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[Seshat]

Make some for me, Mishi. We're in the same timezone, it seems.

[Cazzi]

Yawn!
10.40 am in the UK & I'm still here, kind of, not awake yet

However my daughter is severely disappointed there are not piles of clothes outside & a herd of dinosaurs aren't rampaging through the neighbourhood!

[blas]

5:30 am and still here.

I will say, though, for the past half hour or so, crows have been squacking non stop, so it is a tad creepy.

[Gumby30]

11:45 here in the UK and so far I haven't been smited (smote?) to death by anything. Well, the cat jumped on me but that's about it.

[Supermarket Slave Girl]

Well It's 9.35pm here in Aus and I'm still kicking, the only thing that's dead is the mouse my cat has caught lol

[CaroPhoenix]

8:25 AM in Virginia.

I'm here.

Mr. Rum just left to go to the gym.

Child Rum is lounging on couch.

Maybe the rapture ain't coming this year?

I don't know. I'm confused, but relieved.

Too bad though. I've had my eye on a few of the single family homes in my neighborhood and a few "new" cars.

Ahem .. yes, back to your regularly scheduled whatevers today.

[Mishi]

I changed my mind, it is the end of the world after all... I just had to explain a dirty joke containing a Monty Python reference to my dad!

[CaroPhoenix]

Mishi - are you sure that it's not just He!! freezing over?

[Micer]

Yep, woke up this morning, still here! Kinda wishing I knew one of these rapture nutjobs (the ones that quit their jobs) so I could have snuck over to their house in the middle of the night and left some empty clothes and shoes laid out on their lawn to greet them this morning. XD

[AccountingDrone]

11:45 here in the UK and so far I haven't been smited (smote?) to death by anything. Well, the cat jumped on me but that's about it.

smitten? I think smote is first person singular past. Hm

I smote we [pl] smote
you smote you [pl] smoted
he/she/it smoted they smoted

stupid little chart, but it works to sort out verbs.

I was smitten we were smitten
you were smitten you [pl] were smitten
he/she/it were smitten they were smitten

But then again, I have also used a variant of the chart in chemistry

ide ic
ate ic
ite ous

and I need coffee because I am now devolving into silly =)

[draggar]

I'm here!

(filler)

[Jester]

Kinda wishing I knew one of these rapture nutjobs (the ones that quit their jobs)

My first reaction to this was, "People quit their jobs?!?!?!?"

My second was, "Oh, yeah, that makes sense....if you truly believe the world is coming to an end, why not? And hell, if you didn't like your job, what a time to tell your boss where he can stick it!"

My final reaction to it was, "Can you just imagine these folks the next day? 'Um, hi boss....yeah, it's me, Nate. About what I said yesterday.....'"

smitten? I think smote is first person singular past. Hm

From my experience, we're dealing with a couple of words here. In this case, the difference between smited and smitten. Clearly from the same root, but with different meanings.

"Smitten" is what happens to me 18 times a day with various girls I meet. "Jester was smitten with the redhead, who completely ignored him."

Smite is more Biblical.

"God smited Jester for having impure thoughts about the redhead and her friend, both of whom had completely ignored him."

I know what you're thinking.....wouldn't that then translate to being smitten by God?

From what I've read and seen...no. It would be smited, not smitten. As in, "Jester was smited by God for having impure and twisted thoughts about the redhead and her friends, the blonde twins, all of whom had completely ignored him."

As for smote, I do believe that is semi-interchangeable with smited, and I'm not sure exactly when it's accept to smote, other than it always seems to be past tense, not present tense. For example, "God smote Rapscallion for editing Jester's comments about the impure redhead." Or "Plaid was smote down by the Flying Spaghetti Monster for watching a Tom Cruise movie." I have noticed that smote, when used in a passive sense, is always coupled with "down." As in "The teenage boy was smote down by an angry Jester for making inappropriate comments about his niece."

None of this is to be confused with smut, which is a whole different ball of twine.

[Indigo]

Well its 9:50am in North Carolina and nothing has happened yet. Then again, there is a saying that everything happens 20 years later in NC so I'm not worried.

[Dreamstalker]

10 AM and nothing's happened here...well, save for our upstairs neighbors trying their damndest to make our ceiling cave in (but that's not too unusual).

[fma_fanatic]

9:07am CDT and still here. Then again, I was still here when I went to bed about 1am this morning too. I notice it's a little bit humid, but that's about it.

I thought it was funny last night at the gym, they had a doomsday countdown clock during Hardball on MSNBC. Seemed like they were having fun with it. Heck, Anderson Cooper made a few quips last night on CNN as well.

I figure if something is gonna happen, the 24 hour news channels are going to be all over it like ugly on an ape.