Yes, I think I’ve persuaded them that the organisation should embrace its inner Grover & manifest Snuffleupagacity as part of its strategic direction going forward
My husband just called, he bought a pack of Sesame Street cards at an op shop on the weekend. For some unfathomable reason he took them to his work dinner and did tarot readings for his colleagues.
@NathanJonesBook I generally use correct grammar in speech and writing—sometimes using ‘less’ with countable nouns and sometimes using ‘can’ to talk about permission—that’s standard English
@MerriamWebster Mispronounced and misspelled. I noticed that a lot of people seemed to be getting 'combatitive' wrong, so I looked the word up to see if 'combative' was a recognized alternative. Oops.
@NathanJonesBook Kurt Vonnegut's character Kilgore Trout had great stories but couldn't write. Vonnegut invented him is response to a friend saying 'You know, the problem with science-fiction? It’s much more fun to hear someone tell the story of the book than to read the story itself.'
@MSlobodniuk @ErskineKristen @RobertArnol Who mentioned YouTube or iPhones? These were real dolphins viewed through a real window. And even if they were merely online dolphins, what's the problem? Maths is in nature, not textbooks. Leonardo da Vinci watched birds--and that didn't set back the study of maths