wind's eye'. An example appears in the novel The Fisher's Daughter, by Catherine Ward, 1824:
"Wolf replenished his glass at the request of Mr. Blust, who, instead of being one sheet in the wind, was likely to get to three before he took his departure."
three sheets to the windRobert Louis Stevenson was as instrumental in inventing the imagery of 'yo ho ho and a bottle of rum' piracy as his countryman and contemporary Sir Walter Scott was in inventing the tartan and shortbread 'Bonnie Scotland'. Stevenson used the 'tipsy' version of the phrase in Treasure Island, 1883 - the book that gave us 'X marks the spot', 'shiver me timbers' and the archetypal one-legged, parrot-carrying pirate, Long John Silver. He gave Silver the line:
"Maybe you think we were all a sheet in the wind's eye. But I'll tell you I was sober; "
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@Weegees bored: I am always in awe of people that publish their writing. Very cool.
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*On my knees*
Oh Gaaaaawker!!! What have you done to meeeee!!!
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And last night, I dreamed about putting bycatch reduction devices on crab traps-things that keep turtles from drowning in crab traps. Because I'm just that cool.
I've occasionally dreamed that I'm in a restaurant, eating, and strike up a conversation with some strangers, reference something from gawker, and then find out slowly that the stranger I'm talking to is one of you all.
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They're "lines," not ropes, generally speaking. "Sheets" are lines that control sails. I always wondered where "three sheets to the wind" came from, but was too lazy to look it up. I assumed it had to do with sails blowing free. I've occasionally heard sails called sheets.
But on old time sailing ships lines were sometimes stored in the rope locker. So go figure.
I can't wait for the sun to go over the yardarm next Tuesday.
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on the other hand, your job sounds pretty awesome :)
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Also, how many photographers do we have here? I saved up and bought a dslr this year and I feel like a kid whose faith in magic has just been renewed.
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I'm jealous of your camera, I just have a little Olympus waterproof point and shoot...but it's perfect for what I do.
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Plus, L-shaped upside down doubles as a hammer.
I'll be the Tetris block stumbling out of the Union Sq subway stop to work tomorrow morning.
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It's good, and occasionally I even get the feeling that someone actually learned something in one of my classes.
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1) love the weird al reference.
2) I sooooo connect with that. I was one of the youngest kids in my grade, and the last to start driving/quit riding.
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@vaquero: I love, love, love Weird Al.
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@T.S._delegate: I gave up riding the bus in 9th grade, when the pot smoke from the back of the bus would get so thick that I'd be nauseous on the walk home from the bus stop. Blecch.
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It's pumpkin time for me, too. Sweet dreams, everyone!
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Sorry, this will never get old for me.
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Rambling, incoherent, madman! Betcha he does get reelected.
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Seriously, if that Miss Teen South Carolina gal had been from Alaska, she easily could've absolved herself of all scrutiny by saying that she studied for the question portion of the competition by listening to her local politicians speak.
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[link.brightcove.com]
That's how I like my debates, vetted by lawyers and politicians callin' America's jury system "a political smear." What a douche.