Ah, but if the bottle is cleaned of all prints BUT majinborg’s, that would appear to be more of a frame up than if his were AMONG the sets of prints that would be found left by the bottler, shop keeper, stocker, grocer, etc… If forensics finds only one set of prints, a red flag goes up, and OJ searched for the real killers.
I meant “searches,” and “grocer”=“checkout person”, but you get the idea.
Why is it that a man who is very overweight and a chain smoker
is the main employee at my local General Nutrition Center?
I’ve been pondering this one for months. I don’t necessarily expect ever to find an answer.
Some companies use supertitles for every opera, regardless of the language in which it’s sung. For instance, the New Orleans Opera recently performed Porgy and Bess in English with English supertitles.
And of course, the real ‘perp’ would burn/melt the real murder weapon, leaving the framing soda bottle at the scene, or perhaps only somewhat well concealed.
My question:
Why do Burger King and the other fast food places have this message written on their menu boards: “Picture Menus Available on Request”? If you can read that you can likely read the friggin’ menu. And do they have pictures of the money, to tell the price (two Dollar Bills, a quarter, a dime, a nickel, and four pennies, for something costing $2.44)? Anyways, at least for the special combos, the menu board is a picture menu.
Id est. And e.g. stands for exampli gratia, which means “for example”
So use i.e. when you want to clarify your meaning, and e.g. when you are giving examples.
“Braille menus” are advertised the same way. I think it’s so that a person with the indidvidual can read it. They might be alone, but I guess it’s better than nothing.
So today I was walking out of the grocery store when the other door opened a good while before the person entered. I noticed that she had a cane, and wondered if the automatic sensor in the mat(or whatever you call it) in front of the door felt the pressure from it, causing it to open. Then I wondered if I threw one of my can goods on the mat if that’d be heavy enough to cause the door to open…should I have tested the theory at the risk of being asked not to come back?
When wishing inanimate objects go to hell, we use informal.
e.g. (thanks Zyada) “Chinga tu madre pinche piedra” (F**k your mother you toe stubbing rock).
Yes, but then the bottle wouldn’t have traces of the murder. That is, someone would have to kill the victim with the bottle so that it would be battered in all the right places and caked with blood and perhaps some hair. Otherwise majinborg walks free and we can’t have that happening, can we? 
Actually I always think about that. The fingerprint thing. Every time I touch something (well not EVERY time, but quite a lot since I’ve started reading mystery novels), I think “What if this becomes the scene of a murder and I’m…connected.” Of course I’d have to take into account the other people in the area. Still…
Also. How come there’s a job for everything, and why is there always someone who wants to do that job? And will it run out? Like when I go to the dermatologist, I think “What if he hadn’t decided to specialize in skin care- what if suddenly every medical student just said no and did something else?” Then what? Why are so many niches filled? What if no one wanted to operate a toll-booth? What if no one wanted to become a gym teacher? (Well…that one might not be too bad.) Why is there SOMETHING for everything? Oh god…I feel like Tweeks from South Park.
I’ve got my answer: a Star Trek novel I’m reading in Spanish (“El Gambito de los Klingon”) has Spock addressing the computer using the “usted” form.
alex_arg Thanks, that nice to know.
Zoggie Well, there aren’t always enough. But if there are few gym teachers then people who want a gym teacher have to pay more to get one, because they’re competing with a lot of people who also do, so more people want to be gym teachers to get paid. Alternatively, no-one cares and gym teaching dies out.
I think both Saturday Night Live and Beavis and Butt-head have addressed this issue. My guess would be that a can wouldn’t be enough to set the sensor off. (The person with the cane didn’t set the sensor off with the cane but with a foot.)
What if I was majinborg’s ‘friend’ and went to his place and went to the bathroom and took some hair from around the toilett and then planted that evidence on the body. Go I get majinborg locked up then?
What if I sucked up some of majinborgs skin cells from his computer keyboard at work and then got them under the fingernails of the victim?
Well, Spock is a formal kind of guy. Does he address anybody using the familiar form?
Thank you, Zyada - as a former student of High School Latin, this is one of my big pet peeves, and one that nobody in my office has been able to figure out. They use i.e. for EVERYTHING!
The plactis bottle thing could be a good defense. Kill someone with a plastic bottle, then, after lengthy questioning, remember picking up a soda bottle for someone in the street.
Just don’t post about it on a message board first …
And why does that Russian guy on Star Trek pronounce the V sound with a W, like “wessels, wiolations, etc”
Shouldn’t it be the other way around-pronounce the W sounds with a V, like “Ve have vays of making you talk!”
Or something.
What is the proper response to the question “Oh, you are, are you?”? Yes I am, am I?
Also, after seeing Anna Nicole Smith on Regis and Kelly today I wonder how I ever found that vacant bubblehead, whose IQ is dwarfed by her bra size, to be sexy.
::Wandering off pondering these and other very important questions::
Slee
Thanks, Shade.
matt_mcl- you’re in the habit of reading Star Trek books en espagnol? Color me muy impressed.
Okay, let it be known from here after- the infamous “Plastic Bottle Defense” originated on the SDMB.
In other finger print related news, I’ve sometimes wondered what would happen if you were in a murder related situation and the police were taking your fingerprints (to be on the safe side at any rate), and you didn’t have any. That is…for a reason. Like you cut off the skin (a la Se7en) or they got burned off due to acid (as I read about that happening to a member of Aum Shinrikyo). I sometimes pull the skin off my fingers and the result is that on one or two of them, the prints are kind of…distorted. Sometimes makes me wonder if the police would get angry and then prosecute me for obstruction of police investigation. At any rate, it would make for a funny story over the dinner table.