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by **TenuredVulture** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:39:04

JH, I'm not sure you winning millions of dollars would be in your best interests.

by **PrattRules** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:44:37

I'm thinking about having a mushroom omelet for lunch. I think there's a lot to be said about a person who can make a good omelet.

by **PrattRules** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:46:25

TenuredVulture wrote:JH, I'm not sure you winning millions of dollars would be in your best interests.

Well, he could supply the BSG get togethers with unlimited Evan and Cokes. And maybe he'd buy us all flying skateboards... or sex change operations.

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:48:30

I hate the phrase "a la" unless it's pie a la mode or something like that

Instead, it’s spellbinding, a la The Decemberists or Neutral Milk Hotel.

by **Soren** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:51:18

Houshphandzadeh wrote:I hate the phrase "a la" unless it's pie a la mode or something like that

Instead, it’s spellbinding, a la The Decemberists or Neutral Milk Hotel.

it's like, literally the worst thing ever

by **drsmooth** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 12:20:22

Barry Jive wrote:Just called a male cop "ma'am" a couple times. Got a little chippy. I don't really feel bad about it.

high talker was he?

by **Grotewold** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 12:31:15

One time at a grocery store I saw a largish person with a baseball hat, polo shirt, and khakis kneeling down to fill a news stand up with books. Looking like Eric Gregg or something. I said, excuse me, sir, where are your sodas?, and the person swings around and says, "I'm a woman. And I don't work here."

by **Barry Jive** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 12:35:29

drsmooth wrote:
Barry Jive wrote:Just called a male cop "ma'am" a couple times. Got a little chippy. I don't really feel bad about it.

high talker was he?

Yes. The first time it was an accident. The second time it wasn't. But he was being a real bitch.

by **Barry Jive** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 12:38:01

Actually people call me ma'am sometimes so usually I just turn it around on them. That's fun too.

Also someone with the plate BDAWK20 just got pulled over.

by **Soren** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 13:01:38

French Candians call me Ma'am all the fucking time

by **Grotewold** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 13:02:20

All bets are off with those slippery fucks

by **Soren** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 13:15:36

by **Barry Jive** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 13:44:28

How often do you interact with French Canadians? Are you a Zamboni dealer?

by **TenuredVulture** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 13:45:37

Pine pollen. Ugh.

by **Soren** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 13:47:06

Barry Jive wrote:How often do you interact with French Canadians? Are you a Zamboni dealer?

every monday and tuesday

by **smitty** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 16:00:05

ashton wrote:I'm trying to think of examples of a subset of something that confusingly has the same name as the larger entity. I can think of two examples.

Classical music is divided into four time periods: baroque, classical, romantic, and modern. This can lead to confusing statements such as saying that your favorite type of classical music is classical, or saying that you like Chopin and Tchaikovsky but you don't like any classical music.

Radnor Township is divided into several unofficial parts, one of which is called Radnor. There's an elementary school there called Radnor elementary school. It's not called that because it's the only elementary school in Radnor (it isn't) but because it's located in the Radnor section of Radnor.

Can anyone think of other examples like this?

Luxemburg is a country and a city. It's also a Grand Duchy. You can call hamburgers Luxemburgers there and no one gets mad. They're made of sausage.

Australia is a country and a continent. And they have beer in big cans.

Willie Wilson and Mookie Wilson were nearly the same player -- same strengths and weaknesses both playing at the exact same time. Mookie's real name was William Wilson. Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a guy whom was haunted by a guy with the same name as he who was pretty much his twin. Both men were named William Wilson.

I was told there was an Upper Darby section of Upper Darby but I'm not sure that's true.

by **BigEd76** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 16:06:36

George Foreman has a bunch of George Foremans

by **Monkeyboy** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 16:11:18

Wow, a William Wilson reference. And a good one. You must be one of them there educated folk.

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 16:12:00

I guess there are tons of albums with eponymous songs in them

by **smitty** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 16:17:01

Monkeyboy wrote:Wow, a William Wilson reference. And a good one. You must be one of them there educated folk.

I read it in a Bill James book so there's that. If they had a PhD in baseball history I'd probably nab one pretty quick.

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