(psst, Teppy, call your car Batman. Fandom, you know, and echolocation)
Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
'Get It Done'
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.
deborah grabien - Jan 29, 2005 9:43:12 am PST #8000 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
SailAweigh - Jan 29, 2005 9:55:23 am PST #8001 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Got it, Sparky.
Ginger - Jan 29, 2005 10:02:02 am PST #8002 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My car is mostly dug out.
I had to chip my paper out of the ice. It's hard to get much sympathy for winter storms in the South. I walked on the ivy in my front yard, the driveway pretty much being a skating rink, and each step broke off ivy-leaf-shaped ice. I'd take pictures, except that it's 29 degrees and raining.
Connie Neil - Jan 29, 2005 11:04:42 am PST #8003 of 10002
brillig
re: vw's pictures
That is one snowed-in car.
Well, was. And I'm sure the worst part was the frozen berm of stuff the snowplows left. Such is why I ride the bus.
CaBil - Jan 29, 2005 11:56:25 am PST #8004 of 10002
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Was I the only one that didn't know that Jilli has been immortalized in plush as the Dork Tower Gilly plush doll?
Here is a pic
billytea - Jan 29, 2005 11:58:12 am PST #8005 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.
billytea! I was telling JZ this morning about Bill Haast and the Miami Serpentarium and she was agog at his superhuman tales of freaky anti-venom blood so I tracked down this article about him. Weird cool careers in herpetology.
Aww. It's heartwarming, really. Or heartstopping.
Connie Neil - Jan 29, 2005 12:03:36 pm PST #8006 of 10002
brillig
Jilli has been immortalized
I really have to find my Perky Goth t-shirt.
Burrell - Jan 29, 2005 12:24:40 pm PST #8007 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Cars. Hmm. We need a new one. Problem is, I've never paid more than $3000 for a car. Always bought used ones. The thought of car payments, especially on top of mortgage payments, makes my head hurt.
Scrappy - Jan 29, 2005 12:28:55 pm PST #8008 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Buy a more recent used one, Burrell, then you get reliability and value. A car loses a good percentage of its value the second you drive it off the lot. LA has lots of people who treat their cars well and buy brand new ones every year or so, which is good for the rest of us. I can get the BF to ask about good used places in the area if you want.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 29, 2005 12:56:05 pm PST #8009 of 10002
What is even happening?
See, that's such a benefit. I had Sherman for almost 5 years *after* he was paid off. That's 5 years without a car payment, which, let me tell you, helps a lot. And I plan to have the still-unnamed-Echo for a long damn time as well, since I have 4 more years on the loan.We do this. We buy new, and drive them into the ground. Right now, our good car is a '98 minivan, when we only had Julia; Ben was still a bump, and Chris hadn't even been thought of. Our auxilliary car is the '91 Toyota Corolla I bought new when Scott was still a fairly new boyfriend.