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Questions and Answers - Part 3

  
  

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grant
15:36 / 07.03.07
And it's not this thing, is it?
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
15:50 / 07.03.07
I like how the picture is titled "Ideal scene."
 
 
Princess
21:27 / 07.03.07
Who the crazy syphillitic piss is the Nugent troll on my television? Why is he allowed to live?

Tell me about his sources and his fame. Tell me in an epic style, for his crib is MIGHTY DISSAPOINTING.
 
 
Princess
21:34 / 07.03.07
Apparently his first name is Ted. I do not like him.
 
 
Tsuga
00:14 / 08.03.07
His claim to fame includes songs such as "Cat Scratch Fever" and "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang".

Oh, and being an idiot.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
00:21 / 08.03.07
An asshat with a gun. Lots of guns.
 
 
Lea-side
12:17 / 08.03.07
However, he was in a kick ass garage-psych band called the Amboy Dukes, who did an incredible 7 minute freak-out pysch version of Baby, Please Dont Go, which is totally NUTS! in the end he fired the rest of the band cos he 'suspected they might have been using drugs' WELL DUH!!!!!
 
 
Saveloy
13:13 / 08.03.07
Q:

Where did the comedy 16-ton weight trope come from? Who was the first to use it? I've always assumed it was a Warner Bros cartoon thing, but a web search suggests they limited themselves to anvils and safes. I know Monty Python used it - were they the first?
 
 
All Acting Regiment
16:03 / 08.03.07
Ahh, thanks, certainly for that picture - although not the one I meant, that's another one I was thinking of, and I thiknk it might work better!
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
14:49 / 11.03.07
A friend asked me to give her English lessons, and I said I would. Our first is this evening. Her English is already very good; I think most of her communication barriers are coming from lack of confidence in her own skills, so I don't really know what I'm going to teach her. Does anyone, esp people who have taught English as a foreign language, have any good exercises and/or preferred methods?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
15:02 / 11.03.07
I also have a proficiency-level student. My suggestions would be:

1) Look in your local library for ESL textbooks, or English Language textbooks for A-level or higher. Also look for books on creative writing. These will give you loads of ideas.

2) Look up interesting articles online. You both read the article in between lessons, and when you meet you have a discussion about it.

3) Find reading excercises, get her to read passages of text (short articles, very short fiction, extracts from novels, plays etc) aloud to you. Listen for errors, or times when she seems hesitant. Base your work around these weak points.

Is it some aspect of her grammar that she's not confident in? Her vocabulary? Intonation? Talk about the issues she has around her English, and find out what she hopes to get out of your time together.
 
 
Triplets
15:28 / 11.03.07
Hi, guys.
I'm looking for a flash animation website from a couple of years ago. The author is Dutch/Swedish if I recall and he specialises in surreal, looping flash animations in black and white.

Nearly all his anims feature himself (tall, blond, goatee, black suit).

Any ideas?
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
15:40 / 11.03.07
ooh, thanks. i really like that last idea, because she did mention that she thinks her problem is intonation. That has me a little bit worried because American intonation, which is what I use, is really different from Irish intonation, which is what she'll mostly be hearing.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
15:49 / 11.03.07
I wouldn't worry about that. Lots of people learn General American English and then end up in places where people speak with a different accent. The important thing is to ensure that she'll understand and be able to make herself understood. You might try and tack down audio material with Irish accents (radio plays, TV shows and films set in Ireland) that she can enjoy, which will help her get used to the differences.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
18:40 / 11.03.07
Two questions:

1) A couple of years back I stumbled upon a US university that ran web-based distance courses. Although you obviously had to pay course fees if you wanted to gain a qualification through them, they made the materials etc. freely available online so that anyone could follow the courses. However, I can't remember the name of the University and I can't find anything similar.

2) I am looking for resources (books, websites, anything really) for adults who need to develop study skills. I didn't have what you would call a conventional education, and increasingly I find my lack of (sometimes quite basic) study skills is holding me back.

Can anyone help?
 
 
grant
19:40 / 11.03.07
Well, lots of universities are starting to put course materials online, including M.I.T. and Yale.

Study habits are a variable thing -- some things work for some brains and don't work for others. I suppose the best thing I can offer on that is: find what note-taking strategy works best for you (lots of people swear by mind-mapping), and what time of day you absorb information best. You might find the productivity thoughts on 43 Folders wiki useful for study skills; although they're mostly based on the whole Getting Things Done (GTD) thing, there's also a bit of student-oriented stuff on there.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
08:55 / 12.03.07
W/regards Ted Nugent, there's this really funny MP3 of him being interviewed by Bob Mack and totally losing his rag floating around on the net somewhere.
 
 
Olulabelle
16:04 / 12.03.07
I'm looking for date, palm or pomegranate wine, specifically wine similar to that which might have been made in Ancient Egypt. Ideally I want Egyptian wine but I am fairly clueless about where to start with finding such things. I've looked in my local Iranian deli but they don't have anything.

I also want to know about Blue Lotus or Lily of the Nile. (Nymphaea caerulea). Specifically, what's the deal with it in the States, is it illegal? I see people offering the dried petals on ebay, is it likely they're real?

This is all to so with refining my Kyphi incense recipe. Just in case you think I'm being weird.
 
 
Tabitha Tickletooth
12:29 / 13.03.07
Please, Lithers of London, help me. I beg you. I need a Friday night pub, central London, not too ridiculously expensive and good for chatting rather than loud music.

I've invited people to come for a drink at the Princess Louise this Friday night only to discover that the bloody thing's shut!! A pub in the Holborn area would be ideal.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
12:50 / 13.03.07
Olulabelle, I don't know what your timeline is, but you can make your own wine at home fairly easily and inexpensively with about $10 in supplies (plus whatever it costs for the pomengranates). Jack Keller, who is the online god of wine recipes, has a pomengranate wine recipe here..

But you're talking 6-12 months of waiting before it's drinkable.

Good science project, though.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
14:24 / 13.03.07
How about:

A) The Angel at St Giles, on St Giles High Street? No music, cheap booze, close to everything (right next to St Giles Cripplegate church) including Tottenham Court Road tube.

B) Teh Plough...

C) The Blue Posts - also cheap as it is a Sam Smith's boozery like The Angel.
 
 
Myshka
17:00 / 13.03.07
Triplets : sounds like hoogerbrugge

Wonder if anyone can help me track down a picture book I have fond memories of from my childhood - here's what I remember:

There is a gorilla in it. There is also someone bad with a cannon in it. The bad person wants to fire something bad from the cannon onto a town. The gorilla replaces the bad things inside the cannon with sweets. Sweets rain down on the town. Hilarity ensues
 
 
Princess
09:51 / 14.03.07
What was that song on the King of Shaves advert. Trip-hoppish I think.

It's annoying because I used to dance to it like seven times a day when I was doing performance stuff.
 
 
Princess
09:56 / 14.03.07
Just found out. It's Dirge by Death In Vegas.
 
 
Feverfew
17:05 / 15.03.07
Which I now have in my head.

Quick question; if a gentleperson were to consider buying a ring for no specific reason - other than desiring to look a little more ostentatious, flash, etc etc - which finger would be best for not meaning anything?
 
 
Closed for Business Time
17:07 / 15.03.07
The thumb? U'd give a flash thumbs-up, at least.
 
 
Feverfew
17:11 / 15.03.07
Very true! Although possibly harder to find than a finger-ring, it would indeed look truly good.

I'm also interested in if other fingers have specific meanings for rings - societal codes for accessories, like - which I have absolutely no idea about.
 
 
Ticker
17:17 / 15.03.07
thumb rings don't work very well if you pilot something with handles like a bicycle or motorcycle I've found.

for pure bling I like wearing stuff on my right hand and on my index/middle fingers.
Though hey, looking down I've only got one on each ring finger currently.
 
 
Closed for Business Time
17:17 / 15.03.07
Just try and find one that'd normally be a tad to large. The only ring I've ever worn had to go on my thumb for that very reason. Looked cool, but I'm just not one for jewellery, or, what do the young'uns call it, bling.
I do sport a nose-ring tho. A bloke behind the desk in the immigrations control at Stansted once hit on me with the line "Not many people get away with wearing a nose-ring.." I was worried, when he called me back, that it was Ben Dover-time again...
 
 
Ticker
17:18 / 15.03.07
beefy finger ring article thingy
 
 
Closed for Business Time
17:26 / 15.03.07
It'd be interesting to know what this person would say about people who've for various reasons lost one or more digits... If you lose your thumb - what happens to your willpower? And what about artificial limbs? Is there such a thing as artificial digits?
 
 
Closed for Business Time
17:27 / 15.03.07
More off the point - if ye had to lose a finger, which one would it be?
 
 
grant
17:31 / 15.03.07
I'm also interested in if other fingers have specific meanings for rings - societal codes for accessories, like - which I have absolutely no idea about.

* A diamond (or silver metal) ring on your left pinky means you're in the market for shellfish.

* A ring on your left middle finger used to mean you were a pilot who had completed the route from Cairo to Cape Town.

* In Mexico and the American Southwest, a ring on your right index finger means you have either ordered a man's execution (which was successfully carried out) or that you have personally killed a rattlesnake in the desert (el derecho a matar el cascabel being a Mexican idiom).

* A thin gold band on either middle finger is a sign to those in the know that you are a member of the Library of Congress.

* A wide band on your right thumb, worn to a fetish club or similar institution, means that you are a dominant with a career that requires you wear a uniform -- police, military, etc.
 
 
Feverfew
19:24 / 15.03.07
Thank you, all. I'm glad I'm past the point on Barbelith where I'd conceivably be tempted to ask "How do you know all these things?" - and that's your fault, grant.

(But in a good way.)

If I end up with any 'bling' I will post a picture.
 
 
the permuted man
20:07 / 15.03.07
A diamond (or silver metal) ring on your left pinky means you're in the market for shellfish.

Is there some reason why you'd need to signify this? Are shellfish illegal to purchase? Or is this a euphemism for something else?
 
  

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