a score and a haircut

[sergebroom]

I just completed the assessment of Part Four of my training.
Score is 92%.
As this was the last section of the class, this means that my overall score is 85%.

In other happy news (happy for me anyway), when I last weighed myself, on May 23, I had gone down from 186 pounds to 182. Today, I'm at 181. Of course that may be because I recently had a haircut.

Comments

[kouredios.livejournal.com]

Yay you times 2!

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Wait. Was that one of those "About time you got a haircut, you hippy!" moments?

[kouredios.livejournal.com]

Um, no?

[kouredios.livejournal.com]

It was yay, score and yay, weightloss.

(and I don't get the hippy thing. Because I'm still a whippersnapper.)

ETA: Oh, wait. I get it. I'm just really slow tonight. I spent ALL DAY on a field trip with the whole 8th grade, and my brain bled out my ears hours ago. Sorry.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Oh, I knew you were yaying about the score and the weightloss. Mind you, hat a tall & thin guy would rejoice at losing one pound just because he's almost 53 is rather silly. You're sorry for not understanding? You shouldn't be.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Congratulations (on the score, not the haircut).

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

My wife feels the same way about my haircut.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Which way?

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

She doesn't like the way I had my hair cut last week. Too short, she says. Makes it obvious that my hairline has receded, she says. Newsflash!

[pedanther]

*hands you a quarter*

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks!
Shiny!

[pedanther]

Thus am I well served for being enigmatic: you're either matching me enigma for enigma, or randomness for (apparent) randomness - and I can't tell which.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I figured that the quarter was like a paternal reward for getting good grades. Thus the 'thanks'. And quarters usually are shiny.

[pedanther]

It was actually a reaction to the title of your post: "a score and a haircut" reminded me of "shave and a haircut, two bits". And nobody makes bits any more, but back in the days when you could get a shave and a haircut for two bits, two bits was the same as twenty-five cents.

(It will no doubt occur to you that if a quarter is equal to two bits, then one bit is an eighth of a dollar. And, indeed, even further back in the days when a silver dollar was made from a dollar's worth of silver, they made bits by breaking a dollar coin into eight pieces: hence, "pieces of eight".)

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's what this meant. It's quite fascinating to find out where some expressions come from. Thanks.