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Today’s Mundane and Pointless Nitpick is brought to you by…a dictionary!
Cars that are out of control go careening down the road if they are swaying and lurching from side to side. But if they are merely racing straight ahead down the road out of control, they they are careering down the road.
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Just googled The Oxford English dictionary and it definitely says that Careering means " out of control" so if they cant agree it doesnt hold out much hope for us.
[QUOTE=WhyNot]
Yes, and the link was probably mine. I take every vaguely plausible opportunity to link to this, which is not only my favorite xkcd strip, but maybe my favorite bit of world view/philosiphizing EVAH!
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This is also my single favorite comic strip of any kind ever. We should be doper buddies.
Alternately, how YOU doin’?
[QUOTE=WhyNot]
EEEEEE! I’m bursting. I just got an email with a picture of a brand new Doper baby, and I want to tell you all, but I CAN’T SHARE!!! (Well, I guess I could, but that’d be mean, right? I should let the Doper Parent do the baby announcement thread thing.) So cute! Such a cute baby! 
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OMG! I don’t see an announcement and now I am all excited and spinning and don’t know what to do. If there was an announcement, please steer me that way!
I have this funny feeling I’m being followed by BigbabySweets2000
My apartment complex manager made me take down the aluminum foil covering my bedroom window.
I just installed the new “window treatment”, a double thickness of 3/8[sup]th[/sup] inch foam board, taped together in layers. Tomorrow I am going to put some aluminum foil in between the layers, and hang a quilt over it.
I need some nails, though, and another roll of tape.
Tris
[QUOTE=Kyla]
My coworkers are driving me batty.
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What a coincidence, I drive my coworkers around in a batmobile.
I just painted my fingernails.
It’s 9:30 PM and my husband just brought his dirty work clothes in from the car. He needs them tomorrow.
I’m doing laundry instead of going to bed.
[QUOTE=Hockey Monkey]
I just painted my fingernails.
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I didn’t like the last color I had on mine, so I pulled 'em out with pliers. Once they grow back I’m thinking of maybe a glittery plum color. Then I’ll probably change my mind in two days. I’m such a goof.
I wonder, after I die, will my self-consciousness rise again in something else? I’m not necessarily a believer in anything, especially reincarnation… but it happened once, why not again? I might be an alien on another planet somewhere, but I’ll just consider it home, like here. I just hope I’m at the top of the food chain.
I like odd numbers better than even. They’re inherently more… interesting. Not sure why.
I like the idea of having pets… but in practice, I’ve always been more inconvenienced than rewarded.
I wonder how many people I’ve inadvertently killed by way of chain reaction from some innocent choice I made some day. Maybe I don’t really want to know.
Who wants ice cream?!
Today I got sexually harassed on the street by two teenage boys selling candy.
[QUOTE=MerryMagdalen]
Today I got sexually harassed on the street by two teenage boys selling candy.
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They were saying “Chicle” not “Chick lay”. They may have meant either though.
No, they were saying, “How you today, beautiful? I’ll have some-uh that.” Hard to mistake. I was going to go back and explain to them that they could either try to sell candy or sexually harass people, but if they tried both they would succeed at neither.
But I never do stuff like that.
[QUOTE=MerryMagdalen]
No, they were saying, “How you today, beautiful? I’ll have some-uh that.” Hard to mistake. I was going to go back and explain to them that they could either try to sell candy or sexually harass people, but if they tried both they would succeed at neither.
But I never do stuff like that.
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I was joking, but I’m happy to see that you took it in stride anyways. I joke a lot, but usually my statements are as clear as mud.
I knew you were joking. I’m just feeling a bit deadpan today. 
[QUOTE=MerryMagdalen]
I knew you were joking. I’m just feeling a bit deadpan today. 
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Very nice. Touche even.
My cat is currently staring at me. She’ll stare at me for hours at a time, lose interest, fall asleep, and then, without warning, she’ll wake up and start staring again. Like she never stopped. it used to freak me out because she doesn’t stare at anybody else like this. Now I’m used to it.
The day after Labor Day, I saw a Christmas commercial on TV. Since Monday, I’ve been to three stores. Each one was putting up their Hallowe’en displays. Isn’t this just a tad early?
[QUOTE=racer72]
What a coincidence, I drive my coworkers around in a batmobile.
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That sounds like more fun than having ridiculous repetetive conversations, which is what was making me so batty yesterday.
I need to fix the screens on my bedroom window. I need to go to Lowes or Home Depot first for screening. I’m tired so I am reading the Dope and Instrutables.com in the hope I will find some helpful info on repairing screens. I’m not really looking too hard for info.
This is my favorite xkcd strip.