me, holding a can of Mountain Dew: "You know what would probably be good? This and orange juice."
Derek: "I donno man...."
me: "I mean it's green and orange—how can you go wrong with… oh, wait."
me, holding a can of Mountain Dew: "You know what would probably be good? This and orange juice."
Derek: "I donno man...."
me: "I mean it's green and orange—how can you go wrong with… oh, wait."
"But how will you know how to drive drunk unless you practice?"
Jonathan: "Maybe they just think that */p/ turned to /b/ in Germanic. But it only went half way."
Derek: "Yeah, that's how they got þorn."
Derek: [ftktp]!
Jonathan: "What's that?"
Derek: "Probably Berber."
me: yeah. I'ma work on my thesis 'til then I guess. gaah
Michael: yes. i told don the other day that i stopped pronouncing it as "thesis" .. or at least in the way suggested by spelling and my prior knowledge of the word
instead i just replace it with a random expletive
anyway. back to the $*
on phone:
"What do you want me to get you in Montana? A cowboy? I need to get me one of those too."
Annex door creaks
Derek & Jonathan, in unison: "Ghosts!"
Derek: "Truth by concensus!"
Jonathan: "I was just trying to figure out what comes between 4 and 6, and couldn't figure it out for a second."
Joyce: "A bus ride home..."
(00:42:03) Derek: I found a way to explain language change to our students
(00:42:31) Derek: Languages start out cool and get less cool with time, unless the change involves gaining velars or uvulars
"Hah. You break matzah like a goy."