Wordie: Nice: Comments

Comment by frindley, 3 days ago

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:07:47 +0000

Comment by yarb, 27 days ago

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:26:59 +0000

...we exchanged books with them,-- a practice very common among ships in foreign ports, by which you get rid of the books you have read and re-read, and a supply of new ones in their stead, and Jack is not very nice as to their comparative value.

- Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, ch. 25

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:31:49 +0000

Good thing I'm not interested in being nice, then. What are the attributes of freaking awesome? :-)

Comment by jennarenn, about 1 year ago

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:27:57 +0000

One of the attributes of nice is knowing when to keep your mouth shut. :P

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:38:23 +0000

Italics is a nice word too. ;-)

Italics!

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:00:22 +0000

Old-school italics: <i>text goes here</i>
New-school italics: <em>text goes here</em>
They both look the same, but the second one is XHTML compliant, so that's what I use. Both should work on this site though.

Having never spoken girl talk, my outsider's opinion is that all y'all must be awfully shallow and catty to one another if you depend on the word nice to have conversation.

Comment by jennarenn, about 1 year ago

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:56:33 +0000

Oh, nice encompasses all the characteristics a boy requires to date your friend. I don't care about the Stepford Wives, although I would like to know how to use italics (hint hint). Girl talk simply cannot survive without nice.

Comment by fbharjo, about 1 year ago

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:24:51 +0000

a fascinating word etymologically: Its meaning has turned almost 180 degrees and constantly -consistently- wa(i)vers depending on its contextual usage. It puts the "tack" in tacky

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:49:57 +0000

If you don't think about it, this is a nice word. See?

But if you do think about it, ugh. It's like The Stepford Wives or something. The shallowest and most deceptive compliment known to man. Evil to the core.

Comment by andrew.simone, about 1 year ago

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:18:46 +0000

An insidious and dismissive word.