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.