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Getting up early (for me) tomorrow so we can go to a wedding reception of sorts. A college friend of my sister's (who became a family friend) had her wedding in Italy a little while back. Now they're having a party for all the friends and family who couldn't make it that far. Sis gets to go to both.
It's at their place in CT. We'll go through NY, pick up sis, and head on over. A three-state trip.
Trick of it is that, despite being a wedding party, it's also a pool party. They said casual dress, but I expect everyone will be in dressy casual, hovering near the pool. Because people are stupid. And because "wedding reception" takes priority over "backyard pool party" when it comes to picking clothes. Still, we'll be bringing bathing suits to change into.
The other thing is that they can't possibly provide towels for all those guests, so they specifically said in the invitation to bring our own. I packed ours just now.
So, to recap:
1. We're driving through parts of three different states.
2. We're picking up passengers on the way.
3. We're bringing our own towels.
4. We will be making sure to know where those towels are throughout the party.
Conclusion: We are hoopy froods.
And if you don't know what that means... Shame on you!
Options for your enlightenment:
1. (Best, IMO, but for FireFox/Mozilla/Netscape users only.) Click here. Scroll down. Click the blue circle. Wait for the guide to pop up and load. Click the button in the lower right corner with the two circles and the red light. Click the T button. Click the link that says "Towel." Read. Feel free to browse other entries.
2. The procedure above will bring you to this entry, which you can read directly, if out of context and without the nifty interface.
3. Read this Wiki entry.
4. Click here and listen to the sound file, which plays a recording of someone reading the entry mentioned in Option 2. Cool that you get to hear it, but it's a little harder to understand what's supposed to be a footnote. It also goes on past the entry, which is confusing and unnecessary.
5. Do a net search of your own and figure it out.
Whatever you do... Don't Panic. :)
It's at their place in CT. We'll go through NY, pick up sis, and head on over. A three-state trip.
Trick of it is that, despite being a wedding party, it's also a pool party. They said casual dress, but I expect everyone will be in dressy casual, hovering near the pool. Because people are stupid. And because "wedding reception" takes priority over "backyard pool party" when it comes to picking clothes. Still, we'll be bringing bathing suits to change into.
The other thing is that they can't possibly provide towels for all those guests, so they specifically said in the invitation to bring our own. I packed ours just now.
So, to recap:
1. We're driving through parts of three different states.
2. We're picking up passengers on the way.
3. We're bringing our own towels.
4. We will be making sure to know where those towels are throughout the party.
Conclusion: We are hoopy froods.
And if you don't know what that means... Shame on you!
Options for your enlightenment:
1. (Best, IMO, but for FireFox/Mozilla/Netscape users only.) Click here. Scroll down. Click the blue circle. Wait for the guide to pop up and load. Click the button in the lower right corner with the two circles and the red light. Click the T button. Click the link that says "Towel." Read. Feel free to browse other entries.
2. The procedure above will bring you to this entry, which you can read directly, if out of context and without the nifty interface.
3. Read this Wiki entry.
4. Click here and listen to the sound file, which plays a recording of someone reading the entry mentioned in Option 2. Cool that you get to hear it, but it's a little harder to understand what's supposed to be a footnote. It also goes on past the entry, which is confusing and unnecessary.
5. Do a net search of your own and figure it out.
Whatever you do... Don't Panic. :)
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shamefullyadmit that it took me a minute to catch on, but 'tis funny. *g* (This is because I've still, sadly, yet to read the book or watch the movie. *sigh*)From:
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And I'll bet you haven't read Terry Pratchett, either. He does for fantasy what Adams did for sci-fi. Only better.
But still... Those books are classic! Used as the basis for MIT's freshman orientation booklet. Used as basic nerdspeak everywhere. Go read!
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*goes to listen to my collection of recordings of the radio version*
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And I still think the online guide linked in #1 is cool and worth checking out. :)