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10 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +12 points

I just take a deep breath and assume that the directors/accent coaches are going for "what an American in England in the (teens) (20's)(etc) would have sounded like."

10 years ago @ The Toast - Code Words For "Gay" I... · 2 replies · +11 points

How did they refer to the "friend" in "Adam's Rib" who wrote and sang "Farewell, Amanda," but clearly wanted to boff Spencer Tracy's character and not Katharine Hepburn's? Or was "writes songs for musical theater" sufficient unto itself?

10 years ago @ The Toast - Code Words For "Gay" I... · 0 replies · +6 points

Jimmy Carr, in re Mrs. Pankhurst and suffragettes, but I'm not sure who originally turned that phrase.

10 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 2 replies · +85 points

10 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +9 points

Where is the chopped liver recipe WHERE IS IT i want it now

11 years ago @ The Toast - Let's Talk About The B... · 0 replies · +8 points

Yup. I skipped around in it a bit looking for good parts, didn't find any, moved on. Now I can say "Nope, Mr. Blowhard, I don't find his characterizations sufficiently engaging, and anyway, I prefer my political theory in a purer, non-narrative form." That tends to shut them up, as they don't want to admit that they don't actually know what political theory I'm talking about.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Let's Talk About The B... · 0 replies · +3 points

First, no one really understands Haraway, except maybe her spirit animal. I am not her spirit animal.
Second, I have successfully conned my way through several presentations (as both student and teacher) on 20th-century man-theorists relying solely on those comic books about them and wikipedia. This is as it should be, when the primary value of a theorist is to serve as a backdrop for better work that interrogates or shreds or generally addresses the insufficiencies of said theorist's work.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Let's Talk About The B... · 1 reply · +10 points

My tenth grade English teacher was required to teach us Dickens. She hated Dickens. She divided David Copperfield into 3-chapter segments, with the intention that we would read small chunks of the book over the course of the year. After three or four chunks, she gave us a pop quiz: write one paragraph in the style of Dickens. She deemed our efforts sufficient to meet curricular requirements, and we moved on. Needless to say, she was a fantastic teacher.
In 12th grade, I managed to convince another English teacher that she must have misplaced my reading response journal for both A Room of One's Own (which I read about three times) and Heart of Darkness( of which I read about three pages, because I was too busy re-reading AROOO), as my passionate in-class discussion of Woolf cold not have possibly been so brilliant had I not written extensively about her book, and I would never ever turn in an incomplete assignment so I must have written about Conrad as well. She concurred and gave me an A for the journal.

11 years ago @ The Toast - At Least They Left Me ... · 0 replies · +18 points

A couple of weeks ago, I stopped for my pre-waitressing- shift libation (to which I was not looking forward) and commented off-handedly, "I wish I could walk into work and someone would just hand me a stack of money." Lo and behold, the very first thing that happened when I got to work was that I found two $20 bills tightly folded together on the floor! I canvassed every customer in the place, and no one had folded money (seriously, every person in the place who had cash had it laid out flat in their wallets).
Also, does it count as theft that one of my earliest memories is of my parents fighting, which robbed me of any sense of familial security?

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 2 replies · +4 points

CROSSWORD SOLVING SPOILER ALERT!!!

That comment is bonkers, but I do see the validity of tournament players' anger that one was expected to divine that the across answers were all to be misspelled, rather than solved with 2 letters per box, which is a far more common trick.

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