@ThacoBell I thought that expression was for soldiers?
I'm just doing the work that I love, that's all. And I'm lucky to have grown up in a country without tuition fees. Yes I know, we Europeans are communists ?
I believe that if the hat had been grounded properly it would have
a. Shielded your mind, and...
b. Jerked it off your head as you stood up.
But what would have been the fun in that?
@ThacoBell I thought that expression was for soldiers?
I'm just doing the work that I love, that's all. And I'm lucky to have grown up in a country without tuition fees. Yes I know, we Europeans are communists ?
It typically is. But doctors deserve more praise for what they do.
@shabadoo: Out of curiosity, is your username a reference to Joey Jo-jo Shabadoo?
Nope. It's from Futurama. When my daughter was pregnant with her first child she asked what i wanted the baby to call me. The episode where Fry meets his great great great great great grandchildren (he traveled a thousand years into the future) and tells he's their great great great great great grandson, had just aired. He called them Gram-Gram and Shabadoo. So i said Shabadoo. It was meant as a joke, but it stuck. Now everyone in my family calls me Shabadoo.
I just noticed that I somehow double quoted @semiticgod, odd. @Arvia, now I'm going to have to go look at it. It better be cool or I'll cry, and it will be all your fault.
@Arvia , LOL, my German suddenly gets a lot better when I already pretty much know what the text says. I had a similar experience when I was learning New Testament Greek in divinity school.
I've got another one. When I took my wife to the hospital to induce pregnancy, They had to put an IV in for some medicine I'm not familiar with. When the nurse asked my wife if she wanted painkiller before putting the IV in, she looked confused before saying "no". THEN the nurse whips out this, I can't even call it a syringe, it was a TUBE with a sharp point on one end, and just stabbed her with it. To this day my wife says this was far more painful than labor, (which she thinks the pain of is greatly exaggerated whenever people mention it). That's not the funny part. The FUNNY part is when I was recounting this to my grandfather (who is carpenter) about an hour or two later, that nurse was in the room and casually mentioned the gauge of "needle" she used. To which my granfather replies, "That's the gauge of nail I use when I build large cabinets!"
@ThacoBell , I've just discovered this old post of yours and it put a big smile on my face, because it brought back many memories.
My grandfather was a carpenter, too, so is one of my brothers, and my father and other brother are electricians, and that comment about the needle sounds *exactly* like some of the things they have said in various situations ?.
My grandfather died in 2002 when I was 20. On my 7th or 8th birthday he gave me a saw, a hammer and a package of nails, because he said that girls were supposed to have fun with tools, too, while my aunt still insisted on giving me dolls that I didn't play with. ?
Happy memories.
I had told my 10yo daughter that I would come home when she's asleep, because I had to take a 10 hour ultrasound course in a city two hours away.
Her reaction: "Ultrasound? Cool! Does that mean you'll be able to communicate with bats?"
I already had to laugh at that.
And then they sent the course certificate and I saw this emblem.
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I'm just doing the work that I love, that's all. And I'm lucky to have grown up in a country without tuition fees. Yes I know, we Europeans are communists ?
Trust me, I'm an Alien
a. Shielded your mind, and...
b. Jerked it off your head as you stood up.
But what would have been the fun in that?
@Arvia Silicon is a good isolant...
It would look kind of silly at work, though. On second thought, not more than an aluminium hat...
It typically is. But doctors deserve more praise for what they do.
Nope. It's from Futurama. When my daughter was pregnant with her first child she asked what i wanted the baby to call me. The episode where Fry meets his great great great great great grandchildren (he traveled a thousand years into the future) and tells he's their great great great great great grandson, had just aired. He called them Gram-Gram and Shabadoo. So i said Shabadoo. It was meant as a joke, but it stuck. Now everyone in my family calls me Shabadoo.
Gah! Why did I have to be curious and check that?
I think I could have lived very well without that particular piece of knowledge.
*puts her fingers firmly into her ears, squeezes her eyes shut and hums a loud tune*
@shabadoo Futurama is cool!
@Arvia, now I'm going to have to go look at it. It better be cool or I'll cry, and it will be all your fault.
Must be very interesting to read the New Testament in its original language.
Edited after looking up what "divinity school" means: Now I'd really like to talk to you about religious opinions some day.
@ThacoBell , I've just discovered this old post of yours and it put a big smile on my face, because it brought back many memories.
My grandfather was a carpenter, too, so is one of my brothers, and my father and other brother are electricians, and that comment about the needle sounds *exactly* like some of the things they have said in various situations ?.
My grandfather died in 2002 when I was 20. On my 7th or 8th birthday he gave me a saw, a hammer and a package of nails, because he said that girls were supposed to have fun with tools, too, while my aunt still insisted on giving me dolls that I didn't play with. ?
Happy memories.
Her reaction: "Ultrasound? Cool! Does that mean you'll be able to communicate with bats?"
I already had to laugh at that.
And then they sent the course certificate and I saw this emblem.
Am I the only one who wants THIS version of Detective Pikachu in Pokemon: Let's play Pikachu!? He's so hardboiled!