Just had a brief meeting with my most favourite and dearly beloved Old English professor, who extended my deadline on the paper to August 2nd, so I have next week to wrap it up. He gave me the same advice I gave myself, “Just hand whatever it is in, and you will pass, I am certain of it”. I (heart) David Townsend.
Justin got his new job this morning: he is now a “Wireless Specialist” at Best Buy, and I am happy to report he will be earning more than $10/hr, although he is no longer allowed to wear Nike’s and graphic-tees to work. It’s all uniforms and dress shoes. Still, at a new company? Nowhere to go but up.
And I am getting more comfy with the new coworkers, including some amusing discussion today of early 80s musical tastes, which I was pleased to hear included ‘Wild Thing’ by Tone Loc, and ‘Parents Just Don’t Understand’ by D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince in my one nearby female coworker. I waxed poetic about the excellent line-up on ‘Rap Traxx 4’, my first cassette purchase (followed shortly thereafter by ‘Sex Packets’ by the Digital Underground, ‘Forever Your Girl’ by Paula Abdul, ‘Faith’ by George Michael, and ‘Solitudes’).
There was one small scrap with my manager about whether or not one should use parentheses or a dash to encompass the 416 area code on news releases: for the extremely bored and curious out there, I argued on the side of dashes for Toronto, citing that parentheses were only used to denote an area code that may or may not be required, based on one’s geographic location when dialing (ie. if in Ottawa, a “613” is NOT needed, but if dialing Ottawa from Toronto, then it is – thus, parentheses). Since Toronto expanded into two area codes, it is now necessary to use the 416 everywhere, even in Toronto itself, in order to connect to whomever you wish to speak to. Anyway, my argument is irrelevant, since parentheses were used on all sorts of other government sites, ergo parentheses won. How mundane.
Sex Packets! Yes! That was my first cassette, I bought it with my own money after seeing Strictly Business at the old Shoppers World. Totally sweet.
“She said, “Come on, I’m not askin’ for much,”
I said, “Bitch, I’d rather give a crippled crab a crutch.”
-DL
If you’re taking a poll, I prefer parentheses when dealing with area codes. *shrug* It (IMO) looks better.
Personally, my favourite song on Sex Packets is “Underwater Rhymes”.
“1, 2, 1, 2 see 1, 2, 1, 2
They call me MC Blowfish,
we gonna do a little something like this:
Well I’m a deep sea gangster, underwater prankster,
Kissin’ all the girl fish, dissin’ all the sankstars
Because I blew your mind and started to rhyme,
Doesn’t mean that we cool, ’cause you’ll be back next time,
With a hook and a line, so you can hear that fryin’ sound,
I’m tellin’ you I’m down,
I’ll spin your boat around, leave suckers lost in the bay.
You wanna play? I’ll hook your line to a stingray.
Get out of here I’ll hit your boat with a stick,
Get out of line, I’ll call my homey Moby Dick.
I’m not thinkin’ ’bout dyin’, fool, stop tryin’ to test me,
People fishin’ don’t catch me.
And when you get home, sad ’cause you missed,
Just remember MC Blowfish
Hah, and you don’t stop, aww yeah
Uh oh, here comes that stupid shark again, I guess I better blow up”
Anyway… peace… and humptiness forever. 😀
I support your argument! I, myself, am entirely random, switching between parentheses, dashes and dots at random, although I lean toward parentheses for exactly the reason you stated.
I had never ever thought of that logic before, but I like it a lot.
Me, I prefer dashes; we all know which bit is the area code, and using a single type of punctuation looks a lot cleaner.
From doowatchyalike…
“Now if you wear corrective shoes and you got big bunyons,
Toenails smell and look like onions,
Don’t doowutchyalike–
Go see a foot doctor tonight!”
Ooh! Ooh! Or this part, from Shock-G (Humpty Hump), Money B and good ol’ Tupac (may he rest in peace).
“Straight hair, curled, casual and glamor,
A shy girl, or loud like a bama.
From Connecticut, or from Louisiana,
Bad table ettiqutte, too much chatter,
Very well spoken, or real bad grammer,
I minority token, a brother in the slammer,
A free civilian with a house in Santa Ana,
If ya got a million, and live in Atlanta,
If you got a weak bladder, or can’t climb a ladder,
What we’re sayin’ is, it really doesn’t matter,
I need a word that sounds like “atta”
Slipped on a peel of banana!
Doowutchyalike.”
DASHES! I lean toward dashes for the very reason you stated.
Stupid uneditable comments.
found headphones and books under piles of stuff. have no phone, but will be in tonight till 9:30.
Both the International Telecommunication Union and the North American Numbering Plan Administration agree with you. 10-digit dialing has been necessary since the 416/905 split in 1993. Should I be surprised that 12 years has not been enough time for that reality to be digested? Do these people know the meaning of parenthetically?
Strange, I know, but it’s true. You were styling my hair or something, and then we played tag and bought an antique wardrobe together at an auction. Then we had trouble fitting it in a flatbed truck to transport it, and we had to hire someone to tie it up with cables.
I have no idea what any of this means, but I was going to journal and tell you about it today, so it’s a good coincidence that you posted. Also? You are the All-Knowing King of Research and I genuflect before your magnificence.
Oh my God, I am so happy and relieved about that. I really thought some asshole had carjacked them through my slightly ajar window in the Fabricland parking lot, and that I was going to have to pay three billion dollars in lost library book fines for my doubtless rare and out of print Old English advent editions.
Why do you have no phone? I will try to contact you or come by the house tonight or tomorrow after work.
*hugs*
I have a deep fondness for both antique wardrobes and vicarious enjoyment of follicular growth.
That was the first one I bought. It has Funky Cold Medina, Wild Thang, Buffalo Stance, some Run DMC stuff, Fresh Prince…
Ahhh, memories.
I think I got my copy of “Rap Traxx 4” in Parry Sound.. it never left my stereo.. except to cue up “cry little sister” off The Lost Boys soundtrack tape I also had..
I keep the ownership of Rap Traxx 4 on the downlow.. dont want to ruin my “metal head” rep.