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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.


Betsy HP - Feb 02, 2005 1:40:57 pm PST #3414 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Elmo is thinking about genocide!" he screamed, as he unleashed a hail of foam darts upon our adversaries. "Elmo is Death, destroyer of worlds!" War does awful things to toys.

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tommyrot - Feb 02, 2005 1:44:54 pm PST #3415 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

This made me laugh outloud:

Just before Water Survival training, he gave me a piece of advice I'll always remember: "Son, when you get right down to it, you have no nerve endings." Then he flushed me down the toilet.


erikaj - Feb 02, 2005 1:46:53 pm PST #3416 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Hec, shut up. I had a peanut butter sandwich. Kind of depressing.


brenda m - Feb 02, 2005 1:50:43 pm PST #3417 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Cracking up now.


Polter-Cow - Feb 02, 2005 2:05:54 pm PST #3418 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Are all the networks are pre-empting tonight (ie-are we getting Lost?)

We still get Smallville.


§ ita § - Feb 02, 2005 2:08:04 pm PST #3419 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Do you get the new Jack & Bobby? Does the WB play the SotU game?


-t - Feb 02, 2005 2:12:25 pm PST #3420 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

If you consolidate, does it matter who you chose to do it or are all the rates/deals pretty competetive?

There are companies that will come to you with offers to consolidate who may offer a higher rate for the convenience. Generally, you are supposed to pay interest equal to the weighted average of your current loans (with a fixed rate loan, anyway, there are other options but I didn't look into them). I went through my most recent lender, because I figured they'd have all my informationa already. It was pretty easy - you can download a standard application on line and mail it to the lender of your choice.

(eta: I get the new Jack & Bobby)


Polter-Cow - Feb 02, 2005 2:16:28 pm PST #3421 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Do you get the new Jack & Bobby?

Yes, we do, though I...well, technically, since there's no Alias I could watch it tonight, but I should do some writing instead. I watch it on EasyView on principle, as that is when it is, in fact, easier for me to view it.

The Pistons game preempted GG last night, though. Bastards. It was a pretty good episode, too.


DavidS - Feb 02, 2005 2:17:13 pm PST #3422 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Hec, shut up. I had a peanut butter sandwich. Kind of depressing.

I'm not responsible for your mediocre sandwich choices!


Susan W. - Feb 02, 2005 2:31:28 pm PST #3423 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I've been procrastinating digging into my novel all day, but at least most of it has been productive procrastinating--read and took notes on a research book, worked on a critique I promised a writer friend, etc.

Anyway, now I've reached the point where I'm really almost ready to click on the window containing the wip: I've come to Natter to tap the hivemind collective. I've been procrastinating mostly because the scene in question is unusually tough, both in terms of emotional impact and physical logistics. The emotional part I'll manage--I'm here for help with the blocking:

It's a confrontation scene wherein a man on horseback intends to grab a woman on foot by the arm and pull her away, but he doesn't actually intend to hurt her. That is, he wouldn't particularly mind if she had a few bruises or a sore arm, but he's not trying to yank her off her feet and drag her. He's angry, he doesn't think she should be where she is, so he intends to use his superior strength to force her to leave. So picture him riding forward at kind of a fast, determined walk.

Another character, a man on foot, moves to confront the horseman and block him from carrying out his intent. He's angry too (but with righteous, sexy anger, since he's the hero), but relatively levelheaded with it, and has sufficient experience with horses not to do anything stupid to unduly frighten the horse.

So. Is Our Hero going to step directly in front of the horse and grab its bridle, or is he going to go off to the side and take the bridle and/or reins? And how is the horse likely to react? Assume the horse in question is a very ordinary sort of horse, not one of the vicious brutes that only one man can ride so prevalent in fiction, and also a tiny bit on the exhausted and underfed side. Even then the horse wouldn't be totally placid, would it? It'd pick up on its rider's mood to some degree?