Geek Fu Morning Show LITE After Dark #12
Yeah, I say it’s #11, but really, it’s #12. Live from RavenCon ’08 with John Cmar, Laura Burns, Joe Komenda, Stuart Jaffe and Tom Gideon! We talk PUPPIES and dishwashers. There has been alcohol involved.
We missed you, Jason!
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Initially I thought that the suggested convention topic was “Ood puppies”, which is very different, but that would be good, too!
A) the dishwasher talk hit a bit too close to home (going to have to make my wife listen to it).
B) Is there a link to the picture of the puppy w/gin?
C) As entertaining as the others were… Jason was missed (his tweets were the best part of the show somehow).
First off, the conjugation of “to smite” everyone was casting about for: “If Jean-Claude Van Damme beat up Jesus, Jesus’s dad would have smitten JCVD.” It’s the conditional perfect progressive tense. (And yes, I had to look that up. I’m not that much of a grammar geek!)
Second, there’s a fourth possible state for the dishwasher–some of the dishes could have been clean and some dirty. And yes, EWWW! But it was a party; a partial load could have been cleaned but not unloaded and someone then added a dirty item. This is clearly a guy-only* state; a non-guy would say that the dirty item contaminated the rest of the load, so it was all dirty.
* “Guy”, in this case, is not to be used as a gender distinction. Not all men are “guys” and a woman can be a “guy”. Think more Oscar Madison vs. Felix Unger. A guy is the type of person who can pull some cold cuts from the fridge and seriously ask, “Is this meat too green?” I will say, however, I have yet to hear a woman ask that question.
Oops! The conditional perfect progressive should be, “Jean-Claude Van Damme would have been smitten by Jesus’s dad.” Which is how the comment started out in the ‘cast.
My wife and I have had many arguements exactly like the dishwasher story. I’m very into spacial relations and puzzles and putting everything into it’s right place. But when I add a dish or two to the dishwasher after my wife has finished loading it she’s not impressed with my problem solving abilities. She sees it as a direct attack on her dishwasher loading abilities.