Friday #10 - Kaitlyn... My life is your fault

[kaitlynwithakay]

hahahaha I loved this. Sorry about that bus thing. Next time I'll make sure your parents want to take it.

And OMG I need to read that book!

[ghostwritten87]

That is a very funny book :) some got it m last Christmas as I'm kown for an obsession with punctuation :)

great vid btw :)

[Christi543]

Lol that is a great reason to blame Kaitlyn.

Your hair wasn't like that before, was it? If that's new, I like it (if not... um... I still like it lol).

I was JUST looking for that book at Half Price Books today! They didn't have it, though.

Great job! Thanks so much for substituting for Jordan!

[bandgeekmike]

What about the Capitol, the white house, the Library of Congress, the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument or the Smithsonian? I could spend hours in there alone!

[bummercucumber]

I love all of those. Especially the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian of Natural History, the Hope Diamond is amazing.

=D

[AnIrrationalRatio]

I agree with you that the E theme is nuts, LOL. It's Exceptionally Exacting Even Encroaching on a Exhaustively, Excessive Edict.

I think having to NOT use the letter E would have been more fun.

You did a GREAT job filling in. Just go to NYC yourself! By the time they notice you'll be watching Patti!

[bummercucumber]

An Alliteration About An Amazingly Awesome Alphabetic Attribute, Always Astonishes Anyone Alongside Alphabetical Advocacy; Albeit, Assertive Advocates Always Aim Against Antagonistic, Adversarial Archenemies.

Amatively Anyone's,

Alan

(An Alias, Aquiring Absolute Anonymity;

Aforementioned Appellations Aside.)

[AnIrrationalRatio]

*stands up & applauds*

Very well done, Sir.

I used to only comment in alliteration on the videos of one particular user. It's fun but really hard if you try saying, "that's a really funny video" with words starting with W or Q, and Y just sucks!

[bummercucumber]

It would be hard to always respond in alliterations, but it would probably be good for one's mind. Stretching the brain in an attempt to think of homoprimolitera dictum - the nerdy phrase I made-up to mean alliteral words, my friends adopted the usage.

=]

[Christi543]

"I agree with you that the E theme is nuts" Lol ...completely unlike the person that came up with it, I'm sure. :P

[AnIrrationalRatio]

To Christi: Come on, I was coming up with idea's of the top of my head. And that's never a good idea. Have you never seen "Pinky and The Brain"?!?!

Also, the theme I suggested was to do a vlog WITHOUT using the letter E, lol. But it was still fun to see you all so confused as to what to do, lol. Very entertaining.

Did you ever get iMovie 6 running?

[AnIrrationalRatio]

Note to self:

WHY, OH WHY, do I have ideas spelt "idea's"?!?!?!

What is it that the idea possesses? Hmm?

Is it a bunny? A system of government, maybe?

A thought? The idea has a thought, is that it?

No? THEN SPELL IT RIGHT!

Note to everyone else:

Do not read this sentence. Aww, come on. The one thing I asked, geez! :P

[Christi543]

Oooh, you should've written "WITHOUT" in caps when you first suggested it... some of us (no idea who) don't pay enough attention when reading things. AND I probably would've conveniently forgotten about that theme suggestion had I realized that's what you had suggested. :P

I did get iMovie 6 running, thank you! I switch back and forth between the 2 versions now, because my computer doesn't seem to like 6 as much, BUT thank you- it helps!

[AnIrrationalRatio]

I wouldn't have blamed you if you had skipped it. Be it with OR without the E. I only had really silly themes, nothing of great merit.

I hope you're getting to learn the most user friendly (current, excluding any Linux distro,) OS there is, and making use of all it's great multimedia tools!

[pwnutonight]

nice hair :D

[bandgeek8408]

That book is amazing! She has another book out too, but I can't remember the title. It's about manners and politeness, and it's just as funny as Eats, Shoots and Leaves.

Nice job covering Friday!

[bummercucumber]

Where's my comment? I hate re-typing things, the original's always better.

Paraphrastically what I said:

I like your hair and your shirt.

You were right, I love that book.

Your reasoning for blaming Kaitlyn

for everything is flawless.

Thanks for filling in for Jordan!

=D

[ShinyHappyVloggyPPL]

Nathan, the first one worked, you idiot.

Love,

Nathan

[AnIrrationalRatio]

Yeah, I think the original was better.

This one just seemed forced, like you were just going over the same old ground again for the sake of it. LMAO j/k

(sorry couldn't help myself)

[bummercucumber]

I agree that it seems forced.

A bit more terse, too.

I didn't feel like embellishing.

hah =D

[AnIrrationalRatio]

Well you had excellent recall I must say.

I thought it seemed a bit more curt, but it's actually longer than the original, with all of the same words too.

Maybe it's just the layout.

[bummercucumber]

Thanks! I meant the rudeness and forced brevity which is the connotation on terse, not so much the actual length. =]

I purposely made the lines shorter, my English teacher told me it changes the mood of a piece when rows of text are shorter, changes the mood to one of curtness, like you said. Also when rows of text nearly line up it is supposed to give a feeling of coldness, disconnect and perfunctoriness.

I don't know how true it is, but I did it.

=]

[bummercucumber]

By the first part of that comment, I meant to say:

I meant to effect the feeling of rudeness and forced brevity, which is part of terse's connotation, I didn't mean for the denotation of terse to be considered.

[AnIrrationalRatio]

I didn't think that you meant the comment to sound terse, and it doesn't, except if compared to the original comment.

I, for one, did feel a change in the tone of the comment with the change in row length (in comparison to the first one).

So, taking this as a blind study (with much too small a sample size for actual usage), the hypothesis seems to be correct.

[bummercucumber]

I think we've both reached the point of excessive nerdiness, judging by our comment banter.

Discussing connotation versus denotation somehow seems a bit much. I'm getting less intelligible even to myself. There's so much ambiguity with most words, even though they're defined; it's a paradox. Trying to solve a paradox, is the same as trying to solve nothing, for both have the same result.

I only say it seems excessive because it's gotten to the point where it isn't relevant to the video.

[AnIrrationalRatio]

Indeed.

(Rhetorical Question:

Was ANY of this relevant to the video? O_o LOL)

[bummercucumber]

I answer rhetorical questions...

The original comment was relevant.

I think associative relevance carries over to about four comments; until then they're relevant by association. So, we aren't too far past our limit.

I'm going to throw in something relevant I didn't say the first time, to give this comment reason: I think we should never have a letter-themed week, ever again.

P.S. I need a good synonym for relevant, I'm partial to apropos, the instance would need to be just right, though.

[AnIrrationalRatio]

Synonyms: germane and pertinent are good, but apropos has a certain quality to it.

I have to say I LOL'd every time someone looked into the camera and (paraphrasing) said "E? Really? E?!!?!".

Also, Jared don't feel bad, it WASN'T an easy theme this week. I blame Kaitlyn for that. LOL

[bummercucumber]

I like apropos, but I absolutely hate the idea that after typing it someone reading will probably say the silent S at the end; or think the S at the end is supposed to be said.

Germane is good, but it wouldn't fit into just any situation. Pertinent is the same way. They're not exactly interchangable with relevant in what I typed before.

[bummercucumber]

I think you're right, we all had basically the same reaction to the theme this week. It would have been even harder to do the theme you said you had actually suggested: NOT using the letter E. I guess Jared wouldn't have had a problem.

[bummercucumber]

He seems to live an E-less existence, except electronics. My favorite quote from this video would have to be, "I like musicals, which doesn't have an E in it, I don't know why."

I can relate, I've often wondered why musical doesn't have an E in it. Why not spell it musicle, like popsicle. I'm going to huddle the masses to put an E into every word, muahahah. Ie thinke thate's pretty empossible thoughe.

[bummercucumber]

Although, there were a lot of e's in old English.

Example:

Whan that Aprille with hise shoures sote,

The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote,

And bathed evry veyne in swish licour,

Of which vertu engendred is the flour

It's one of the few prologues I've actually had to memorize, it's probably not even right. Freshman year seems so long ago.

[bummercucumber]

This was so long I had to split it into four parts. That's sad. I'm not concise. I get that way with no sleep.

P.S. It's 9:47 here, and it's ridiculous that I didn't sleep again tonight. Youtube will be the death of me.

[AnIrrationalRatio]

The WITHOUT an E theme would have been harder to start with but it would also have been easier to achieve in the end.

The rest I shall respond to by PM or the other members of SHVP may block me from leaving comments in future, hahaha.

[bummercucumber]

I like your hair. I have that book, and you're right, I love it.

Your reasoning behind blaming Kaitlyn for everything is flawless.

Thanks for filling in for Jordan!

=D