AdamSmith

Surely an apt description of the mental processes of anyone competent to convince a heavy aluminum tube fueled by liquefied dinosaurs to remain some tens of thousands of feet in the air for extended periods, then return to earth without regrettable consequences!

I have long thought that the first use of cloning should be to grow a copy of myself from which to harvest replacement organs as needed. Whether to give it a brain is a bit of a conundrum. However, as I possess very little that AdamSmith Rev2 could possibly covet in return -- what, me worry?!

One more, spotted in Melrose, MA...

Whatever you do for edification and self-betterment, DON'T click on the picture I posted.

...He divides commentators on language into linguists, who are goodies, and pedants, who are baddies. Linguists describe how language is at the moment; pedants prescribe how they think it should be. Kamm's case against the pedants is compelling. They think that English is really Latin, only with different words, so that to them aggravate is really ad graviorem, meaning, towards something worse. They don't notice when Thomas More or Milton use the word infer when nowadays we're supposed to use imply. They peddle made-up rules about prepositions, and don't appear to know how well written English managed without the possessive apostrophe for most of its history. In short, he wants these blighters to stop grinding you down... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/11408186/Accidence-Will-Happen-the-Non-Pedantic-Guide-to-English-Usage-by-Oliver-Kamm.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11420088/Snowmageddon-17-amazing-photos-of-record-breaking-US-snow.html

Hmm! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/mens-health/11420694/Circumcised-men-may-soon-be-able-to-regrow-their-foreskin.html

One really has to admire the good grace with which Harry has picked up his royal duties of charities etc when he has previously made clear he loathes the notion of being a royal and would far prefer a career doing an honest day's work piloting Chinooks and popping off bad guys. The kid turned out far more than all right.

Pussy Riot: Q&A with Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina As the Russian punk duo release their song 'I Can't Breathe,' inspired by the last words of Eric Garner, they tell the Guardian how the project came to be and what it aims to express http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/18/pussy-riot-i-cant-breathe-nadya-tolokonnikova-masha-alyokhina

Manslaughter:

Howard Baker: "Senator Ervin, despite your protestations about being just a country lawyer, we should let the record note you did attend Harvard Law." Sam Ervin: "Thank Heaven no one would ever suspect it."

Found it! Passive sentences ( Genki II Chapter 21) Passive Sentences When you are inconvenienced by something somebody else has done, you can express your dissatisfaction using the passive sentence. Basic make up of a passive sentence: 私はともだちにくるまをつかわれました。 (victim)は (villian)に (evil act). I had my car used by a friend. The victim is affected by an event. Marked with the particle は or が. The villian preforms an action which causes the suffering. Marked with に. The evil act is described with the passive form of a verb. Forming passive verb forms: ru-verbs: Drop the final -ru and add -rare-ru :食べる -> 食べられる u-verbs: Drop the final -u and add -are-ru : はなす -> はなされる irregular verbs:する -> される　くる -> こられる Passive forms of verbs conjugate as regular ru-verb. http://wp.stolaf.edu/japanese/ressource-projects/genki-i-ii-grammar-index/passive-sentences-genki-ii-chapter-21/

Boston's Prudential Tower, normally... ...vs. now...

But to try and make amends...

Just trying to put it in a convenient place for you.

Got me on all 3.

Dunno, you were the one brought it up. I'm just here waiting around for the senior buffet to open. (Above actually from a quite yummy cafeteria close to where I live. )

MP: "Mr Churchill, must you fall asleep while I'm speaking?" Churchill: "No, it's purely voluntary."

Graphic discussions of that topic seem to draw objections on this forum.

Is anything about Mardi Gras "real"?