Going to Gatlinburg - AgainFebruary 9th 2006 |
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Back in November, I went to Gatlinburg, Tennessee with Reality and had a blast. I met lots of new people (although, of all the cool new people I met, I never really hung-out with them again...) David McMurray nearly ripped his toenail off getting into the jacuzzi. Tyler Roberts and I got to know each other better – he's a really awesome guy. Drew Roberts took a road trip to Mexico and drove his car off of a bridge. I found out that Courtney Vanover has a weird toe like I do. I also found out that Lauren Peal can speak Spanish quite well. I hope to find out these kinds of things about people and more this time around when I go to Gatlinburg with CSF! :) So this Friday I will be headed down to TN with some people that I just met last Thursday. I will be sure and post some pictures when I get back.
Playing Scrabble at Firth's house is fast becoming a tradition every Wednesday night. As a Linguistics major, this is an ideal game for me to play. We always seem to come up with new words that SHOULD be in the English language, but unfortunately are not. Last night we played “Bible Scrabble” which meant that we could only use words that are found in the Bible. We had BibleGateway.com up and ready to confirm any words in question. William put down the word, “ran” and I said, “Now wait a minute, 'ran' has to be in the Bible, so any other tense of the word won't count like 'run.'” So of course, I make the ridiculous claim that the the word 'ran' wasn't in the Bible since all the verses that I knew of only had the present tense, 'run' in them. D-well did a search and it turns out that I was wrong... by about 1,000 times or so...
I am building a new computer for my parents. They are going to have a PHATTY computer when I am done too. The case for this beast is AMAZING! I am going to buy this case for my next computer. It's not fancy with windows on the panels and lights all over (although the front fan has a blue light in it which gives off a sweet ambient glow.) The makers of this case truly understand the frustrations of computer builders and made much of the assimilation completely painless with snap-in cards, a well-placed power supply holder, nicely grouped wires, and slide-in hard drive bays! By far, this is the best case I have ever worked with.
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That's easy, you saw William on tv when he rescued Mrs. McPgeely's cat, and in the process of doing this saved a family from a burning house, and caught two robbers stealing from another old lady. Everyone knows about that.
Frith
posted at 9:21 AM on Feb 12th 2006
hey william
i'm still too medicine-heady to log into my email, but i just figured out where i know you from. :)
thing is, you have to guess where it is! and, btw, it was SO on tv! oh, and everyone else here should guess too because that would be fun. :)
*coughs all over everyone* here, have the flu! it'll be fun! :(
tea
posted at 2:39 AM on Feb 12th 2006
i've heard of the froth of Frith
william
posted at 12:43 AM on Feb 10th 2006
HAHA! That's awesome!
SammyK
posted at 12:06 AM on Feb 10th 2006
Andy, that is so interesting. I've always heard of the firth of forth, yet didn't know exactly what it was. There was a Frith who was on the ships list of the Godspeed. That was the ship that brought the first settlers to Jamestown.
Frith
posted at 11:51 PM on Feb 9th 2006
And it gets better...frith is a word too! In fact, frith and firth are synonyms...
Frith Frith (fr[i^]th), n. [OE. firth, Icel. fj["o]r[eth]r;
akin to Sw. fj[aum]rd, Dan. fiord, E. ford. [root]78. See
{Ford}, n., and cf. {Firth}, {Fiord}, {Fret} a frith, {Port}
a harbor.]
[1913 Webster]
1. (Geog.) A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening
of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth. Also
called {firth}.
[1913 Webster]
2. A kind of weir for catching fish. [Eng.] --Carew.
[1913 Webster]
Andy Warmack
posted at 11:33 PM on Feb 9th 2006
Just be glad that you're not challenging Sam in a game of Scrabble. It turns out that 'firth' is an actual word! Look it up!
(It's also the name of a city in each of Nebraska and Idaho.)
I think Sam will find this definition to be the funniest in context because he likes linguistics so much:
151 "Firth" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
Firth
n 1: English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and
to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his
insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context
(1890-1960) [syn: {J. R. Firth}, {John Rupert Firth}]
But it's also a word in geography:
2: a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)
Andy Warmack
posted at 11:30 PM on Feb 9th 2006
Oh my goodness, Sam you spelled my name wrong. The ravesty, the outrage, the horror, when will it end? Sam, I have never misspelled your name, so here it goes. $@(V) P0W3r$. In fact that's not even misspelled, that's just my l33t skills.
Frith
posted at 8:48 PM on Feb 9th 2006
Drew Roberts drove off a cliff in route to Costa Rica not Mexico. Tyler told me that story at work. He has lots of crazy stories.
Todd
posted at 7:42 PM on Feb 9th 2006
Sounds like a Coolermaster Case, my favorite as well.
william
posted at 2:58 PM on Feb 9th 2006
i mean the OTHER time he was on tv! :)
tea
posted at 10:58 PM on Feb 15th 2006