Can The Adults Please Smoke? 38 and FEELING GREAT!!

[NYadgal]

I love that all these lusty, wretched and wicked May 1st plans can take place on a Friday!

[Bluemoon]

Been nipping at the Veuve already, Addy?

[NYadgal]

Not yet. But SOON!

[bdwaygirl]

Hiya kiddles!

[Bluemoon]

Hola!  Happy Star Wars Day, y'all!

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

I'm waiting for the Sith.

[Bluemoon]

You would.

[brdlwyr]

I got the pun but had to google to see if it had more meaning.

 

So:  May the 4th be with you!

[NYadgal]

Happy birthday to Audrey.  

[brdlwyr]

Your favorite! 

[Bluemoon]

Good morning! Rise and shine!

 

Or....at least rise. Shining is optional.

[NYadgal]

Who's with me for margaritas after work?

[gettinhep]

Toast and margaritas - the breakfast of champions.

[NYadgal]

A woman after my own heart.

[Bluemoon]

I prefer mine on the rocks, no salt. Toast? Here's a toast to Hep!  Oh...you might have meant the edible kind since this is the morning for you. No matter, I love carbs, too.

[brdlwyr]

We are having Margaritas tonight.  Back in the day we would drink them regularly.  Now, not so much! 

Happy Cinco de Mayo! 

[NYadgal]

Carbs and drinks.  What else do you need?

I'm going to have one tonight, also.  But, I'm avoiding all Mexican restaurants. 

[Bluemoon]

Last year I ordered one of those "skinny margaritas" at Chilis. YUCK! I called the waiter back and said, "This is undrinkable. Screw the calories. Bring me a real drink, please!"

Never again.

[NYadgal]

Nope.  If you're going to enjoy it, you just need to go all out!

[YouWantitWhen????]

Stuck in calls and meetings all day.  No fiesta this Cinco for me.

[gettinhep]

Thanks for the toast, Moony ... both kinds!

 

Addy, I love the Don Draper obit. I always thought he would end his days by taking a triple twisting swan dive from the window of his new office. Of course, the North By Northwest imagery in the last episode may signify that he ends up on Lincoln's nose instead.

 

May I rant for a second? Garza stop spitting!!! You did it when you pitched as a Cub. You did it as a Ray. Now, you are at it as a Brewer. Stop it, just stop it. It's a disgusting habit. Ick!!! Okay, rant over. Thank you for yor patience.

[bdwaygirl]

Morning.  

Nearly every day I shake my head at the atrocious grammar, punctuation and spelling of some folks on FB I graduated high school with, wondering how the hell they made it through school, and why I don't have the same issues.  Then I remember that I only met up with most of these folks in high school, having gone to Catholic school the first 9 years, and I heave a huge sigh of relief.

 

 

[Bluemoon]

Then you're going to LOVE D2's Facebook page this morning:

 

[bdwaygirl]

DAT US GRATE!!!!  I LOV IT!!  I didn't see that when I scrolled my feed this morning.  I'll have to go look.

 

Oh, and I'm not saying I'm perfect when it comes to this.  Not at all.  I have certain issues with punctuation, but jeez folks.  I know it's only FB, but I hope in the "real" world, they do a bit better.

 

 

[MotorTink]

I have been selling like crazy on the virtual garage sale groups and craigslist for a few months.  I've always been afraid of what the future of this world looks like....but now, I'm actually going to start building the bomb shelter to live in!  The grammar, typing, punctuation, just basic word orders..... yikes!!  Or their sense of reason.

[kdogg36]

I'm a linguist (in training, at least - about a year away from my Ph.D.), and we tend to be the opposite of grammar Nazis. When I see or hear nonstandard usage, I get excited rather than angry! This is data that we can use to look for patterns.

Recently a friend of mine asked about a TV show I was watching: "do you find it any interesting?" I had never heard this before, but apparently his dialect had generalized this use of any from "any good," which seems to be the only place where any can modify a (non-comparative) adjective in Standard English. I'm currently bugging him about his parents' and friends' usage to see if I can get a paper out of this. :)