My brain can't kill. It's only capable of life emprisonment. And I'm the one in prison. Eep!
Dawn: I feel safe with you. Spike: Take that back!
'First Date'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
SailAweigh - Dec 30, 2004 8:33:56 am PST #15 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
JohnSweden - Dec 30, 2004 8:53:32 am PST #16 of 10001
I can't even.
My brain can't kill. It's only capable of life emprisonment. And I'm the one in prison. Eep!
I tried to get a burger cooked medium-well here in beef country this week, and the server looked at me sadly and said, "we only serve burgers well done since the, y'know". I said I wasn't that attached to my brain in its current state, but they still had to burn the meat beyond recognition.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 30, 2004 8:58:33 am PST #17 of 10001
What is even happening?
JohnSweden, I don't think it's mad cow making them overcook the beef, these days. It's e coli, and other nasties. I don't think cooking can kill mad cow, and that's part of the problem.
DCJensen - Dec 30, 2004 9:05:42 am PST #18 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
t grumble wanted button.
Hee.
Rick - Dec 30, 2004 9:08:56 am PST #19 of 10001
I don't think cooking can kill mad cow, and that's part of the problem.
Yeah, this is the creepy part. It's not caused by anything that is alive. It's caused by a new kind of protein that corrupts the other proteins. Like that new kind of water in the Vonnegut story that freezes at room temperature, and also transfoms ordinary water into its own form on contact, so if you touch your tongue to it you freeze solid.
Betsy HP - Dec 30, 2004 9:11:47 am PST #20 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
The charred-hamburger rules date to the salmonella fatalities at Jack-in-the-Box.
-t - Dec 30, 2004 9:12:19 am PST #21 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ice 9
JohnSweden - Dec 30, 2004 9:13:19 am PST #22 of 10001
I can't even.
It's e coli, and other nasties. I don't think cooking can kill mad cow
Yeah, I was joshing with her to see if there was any way I could get their kitchen to move on the burnt meat stance. I can still get burgers less than destroyed in the east, although I don't yet have to sign a waiver. Not that I eat many burgers, and I'll eat a lot fewer (read:zero) if I can only be sold hockey pucks. Asking for chicken in beef country is kinda like saying "Yes, I am from the decadent East, wanna fight?" :)
ETA:
The charred-hamburger rules date to the salmonella fatalities at Jack-in-the-Box.
Wrong country, Betsy.
DXMachina - Dec 30, 2004 9:13:45 am PST #23 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
t Hauls in box load of toy dinosaurs.
Mr. Broom - Dec 30, 2004 9:15:10 am PST #24 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
I don't think cooking can kill mad cow, and that's part of the problem.
Yeah, this is the creepy part. It's not caused by anything that is alive. It's caused by a new kind of protein that corrupts the other proteins.
It's bovine spongiform encephalopathy, which resembles (in humans) variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), which it is believed to cause. Cannibalism causes both, as was proven by the creepy practice of feeding bovine protein to cows. Anyone remember the X-Files episode about the Creutzfeldt-Jakob cannibals? Oh, yeah.
Damnation, missed my age again. I even waited around for it.