Heck, they're causing me to get good notices and even boosted donations for legal defense. I guess TWA just doesn't know how to really hurt me. Hint: Try a high-velocity lead injection when I'm not looking.
Oh, no! It looks like their list (noted as updated today, Oct. 8) is now drastically shorter rather than longer. Guess we'll all have to try even harder now to get on there.
Same here. I use it because a lot of people I know use it, but it's not really doing anything for me.
I'm STILL not on their propaganda list. Not even after PA threatened to sue me a few years back.
If that didn't do it, I don't know what will. Crudcookies.
A propaganda "watch list".
Oh, heavens to murgatroids. A watch list. What ever shall I do.
*reaches for the smelling salts* I do believe I may have the vapors.
I think the UKers calling it a hash sign might also have something to do with the fact that they have a pound sign already, in the £ symbol.Americans, I think, call it the pound sign. Commonwealth/UK-ers call it the hash sign since they use metric, not pounds.
Yeah; I actually never understood why it was called the pound sign here in the States.I think the UKers calling it a hash sign might also have something to do with the fact that they have a pound sign already, in the £ symbol.
Bah. I'm still not on either list. I haven't felt this dissed since my kids hit puberty and I magically became the most uncool person on the planet.
Whoa, whoa, WHOA! What'd I do to you? Snerk. Hey, I'll be a martyr for the propaganda cause. Think I'd make the list that way?!Aw, shoot a monkey! I had some good reasons why I should be boycotted, too.
Whoa, whoa, WHOA! What'd I do to you? Snerk. Hey, I'll be a martyr for the propaganda cause. Think I'd make the list that way?!
I'm a sad monkey...all of my witty remarks were removed from the TWA book burning FB page. Some of my best snark, too.
Because if something weighs, say, 28 pounds, we don't write "28#"
Awesome. Exactly the sort of thing I should have known, given my interest in the 19th century, and my enjoyment of Damon Runyon. I both admire and resent your knowledge.That was frequent in the 19th century US, actually. We don't do it anymore, because it's silly and confusing, but that is in fact why it's sometimes called the "pound sign" here.
There used to be a whole bunch of one-character symbols for units of weights and measures used in the US, but pretty much only ' for feet and " for inches survive today.
In other "no longer comprehensible US usage," a $5 US bill was called a "pound note" during most of the 19th and early 20th centuries, because that was the rough exchange rate for a long time. So when a Damon Runyon character says "And so I slip him a pound note" he means that he bribed whoever with a US five-dollar bill.
You're already ruining your monkey lungs with those cigs. Tobacco is a monkey on your -- it's a bad habit.Whoa, whoa, WHOA! What'd I do to you? Snerk. Hey, I'll be a martyr for the propaganda cause. Think I'd make the list that way?!