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md
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response 19 of 44:
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Jul 26 21:35 UTC 1999 |
Can you hang out in your own home, or does it
alway have to be somewhere else?
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gypsi
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response 20 of 44:
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Jul 26 22:47 UTC 1999 |
I define it as someplace else. Being home is just, well...being home. =)
You can hang out at *other* houses, though.
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beeswing
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response 21 of 44:
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Jul 27 03:22 UTC 1999 |
I dunno, I'll say "I hung out at home instead of going to the party."
I heard Mick Jagger say "Cool out" in an attempt to soothe an
angry, pushing crowd at a concert on TV, in the 1960s.
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void
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response 22 of 44:
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Jul 27 16:23 UTC 1999 |
hanging out can be done at home, depending on what you're doing. if
i'm doing housework or making stuff it's not hanging out. playing video
games, reading and drinking coffee, surfing the web, dinking around with
other stuff all count as hanging out.
(and that should have been "frequently" in resp:18. i can spell, i just
can't type. ;)
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beeswing
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response 23 of 44:
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Jul 27 17:12 UTC 1999 |
ack... spelling patrol is slacking off... >:)
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keesan
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response 24 of 44:
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Jul 27 18:11 UTC 1999 |
Jim asks if he can chill out in a hot tub.
Please define 'dinking around' and give more examples of usage.
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void
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response 25 of 44:
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Jul 27 19:09 UTC 1999 |
hmmm..."dinking around" is a term i use a lot but hardly ever hear
from anyone else. generally it means to fool with, play around with,
experiment on, and generally try to think like an engineer when
attempting some task you have either never done before or have done so
infrequently that you don't remember how you did it last time.
"the vcr wouldn't record, so i dinked around with it for a while and
now it works."
"dave and i spent three days dinking around with wendy's car before
we finally figured out that the fuel line was hiding inside a frame
rail."
"after dinking around with the computer long enough, i figured out
that i had to jumper the modem for com4."
"the recipe was all right, but i dinked around with some different
ingredients and now i like my version better."
as far as i know, it's quite possible to chill out in a hot tub.
beeswing, i can be the on-call spelling patrol if you like. :)
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danr
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response 26 of 44:
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Jul 27 20:21 UTC 1999 |
A synonym for "dinking around" is "puttering around."
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mooncat
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response 27 of 44:
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Jul 27 20:24 UTC 1999 |
Yeah, they both seem like they would work.
chill out has nothing to do with temperature and everything to do with
attitude. Kinda like hanging out. The attitude is not one of "okay,
let's do this, and then this and then this" but rather "hey, wanna
do this?" "eh, why not" kinda thing.
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drewmike
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response 28 of 44:
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Jul 27 20:41 UTC 1999 |
I've been in the hot tub, chilling out with friends. On a separate incident,
same hot tub, same friends, but what was being done was heating up.
In the first case, there was no specific course of action beyond relaxing.
In the second, there was a DEFINITE specific course of action.
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beeswing
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response 29 of 44:
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Jul 27 20:49 UTC 1999 |
Oy....
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keesan
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response 30 of 44:
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Jul 27 20:52 UTC 1999 |
Jim finds that he thinks better in a hot tub, it does something to the speed
of conduction of neural impulses. (It also frequently puts him to sleep and
he wakes up in a cold tub). He advises people never to peel grapefruits in
the tub, there is some oil in the skin of the grapefruit that gets into the
water and he had a bad reaction to it. What do other people do in the tub
besides fall asleep?
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drewmike
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response 31 of 44:
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Jul 27 21:07 UTC 1999 |
Now we can't peel grapefruits in the hot tub? Damn. There's my weekend shot.
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mooncat
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response 32 of 44:
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Jul 27 22:32 UTC 1999 |
<mooncat wonders if she should ask WHY someone would be peeling in the
hot tub>
I read in the tub.
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keesan
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response 33 of 44:
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Jul 27 22:35 UTC 1999 |
Jim gets dehydrated while boiling himself in the tub and instead of drinking
a quart of water decided to eat a few grapefruits.
Do you have a holder to keep the book dry?
We cannot listen to tapes in the bathroom, the moisture makes either the tape
or the head too slippery to work properly or maybe the capstan or rubber
roller gets wet from condensation. Are there VCRs that will work in a steamy
room? Do people watch TV while bathing?
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gull
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response 34 of 44:
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Jul 27 23:08 UTC 1999 |
A VCR would probably suffer a similar problem. I'd suggest putting the tape
deck outside the bathroom, and just the speakers inside.
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drewmike
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response 35 of 44:
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Jul 27 23:42 UTC 1999 |
I generally peel before I get... yeah, anyway.
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hhsrat
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response 36 of 44:
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Jul 28 00:35 UTC 1999 |
(shameless promotion = on) Since we're all discussing it, join hangout
(shameless promotion = off)
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mooncat
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response 37 of 44:
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Jul 28 03:09 UTC 1999 |
Keesan- I'm the book holder. ;) I always keep a towel handy and don't
take in books that I can't replace. In my bathroom here I generally
turn the fan on so that the room doesn't get too steamy. Sometimes I
listen to tapes or cds when I'm in there, but it's more common for
my roomie to listen to music while she's taking a bath.
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beeswing
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response 38 of 44:
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Jul 28 03:28 UTC 1999 |
The people who designed my bathroom made it woefully devoid of outlets.
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gypsi
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response 39 of 44:
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Jul 28 09:54 UTC 1999 |
(That's probably smart...especially near a tub)
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jazz
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response 40 of 44:
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Jul 28 11:48 UTC 1999 |
"Dinking around" is also humble engineer-speak for fixing.
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gull
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response 41 of 44:
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Jul 28 21:00 UTC 1999 |
Re #39: In modern construction, most of the danger is eliminated by use of
GFCI's, which are very sensitive to leakage current.
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keesan
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response 42 of 44:
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Jul 29 19:47 UTC 1999 |
Our little tape player was an all-in-one portable model.
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hhsrat
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response 43 of 44:
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Jul 30 04:06 UTC 1999 |
(agora 99 <--> hangout 5)
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