The word “decimation” comes from Roman ancient Roman times. It comes from the Latin root “decem,” meaning ten. It was a form of punishment for groups, in particular, armies.
When an army was decimated, someone was ordered to kill every tenth person in the ranks.
This has been an SG fun fact.
Just when you thought it was safe … they begin adapting to us!
Key quote: “It was absolutely bizarre. I was thinking ‘he’s got too many legs’ and I kept counting ‘one, two, three, four,'” Janaway said.“
Counting is hard.
If you’re watching a movie with “adult implications,” make sure that you’re the only one that can hear it. After all, you never know when a knight in not-so-shining armor might threaten his neighbor with a sword because he thought he heard a damsel in distress.
For the dog owners out there: when you take your pet to the groomer and ask for a little off the top, be sure to specify exactly how much you want off.
In Seattle, a dog groomer accidentally cut the ear off a shih tzu, but who hasn’t? The groomer then super glued the ear back on to the dog, hoping the owner would never notice. When the owner gave little Jasmine a bath that evening, she was horrified when she found the ear floating in the tub.
I smell lawsuit against super glue for false advertising.
As it so happened, that bug that’s been going around, I caught it. Everyone always says it’s “that bug,” no matter where you are in the country, the exact same bug is going around and there is no possible chance you have a different bug.
I ended up coming down with the flu on Friday afternoon. I spent my Friday night like I hadn’t in a long time–huddled over a toilet and sober. It was more than just that. To spare you the details, it felt like someone found the “eject” button on my digestive system and there were only two ways out.
It wasn’t so much that I was sick that bothered me, what really got to me was the fact that it happened on a Friday. I didn’t even get to take off any time from work. Instead, my whole weekend was shot. It was like a weekend-long hangover that I didn’t earn.
On top of that, I had a fever of 99.9 degrees Fahrenheit. I was upset I never broke the 100 mark the whole weekend. As we all know, a fever of 100 sounds way worse than a fever of 99.9.
In any case, I am now more or less back to health and will be rejoining the other contributing members of society in going to work. Even the no longer contagious work on President’s Day.
