Dire what?

[trinker]

Dire Straits, people.

Dire Straights are those people who are all about DOMA.

Comments

[minnesattva]

Yeah, they're such homophones!

[trinker]

Okay, why do I not have you already friended? I peeked over at your f-list to see how we know each other, and I'm guessing that this is your first comment on my journal...

[minnesattva]

Yes, hello (sorry I'm not very good at doing the introductions first ;)) I liked your icon so much I clicked on your LJ and liked everything else there just as much. I'm Holly, nice to cyberly meet you.

[trinker]

Utterly okay. I've been reading your journal tonight with much delight. It's like a giant bag of potato chips.

[matociquala]

Dire Straits: aka the Sultans of Swing.
Dire Straights: larger and fiercer than average heterosexuals.

[trinker]

Awoooooo!!!

[crossfire]

Win.

[matociquala]

thank you.

[trinker]

Eeeexcellent.

I found a hilarious concept failure in a bit of marshmallow reading I did last night. Next entry.

[minnesattva]

And straitjacket!

[starcat_jewel]

Okay, I have to give you the lead-up first on this. When I was at Vandy, there were three visitation plans for freshman dorms. A-plan was "visitation anytime"; B-plan was "visitation only on weekends"; C-plan was "visitation only on Homecoming weekend and Parents' Weekend".

There were no C-plan halls for men, and only one for women, which happened to be the top floor of Dyer Hall. Needless to say, it promptly got nicknamed "Dyer Straits".

[trinker]

I don't understand these "Visitation Plans". 'splain please?

[starcat_jewel]

Oops, sorry -- needed to go one step further into the jargon. "Visitation" was the ability to have a member of the opposite sex in your dorm room. Remember, this was the mid-70s, when a lot of parents were still kind of freaked out by the idea of visitation at all. I think the more restrictive rules only applied to freshmen because by your sophomore year everyone was 18 or over, and the school couldn't (or didn't want to) maintain those rules for legal adults.

[trinker]

I got that part...(I had "parietal hours" at boarding school), but I don't get why there were different plans.

[trinker]

yeah. It's not accurate, but it's funny.

[trinker]

Strictly speaking, grammar is how the words are put together - punctuation is supposed to be separate still, but on a practical basis, it's a handy term for "how things are written out".