cold; hyperpasteurization; ends in X

[fflo]

Kinda sounds like categories in Jeopardy!.

Yes, it's co-oh-old out there. Don't have the storm windows on yet, either, so the bottoms of the windows are decorated with arcs of frost---picturesque, sure, but I wish I'd gotten the storms in. Way too cold to try to do it today.

I've just been able to eat my knock-off rice Chex, embellished with Kroger crunchy-raisin-date-'n'-flakes, despite the fact that my milk, purchased in October, supposedly expired 10 days ago. It's Horizon organic hyperpasteurized. Some bloke in the Busch's pointed it out to me and H after overhearing our debate in the dairy section about how much milk we'd be likely to consume before it turned. For a tidge more moolah, a miracle: a half gallon to work through at a snail's pace, if need be. Plus it's organic.

And now, my first Prediction for the New Year: after the trouble with Celebrex on top of the trouble with Vioxx, drug companies will shy away from the catchy invented names that end in "-x".

Comments

[fflo.livejournal.com]

oh---is there a Britishism for "escalator," as there is for "elevator"? The, uh, "moving stair" or something?

[charlottecooper.livejournal.com]

What be this escalatorial "moving stair" contraption of which ye speake?

Sorry, only joking. We have lifts instead of elevators and some people call travelators "moving pavements" but I haven't heard that for ages. Escalators are the same.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I don't think we even have a common name for moving pavements. I know of few over here, though---at the National Gallery of Art and in an airport or two.

[charlottecooper.livejournal.com]

Funny. I went to the Tower of London the other week (long story, I'd never been) and they have a slow-moving travelator that goes past the cases which hold the crown jewels. I think that's the best one I've ever ridden on.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Strikes me funny, somehow! I think it's the idea that the throng of visitors are moved along mechanically as one might move other brainless, or not necessarily cooperative, things (like items on a factory conveyor belt) or beings (like cattle to slaughter). I'm sure many staffers think of tourists that way.

So, did you want to put a hyphen or an umlaut on "cooperative," by any chance?

[charlottecooper.livejournal.com]

It was exactly like that.

I can cope with cooperative, mainly because the first part of the word looks like my surname. There's a supermarket called the Co-op, which must be hyphenated though! Umlauts? You can keep that foreign muck to yourself (unless you're writing about Mötörhead).

[fflo.livejournal.com]

ha!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Hey, I just thought of the Britishism that sounds strangest to us at Math Reviews. It's the plural after "of" in constructions like

"this kind of results"

or

"a certain type of pigeons"

---that hits the American ear most oddly.

[charlottecooper.livejournal.com]

That's true. But Math Reviews should surely be Maths Review?

I always find constructions like apricot-strawberry-banana pie difficult to swallow. What happened to the "and" between them?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

good point!