Nora has a new tag!

Okay, I have to put this here, since it's not going to make it to print. I'm writing an article on the science behind COX-2 inhibitors, and the actual reason why they're dangerous. I needed a segue, so I asked the question, "Why would pain medication have any effect at all on the heart?"

I followed up with, "As Joss Whedon would say, it's about blood."

I thought it was brilliant and clever and everyone would get it, but it seems I was wrong. This is what my editor changed it to:

While the dangers of these drugs has caused many to use extreme caution when purchasing medication, the science behind their warning has a llot to do with blood, said Joss Whedon, title.

She thought he was some doctor I'd interviewed.

She thought he was some doctor I'd interviewed.

BWAH! Poor thing, sheltered, isn't she?

I like it, P-C.

Poor thing, sheltered, isn't she?

She said she considered herself pretty up on pop-culture, and she didn't know who he was. It baffles me.

I like it, P-C.

I like it too, and I was looking forward to it making it to print so I could announce the article in Press, but I have to cut it. She doesn't think people will get it, and it's a little flip for a serious news article.

P-C, you might be able to use the quote if you attribute it to the show, rather than to Joss. People have heard about Buffy who don't know who Joss Whedon is. Assuming your reader knows the same references you do can drive the them away--if I was reading an article which said "as Wolfgang Pauli put it..." and I didn't know who he was, I would feel like a dope--if it said "Physicist Wolfgang Pauli is known for saying..." I then learn TWO things, the quote and who it's from.

She doesn't think people will get it, and it's a little flip for a serious news article.

I agree with her that it probably doesn't belong in that kind of article, but I enjoy it, nonetheless.

I think Robin's right, Polter-cow. Also, hang on to it. I've just published the unpublishable, remember.

P-C, you might be able to use the quote if you attribute it to the show, rather than to Joss.

Yeah, my science editor had suggested adding "creator of the hit TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. " Maybe I'll give it one last go. Honestly, it has no place in this story but to be a crisp segue. It's not essential, but damn would I love to keep it in. If anything, it'll give her at least one thing she can tell me to lose. Editors love that!

just a standard mid-20s deep tub I have one of these, and I love it. I’m going to coat mine in bath oil and bubbles tonight and do my pre-first day of teaching “I am a hip, sexy scholteacher” ritual tonight. I’‘m also going to take this advice: drain out the overflow. Now I put duct tape over that

since I also use a washcloth and my foot and this seems much more efficient. Oh! I don't know how I forgot Lillian Elizabeth

I like that a lot. And since Elixabeth is my middle name, I’m going to pretend seh’s named after me. With she, is, right? And you could call her Lilez.

If I just had one or two more of me, my life would just purr along so much more smoothly.

Isn’t MM still working on that that Evil Clone project? You EC could wear leather bloomers, and clean grout.

Clara is beautiful

I like Clara a lot, too.

I like the name Hazel, damn it.

It was my grandma’s name, but I’m not that fond of it.

Plei I am not at all unsympathetic, but listening to your plight makes me feel even worse for my friend who was a 40G pre-pregnancy. Wh has just had a baby and had trouble getting the baby to nurse

Damn, I’d be more worried about LOSING the baby!

“Honey, have you see Little Whosit?” “Did you check your cleavage?”

I love that segue, P-C! I agree that bringing Buffy into it makes sense, though. I mean, I have friends who are Firefly fans who still insist on calling him Josh. Ack! But do fight for the segue in some form. It's worth it.

Damn, I’d be more worried about LOSING the baby!

When my first g-dson was born, the nursing instructions they were given all said make sure the baby's mouth covers the areola. His mother looked at the baby, looked at her boobs, and realized that there was no way in HELL that was happening, as the areola were bigger than his head.