the oblate spheroid is kind of funny, actually

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022342751

Oh my.

By the way, nadin's drunk.

nadinbrzezinski (116,015 posts)    Sat Feb 9, 2013, 03:51 PM

Msnbc today is exhibit "A" that the cables are

The local news stations for the NewYork-DC area...it is kind of funny actually

trumad (33,748 posts)    Sat Feb 9, 2013, 03:54 PM

1. Don't get your OP?

nadinbrzezinski (116,015 posts)   Sat Feb 9, 2013, 03:55 PM

2. We got a manhunt in the west

And we had a heck of a winter storm go through the so-cal area.

trumad (33,748 posts)    Sat Feb 9, 2013, 03:56 PM

3. I think your wireless keyboard needs some new batteries.

nadinbrzezinski (116,015 posts)    Sat Feb 9, 2013, 04:53 PM

21. The auto correct on the IPad

Is a killer. Did your cat find his way home?

Ewwww.

Atman's gonna be pissed.

trumad (33,748 posts)   Sat Feb 9, 2013, 06:30 PM

25. cat?

nadinbrzezinski (116,015 posts)    Sat Feb 9, 2013, 06:38 PM

26. Sorry, mistook you for somebody

Else. Who's cat was lost.

Ewwww.

The oblate spheroid mistook the truemud primitive for Atman.

Atman's gonna be pissed.

PCIntern (13,680 posts)    Sat Feb 9, 2013, 03:57 PM

4. True dat...

The furthest away anyone is ever "from" is Philly, and they're always a "special guest"....it ain't news if it doesn't happen in the tri-state area, NY, NJ, CT.
 
Unless there is a mass shooting....then they do the "could it happen here?" Routine...

Little Star (10,701 posts)    Sat Feb 9, 2013, 04:36 PM

16. Or it could be because the Northeast is the most densely populated area in the US.....

nadinbrzezinski (116,015 posts)    Sat Feb 9, 2013, 04:51 PM

20. Nah, it's also where we are based.

I cover news in my East County. Right now you require a 4x4 to get through the snow. In the summer you require a 4x4 to get through improved county roads.
 
We joke here (and it applies) that coverage is indirectly proportional to ease of access.

libtodeath (896 posts)    Sat Feb 9, 2013, 04:01 PM

6. Nemo would have not been heard of if it had hit Albany and north.

a few inches of snow in the city though and it is a national calamity.

nadinbrzezinski (116,015 posts)   Sat Feb 9, 2013, 04:49 PM

18. Why I said, the New York-DC media.

SidDithers (24,865 posts)   Sat Feb 9, 2013, 04:03 PM

7. “Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?” ...

^^^in reference to something the oblate spheroid edited out of her original post.

Brother Buzz (7,833 posts)    Sat Feb 9, 2013, 04:35 PM

13. Southern California weather is not Noozworthy

Unless Grapevine closes; Snow, but open

Current Interstate Highway 5 Conditions

I 5

NO TRAFFIC RESTRICTIONS ARE REPORTED FOR THIS AREA.

NORTHBOUND TRAFFIC IS REDUCED TO 1 LANE AT THE JCT OF SR 43 (KERN CO)
24 HRS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK - DUE TO CONSTRUCTION

Bluenorthwest (22,571 posts)    Sat Feb 9, 2013, 05:12 PM

22. Ed Shultz yesterday could not even pronounce 'Irvine'.

I think their on air 'talent' is frightened by CA with all those strange place names, I think Ed thought Irvine was a Spanish word...

nadinbrzezinski (116,019 posts)    Sat Feb 9, 2013, 05:47 PM

23. I admit, that was Lolz all around.

senseandsensibility (11,372 posts)    Sat Feb 9, 2013, 05:59 PM

24. How did he say it?

I thought he said it correctly, er-vine. Unless that's not how you say it. I'm from Northern CA, but have relatives down there. I've always heard er-vine.

nadinbrzezinski (116,019 posts)   Sat Feb 9, 2013, 07:38 PM

29. It is Ir-vine

At least to so cal natives. But it was kind of funny to see him struggle with the pronunciation. God help him if this ends in La Hambra or El Camino Real.
 
True story, we needed lamps when we first got here. The lamp stores were on Morena Blvd. well, me speaking Spanish will pronounce it Mo-re-na. Locals, Muu-ri-na. No wonder it took us a while.

RZM (7,855 posts)    Sat Feb 9, 2013, 06:56 PM

27. There's something to that. I suspect this is why people like Chris Christie, Cory Booker, and Mike Bloomberg are 'national figures.' It's got a lot to do with the fact that our national media is primarily NY-based.
 
That's not the only thing going on here. NY is the largest metro area in the country and the financial center, etc. It matters in its own right. But there's something to the idea that the local media bias bleeds into national coverage.

nadinbrzezinski (116,019 posts)    Sat Feb 9, 2013, 07:34 PM

28. It is in many ways location, location, location

I just found it damn funny.

[thundley4]

nadinbrzezinski (116,019 posts)   Sat Feb 9, 2013, 07:38 PM
The lamp stores were on Morena Blvd. well, me speaking Spanish will pronounce it Mo-re-na. Locals, Muu-ri-na. No wonder it took us a while.

Bullshit orena isn't that different than Moreno, and most people no how to say Rita Moreno's name.  However, Californians do not know how to sat Rodeo.

[BEG]

Nadin, it's pronounced er-vine you illiterate idiot.

[BattleHymn]

nadinbrzezinski (116,015 posts)    Sat Feb 9, 2013, 04:51 PM

20. Nah, it's also where we are based.

I cover news in my East County. Right now you require a 4x4 to get through the snow. In the summer you require a 4x4 to get through improved county roads.
 
 

Any other primitive, and this wouldn't even get a second glance.  But with nads, I can't help but think that she was referring to 4X4 lumber.  

[GOBUCKS]

Any other primitive, and this wouldn't even get a second glance.  But with nads, I can't help but think that she was referring to 4X4 lumber.  

I'm surprised she didn't write it "X44".

[BattleHymn]

I'm surprised she didn't write it "X44".

I'd say that might sound like her waist size, but can something the shape of a beach ball have a waist?

[Skul]

I'd say that might sound like her waist size, but can something the shape of a beach ball have a waist?

That's where you tie off the blow-up thingamajig.
I think that's around her neck.

[franksolich]

I'd say that might sound like her waist size, but can something the shape of a beach ball have a waist?

If the oblate spheroid has a waist size of 44 inches, then franksolich is a lithe 16 inches.

I suspect she's rather larger than a mere 44 inches.

[GOBUCKS]

If the oblate spheroid has a waist size of 44 inches, then franksolich is a lithe 16 inches.

I suspect she's rather larger than a mere 44 inches.

Forty-four inches is much closer to her height than to her waist.

[Skul]

Forty-four inches is much closer to her height than to her waist.

Could be her thigh size. 

[BlueStateSaint]

Forty-four inches is much closer to her height than to her waist.

It could be 44 times 44 . . .