T’N’T Luoma » Quotes

Have You Considered…?

@luomat — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:02:50 +0000

Recalling to mind this trenchant bit of wisdom: “The only consistent feature of all your dissatisfying relationships is you.”

made me think of this clip of Ron White from his lovely performance You Can’t Fix Stupid:

[Warning: contains strong language (F-word)]

So what you’re saying is…?

@luomat — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:37:11 +0000

Thus sayeth Derrick Mason of the Baltimore Ravens:

Games are not easy in this league. Whether you up 21 going into into the 4th or you up 3 going into the 4th. Games are not easy in this league. So, you know, uh, you just, as a team, you gotta buckle down and when the tough gets going, the going gets tough.

Maybe he can get a job writing speeches for George W “Fool me once, shame…shame on you, fool me again…. we can’t get fooled again” Bush.

Culture and responsibility

@luomat — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 05:45:41 +0000

To blame every American transgression on the culture is to absolve Americans of any responsibility for anything. (Via: Dooce.com). You’ll have to register [free] to read the first link to the NYTimes.com. It’s worth it. A good evaluation of the way politics and religion are being used and abused.

Doesn’t anyone proof this stuff?

@luomat — Sat, 29 May 2004 20:46:38 +0000

Someone at the BBC … the B-B-C, who really ought to know better, who we expect more from, wrote this headline: C-sections ‘could be cut by 25%’.

Doesn’t anyone proof this stuff?

@luomat — Sat, 29 May 2004 19:46:38 +0000

Someone at the BBC … the B-B-C, who really ought to know better, who we expect more from, wrote this headline: C-sections ‘could be cut by 25%’.

Overheard

@luomat — Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:09:58 +0000

“…but we can get a lava-lamp anywhere….” Overheard in a gift shop somewhere in California on our recent vacation…. presumably part of a conversation wherein two people where trying to figure out what to buy, and one had suggested a lava lamp, and another person was countering that they should get something else, because lava-lamps were to be found on every corner.

“Did you not want no ice?” Said to me by a waitress not long after our return to Ohio. My reply was not much better, “Yes, no ice please.”

Logically (and by “logically” I mean “if we set aside the atrocious grammar for a moment), “not want no ice” would be equivalent to “does want some ice” which I did not want, so technically I should have said, “No” as in “No, I don’t want no ice” which would have been a triple negative. However, I knew the question was really asking if I wanted a beverage devoid of ice, which was true, so the context-appropriate answer was “Yes” however I did clarify that I wanted “no ice”

Before anyone starts busting on Southern Ohio grammar, let me just say that I’d rather hear “don’t want no ice” than live somewhere where lava-lamps are commonplace, but that’s just me.

A step past broken crap

@luomat — Wed, 16 Oct 2002 21:50:56 +0000

You should always serve XHTML as XHTML (to browsers that support it, of course). Serving text/html to a browser says ‘hello, this is broken crap, please do your best with it’. XHTML is supposed to be a step past broken crap, so you should serve it as such.

(Sam Marshall on webdesign-l mailing list, talking about the recent XHTML mime type thread)