Yes, well, YOU are nonstandardly amusing, whereas Audrey is a haughty, holier-than-thou, supercilious bitch.

Oh, sorry, I'm American, so I have to be all stupid-like.

Rufio, yer fun-dum, Audrey's lahdidah-dum.  Dese kolour dont runs!

Leominster, Mass, is indeed "Lemminster."  I would correct the pronounciation of "Worcester" as "WOO-ster," though.  It's generally either "WIS-tah" or "WUSS-tah" in Massachusetts  Sort of like how "Holyoke" isn't "HO-lee-oak," it's "WHOLE-yoke" or "HOeyoak," with the 'l' hinted at and "Holy" being as close to one syllable as it can get.  The "h" in "Amherst" is likewise silent: New Yorkers pronounce it "AM-herst" while the Mass types say "AMurst."

CheritaChen:
Houston, TX, was named after Samuel Houston, who did indeed pronounce it "HYEW-st'n."  My point was that "HYEW-st'n" and "HOWS-tun" are both valid pronounciations of "Houston" and that whether one pronunciation was "right" or "wrong" at any given time is dependent on context.  Saying "HYEW-st'n" Street in NYC is just as wrong as going to "HOWS-tun" Texas, but the pronounciations are not wrong in and of themselves.

I wouldn't say that "labratory" is a mispronounciation.  It's just the AMERICAN pronounciation.  In Texas, "Houston" is pronounced "HYEW-st'n."  In New York City, "Houston" is pronounced "HOWS-tun."  One of those pronounciations isn't "right" and the other "wrong."  They're both "right."  It's just context-dependent.

Don't worry about it, Jorganza.  Rufio's love of cats is nonstandard.

I'm still on TS2.  My rig can't handle anything beyond Seasons, so TS3 is most definitely out of the question.  That said, TS3 didn't sound like anything I wanted even before the system requirements came out, and Pescado's comment that TS3 is a game whereas TS2 is a toy just reinforced that.  I have 3 more generations on my Legacy, and even when I do get a new computer, I don't see myself switching.

That's pretty common in a lot of Asian languages.  It's not so much that the words don't exist, it's that they're totally unneeded, like you can have sentences in English with "understood" subjects, like "Take out the trash."  They also tend to have trouble with "count" and "non-count" nouns.

Actually, according to the style guide I used when I taught, there was no right or wrong when it came to spacing and capitalization following a colon.  It was more a stylistic choice, with the possible exception of a list after a colon, where the accepted punctuation is colon, space, lower-case letter.

I tend to get the paper towels before I wash my hands, then wash my hands, dry them on the paper towels, and use the paper towels to open the door.  I don't like touching stuff with wet hands.  Or touching stuff that is still wet from other peoples' hands.

If you mean that it was a custom neighborhood, and you deleted it, and you had no backup, then no, it's gone for good.  If it was a premade neighborhood, you can reset it by copy/pasting the neighborhood folder from the appropriate Program Files folder to the corresponding My Documents folder, but that'll just reset the neighborhood to its original state, not put it back the way it was when you deleted it.

Eh, even when you accommodate, they still whine that you didn't bend over quite far enough.  I had a girl who got mono halfway through the semester, extended the deadline for the third paper until the night before grades were due, and she gave me a paragraph and asked if she could have more time.  Uh, NO, grades are due at noon.  It took you three weeks to write this paragraph, so I won't hold my breath for a miracle.  Or you sit down and go through the paper with them line-by-line because they actually showed up during your office hours, which at least shows some initiative, and when they get the final paper back, they accuse you of hating them and wanting them to fail because you didn't rubber-stamp it with an A, and dislike the reply of, "I told you what to fix and how to do it; I have no control over whether or not you actually did it, and did it right."

And then there was this guy.  I'm not sure how he survived long enough to get into my class.  In the past, he probably would have been left for the wolves or sacrificed to the thunder god or something.
The assignment was to describe a meal in objective terms.  It was supposed to be 1-2 pages.  This is what he turned in:
"It is Thursday night or what my friends like to call "poker night" at their apartment.  It is midnight and after four hours of drinking beer and playing cards one of my friends mentions ordering food.  Even though the idea of food had not crossed my mind because of the focus on cards as soon as it is mentioned I immediately start to crave wings.  Me and a few of my friends call an order and minutes later the doorbell rings and the wings are here.  I smell the very framiliar and comforting smell of honey barbecue sauce which I have grown accustomed too after a few years at UMASS and many late nights out such as this one.  It smells similar to a sweetened form of ketchup.  My Friends and I open them and all conversations and focus from anything else end as we are all fixated by the food.  The strong smell of the sauce fills the room with the slight smell of the few pieces of celery from the box.  With the smell of beer and alcohohol still dwindling among us all smelling of wheat and yeast."

Oh yes.  It really is that bad.

Most of Pescado's, jfade's, and TwoJeff's hacks play nicely with each other, aside from the Kitten Killer.  If you've got hacks from creators at Mod, or Squinge at InSim, or anyone at TSR, pull those first.  And if you've downloaded any lots from the Exchange without using the Clean Installer, you may have gotten a stealth hack along with it.

Yeah, for whatever reason, they stopped making later EPs patch previous EPs.  Lazy EA.

You can subfolder your downloads, if you didn't already know that.  To make finding bad CC a little easier, a lot of us segregate new CC for a few sessions of playing, then move it to the appropriate subfolder once we're sure it's not going to make things go boom.  That way, if the game works Monday, we download on Tuesday, and the game doesn't work on Wednesday, we have a lot less to sort through.  You can even subfolder your subfolders, at least down to three or four layers.  So, I have filepaths like Downloads/Makeup/bruno/Eyeliner, and the content shows up perfectly.

Make sure whatever hacks you have are up-to-date for AL, too.  An outdated hack is an easy fix, and it only takes one for things to go horribly wrong.  Also, I don't know if you have InTeen, aka the Kitten Killer, but if you do, that's the first place to look for problems.  It's notorious for playing very, very badly with other hacks.  Oh, and some TSR content is known to cause terribleness.  I know some stuff from BlackGarden for sure, and possibly some of AnoeskaB's.

I'm not enough of a techie to make sense of the error logs, but someone else might wander by and take a look and have something more useful to say than "Yup, that's an error log, all right."

This problem seems familiar.  Are you fully patched?  Even if you installed several EPs at once, you need to patch them separately, not just the latest one.

Does the problem still occur when you pull your Downloads folder, including hacks?  There might be a conflict there that's leading to the borkedness.  Since it sounds like you've got a "theme" neighborhood, you might have conflicting CC.

Have you tried doing a Search here for community lot borkedness?  You might find something new to try to fix it, or the same borkedness and its solution.

The clean neighborhood templates aren't that hard to install.  I did it myself a couple of weeks ago, and I'm not exactly a programming whiz.  Just download the clean templates, follow the filepaths, backup the old files, and insert the new ones.  If you don't want to do that, a couple of my counterparts with themed neighborhoods have used the Townie Gun to re-clothe the townies into theme-appropriate garb.  Making your own would be just as easy.

A lot of the time, savantism comes at the expense of normal functioning elsewhere in the brain.  Autistic savants might be able to draw something perfectly from memory or calculate days of the week from the introduction of the current calendar system, but they have deficits in emotional understanding and communication.  People who are otherwise normal-functioning, but have a gift in one area, like Beethoven or Mozart, aren't equally gifted everywhere.  Often, music and mathematical ability are intertwined, but those people will probably NOT have the same skill with other things.

Wasn't Sycorax dead at the beginning of the play?  Prospero had to be there for at least a little while with nothing to bone.

Tad Williams did a nice retelling of The Tempest from Caliban's point of view.  The book's called Caliban's Hour and it's pretty hard to find, but it's a quick read.

Prospero was stuck on that island for YEARS.  He HAD to be shagging something.

Mmmm, yes, that's much better.

Prospero/Ariel, then?

To say nothing of the idea that intelligent children can only be born from intelligent parents with college degrees, and that intelligent parents are only capable of raising intelligent offspring.  That would come as a great surprise to the blue-collar parents I know with smart kids, and smart parents whose kids have learning disabilities...


Is anyone else thinking Prospero/Caliban?

Mmm, I dunno.  Tybalt's the King of Cats, and cats aren't known for their high activity level, and Bottom strikes me as requiring less physical exertion.

When people upload TSR files to the booty, they're giving full credit to the person who made the mesh or the recolor.  The creator also got paid for making that mesh or recolor, if it's in the booty.  What Shakeshaft did was totally different--taking a mesh that buggybooz made, making a few small changes, and uploading it to TSR as pay content, without giving buggybooz any credit at all.  And that's leaving aside the fact that buggybooz's TOU stated that her content wasn't to be uploaded to any paysite, or to TSR at all.  If you don't see how those two things are different, you probably don't belong at MATY.

Please.  Mercutio/Tybalt is totally the OTP there.

Get in your car, drive away from civilization, and look for a bar with peeling paint and a neon Budweiser logo in the front window.  There will be rusty pickup trucks outside, and at least one of them will have a dog tied up with baling twine in the bed.  There will be guns in the rear window, and probably at least one Confederate flag visible.  When you walk in the bar, it will smell like stale smoke, and there will be a spittoon somewhere.  The jukebox only plays country music.  Everything will be sticky.  The bartender is surly, and your beverage choices will be Budweiser, Miller, PBR, Busch, Jim Beam, and Jack Daniel's.  When you have found a place that meets these requirements, you will have found the blue-collar elitist cult.

Dammit, rohina, stop trying to indoctrinate the noob to your no-life-having ways.

There is an updated version of the No Community Lot Gardening hack, but he appears to have only updated it through Seasons, which would be why I have it.

JCSpencer, try Twojeff's Perfect Gardens hack instead.

Paladin's Conflict Detector is a good tool for checking hack/mod compatibility, yes.  I wanna say there's also one by Delphy or Numenor over at Mod, but that might just be a couple of different mods getting jumbled together in my mind.

The Lot Debugger and the Sim Blender shouldn't conflict.  The Lot Debugger doesn't conflict with the InSimenator either, although I'm not sure about using InSimenator and Sim Blender together, although I'm not sure why you'd need to use them both.

I believe the No Community Lot Gardening hack I currently have in place is by Squinge at InSim.  So far, I've not noticed any conflicts with it, but my last EP is Seasons.  I'm almost positive it's a Squinge hack; if it's not, try DJS Sims for it.