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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)
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Doohickie
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Your dog is in-bread.
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The snickerdoodle cookie is highly overrated
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I'm not a fan, but my wife makes a snickerdoodle that people seem to enjoy.
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I find most cookies are overrated. We're starting to get platters of them from various vendors, etc. The chocolate chip cookies always go first. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Nobody is asking for this shit:
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That's why we very much appreciated the fresh pizza we all for lunch yesterday from one of our vendors.
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I will brag and say our frosted sugar cookies are called "crack" by all who consume them - the secret is using Crisco and be heavy on the vanilla and make them thicker
but yeah chocolate chip went first in the tin we got from our parking management company - today all is left is snickerdoodles
Honestly, I can't believe there hasn't been a grievance filing for unsafe work environment due to noise and dust - we are renovating the first floor of city hall and the whole building cleared out - that noise, even without dust would be so difficult
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On leave until January! Woot woot! But also don't get paid until January. Womp womp.
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The best thing about snickerdoodle cookies are the name. My favorite cookies this time of the year are Moravian sugar cookies. They are thin, crisp, and full of flavor. I don't have the patience to make them at home so I get them from local Moravian churches' and Dewey's.
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MLK Jr. Day is a city holiday. Inauguration Day traditionally has been as well (but it's not codified as such)
Wondering if, since they fall on the same day this year, if we get TWO days off, or if they figure we are already off formally on what would normally be an informal holiday so we don't get two days but just the official MLK Jr Day . . .
We just got a new City Manager as of this week. I am sure she is hard at work on this once-every-28-years dilemma as we speak.
Jim
Wondering if, since they fall on the same day this year, if we get TWO days off, or if they figure we are already off formally on what would normally be an informal holiday so we don't get two days but just the official MLK Jr Day . . .
We just got a new City Manager as of this week. I am sure she is hard at work on this once-every-28-years dilemma as we speak.
Jim
Doing some research for something else, and I stumbled across a mention of my grandfather! He passed away in 1991, but his legacy remains.
"Our next essay, Etymology by William E. Umbach, tells us that there were some amazing esoteric and rather spooky elements in the manner in which ancient intellectuals regarded the spoken word. The ancient Greeks, he wrote, “were engaging in no idle quest; they, like much earlier primitive man, sensed a mysterious relationship between the word and that for which it stands. To know how to pronounce the word correctly would give the user power over that thing or being, a principle of great importance in the exercise of witchcraft. But conversely it could also be dangerous to pronounce the names of certain beings, for to do so might arouse the anger of the imminent spirit.”
“Thus” Umbach continues, “some taboo names eventually disappeared through silence. The English name bear, for example, is derived from an ancient term meaning ‘the brown one’, and people used that name when discussing that beast instead of its true name. In ancient days many a hunter was killed by bears so when out hunting they concluded it’s best not to refer directly to that beast as a bear. Just mentioning his name could have the power of inviting the voracious beast to come eat you for dinner.
Our author also explains a well-known linguistic phenomenon: language is dynamic and the people’s usage, pronunciations, and spellings of it undergo change over time. Also, the popularity of individual words come and go and often disappear from common usage to be found only in dictionaries where they are listed as archaic."
(fun fact: Grandpa spoke 17 languages.)
"Our next essay, Etymology by William E. Umbach, tells us that there were some amazing esoteric and rather spooky elements in the manner in which ancient intellectuals regarded the spoken word. The ancient Greeks, he wrote, “were engaging in no idle quest; they, like much earlier primitive man, sensed a mysterious relationship between the word and that for which it stands. To know how to pronounce the word correctly would give the user power over that thing or being, a principle of great importance in the exercise of witchcraft. But conversely it could also be dangerous to pronounce the names of certain beings, for to do so might arouse the anger of the imminent spirit.”
“Thus” Umbach continues, “some taboo names eventually disappeared through silence. The English name bear, for example, is derived from an ancient term meaning ‘the brown one’, and people used that name when discussing that beast instead of its true name. In ancient days many a hunter was killed by bears so when out hunting they concluded it’s best not to refer directly to that beast as a bear. Just mentioning his name could have the power of inviting the voracious beast to come eat you for dinner.
Our author also explains a well-known linguistic phenomenon: language is dynamic and the people’s usage, pronunciations, and spellings of it undergo change over time. Also, the popularity of individual words come and go and often disappear from common usage to be found only in dictionaries where they are listed as archaic."
(fun fact: Grandpa spoke 17 languages.)
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Nice Green Acres reference there.
Hawkeye66
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Shame on me I guess? We had inches of water down there in the Summer.
I can plan and execute a $7 million road project, buy that sends my BP through the food and gets me dreaming of contracting. Being the boss is not fun.
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Nothing wrong with them, just not particularly exciting.
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No Casey's for me yesterday
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Planit
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...and are the drones following you?
In Minnesota. At the Frank Lloyd Wright designed service station outside of Duluth. Not a normal Minnesota thing...
michaelskis
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So, who do you think is responsible for the drones and what are they doing?
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I really don't want to be a conspiracy theorist but yeah wtf is going on
in other news, I made gingerbread (not cookies, cake) for our Secret Santa event today in my department
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If you're a Gingerbread Man (person) isn't it pretty freaky that there are houses made out of you!?
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always the correct answer
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Do you send holiday cards for work? Send them personally?
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