A tale of love, betrayal, and politics surrounding a pilot whose plane crashed and burnt in the Sahara Desert unfolds in a series of example sentences illustrating Burzio's generalization and the Unaccusative Hypothesis as he arrives, collapses, and ultimately dies.

What's the difference between a job and a friend?

If you have a job with benefits, you get on the health insurance.

(Apropos of having voted to give a coworker health insurance)

I started a community,
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On a Paul Simon album, Ladysmith Black Mambazo singing:

We are formless, formless
Tsathoggua sleeping in a secret cave

Somebody say ia ia ia
Somebody sing hello hello hello
Somebody say ia ia ia
Somebody cry why why why

There have been a number of articles about the oddity of the prose in The Da Vinci Code and Dan Brown's other books. For example, they all seem to start with a occupational noun, followed by a proper name, with no initial article. This isn't a construction that people normally use, but Dan Brown has used it three times in three books, in a ( Read more... )

Your parents bought U.S savings bonds for you when you were a child. The bonds were issued in your name, and the interest on the bonds was reported each year as it accrued. (See Choice to report interest each year under U.S. Savings Bonds, earlier.)

In March 2005, you redeemed one of the bonds -- a $1,000 series EE bond. The bond was originally ( Read more... )

I wonder if they have a course on .wmf files at the Harvard Extension School.

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On the night that I was married and on my marriage bed
There came a bold sea captain and he stood at my bedhead
Crying "Arise, oh rise, young married man, and come along with me."
But I'm the knight of ghosts and shadows and there's naught that I can see.

My new server is set up. I'm still putting some data back, but mail should be getting through, and people should be able to log in (with their old passwords).