On a show about getting healthy there’s this woman, she just ordered 60 fricking quids worth of indian food! Not expensive food either, its £60 because there’s so bloody much of it! The guy needed both arms to carry it in!
Lore Sjoberg said it first, but it remains true. A “!” always says, “Charlie Brown is startled.”
I have a question, though. If this was a show about staying healthy, why did it feature a professional tv-watcher eating a tonne of Indian food? Or does therein lie the rub?
It was showing her pre-healthy lifestyle. (which I envy - massive indian meal!, alcohol, and being paid to watch TV!, bitch!)
I think ‘!’ is wonderfully expressive. It says “I am alarmed, and speechless”(which I was) And it also seems to say :dubious:
I think ‘!’ is wonderfully expressive. It says “I am alarmed, and speechless”(which I was) And it also seems to say
To me it says less “alarmed” and more “I am surprised and possibly chagrined.” Though being chagrined is better symbolized by smoke issuing from one’s cranium.
It dates back to an old Danish folk remedy for insomnia; they’d make a balm out of rancid butter. Shakespeare even wrote about it in Hamlet’s soliloquy, “To sleep: perchance to dream: oh, there’s the rub.”
I thought this thread was going to be a reincarnation of the (in)famous “a” thread (I’d link it if the search allowed for <4 character searches).
If you have trouble clicking on the “!” you can make your browser font larger and make the target a little easier to hit by holding down CTRL and scrolling the wheel on your mouse (works on IE, don’t know about other browsers, though).