Happy LSU game day!
Once again, I thank my friends for inviting themselves over to my house so that I could cook for them! Ha…I’m serious…I love that! Here’s a picture of Mel at my house a few hours ago. The excitement was just too much for her.Â
November 17th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
The bliss of knowing what horrors lie ahead.
November 18th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
She looks like she’s having a pretty great dream. Ideas?
November 18th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Mel, doing her impression of Sleeping Beauty…
Dang gurl, Sher your food was soooo good, gurl! Julia Child has got NOTHING on your…except for her looks (and she’s now deceased)
November 18th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
That’s “you”, not “your”…
November 18th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Here’s my caption for this pic:
“Mel, getting myriad sleep.”
Sher, tell everyone my proper usage of the word “myriad” and how impressed you were with my vernacular.
November 18th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Okay, fine. Since Mel was asleep, I’ll repeat this. Many times, people use the word miriad improperly. They say, “A miriad of….” The word “of” is not needed. When someone uses it properly, it almost jars me from whatever I’m doing! LindsAy used it properly Saturday. I had to stop cooking and go over and stand in front of the TV and ask her if she meant to do that. It was on purpose! There she was, sitting with Mel, watching TV, innocently and elequently spitting out a word so many unknowingly toss to hell. But this is not just any word. I’ve heard public officals, ministers, leaders of the free world use this word followed by the word of. And there was our Linds, using it with confidence and disregard, properly! L, from all of us in the world who try so hard to grasp what we learned in school, thank you.
November 18th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
You are welcome, my dear Sher, you are welcome.
I learned from sitting beside you at work for so many years.
I also learned what an “AI” is (Sher, tell them)…
P.S.-One of my pet peeves (and I think we share this, Sher) is when people use fUrther for fArther. FArther is DISTANCE…fUrther is to “devlve into something more deeply”…
November 18th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
P.S.-Sher, don’t you enjoy using “proper vernacular” with reckless abandon? It was “running amok” at your house on Saturday, gurl.
Sher, perhaps you could clear up if one should ALWAYS include periods inside parenthesis when ending a sentence. My boss and I have a difference of opinion on this.
November 18th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Oh, and P.S. AGAIN…I took that lover-ly picture ‘o Mel.
November 21st, 2007 at 3:39 pm
How does one picture of Mel ignite a myriad of comments? Yeah, I said it! If you read below, you’ll see why.
Usage Note: Throughout most of its history in English myriad was used as a noun, as in a myriad of men. In the 19th century it began to be used in poetry as an adjective, as in myriad men. Both usages in English are acceptable, as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Myriad myriads of lives.” This poetic, adjectival use became so well entrenched generally that many people came to consider it as the only correct use. In fact, both uses in English are parallel with those of the original ancient Greek. The Greek word m?rias, from which myriad derives, could be used as either a noun or an adjective, but the noun m?rias was used in general prose and in mathematics while the adjective m?rias was used only in poetry.
November 21st, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Well said, Viki! Nice to see these snobs put in their place.
November 21st, 2007 at 8:57 pm
You’re quoting a miraiad Greek sources, Vik! How do we know you didn’t make this up?
November 21st, 2007 at 9:14 pm
“miraiad?” Geez.
November 21st, 2007 at 9:15 pm
How do we know you aren’t made up, Anon?
November 22nd, 2007 at 12:51 am
I’m extremely made up…I just got off work.
November 29th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Hey, none of these comments are about me anymore. What gives?