New old lathe. How'd I do?

You da man, LRod! Good score!

BTW: What did SWMBO do when she found out?

Michael Latcha - at home in Redford, MI

You will be if you don't get your ass back to the mall to pick up your wife and her friend!

-Brian

That's officially known as a pokey-whacky thing.

Yes, you should be sorry because in your suckage you have made those around you feel envious. Envy is bad for the digestion, and you gave a lot of unfortunate victims a belly ache this day.

You suck!

Now *that's* an expensive class.

Just for the guy who would have been following behind you.

Now LRod, can you fill us in on why your *actually* happy?

UA100

yeah, you got screwed. that used up 'ol piece of junk is just another boat anchor. tell ya what... just 'cause I'm such a nice guy, I'll get rid of it for you....

I am NOT obsessed with Norm!

Not bad for never submitting the site to the search engines, huh?

Oh, and thank you for visiting my site.

- - LRod

Master Woodbutcher and seasoned termite

Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999

It popped up and I sat there thinking, "Ain't that LRod's site?"

At dinner the other night (1) we discussed Googling our names. Mine brings up hit number one. Used to be a time when half the first page was me. Now I'm down to the first hit and then I have to go clawing.

Fame is fleeting.

It's always a fun romp.

(1) My boss and my boss's boss were somewhat amazed but it's always kinda freaky like there's this Clark Kent alter ego thing with stuff like Googling your name and the hits are outside the realm of work life. And after all, it has to do with wooddorking so the conversation never goes more than a minute or two.

UA100

UA 100 notes:

At dinner the other night (1) we discussed Googling our names. Mine brings up hit number one. Used to be a time when half the first page was me. Now I'm down to the first hit and then I have to go clawing.

Not long ago, I had thousands of hits on an ego search. Now, four or five commercial bits selling my books (used, mostly), with the first hit being a California preacher man with a Piled Higher & Deeper. Can't hardly find mine, even with scratching.

Unsettling.

LRod posts (on his web site):

Verbification. The act of taking a perfectly good noun, such as disrespect, and using it as a verb. Both ignorant street slang and governmentese are sources of much of this.

What I don't understand, and don't like, is the tendency for the young among us (under 55, say) to jump all over trends from the least admirable bits of our population, and treat them as desirable. Your example is just one, with much of it coming from both directions. I'm about ready to kick the next person who accuses me of "dissing" them right square where all males keep their "roll on the floor and whimper" buttons.

The word is actually "verbing", not "verbification", Charlie.

"Wellness" always makes me want to punch the utterer.

UA100, who has more but will leave it at that...

How about we dialog over that...

"Unisaw A100" wrote > "Wellness" always makes me want to punch the utterer.

Which would tend to fix both conditions, eh?

Rick

A) Charlie didn't write that, I did.

- - LRod

Master Woodbutcher and seasoned termite

Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:07:43 +0000, the inscrutable "Luigi Zanasi" spake:

Gerunding?

-- Remember: Every silver lining has a cloud. ----

de-noun-cing!!

Sorry. Didn't mean to dis you. OK then, let me rephrase:

The word is actually "verbing", not "verbification", Rod. :)

Just in case: I was being silly. Verbification has been a perfectly good English word since the late 19th century, at least according to my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

Sounds about right...used stationary power tools, especially newer models sell for about half of retail. Now, if it had been an older model, like a Delta 1460, $250 would have been a good deal, although they can sometimes be had for less.

Mike Marlow responds: How about we dialog over that...

It'll be so fun.

As someone wrote on a pro writer's forum t'other day.