A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.
"House" for instance, is feminine: "la casa."
"Pencil," however, is masculine: "el lapiz."
A student asked, "What gender is 'computer'?"
Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether "computer" should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.
The men's group decided that "computer" should definitely be of the feminine gender ("la computadora"), because:
1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored ! in long term memory for possible later retrieval; and
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
(THIS GETS BETTER!)
The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be Masculine ("el computador"), because:
1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;
2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves;
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.
My poor old cat is getting worse. I had to get out of my car and lift her away from the front tyre because she would not move when I started the car this morning.
That was the second date with the guy with the dog, the first one was a few months ago, why did I go out with him again? I have no idea, everyone kept saying, oh he is a nice guy and for some reason he asked me again after me turning him down before.
There are loads of threads that end with me in here.
Sometimes it is people don't come back to look at replies after posting, some go to bed and forget where they have posted (me sometimes).
I think most of us are aware of each other in here, but don't always talk directly. Shame sometimes, but hard to know who will talk back and who won't often.
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RE: self cleaning glass
I thought self cleaning glass was just waiting for it to rain ......