Tag Archives: Quotes

This gives “scare quotes” a whole new meaning…

Once SLP and I get a taste for the classic Thanksgiving dinner, we just can’t get enough. We often make a turkey in late October/early November in preparation for Thanksgiving, and often within a day or two of eating the last of the Thanksgiving leftovers, we get another turkey and do it all over again.

Such was the case today. However, even though Thanksgiving was just three days ago, fresh turkeys are already hard to come by. I was at a local Cub Foods today and found several packaged fresh turkey halves, presumably cut up from the large stock of fresh Thanksgiving turkeys that went unsold.

But… when I got home, there was something about the label on the package that really did put the “scare” in “scare quotes“:

“Fresh” Turkey Half

Yikes.

Room 34 Sputters Back to Life…

PostNuke is out the window. I’m back to my old ways… PHP-based display pages and entering my content directly into the database, by way of phpMyAdmin.

Most of the Can of Worms articles (at least, the decent ones) are moved over now, and almost all are displaying correctly. The rest of the stuff is on its way.

My biggest problem right now is remembering that these files end with “.php” instead of “.asp” (and it saddens me that the latter is my brain’s default file extension [and if you actually get that you’re as big of a dork as me {and the only reason I created what is now a triple-parenthetical aside was just so I wouldn’t have to do the grammatically-correct but logically-weird period inside the quotes, or the logical but incorrect period outside the quotes… but now I am on a mission to make this the most ridiculously excessive parenthetical ramble in my illustrious career of writing rambling parenthetical asides}]).

Now where was I?

I forget. Anyway… the site is back, and ongoing changes will be… ongoing. Enjoy.