Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.

'The Message'


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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.


§ ita § - Feb 01, 2005 6:58:36 am PST #2804 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Women can "grow breasts" if they want to get attention? WTF?!

It's certainly why I grew mine.

Pants-hating coworker is in. She's wearing pants, so I ribbed her about it. It's unfair. I think I make her nervous so she says crazy stuff. She did get herself out of this morning's conversations with a slew of compliments I didn't have time to respond to.


Liese S. - Feb 01, 2005 6:59:27 am PST #2805 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

2. Women can "grow breasts" if they want to get attention? WTF?!

Damn. No one told me this was an option. All that attention, lost.


JenP - Feb 01, 2005 7:00:41 am PST #2806 of 10002

nor do I need to access the "Ask the tax expert!" discussion board that they have from Feb. 1 to April 15, staffed by co-workers whose regular job is to write tax analysis for the Federal Tax Reporter we publish

So, we can just funnel our questions through you, then? (Kidding. I have stunningly easy taxes.)


Liese S. - Feb 01, 2005 7:04:06 am PST #2807 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, my taxes are so easy that it would make an accountant laugh. I think our accountant that's on our board is insulted that we don't bring them to him, but really, he would just transfer the information from our W2s to our 1040, and that's it, and TurboTax can do that just as easily.


Daisy Jane - Feb 01, 2005 7:05:53 am PST #2808 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

And you know what, even with tits, it's not really us getting the attention- it's the tits. Like they're divorced from us (which it often feels like they are).


Jessica - Feb 01, 2005 7:06:16 am PST #2809 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I don't know how she was then, but she's amazing now; Bob thinks she's the funniest woman he's ever met, IIRC.

Oh, how does he know her? (Me, college, obviously.) She was always good, but she was also part of one of the best Mee-ow casts in the troupe's history -- the people I saw her perform with were some of the best improvers I've ever seen, anywhere.


bon bon - Feb 01, 2005 7:20:16 am PST #2810 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

He took a UCB class with her. She had/has a one-woman show at the PIT that was also pretty funny.


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 01, 2005 7:24:53 am PST #2811 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

This year my bank seems to be dragging its feet about the 1099s, and for the first time I could have two (from savings account and Christmas club). Also, not sure if my stockbroker had my current address in time to send out that crucially important $3.50 dividend 1099 that forced me to abandon EZ forms.

I think I only have to pay state taxes in the state I earned money in, but better ask people down at Finance & Administration to make sure before filing.


sarameg - Feb 01, 2005 7:35:57 am PST #2812 of 10002

I got my 1099 ridiculously early. Like the first week of January. W2s came last week, but I have to check it. Apparently, some were mistakenly run on 2003 forms. Oops.

Can an ear have spasms? I swear mine is. It isn't sore anywhere and then all of a sudden it goes twingey, very much like muscle cramps do. Really weird. And annoying.


Kathy A - Feb 01, 2005 7:51:14 am PST #2813 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

So, we can just funnel our questions through you, then?

If it's a hard question, and you give me enough details to give to the expert, sure! I can disguise it as being for a relative (they can also use the free software).