In other news, it took me almost six hours to drive home from NJ. It was snowing like a thing that snows for the last four hours of that, but I think my key mistake was deciding to take the Jersey Turnpike, instead of the G.S. Parkway, not realizing that the Jets-Patriots game at the Meadowlands would let out just as I reached that exit. Feh.
Mal: Zoe, why do I have a wife? Jayne: You got a wife? All I got is that dumbass stick sounds like its raining. How come you got a wife?
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 31 But Looks 29
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DXMachina - Dec 26, 2004 7:15:55 pm PST #662 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
tommyrot - Dec 26, 2004 7:50:43 pm PST #663 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I didn't think it was possible, but Super Milk Chan (a Japanese cartoon on Adult Swim) has gotten even weirder. Plus tonight's episode is satirizing the US military.
§ ita § - Dec 26, 2004 7:59:38 pm PST #664 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I dunno. Is "Merry Christmas" automatically presuming Christianity? Christmas seems the big nationwide party in the U.S. I take "Merry Christmas" as "enjoy the party!" not "Hola fellow Christian!".
I guess it is for you. For me, Christmas is like Hanukkah, and I wouldn't wish a Christian Happy Hanukkah any more than I'd wish a Jewish person Merry Christmas.
They're different parties.
Yule? Solstice? Different parties.
Kat - Dec 26, 2004 8:11:33 pm PST #665 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I dunno. Is "Merry Christmas" automatically presuming Christianity? Christmas seems the big nationwide party in the U.S. I take "Merry Christmas" as "enjoy the party!" not "Hola fellow Christian!".
To someone who is non-Christian, yes it is. I talked to a friend just about this because she was saying how offended she was by the assumption of christianity (which she is not) based on people wishing her a merry christmas.
ita, there was coco bread? now am sad.
Lee - Dec 26, 2004 8:17:01 pm PST #666 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
It's still the 26th here!
Happy Birthday to Jesse, Theodosia, and Rayne.
Today was a very long day, but a very good one. I have cool friends and pretty new clothes.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 26, 2004 9:32:09 pm PST #667 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It's kind of weird in that my parents are about the only actual Christians at my family's big Christmas gathering - I'm not technically a believer and most of the rest of our family that's there is Jewish. Any excuse to get everyone together to eat and exchange presents, though. We've pretty much just bought into the whole commercialized celebration of family togetherness thing.
Thinking about it, it's kind of as if that Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving painting had an empty place setting at the table for Elijah.
tommyrot - Dec 26, 2004 9:43:50 pm PST #668 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm the only non-Christian in my family. My parents don't know this, as from their point of view, not being a Christian (and ending up in Hell) is the worst thing that could happen to anyone, and I don't want to put them through that.
NoiseDesign - Dec 26, 2004 9:46:21 pm PST #669 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
Yeah, I'm not telling my folks I'm an atheist. It would break their hearts.
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How fitting is my post number?
tommyrot - Dec 26, 2004 9:50:47 pm PST #670 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah, I just noticed your post number - hee hee....
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 26, 2004 10:01:18 pm PST #671 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Heh. My mom asked me this year if I believed in God. I truthfully said yes, but it's not my fault if her mental image of God as a Ted Nugent-esque guy in white robes feeding the masses isn't what I mean when I say the word.