Comments | wringhim: Now he's making lots of noise playing along with the art school boys

wringhim

Now he's making lots of noise playing along with the art school boys

Nov 02, 2006 13:06

Is My Perfect Cousin by the Undertones the only pop song to mention University Challenge AND The Human League?

What I learnt from the internet today:

According to David McKie Uxbridge FC have a player called Dante Alighieri. Ideal if your defence is made up of the souls of dead babies; less good at getting past panthers, lions, and wolves ( Read more... )

undertones, football, work, surveillance

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teachesmacabre November 2 2006, 13:43:51 UTC

yay for the Undertones, too!

geeveecatullus November 2 2006, 14:37:10 UTC

hahaha.
I got scared for a second there, but apparently employee#2 is not only a bitch but a bitch who is wrong.

wringhim November 2 2006, 15:29:45 UTC

Ha, yes. I never thought to check what nauseous actually means in a dictionary. But English has so many words and phrases related to throwing up that are much better than nauseous, like "queasy", "vomitous", "emesis", "dyspeptic", "chunder", or "spew", I don't really care what employee #2 thinks about "nauseous".

nauseous geeveecatullus November 2 2006, 15:38:20 UTC

Actually, employee number 2 is absolutely right. I learned that grammatical lesson a long time ago and have been very cautious ever since about not mixing up my terms. In a non-bitchy way, for the most part.

nauseous geeveecatullus November 2 2006, 15:40:37 UTC

That was me, by the way, being nauseatingly correct back there.

- Jackie

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