Oh Hey There

Fine dicing an onion…it’s not brain science.

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Casey on a Top Chef season three re-run.

BRAIN SCIENCE, not rocket surgery, is the new standard for impossible fields of endeavor.

re idiom syntax

tristn:

We spent a good half hour of class-time brainstorming and testing predicates and raising constructions for cat-out-of-the-bag sentences: the cat is begging/itching to be out of the bag, it is possible/probable…, etc.

yoshang:

Oh man we did that too. Although I think we started using “kicked the bucket” after a while.

Did you do “the shit hit the fan”? That’s a fun one because there’s no messy mental-state-of-cat problems, but the idiom is thinner and it’s harder to differentiate the idiomatic and literal readings.

1. The shit hit the fan. / Shit hit the fan.
2. Shit’s likely to hit the fan.
3. Shit’s gonna hit the fan.
4. Shit’s ready to hit the fan.
5. #? Shit’s waiting to hit the fan.
6. # Shit’s eager to hit the fan.
7. # Shit’s reluctant to hit the fan.