Comments | greygirlbeast: "Don't trust anyone who looks you in the eye. Don't take any kindness; it's a demand in disguise."

greygirlbeast

"Don't trust anyone who looks you in the eye. Don't take any kindness; it's a demand in disguise."

Mar 16, 2015 11:32

I'm going to be angry today. It's only 11:04 a.m., and already I can tell that today I will be angry.

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Calvin: I like to verb words.

Hobbes: What?

Calvin: I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you do. It got verbed ( Read more... )

new england, pills for ills, 1935, language in the hands of idiots, drugs, anger, birmingham, calvin & hobbes, cold weather, 1982

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sovay March 16 2015, 16:52:29 UTC

Calvin: Verbing weirds language.

One of my favorite strips of Calvin and Hobbes.

I hope you can get to spring before it's summer.

greygirlbeast March 16 2015, 16:58:16 UTC

I hope I can get summer before it's autumn.

Spring ext_1285666 March 16 2015, 19:19:49 UTC

In the Northeast Spring is the day before Summer.

Then Autumn is the day after July 4th.

Re: Spring greygirlbeast March 16 2015, 20:19:46 UTC

In the Northeast Spring is the day before Summer.

Then Autumn is the day after July 4th.

YES!

I have named two new seasons for Rhode Island: 1) "cold spring" (March-early June) and 2) "green autumn" (mid-August through September). If we're lucky, we get 6-8 weeks of a mostly chilly summer, sometimes punctuated by muggy, hot days.