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Yeah, that was my point.

I don't see anyone in production telling Guy to stop anything.

I can't shake the image of Dana jumping up and down on their trampoline in the middle of the night and cackling like a loon. She really was a mental case.

I'm always amazed by what I read on this thread. When people out in the world get things wrong, they're stupid. When they get things right, they're pretentious. You really can't win. I, too, have a dictionary always open--on my screen, partly because my work as the professional grammar police requires it and partly because I just like to know things. It doesn't stop me from being wrong, but it does remind me to try to give people grace when they haven't been exposed to certain aspects of language, because I've been exposed to massive amounts and I still screw up. But I agree that the term "stochastic terrorism" has been abroad in the culture for years now, as lone-wolf school shooters and real and pretend assassins have made their presence increasingly known. Which doesn't mean anyone should be ashamed of not having heard the word, but where's the benefit of pretending that it isn't familiar to others who are just everyday people paying attention to the evening news and not pointy-headed intellectuals?

But "stochastic" alone is. It'd be highly impractical to include every term in which an adjective is followed by whatever random noun it modifies in every usage. So you don't get to see "fried chicken" in the dictionary, along with "fried potatoes" and "fried eggs" and "fried fish" and so on. The dictionary assumes we can use our heads (our "fried heads"?) to make those common connections. I'm pretty sure that "stochastic terrorism" (no caps) will make it there eventually, especially if we survive our current political situation, but most reasonably smart people have heard it often by now.

Nobody's entitled to win anything. Except by, you know, actually winning it. Jet seems like a very lovely person--I enjoyed his own show a lot, even though I've never cooked Asian food--but the last few years he's been kind of a whiny bitch about not winning and feeling he should have. And if that clip of Antonia in the coming attractions saying tearfully "I really want to win" wasn't taken wildly out of context--I mean, who's competing that doesn't want to win?--then I'd say she should take a seat as well. Someday I'd like to taste that burger.

I've also noticed the weirdness with the wheel. Why can't they just switch the protein to the last spot if they want it to come up last? And Tiffani needs to stop with that catchphrase. I'm liking her otherwise. But overall this season certainly isn't generating the level of excitement and conversation we've had in the past, at least so far. Could be the changes they've made haven't worked to the show's advantage.

If it were me, I'd probably just ignore it, for the reason you give. But then again I might not be friends with a person exhibiting such an annoying tic unless she had lots of redeeming qualities. Were I to say something about it, I might just say, "You could be feeling the effects of global warming more than the rest of us. I'd hate being so hot all the time." And then I'd buy her a pretty paper fan for her birthday.

Except that UK usage is different from ours. Heaney was an Irishman, so for him "which" in that context is perfectly correct. I would never want to deprive anyone of the right to crankiness.

You could've asked him while he was alive. The word's been in use since 1964.

Per Merriam-Webster's Unabridged, it's a legitimate word: pe·des·tri·an·ize verb \ -ˌnīz \ inflected form(s): -ed/-ing/-s intransitive verb : to do some walking : go afoot transitive verb : to convert (as a street) into a walkway or mall pe·des·tri·an·iza·tion \ pə̇ˌdestrēənə̇ˈzāshən , -ˌnīˈz- \ noun, plural -s

Update on something I posted about not long ago: The streaming channels that Dish has going (including an all-day ATK/CC channel, hence mentioning it here) weren't recordable at that time. They are now--or at least some of them are. So if there's a show you wanted to hold on to from the last few years, you can record it now. (And there's another channel that has a bunch of Scott McGillivray's past shows, which I'll be watching like it's my job, though that's irrelevant here.)

The colors are a little off, but the blocking concept is there. 🎨

Mine, too. I have a sneaky suspicion why.

They just aired this ep on my local station today. The raisins in the carrot cake were a deal breaker for me, and I'm thinking with that syrup and then the frosting on top--tooo sweet. The unshredded piece of carrot left over is par for the course (coarse--grating joke?) in most food processors, I think. I just usually eat it. Maybe that's why they said they started with a pound of carrots and would end up with twelve ounces after shredding. I guess the waste is built in. I could do the raisin paste in those cookies, but I don't have powerful childhood memories of them, so I can't see bothering to make them myself. So that's two noes for me. I do love Little Christie, though. When I was a kid we sometimes took vacations in Pennsylvania Dutch country. One year we visited a pretzel factory. I can still remember the dizzying speed at which those young Amish girls twirled that dough into pretzels. A skill worth cultivating, I'd say.