Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

I once cataloged a piece of software that cost around $4,000. That was a little stressful.

Violet wrote:$200 for CS5.

Ditto for me (although it was probably CS2 or CS3).

I was surprised that the question asker said they had mediocre piano skills but said they could play most of the hymns with practice. That doesn't qualify as mediocre in my book, hymns are hard! I suppose it all depends on context. I can sightread almost all of the hymns in the hymn book—I'd need a...

actinic - (of light or lighting) able to cause photochemical reactions, as in photography, through having a significant short wavelength or ultraviolet component.

Source: Mort, by Terry Pratchett

The actinic light completely ruined the film—just another bit of bad luck on this ill-starred day.

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/82214/

This is the best thing ever.

(Although, ironically, I was not born under my own sign.)

https://theboard.byu.edu/questions/82280/

yayfulness wrote:My advice? Don't be born during finals week.

As someone with a mid-December birthday, I second that advice.

https://theboard.byu.edu/questions/82234/ Fantastic answer by Yayfulness (especially since I used to live in that part of eastern Maine that was more than 200 miles from a temple). Also, I was confused by yay's reference to Thiessen polygons, since they looked like Voronoi polygons to me. (Turns out...

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/82061/ A stellar answer from GA: I see replenish in the light of "train up a child in the way he should go," so to me it's about raising a righteous generation of children. Maybe they're your own kids, maybe they're not. Maybe you're just a really rad Sund...

Marduk wrote:I feel like I should be raising some sort of courtroom objection about asked and answered.

Overruled!

Shrinky Dink wrote:Frankly, Katya's answer was a great help to me and a reminder that I really need to get help for some closure over what happened.

I'm glad it helped and I hope that you're able to find to some peace with your situation.

Portia wrote:Nothing less than phenomenal answer by Katya on types of trials and social anxiety

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/81860/

Thank you! It took a ridiculously long time to write (and is probably my longest answer ever).

ill-starred - Born under, or having one's fortunes governed by, an evil star (according to astrological belief); unfortunate, unlucky, ill-fated.


There's not a skerrick of bread left to eat in this ill-starred house!

skerrick - (US & Austral, NZ) a small fragment or amount (esp in the phrase "not a skerrick")

The smirr made the landscape completely gray, with only a skerrick of green moss for color.

NovemberEast wrote:What if the baker was refusing service to heterosexual couples until same sex marriage was allowed in his/her state? But he would provide cakes to same sex couples for commitment ceremonies or something similar.

I would also consider this to be wrong.

REST IN PEACE, TERRY.

Portia wrote:I am one of the very few people I know who dropped out of BYU and I'm not married.

I dropped out of BYU. (Perhaps it's not as unusual as you think. )

Whistler wrote:I'd guess some kind of performing art.

Me too. It would explain why she is so proud of her major, while still having a hard time getting a job in her field.

" A 1999 study by Barna Research of nearly 4,000 U.S. adults showed that 24% of Mormon marriages end in divorce -- a number statistically equal to the divorce rate among all Americans." the source is secondary though, and says that 13% of LDS couple marriages (both LDS) end in divorce htt...

Rereading Persuasion . The protagonists are the same age as me and my boyfriend (27 and 31, respectively). I think it's Austen's best novel, easily. So much snark! And the relationship feels so real and vital. Unfortunately, I don't have many personality traits in common with the heroine (I'm more ...

smirr: a mist-like precipitation (Scots English)

The Glaswegian opera singer stepped inside from the smirr and prepared to warm up his vocal range within the tessitura.