I'm with cooties on the "impact"-hating bandwagon. The other one that's ticking me off right now is "moving forward", as in "Deal with the issue on a moving-forward basis". What, there's another option? You've invented time travel?
Courageous Grace: My sister tried to learn the bagpipes. She got pretty good on the chanter, but had dizzy spells and maybe even a couple blackouts trying to keep the drone inflated.
Bagpipes are fine if played by someone who really knows what they're doing, and is at least one city block away from my ear.
People who are just learning to play the bagpipes should probably do it on the surface of the Moon. The far side of the Moon, ideally.
That said, I stumbled across this rendition of the Star Wars theme quite some time ago, and my immediate response was, "This -- the propagation of this video to the world at large -- is what the Internet was created for."
It looks kind of like I imagined the Finn from William Gibson's Sprawl stories--he was once described as having a skull that appeared adapted for high-speed burrowing, IIRC.
That's Richard Hammond, from the best car show on TV, Top Gear.
People who are just learning to play the bagpipes should probably do it on the surface of the Moon. The far side of the Moon, ideally.
That said, I stumbled across this rendition of the Star Wars theme quite some time ago, and my immediate response was, "This -- the propagation of this video to the world at large -- is what the Internet was created for."
And really, Lemons, all language is a code, isn't it? A way of encoding thoughts into speech? ;)
And now I have to detoxify myself. That's the most times I've ever typed "lol" in a, well, anything.