Question about memories.

Where do they go when you're not thinking about them? I mean, you don't remember everything all the time, right? Some things you may have trouble recalling (the word is on the tip of my tongue!), but even the things you remember easily (in fourteen hundred ninety two...) you don't remember *all the time*. Most of the time, they're... not there. Your current thoughts are there instead. So where are the memories?

Why *are* the spells in HP all mangled Latin?

Is it just because Latin is cool? Or is there some reason for it? Would spells from other countries sound different... ooh! Does that mean that maybe Chinese people have completely different spells, or even that there's some language difficulties - no "translation" for reparo, you have to do something different, but they have a spell that wouldn't exist in England...?

On a tangentially-related note, despite whatever you have heard, alea iacta est does *not* mean "the die is cast". Latin has a really messed up tense system. Third principle part + is = has been. Don't ask me why. So "alea iacta est" means that the die has been cast, not that it is cast.

Taken from I don't recall...

Black guy. Teaching in Japan. OMG read the skits.

And for a change from teh funneh, we have the really really sweet girl.

*claps*

I love Lore, and want to have his babies. Or at the very least, his T-shirts.

So, that bacon cheddar ranch commercial...

For those who (happily) haven't seen it, it's vaguely akin to what I've seen of Japanese commercials, but... not.

Some guy (who apparently is Hootie) is standing in a very fake cowboy outfit, and he starts to sing, to the tune of Big Rock Candy Mountain...

Well, I can't type out the lyrics. The full commercial (which I'd never seen, lucky me) can be found here. It's really scary. The scariest part of it, though, is that the sandwich actually sounds really good, but I can't fucking get one because of that stupid commercial!!!! Argh.

And I know I'm slow, but it was in The Boondocks today, so. If you really want the lyrics, they're here.

Edit: So, wait, did none of you connect lyrics to images? You didn't realize that the woman with the huge cleavage appears with the line "the breasts they grow on trees", or that the women showing off their butts appear with the "train of women coming with a nice caboose" line?

I hate to puncture her enthusiasm...

But, like I said, I don't think changing the language is as important as enforcing the current law.

Am I the only one who thinks that "enthusiasm" sounds like "orgasm"? Well, it's better than Ms. Kaplan, my bio teacher from the 9th grade, who never could say the word "organism" properly....

(She told guidance that she thought I was crazy, and the few times I handed in a lab report, failed it because I got the wrong results. WTF? I did the lab, I wrote down what happened, what did you want, for me to lie? So I don't mind mocking her.)

Ooh, nice, useful new word...

Pity it is useful, I suppose, but one can't have everything.