The "I don't want to talk about AI" thread, and the new topic is: something that rhymes with "clicks"

[MillieDynamite]

Colons and Semicolons are looking for good homes as well.

I just got feedback (VERY constructive, I was really appreciative of the comment) that I need to add more punctuation to my poetry. Can I please have your commas? I'll give them a nice home and they won't have to die.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Actually, I have no problem with the word. Or with eggs themselves. It's just that I feel there's only so much discussion you can have about the topic before it gets boring. I mean, wouldn't we all much rather be talking about booze and boobs?

Aren't eggs kinda required for any sort of impregnation type fetish?

 

[StillStunned]

My Cat race is humanoid with only two bobbies. I borrowed the Caitian race from that long-running Sc Fi franchise, who boldly go where no one has gone before.

My cat-woman gets picked up and carried off by a giant bird at a certain point. I've only just realised how ironic that is.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Colons and Semicolons are looking for good homes as well.

I'll adopt them all and even learn how better to use them so they feel right at home.

 

[MillieDynamite]

You know what the 600-pound canary said, "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty."

My cat-woman gets picked up and carried off by a giant bird at a certain point. I've only just realised how ironic that is.

 

[cw5523729]

Colons and Semicolons are looking for good homes as well.

Everyone knows that semi-colons aren't real; like birds.

 

[StillStunned]

Everyone knows that semi-colons aren't real; like birds.

Eric the Half-A-Colon disagrees.

 

[cw5523729]

Eric the Half-A-Colon disagrees.

Pretty sure half-a-colon is called a period

 

[Bamagan]

Tell us, are the eggs in your life strange, or the boobies?

If they are, I doubt I would know.

 

[Britva415]

I like that word.

It's fine when used nominally for the material it literally names.

 

[StillStunned]

It's fine when used literally.

Fair enough. Although I'll stipulate that each author is allowed one use, in all their collected works, of "alabaster" to describe a character's skin.

 

[Britva415]

Fair enough. Although I'll stipulate that each author is allowed one use, in all their collected works, of "alabaster" to describe a character's skin.

I'd object to that less if the character were deceased than the way it's usually used.

 

[Off_base]

"Circa" irritates me.
"It is what it is" too. I guess that's more than one word, which are fine individually, but together, in that order? Irritating.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Pale, pasty, fair-skinned, (completely skinned, yikes), whiteish, vanilla, white chocolate beauty, snowy white, ivory, milky-white, a chalky-skinned ugly duckling, albescent, pallid, ashen, sallow (the ainti-swarthy), faint, bloodless, a ghastly, deathlike Aryan, light-skinned cornrow wearing wanna be, opalescent, and lastly alabaster.

Fair enough. Although I'll stipulate that each author is allowed one use, in all their collected works, of "alabaster" to describe a character's skin.

 

[cw5523729]

Pale, pasty, fair-skinned, (completely skinned, yikes), whiteish, vanilla, white chocolate beauty, snowy white, ivory, milky-white, a chalky-skinned ugly duckling, albescent, pallid, ashen, sallow (the ainti-swarthy), faint, bloodless, a ghastly, deathlike Aryan, light-skinned cornrow wearing wanna be, opalescent, and lastly alabaster.

Slow down, slow down, I'm making notes for my next story!

"White chocolate beauty" - that's a keeper, right there!

 

[StillStunned]

Pale, pasty, fair-skinned, (completely skinned, yikes), whiteish, vanilla, white chocolate beauty, snowy white, ivory, milky-white, a chalky-skinned ugly duckling, albescent, pallid, ashen, sallow (the ainti-swarthy), faint, bloodless, a ghastly, deathlike Aryan, light-skinned cornrow wearing wanna be, opalescent, and lastly alabaster.

"Her skin was the colour of the underside of a fish that had washed up on the beach a week ago."

The true master of similes was Terry Pratchett. At one point he describes Ankh-Morpork as "as full of life as a dead dog on a hot summer's day".

 

[MillieDynamite]

Well, that image stinks up the conversating.

"Her skin was the colour of the underside of a fish that had washed up on the beach a week ago."

The true master of similes was Terry Pratchett. At one point he describes Ankh-Morpork as "as full of life as a dead dog on a hot summer's day".

 

[MillieDynamite]

I don't like comparing people to food myself; it's dehumanizing.

Slow down, slow down, I'm making notes for my next story!

"White chocolate beauty" - that's a keeper, right there!

 

[StillStunned]

Well, that image stinks up the conversating.

It's supposed to, if you've ever read Discworld.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Opps, I forgot white marble and opaline.

 

[cw5523729]

I don't like comparing people to food myself; it's dehumanizing.

In the censorship thread, we are discussing eating "puffy tacos"

 

[MillieDynamite]

I'm in there, saw that, didn't comment.

In the censorship thread, we are discussing eating "puffy tacos"

 

[NuclearFairy]

White chocolate is chocolate if it has cocoa butter in it. Otherwise it's a milk candy that is merely an imitation.

 

[SyleusSnow]

The word "utilize" should not exist. There is nowhere the overly grandiose "utilize" is better than plain "use."

 

[MrPixel]

I was trying to think of a word that irked me other than "irk".

Then "facilitate" came to mind. In a recent PBS ad campaign about PBS in education, the interviewees were apparently given the direction to "use the word 'facilitate'" in their response to a question. It always came out stilted and awkward. One of these PSA spots was played so often that my wife and I cringed every time it came on.

We got our revenge. Our euphemism for letting the other know we need to step away to the restroom in, say, a restaurant, is "I need to facilitate."

Works for us!