It’s not wierd, it’s weird. This one drives me nuts.
It’s not parmesan, it’s parmigiano. Pahr-mee-djah-noh.
Oh, and pizza is supposed to be crunchy, not a soggy glutinous flat mass that slops down your hand when you take it.
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The position of the planets, moon and sun relative to the stars behind them in no way influences events on earth except when people choose to change their behavior because of them.
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Everyone can predict the future, but everyone who does is guessing.
- It’s not an M.B.A. in “xyz”. It’s just a fucking M.B.A… “Masters (degree) in Business Administration”. Sheesh.
You’re thinking of “M.A.”
With all due respect - it’s both. One’s English, one’s Italian. That’s all.
Let’s stick to facts.
People who read books don’t have tons of time on their hands, better spent doing other things. We just make time for that, like others make time for reality shows.
Holy shit! An actual rocket scientist 
All right, let’s. “Parmesan” is an erroneous approximation of an Italian word, made up by people who couldn’t bother with the correct pronunciation. Going in the other direction, “Hot dog” stays “hot dog”, it does not become “cane caldo”. Same for “cd”, “film”, and other words. If a word is imported, it is usually not mangled - otherwise, why does pizza stay pizza and doesn’t become pyzz? 
At least you seem agree on the wierd/weird thing.
Quite true, but I haven’t been here long enough to get in on the good conspiracies. 
Back to the topic at hand. 99 US restaurants out of 100 blow it whenever the menu lists a French Dip sandwich. FDSs come au jus, not "with au jus". Au is the French form of with.
- Most cautionary advice delivered by email is bollocks - check Snopes and Sophos before you forward it to everyone you know.
my 2 cents,
If a genious drops out of college and builds a mega-billion company with a friend in his mom’s garage, this proves a degree is only good for impressing CEO’s, Human Resources, etc. If he happens to build on existing technology and sells it well, it will only stand the test if it is functional to consumers.
Henry Ford didn’t invent the automobile, but I hear of noone slamming him for building on the science that was there before him.
If said company put out a product so unstable, unreliable, and utterly worthless, why is it the world’s most popular OS? Careful, you don’t want to get into the conspiracies while trying to debunk to “grassy Knoll” shooter.
My pet peeve on another message board;
If a European states they do not like the policies of President Bush, it does not mean they hate America
Being opposed to the war in Iraq does not mean I think Saddam Hussien was a great guy.
No, you can have a M.B.A. (Master of Business Administration) in several fields, at least at my Univ. and 90 some odd percent of Grad schools in the US which offer the M.B.A.
Examples:
Consulting
Entrepreneurship/Small Business
Finance and Accounting
General Management
Human Resources/Organization Management
Information Systems
Marketing
Operations Management
What if the B were just a typo or a slip? Geez. Come now, don’t we have better things to do rather than pick for holes in my post?
The point is having a M.B.A. or M.A. or whatever does not make you brilliant.
Did I detect a bit of the behavior described in my first post? Or did you just feel the need to straighten me out?
Hell, while we’re on the subject, why does it become a Spanish omelette, but the other stays as paella? Answer: that’s just the way it happened.
Spanish Rice was already taken. The best paella I’ve had was at some Cuban dive in Atlanta. I can’t remember the name, though.
Bill Gates gave the world Halo, no matter how much direct involvement he had on that project. That alone excuses him for many of the OS issues we have faced in the past. With that, on to my contribution:
Quite often the instability found in Windows can be attributed to poorly designed third-party apps and drivers. True, Windows should be better able to protect itself, but for the most part Windows on its own is pretty solid.
Homebrew–was it a place on Buford Highway near North Druid Hills? I think I know the place you mean.
“Noone” is not a word.
It’s “no one.”
Oh, and all you Wiccans out there …
Don’t get your panties all in a bunch when someone thinks witches are people who can allegedly summon supernatural powers through black witchcraft spells.
You’ve usurped a perfectly good, 1,000-year old word with your modern usage and your still-wet-behind-the-ears religion that’s constructed out of spare metaphysical parts.
So spare me your pathetic, whiny, unjustified indignation.
You just like to be “offended” so you can spout off about your new age sewage.
Ah, it IS someone’s name, as in Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits, who sings of lovely daughters…
What about the classic:
When Cthulhu’s minions are present in numbers greater than one, say “octopodes” or “octopuses”, not “octopi”.
You’re right. It’s a touchy subject for me and I overreacted. I apologize for the hijack.