Quotations

[kyrasantae]

Quote of the Day (Paraphrase) for Lister Tuesday:
Me: Shit.
Forgottenlord: What?
Me: I have four knives on me, not three!
Forgottenlord: FOUR?!
Me: Yah, I forgot about my pocketknife again!


MSN Nick of the Day:
(Mine, of course.)
Tuuli Mustasydän - The Reluctant Engineer — must run away / from steve drake day / my letter's on display / inside the Gateway


The Letter on Display Inside the Gateway, as printed therein on the Letters page (duh! where else?):

An engineer complains about grammar [sic, as it's not a grammar issue at all, it's semantics]

The last time I checked my dictionary, the word "vend" meant "to sell, especially as a peddler or hawker." Either my dictionary is wrong, or the Coca-Cola vending machines around campus are trying to get me to set up a business with franchises next to each machine and sell the junk from the bottom of my closet, because I can win tickets from their "Vend to Win Tickets" promotion. I'm starting to avoid walking past vending machines because those signs, with the blatant misuse of a perfectly normal English word, make me cringe.

And while I'm at it, just a friendly reminder to readers that "loose" is an adjective, not a conjugation of "to lose," and definitely not a verb in its own right, except as a somewhat little-used synonym for "to loosen."

I don't know why forgottenlord was laughing so hard when he read it - or maybe he was laughing at how he totally took me by surprise when he walked in on my math lab, just as I was reading the Letters page.

Comments

[forgottenlord.livejournal.com]

Didn't we determine that you, in fact, had 5 knives?

I was laughing at how funny it was. I didn't know that was just when you started reading the letters page and you didn't jump 5 feet out of your chair so there was nothing to laugh about there.

[kyrasantae.livejournal.com]

Only *technically* five if you don't count the two as a single set. Remember? :) I'm just paraphrasing what I said. In fact, that wasn't a spontaneous quote at all, I had rehearsed it in my head several times before saying it :o

At least you have coke

[(Anonymous)]

Remember here in cowtown, our SU sold the drink rights to the school too pepsi exclusivly, so the only coke I can get is from my locker (which is in a basement, so its actually cold coke too).

I think you should remember the law
English writing = 1/scam

Have you ever seen a well written spam message or scam? didnt think so

Medevo

Re: At least you have coke

[forgottenlord.livejournal.com]

TBH - I prefer pepsi

wtf?

[(Anonymous)]

Why do you feel you need to carry so many knives with you? Weapon posession is not only scary, but it implies mental instability - do you feel you're going to be attacked? If so, why not just carry a gun? Or maybe some explosive devices? You know, they're a lot more effective than blades. Or better yet... carry a freakin' cell phone, or learn some self-defense!

Re: wtf?

[kyrasantae.livejournal.com]

It's not that at all. a) carrying guns is illegal in Canada. b) I'm already trained in kungfu. It's about a internally stylized manifestation of a (sadly) ficticious mindset in which honour still exists...

Re: wtf?

[(Anonymous)]

The gun/explosive device comment was actually sarcastic, in case you missed it (which you did, but no worries -- it's hard to determine sarcasm online). At any rate, that's great that you're trained in kung fu. Thanks for sharing. The point I was making (which you missed -- again no worries) was that it's a bit strange to carry more than one weapon around at at a time. I honestly don't understand why anyone needs that kind of "protection". Instead of coming off as protection, it comes across as defensive, violent, and dangerous.

Re: wtf?

[kyrasantae.livejournal.com]

I know it makes me pass off as being violent - in fact I'm a pacifist. But it is a symbolic protection of my mind and my spirit, and a symbol of always being at war with the majority view, since "what is popular isn't always right, and what is right isn't always popular." It's purely symbolic. I'll let forgottenlord explain this in the morning.

Re: wtf?

[forgottenlord.livejournal.com]

I don't think I could explain it better myself.

To the anonomous poster, I don't know who you are but I know enough to be able to infer you're on my floor - and very likely met kyrasantae while she was over here (in fact, if you are who I suspect you are, actually had a conversation with her). My question for you is this, did you feel threatened by her? Do you actually feel more threatened by her knowing that she was carrying weaponry (and in fact, since her first visit, she has never carried nearly as much weaponry as she did on that first night).

My other question for you is this - kyrasantae called it symbolic protection - in effect, not so much a physical protection but a physical element that can create a more spiritual protection. I don't entirely understand it myself, but I know it works for her. If you were heading to a place that you don't know, don't necessarily want to know but have been pressured into and you are really, really nervous about entering such a place (like a very low-class bar in the dirtiest part of town with only one other guy), would you not want some sort of mental comfort? Sure, you probably wouldn't bring a knife, but you certainly wouldn't be your same perky self. Her weapons don't guard her body from harm, they guard her mind from being subdued.

Think about it

Re: wtf?

[kyrasantae.livejournal.com]

Eh, that almost sounds cliché :P

Re: wtf?

[kyrasantae.livejournal.com]

(like a very low-class bar in the dirtiest part of town with only one other guy)

Hey I never implied that sort of comparison!