Things you were shockingly old when you learned

i thought rmde was "rub my damn ears"

restore 'rollin my damn eyes' plz u bastards
good times

I've heard a lot of adults say "mischievious," it must be a very common mistake.

I say "buoyed" like "booyd" and "buoyant" like "boyant".

― Maria, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:34 (twelve years ago) link

I've just heard Captain Kirk AND Spock say 'mischievious' in a Star Trek episode.

ffs

It obviously became Standard English in the future.

the long influence of "Ebeneezer Goode"

mischievious is the aluminium of mischievous

Grievious misuse imo

Mischievious seems to be popular with people I know from the Indianapolis area.

Maybe that's where Spock's ancestors were from.

The Indianapolis 500-years-from-now

Indianapioulis

I just learned today that a president can pardon himself (I think I knew that) and do so without announcing it (definitely didn't know that).

Can he pardon himself in anticipation though? I mean, he isn't (yet) under investigation for any federal crimes is he?

According to John Dean--I know--he can pardon himself in advance, as an insurance policy, and not in any way make it public.

I thought it was supposed to be debatable grey area and fun things like that. An admission of guilt as well.
If it is true then it needs to be looked at. Needs the turtle blockage of the Senate to be removed too surely.

I found the conversation from yesterday on CNN transcripts.

BROWN: Right. And I just want to go back to this and we'll go back to Flynn. But sources I've spoken to close to the president, John, they backed down the idea he would ever issue a self-pardon because it would be essentially admitting wrongdoing, admitting criminal wrongdoing in their view and president would never want to do that.

Do you really think he would? DEAN: Well, that -- that's a good question. He might, as an insurance

policy, want to stick one in his pocket, and not announce that he had done it, a self-pardon. But there is no question, a pardon is -- to accept a pardon is to acknowledge guilt. There is a Supreme Court case on that.

In fact, Gerald Ford, after he pardoned Nixon, carried a little slip of paper with a quote from the relevant Supreme Court ruling that he could pull out when anybody asked him why he was giving Nixon this pass. He said, well, Nixon admitted guilt when he accepted the pardon which is true.

So, that's what Trump is worried about. That's why he wouldn't announce it. If he were ever indicted, that's his -- that's his check, that is his ability to say, hey, you can't prosecute me because I have self-pardoned.

[16:50:01]

Then we'd litigate that issue for probably several years.

BROWN: So, you're saying essentially in the dark of the night, he could pardon himself, no one would -- no one would know? Is that what you're saying? Of course, this is speculative.

DEAN: He could do that.

BROWN: OK, OK.

DEAN: He does not have it announce it.

BROWN: OK.

DEAN: He does not have it announce it.

Should've edited that, but it's clear enough.

He doesn't have to announce it, but it wouldn't be a secret for long.

I don't think the "admitting guilt" thing would stop him from self-pardoning; he would just claim he's doing it to protect America from all the fake hoax Democrat Socialist prosecutions of your favorite president.

Better be able to get him on something else he can't pardon
Obstruction of the last couple of weeks should be bad enough. & he had been criminģ when he's not been golfing so surely there must be something not covered. has he combined the 2 at any point.
Surely he'll be back to criming as soon as he's left office too. Will he be able to project a pardon forward.

Christmas Island isn't in the middle of the Pacific somewhere, but a bit south of Java.

Imagine how much more the concentration camps would cost the taxpayer if they were that far away. You really didn't think it through.

Fair I guess (Nauru though?)

That 'send them to coventry' is an actual English idiom and not just the title of Pa Salieu's mixtape.

yeah, not bad town. I think it got heavily bombed in WWII but there you go.
my half sister went to University there too.
Close to Birmingham
I think the phrase must go back further than WWII.
HOme of 2 Tone too

folk etymology of "send them to Coventry" dates it to the Civil War but i dunno if that's really really true

yeah, not bad town.

Who told you that?

'Sending someone to Coventry' is proper cancelling.

Saw some good gigs in the town.
Forgot I'm not entitled to have been anywhere in the UK without certain people's permission , gosh how insufferably smug

Coventry's fine ffs, it's just your usual snobbery about the Midlands

usual?

I've never been to the midlands

OK this is probably diagnostic of something: I had a dream last night in which I was amazed to find out that railway crossings were unlike road intersections, because the train never has to stop, only the cars have to stop when a train is passing. In my waking hours I know this as a matter of course, but in my dream I somehow didn't and needed to share this insight. So I thought, in my dream, I must post this to the "things I was shockingly old" thread on ILX. I find this a little disturbing.

😬

lol, i love that

That Johnny Cash recorded a theme song for Thunderball with lyrics a bit on the nose. It was rejected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx-x-sGk9oI

Sounds a little too much like the "Underdog" theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1fH0SvGPg

Ah yes!

Here's a version with it overlaid on the title sequence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-AN5mJF13A:

that rules, what a weird hybrid of Cash's style at the time with still-forming "Bond theme" tropes.

I can see why that was rejected but I love it

MatthewK, I have definitely had dreams that involved my posting to ILX.

ah yes, I've had several where I started a flamewar online and then everybody came to my city trying to find me and pummel me

Dream or premonition, who can be certain

just know if one of you motherfuckers breaks into my house, i have a nativity scene i can beat ur ass to death with

*complex emotions*

the doors are actually pretty good if you limit yourself to one (short) song at a time

just catching up on this thread - so we’re sending people to the city of Coventry to break into neanderthal’s house, but luckily for him the doors are actually pretty good.
did I get that right or was it, like, all a dream?

and you were there, and salt n pepa were there and heavy d was there

Mark Moore out of S-Express is the half-brother of the late actor Stephen Moore (maybe best known as Adrian Mole's dad).