Just a few minutes ago, I was walking through my local discount store and listening to this man’s voice coming over the speakers. He was babbling something religious and I was trying to figure out what the hell he was talking about, when he mentions the ocean. He is going on and on about different deep oceans and all of a sudden I hear, “In 1960, scientists were able to visit the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench”.
All kinds of people looked at me funny when I shouted out, “The Challenger Deep, for 20 minutes!”.
So damn you people for infecting my brain and making me shout out useless trivia in the middle of the Dollar General.
You know how sometimes, you get a random word in your head and don’t know why it’s there? Well, I get Doper names in my head sometimes and it takes me a while to figure out that’s what they are.
Example: Hmm, that smells nice, what is that, watermelon? Melon. melondeca. Now why would I have that in my head, that’s not even a word! What the hell is a… :smack: .
I find that I’ve been on the SDMB long enough that when I want to actively complain about someone or something, I automatically refer to it as “pitting”. Or I’ll say “Do you have a cite?”
Thanks, melondeca – when I read this article the other day, I knew I had to call it to the board’s attention, but it seemed too obnoxious to quote such a passage as
and then ask such leading questions as “Does anyone know if man has actually visited that Challenger Deep? If so, when, and for how long? And since Guam is in the Mariana Islands, could Challenger Deep be anywhere near that Marianas Trench I remember hearing about as a schoolboy in the 1960’s?”
