Comments on: Oak Ridge Noir http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:51:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: daco http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32663 daco Sun, 20 May 2007 01:08:22 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32663 Bravo AT! (Serious handclappin' goin on up in here) What an excellent piece of homespun American literature. You promise to share those mushrooms with me? Bravo AT! (Serious handclappin’ goin on up in here) What an excellent piece of homespun American literature. You promise to share those mushrooms with me?

]]> By: newscoma http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32664 newscoma Sun, 20 May 2007 01:11:34 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32664 Wow. That smoked. Seriously. Wow.
That smoked.
Seriously.

]]> By: Jane http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32665 Jane Sun, 20 May 2007 01:23:00 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32665 Nice! You got the "heads down" bar scene perfectly Not that I've spent a lot of time in places like that.... Nice!
You got the “heads down” bar scene perfectly

Not that I’ve spent a lot of time in places like that….

]]> By: VA Bluebelle http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32666 VA Bluebelle Sun, 20 May 2007 01:34:40 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32666 So glad you had to guise up your correction, that's some good reading, there. So glad you had to guise up your correction, that’s some good reading, there.

]]> By: Joel http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32667 Joel Sun, 20 May 2007 01:35:28 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32667 "I like the cut of her jibe" jib. It's a nautical term. “I like the cut of her jibe”

jib. It’s a nautical term.

]]> By: Netmom http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32684 Netmom Sun, 20 May 2007 10:31:15 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32684 Maybe Joel, but jibe (or gibe, apparently interchangeable according to M-W.com) is to deride or tease, language which can seem "cutting" to the target. I read his statement to mean that he liked being talked down to by Ellen. Of course, that's nothing compared to the imagery if AT as Stan's "little brother." They'd be Irish twins if anything... but still an interesting thought. Maybe Joel, but jibe (or gibe, apparently interchangeable according to M-W.com) is to deride or tease, language which can seem “cutting” to the target.

I read his statement to mean that he liked being talked down to by Ellen.

Of course, that’s nothing compared to the imagery if AT as Stan’s “little brother.” They’d be Irish twins if anything… but still an interesting thought.

]]> By: Joel http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32692 Joel Sun, 20 May 2007 11:48:02 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32692 So you're saying AT enjoys being treated in a patronizing way? Doesn't square with anything I've seen, but perhaps you know a different AT than I do. Further, there is nothing here to indicate Ellen has a tendency to deride or tease AT or anyone else, or that she is doing so now. "The cut of one's jib" = one's outward appearance. This is an old expression, dating back at least to Sir Walter Scott. In the actual, you know, context of the post, the expression appears thus: "As much as I'd like to endorse Ellen, because I like the cut of her jibe, I just don'™t know if she'd be an effective politician." The sentence is logically read as the speaker liking her outward appearance but lacking sufficient knowledge of her aptitude as a politician. Read in that way, it should be jib. Stick to OR politics, Netmom. So you’re saying AT enjoys being treated in a patronizing way? Doesn’t square with anything I’ve seen, but perhaps you know a different AT than I do. Further, there is nothing here to indicate Ellen has a tendency to deride or tease AT or anyone else, or that she is doing so now.

“The cut of one’s jib” = one’s outward appearance. This is an old expression, dating back at least to Sir Walter Scott.

In the actual, you know, context of the post, the expression appears thus:

“As much as I’d like to endorse Ellen, because I like the cut of her jibe, I just don’™t know if she’d be an effective politician.”

The sentence is logically read as the speaker liking her outward appearance but lacking sufficient knowledge of her aptitude as a politician. Read in that way, it should be jib.

Stick to OR politics, Netmom.

]]> By: Mrs Eaves http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32693 Mrs Eaves Sun, 20 May 2007 11:50:11 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32693 AT, will you write my biography? AT, will you write my biography?

]]> By: Ellen Smith http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32702 Ellen Smith Sun, 20 May 2007 14:11:50 +0000 http://www.atomictumor.com/2007/05/19/oak-ridge-noir/#comment-32702 Wow! Sugar Sack is an all-too-familiar figure around Oak Ridge, but this is first time I heard of him going after private people who keep blogs. Sorry to hear that he stuck you with the tab, but at least your kneecaps are intact. Wow! Sugar Sack is an all-too-familiar figure around Oak Ridge, but this is first time I heard of him going after private people who keep blogs.

Sorry to hear that he stuck you with the tab, but at least your kneecaps are intact.

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