Grapefruit Diet

[cyrano]

obnitpick of the night.
If you eat food, you have a diet. A diet is 'the things you eat'. Or 'A formal general assembly of the princes of the Holy Roman Empire'.

EDIT: If anybody owns a copy of 'For the Masses' I'd like to borrow it. My copy got left on a bus. q:

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[tyee.livejournal.com]

DIET OF WORMS!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Big weirdo! (Welcome back!)

[tyee.livejournal.com]

The Diet of Worms (where Martin Luther of 95 Theses fame was excommunicated and condemned to death) has always amused me greatly because it sounds like both the trial and the method of punishment. Thankfully for Luther Friedrich the Wise "kidnapped" him and kept him "prisoner" for the rest of his life so he was able to keep writing instead of being killed.

[tyee.livejournal.com]

Whoops, I seem to have lost my comma between Luther and Friedrich. I blame the underpants gnomes.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Was it one of the Diets that resulted in the Defenestration of Prague?

(Probably not, I just like mentioning the random absurd historical moments.)

[tyee.livejournal.com]

I don't remember if a Diet was actually convened at the time, but it was definitely Protestant members of the Bohemian Diet who chucked a couple of imperial governors (slavata and martinitz) out the window.

That's one thing I'd've loved to see. Too bad we've abandoned the practice of chucking politicians who fall from favor out the window...although perhaps the advent of modern high-rise buildings would be a problem.

Grapefruit Diet

[tamago.livejournal.com]

A formal general assembly of the princes of the produce section? Grapefruit: prince of citrus. Apple: prince of the lost Eden. Banana: exotic foriegn prince (also known as "king of the yellow devils") They meet to determine the composition of next year's canned fruit salad.

[rightkindofme.livejournal.com]

You have some really interesting friends.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

And you were worried that you wouldn't fit in.

ships and shoes and ceiling wax

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Well, you are right and wrong (see #2). Here's Webster's:

diet n 1 a) what a person or animal usually eats and drinks; daily fare b) figuratively, what a person regularly reads, listens to, does, etc. 2 a special or limited selection of food and drink, chosen or prescribed to promote health or a gain or loss of weight vi.,vt. to eat or cause to special or limited food, esp. for losing weight.

diet n 1 [Scot.] a day's session of an assembly 2 a formal assembly, as formerly of princes, electors, etc. of the Holy Roman Empire 3 in some countries, a national or local legislative assembly

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Pedanticness aside, I know how you feel. 95% of the time, laymen use the word "crescendo" as a noun, when they should be using it as a verb. Usually in some variant of this: "_______ increases to a crescendo of _______." This is stupid because "increases to" and "crescendo" mean the same thing. However, this mis-usage is exactly how languages evolve over time, and another example of how stupidity will eventually be our downfall.

OT: You're the victim of a random act of kindness by me and will be receiving a package sometime next week.

Re: ships and shoes and ceiling wax

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

So 'crescendo' can never be used as a noun? I didn't know this either. Of course, I'm a layman.
And. Um. I'm looking forward to getting the package, regardless of what's inside. (:

Re: ships and shoes and ceiling wax

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

No, crescendo is a noun, but the only "proper" use I can think of right now would be in reference to the musical symbol. Example: "Could you actually play the crescendo in measure 89?"

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[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

No, crescendo is a noun

Should read: "No, crescendo is a noun too..."