I think I'm going to do only substantive comments from here on out. Those, and the kind of comments where I supply a fact. And the comment where I Reveal All.
Granite is an igneous intrusive. It forms plutons, unlike igneous extrusives. Composed of quartz, feldspar, and a soupcon of mica. Macrocrystalline. Classic outcrop: half dome, in Yosemite. Personally, I prefer cross bedded aeolian sandstone.
Schist is good, but some prefer Slate. Join us tomorrow night for another episode of esoterica
But there used to be. Like the Lebanon, the Sudan, the Yemen and the Congo. I believe it denotes a colonial province, or at least a non-autonomous region.
49: slol, yes there ws, but it's very important to Ukrainians' self-esteem that we drop it. Ukraine means, I believe, border. It was the border. It's considered rude nowadays to note their previous subjugation to thir Russian/Soviet overlords. Of course, we can always choose to be rude here at unfogged...
I think Slo is right. Definite article with terms that refer to an area (the great plains, the sahara, the Gobi). No article for proper names of Countries (except the USA). Maybe there's a distinction for countries that have their own adjective (the United States, the Belgian Congo)
My Yukon relatives report that the Yukon should now be called, simply, Yukon, owing to some kind of weird assertion of local pride. In the past it was "The Yukon Territory," so I get how "The Yukon" would rub in that territorial status; however, since Yukon remains a territory, I have no idea where the locals are getting their pride.
#48. Schist. *Hits head.* Thanks for being nice about it.
Yeah, as I understand it, in Russian there's a similar dispute over which preposition to use with Ukraine. One implies it's a country of its own, the other that it's still a region of Russia.
Public notice to men of the world, apropos of nothing: If a woman is standing on the corner of a street, at midnight (wearing a suit, for chrissake), do not automatically assume she is a hooker. There are things called buses. Occasionally, people have to stand around to wait for them.
I was somehow under the impression that Eddie Money had (prematurely) died in the last few years, but happily www.deadoraliveinfo.com says otherwise. It's amazing how there's a website for everything imaginable (and many things unimaginable).
I think most of them are in English, often with "Territory" understood. Also cf. "the Sudan." Arabic, of course, does this much more, and with little apparent rhyme or reason: al-Kuwait, al-Iraq, al-Yunan (Greece), but Lubnan, Suriya.
80: I think everything gets a "the" in certain circumstances, in Arabic, right (if you know better Arabic than I do, I will be so ashamed of myself). Like for example, if you wanted to say someone was in Lebanon, you would say they were f'il-Lubnan, which translates to "in the Lebanon." Yeah?
82: I don't think so, actually -- common nouns yes, but my impression is that for place names it either has it or it doesn't (we just discussed this today in class, so it's fresh in my mind). I can ask.
Suddenly I am faced with the realization that in not much over a year, I will be done with school, probably never to return again. It's freaking me the fuck out.
"My relationship with sheep is a bit ambivalent now. I like them, but not when they come flying through the air. I have a headache now."
He has filed involuntary assault and battery charges. Band member Rune Eriksen, whose stage name is Blasphemer, said that the incident was unfortunate.
"The whole thing was an accident, but maybe it would be ideal for another show," he commented, and promised the injured fan a ticket for their next show.
The band could face charges with a maximum sentence of six months in prison. Police detective Carl-Petter Leganger said an investigation was underway, but that "nothing suggests this was a conscious act."
Mayhem, whose songs include 'Necrolust' and 'Deathcrush', are no strangers to controversy. In 1991, lead vocalist Dead "lived" up to his name when he committed suicide. Drummer Hellhammer then made a necklace using some of the skull's fragments and guitarist Euronymous reportedly cooked and ate pieces of Dead's brain.
Euronymous was stabbed to death two years later by the band's bass player Count Grishnackh, allegedly due to the fact that Euronmyous had a more "evil" reputation.
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"My relationship with sheep is a bit ambivalent now. I like them, but not when they come flying through the air. I have a headache now."
He has filed involuntary assault and battery charges. Band member Rune Eriksen, whose stage name is Blasphemer, said that the incident was unfortunate.
"The whole thing was an accident, but maybe it would be ideal for another show," he commented, and promised the injured fan a ticket for their next show.
The band could face charges with a maximum sentence of six months in prison. Police detective Carl-Petter Leganger said an investigation was underway, but that "nothing suggests this was a conscious act."
Mayhem, whose songs include 'Necrolust' and 'Deathcrush', are no strangers to controversy. In 1991, lead vocalist Dead "lived" up to his name when he committed suicide. Drummer Hellhammer then made a necklace using some of the skull's fragments and guitarist Euronymous reportedly cooked and ate pieces of Dead's brain.
Euronymous was stabbed to death two years later by the band's bass player Count Grishnackh, allegedly due to the fact that Euronmyous had a more "evil" reputation.
this is the type of post that would be best served on your other blog.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:15 PM
Well, I liked it.
Posted by David Weman | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:20 PM
sure, but somebody's got to fill the bastard role when wolfson posts.
we're all still working things out.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:29 PM
bastard != little bitch
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:30 PM
lint puppet is the new little bitch.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:32 PM
does that mean I owe more quarters for the comity jar? crap.
wolfson, I enjoy your posts both here and on your other blog. Don't go away like _gged did.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:34 PM
I think I'm going to do only substantive comments from here on out. Those, and the kind of comments where I supply a fact. And the comment where I Reveal All.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:34 PM
I'm only going to do entirely superfluous comments. The more things change . . .
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:35 PM
I think I'm going to do only substantive comments from here on out.
Nooooooo!
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:35 PM
9 gets it exactly right.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:36 PM
If Standpipe does that, I'm going to go all Farber.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:37 PM
You mean you'll stop reading the blog?
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:40 PM
Granite is an igneous rock, and gneiss, metamorphic. Fact!
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:40 PM
In which case, I get to be Armsmasher.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:43 PM
can I get an e-mail alert for when Standpipe Reveals All?
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:47 PM
Never mind, this sucks. Sorry Becks; Matt.
CHANGEBAD
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:47 PM
13 was the one where you Reveal All, right?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:47 PM
13 was the one where you Reveal All, right?
Maybe, if you had the means to decipher it. (Check your email, slol.)
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:50 PM
Check your email, slol.
Now I Know All!
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:52 PM
Wait, I want to Know All, too!
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:53 PM
And to think, it was geological all this time.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:54 PM
I was sure you were going to say, "Made you look."
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:56 PM
I so feel like I am missing out!
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:57 PM
I hope this is not the creation of a secret unfogged, hidden behind the public one, by e-mail only.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:59 PM
What can the Bridgeplate reveal about shist?
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 8:59 PM
Also, I'm calling indiscretion error.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:01 PM
I'm so lost, and confused to boot!
I prefer shale.
Posted by tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:03 PM
on who? if anything there's too much discretion.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:03 PM
"The Bridgeplate"? Like "the Ukraine"?
Before this gets out of hand, I should say that any actual revelations will proceed according to ogged's principle of solicitude. Fear not.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:04 PM
I reserve the right to refer to comment 26 when appropriate.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:06 PM
Like "the Ukraine"?
No, like "The Batman".
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:07 PM
when appropriate
When would that be, then?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:09 PM
32: when appropriate
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:11 PM
I'm really sorry, everyone. That wasn't in the spirit of cameraderie at all.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:14 PM
24: That would be "fogged."
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:14 PM
Wait, what? We're keeping secrets from each other now?
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:29 PM
We're not keeping secrets in private, but we are in public?
Posted by tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:37 PM
So text's 1 gets it exactly right, after all.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:38 PM
I thought we weren't keeping any secrets in private, but were all colluding to keep our secrets in public.
Or something.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:42 PM
I'm so awfully confused. As though a hunk of cheese ground into my ear and all the while I know not why.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 9:56 PM
29: There is no definite article in front of Ukraine; it is isimply Ukraine. My sister's heaing out there in about amonth for the peace corps.
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:08 PM
This is what happened: I pretended to let slolernr in on a secret. And then I realized that it was a jerky thing to do, teasing you all like that.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:13 PM
42: Cover-up!
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:19 PM
There is no definite article in front of Ukraine; it is isimply Ukraine.
Exactly.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:19 PM
It's no big deal. Why, it's just like the time the
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seven
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giraffes
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at dawn
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plea agreement.
That story never ceases to amaze me.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:20 PM
Our privates secrete a pubic colloid? Come again?
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:26 PM
there is a secret. that much is established.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:31 PM
Granite is an igneous intrusive. It forms plutons, unlike igneous extrusives. Composed of quartz, feldspar, and a soupcon of mica. Macrocrystalline. Classic outcrop: half dome, in Yosemite. Personally, I prefer cross bedded aeolian sandstone.
Schist is good, but some prefer Slate. Join us tomorrow night for another episode of esoterica
Posted by Michael H Schneider | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:37 PM
There is no definite article in front of Ukraine
But there used to be. Like the Lebanon, the Sudan, the Yemen and the Congo. I believe it denotes a colonial province, or at least a non-autonomous region.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:38 PM
That story never ceases to amaze me.
Did I ever tell the joke about the ... oh yeah, I did.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:41 PM
49: slol, yes there ws, but it's very important to Ukrainians' self-esteem that we drop it. Ukraine means, I believe, border. It was the border. It's considered rude nowadays to note their previous subjugation to thir Russian/Soviet overlords. Of course, we can always choose to be rude here at unfogged...
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:43 PM
this is the type of post that would be best served on your other blog.
I only have one type.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:44 PM
I think Slo is right. Definite article with terms that refer to an area (the great plains, the sahara, the Gobi). No article for proper names of Countries (except the USA). Maybe there's a distinction for countries that have their own adjective (the United States, the Belgian Congo)
Posted by Michael H Schneider | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:45 PM
My Yukon relatives report that the Yukon should now be called, simply, Yukon, owing to some kind of weird assertion of local pride. In the past it was "The Yukon Territory," so I get how "The Yukon" would rub in that territorial status; however, since Yukon remains a territory, I have no idea where the locals are getting their pride.
#48. Schist. *Hits head.* Thanks for being nice about it.
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:48 PM
The Mineshaft.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:48 PM
Is Yukon still a territory, not a province?
Right. "The Mineshaft" is descriptive of an area. One wouldn't just call something adit.
Posted by Michael H Schneider | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 10:52 PM
Yeah, as I understand it, in Russian there's a similar dispute over which preposition to use with Ukraine. One implies it's a country of its own, the other that it's still a region of Russia.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:02 PM
What does Blixa Bargeld have in common with Johnny Cash and Eddie Money?
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:03 PM
Changed his name for the stage?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:05 PM
Or … this? Second name relates to money?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:07 PM
Name designates a male human being who was alive at some point in the last three years?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:18 PM
Blixa is a German brand of felt pen.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:23 PM
Second name relates to money?
Yes, a musician whose surname means "cash" or "money" (according to Wikipedia).
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:25 PM
61 is also presumably true, albeit a tad too general.
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:26 PM
"presumably"?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:30 PM
Public notice to men of the world, apropos of nothing: If a woman is standing on the corner of a street, at midnight (wearing a suit, for chrissake), do not automatically assume she is a hooker. There are things called buses. Occasionally, people have to stand around to wait for them.
That is all.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:31 PM
I was somehow under the impression that Eddie Money had (prematurely) died in the last few years, but happily www.deadoraliveinfo.com says otherwise. It's amazing how there's a website for everything imaginable (and many things unimaginable).
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:31 PM
"presumably"?
They're all reputed to be/have been male, but that doesn't prove beyond peradventure that that is true. See, e.g., http://www.civilwarhome.com/womeninuniform.htm
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:38 PM
The Netherlands.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:41 PM
Good point, Frederick. For all we know, Johnny Cash was a woman.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:43 PM
69: That's implicitly adjectivial.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:44 PM
"June Carter Cash" is an anagram of "deviant lifestyle". Fact!
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:45 PM
The Hague.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:46 PM
The Netherlands Antilles.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:47 PM
The Hague isn't a place.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:48 PM
Yes it is.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:48 PM
Isn't it?
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:48 PM
It's a city. Teh Hague.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:49 PM
So is Den Haag.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:49 PM
That's implicitly adjectivial.
I think most of them are in English, often with "Territory" understood. Also cf. "the Sudan." Arabic, of course, does this much more, and with little apparent rhyme or reason: al-Kuwait, al-Iraq, al-Yunan (Greece), but Lubnan, Suriya.
(Also German: die Turkei etc.)
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:51 PM
So is Steven Den Beste, but you don't hear me crowing about it.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:51 PM
Masr!
80: I think everything gets a "the" in certain circumstances, in Arabic, right (if you know better Arabic than I do, I will be so ashamed of myself). Like for example, if you wanted to say someone was in Lebanon, you would say they were f'il-Lubnan, which translates to "in the Lebanon." Yeah?
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:54 PM
Why isn't it the MoMO?
Posted by Michael H Schneider | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:54 PM
MoMA
Posted by Michael H Schneider | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:55 PM
The Congress.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:56 PM
82: I don't think so, actually -- common nouns yes, but my impression is that for place names it either has it or it doesn't (we just discussed this today in class, so it's fresh in my mind). I can ask.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:58 PM
ben, can you please send me your e-mail address (to frhine at ghslaw.com)? Thanks.
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 01-31-06 11:59 PM
Email to blogger name at domain dot com
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 02- 1-06 12:01 AM
Oh, I e-mailed your gmail account.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 02- 1-06 12:06 AM
86: Ooh, you're in a class? Totally jealous.
Suddenly I am faced with the realization that in not much over a year, I will be done with school, probably never to return again. It's freaking me the fuck out.
Maybe I'll go for a phD in... something.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 02- 1-06 12:07 AM
OT -- the Toto Wash-Let is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It boggles the mind that we are probably the first people on our block to get one. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060130/hl_afp/afplifestylejapanustoilettotocompany_060130082638
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 02- 1-06 12:15 AM
I pretty much totally didn't want to know that.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 02- 1-06 12:16 AM
Christ, everything I say offends someone.
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 02- 1-06 12:20 AM
I hope this is not the creation of a secret unfogged, hidden behind the public one, by e-mail only.
24: That would be "fogged."
I vote for "onfugged".
Posted by ogmb | Link to this comment | 02- 1-06 1:22 AM
The United States of America.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 1-06 5:18 AM
The Fog Bank.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02- 1-06 6:04 AM
Blixa Bargeld probably wouldn't fit in with the guys from Mayhem, then.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 1-06 6:24 AM
"My relationship with sheep is a bit ambivalent now. I like them, but not when they come flying through the air. I have a headache now."
He has filed involuntary assault and battery charges. Band member Rune Eriksen, whose stage name is Blasphemer, said that the incident was unfortunate.
"The whole thing was an accident, but maybe it would be ideal for another show," he commented, and promised the injured fan a ticket for their next show.
The band could face charges with a maximum sentence of six months in prison. Police detective Carl-Petter Leganger said an investigation was underway, but that "nothing suggests this was a conscious act."
Mayhem, whose songs include 'Necrolust' and 'Deathcrush', are no strangers to controversy. In 1991, lead vocalist Dead "lived" up to his name when he committed suicide. Drummer Hellhammer then made a necklace using some of the skull's fragments and guitarist Euronymous reportedly cooked and ate pieces of Dead's brain.
Euronymous was stabbed to death two years later by the band's bass player Count Grishnackh, allegedly due to the fact that Euronmyous had a more "evil" reputation.
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"My relationship with sheep is a bit ambivalent now. I like them, but not when they come flying through the air. I have a headache now."
He has filed involuntary assault and battery charges. Band member Rune Eriksen, whose stage name is Blasphemer, said that the incident was unfortunate.
"The whole thing was an accident, but maybe it would be ideal for another show," he commented, and promised the injured fan a ticket for their next show.
The band could face charges with a maximum sentence of six months in prison. Police detective Carl-Petter Leganger said an investigation was underway, but that "nothing suggests this was a conscious act."
Mayhem, whose songs include 'Necrolust' and 'Deathcrush', are no strangers to controversy. In 1991, lead vocalist Dead "lived" up to his name when he committed suicide. Drummer Hellhammer then made a necklace using some of the skull's fragments and guitarist Euronymous reportedly cooked and ate pieces of Dead's brain.
Euronymous was stabbed to death two years later by the band's bass player Count Grishnackh, allegedly due to the fact that Euronmyous had a more "evil" reputation.
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The People's Republic of China. The Federal Republic of Germany. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 02- 1-06 7:17 AM
Did I do that? Sorry.
Posted by Frederick | Link to this comment | 02- 1-06 7:18 AM
ahem... :) This one's mine.
Posted by Austro | Link to this comment | 02- 1-06 7:41 AM
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 02- 2-06 9:57 AM