note to self: all future characters will be from countries without diacritics.
Why doesn't English have any diacritics?
You walk in worlds the others can't begin to imagine.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Spike's Bitches 21 Gunn Salute
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Connie Neil - Jan 09, 2005 8:27:39 pm PST #2423 of 10002
brillig
Beverly - Jan 09, 2005 8:27:39 pm PST #2424 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
vcr is set, satellite box is set, alarm is set. All I need to do now is go to sleep.
Nope. Still awake. Okay, sleeping now.
.
Nuh-uh, nope, eyes still open.
You just wait. Forty minutes before the alarm's set to go off, I'll crash, not hear the alarm, the vcr will malfunction, and I'll both miss and not successfully tape Deb's makeover.
Gonna go try sleeping in bed. Maybe horizontal and dark will help.
Astarte - Jan 09, 2005 8:30:28 pm PST #2425 of 10002
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Hec, that is a zoologically spectacular anecdote.
Ironically, I've had dates that could be described in similar terms, but ptui, we shall not speak of them again.
I should get to bed, too, so I don't oversleep in the AM.
Go cross promotion!!!
Cass - Jan 09, 2005 8:30:51 pm PST #2426 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
It sounds like the opening line of a particuarly brittle chick-lit book.Kinda feels it too. Maybe I'm a best-selling sellout.
Oh, hold on, fucking shit.Yeah. That was my reaction too. And I have known about it. A little emotionally overwhelmed right now.
Susan, got the email, replying tomorrow. Thank you!
I am so exhausted.
Polter-Cow - Jan 09, 2005 8:31:46 pm PST #2427 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Shouldn't you be UN-packing?
I'm in Texas, not Ann Arbor.
Maybe horizontal and dark will help.
Also lots of beer.
Wait, you were talking about sleep.
Astarte - Jan 09, 2005 8:32:13 pm PST #2428 of 10002
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Throws glitter and chocolate all over the thread, and sends some special sweet dream ~ma to San Diego, special delivery.
Polter-Cow - Jan 09, 2005 8:33:04 pm PST #2429 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Throws glitter and chocolate all over the thread
Dammit, I just brushed!
Night, Bitches.
beth b - Jan 09, 2005 9:32:57 pm PST #2430 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
brushed with chocolate...?
Lee - Jan 09, 2005 10:11:00 pm PST #2431 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
wanders in
looks at peacefully sleeping thread
wanders back out to insomnia land.
billytea - Jan 09, 2005 10:33:02 pm PST #2432 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
The ultimate in mating displays. ::waits for billytea to show up and contradict him::
There are so many criteria to decide which mating display should be the ultimate. There are those by which it would be the peacock. I think some of the birds of paradise offer more beautiful displays myself; and my tastes really run more to the charming absurdity of the blue-footed booby. But I think I shall declare the peacock to be the ultimate lekker. His display is undeniably remarkable; more than that, I can't think of another animal whose commitment to the laydeez is more detrimental to his own chances of survival. His display isn't just beautiful, it's also a real bugger to carry around. Imagine trying to escape a hungry tiger with that trailing behind you. (Peacocks moult their trains after the breeding season.)
Of course, this means that the display is not just major fabulosity, it's also a reliable signal of fitness. Surviving with one puts a bird a cut above the rest. (In addition, a parasite- or disease-ridden bird will have their condition make itself known in the train, through dullness, scruffiness or asymmetry.)
I tell a lie, however. The male with the greatest disregard for his own safety is the redback spider. As with many other species of spider, the female eats the male after mating if she can. The male redback, however, doesn't try to escape; he actually somersaults into the female's jaws, throwing other males out of the way if necessary. Indeed, to reach the female's genitalia, he has to. So perhaps I must qualify that the peacock is the animal most reckless with his own safety without actually having a death-wish.
Other thoughts: I have been COMM'd for the mating habits of the octopus, the blue-footed booby, the antechinus and the echidna. But never the peacock.
And see? Now I feel better. Hee. Antechinus.