Penn Jillette's Q-Tip overuse horror story:
Don't kill anyone if you don't have to. We're here to make a deal.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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.
bicyclops - Jan 20, 2005 5:03:35 pm PST #8833 of 10002
Gus - Jan 20, 2005 5:04:45 pm PST #8834 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
I just watched the latest (I think) OC, dubbed in German by some guy with a really thick accent who I am sure has an uncertain grasp on American idiom.
This is all the surreal I can take for one evening.
Note to self: bring own bottle. dcp said it. Do it!
Gus - Jan 20, 2005 5:08:29 pm PST #8835 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Every airport waiting room on the planet is exactly like every other airport waiting room on the planet. Still, people find sufficient cultural differences to excuse wars. Why?
§ ita § - Jan 20, 2005 5:11:57 pm PST #8836 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Some airport waiting rooms aren't set up to prevent you stretching out to sleep. They must rise up and kill the oppressive waiting rooms.
amych - Jan 20, 2005 5:12:02 pm PST #8837 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Every airport waiting room on the planet is exactly like every other airport waiting room on the planet. Still, people find sufficient cultural differences to excuse wars. Why?
Because they got really, really cranky waiting around the airport. t /stillbitteraboutUSAirwaysChristmastravel
sarameg - Jan 20, 2005 5:16:28 pm PST #8838 of 10002
BWI has a nice observation lounge outside of security where people always sleep. Even has a climb on plane to exhaust little ones. I delay going to the gates as long as possible, because it is nice to sit there.
But yeah, all waiting rooms pretty much suck. Airports try sometimes (Minneapolis isn't bad except for the lack of a variety of food inside security) (or detroit's light show, which I've only seen while running to not miss my connection) but...lame, mostly.
Albuquerque did have a couple of classical mexican guitarists in the main lobby and comfy chairs where I zoned for a while. That was nice.
Pix - Jan 20, 2005 5:17:10 pm PST #8839 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Savannah has rocking chairs.
JohnSweden - Jan 20, 2005 5:19:52 pm PST #8840 of 10002
I can't even.
Calgary has the White Hats where you can arrange for your incoming guests to be warmly greeted and given a cowboy hat and they have a country and western band playing. With bonus Yee-haws and howdies.
Of course, this has a 98% chance of inciting me to commit an atrocity, but there must be people who like it.
sarameg - Jan 20, 2005 5:20:58 pm PST #8841 of 10002
You know, they'd really do better not to go with the cookie cutter approach. El Paso used to have a bunch of local merchants and restauranteurs that were damned good. People used to go there just to shop or to eat. Since the renov, not so much. OTOH, they do have cool lizard carpetting. But no more cool shops unlike any others.
§ ita § - Jan 20, 2005 5:21:14 pm PST #8842 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jamaican waiting rooms are nothing much, and few and far between. But incoming guests are often met in Montego Bay with singing and alcohol.