Let's pretend this would fit me: this needs to belong to me.
I know someone who could make a copy of that for you ...
Temptress!
Spike: At least give me Wesley's office since he's gone. Angel: He's not gone. He's on a leave of absence. Spike: Yeah, right. Boo-hoo. Thought he killed his bloody father. Try staking your mother when she's coming on to you! Harmony: Well…that explains a lot.
'Destiny'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
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.
Steph L. - Feb 18, 2005 11:03:17 am PST #8996 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
DavidS - Feb 18, 2005 11:03:31 am PST #8997 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Geeksters, are you familiar with...
********
Unix conspiracy n.
According to a conspiracy theory long popular among ITS and TOPS-20 fans, Unix's growth is the result of a plot, hatched during the 1970s at Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT&T's competitors by making them dependent upon a system whose future evolution was to be under AT&T's control. This would be accomplished by disseminating an operating system that is apparently inexpensive and easily portable, but also relatively unreliable and insecure (so as to require continuing upgrades from AT&T). This theory was lent a substantial impetus in 1984 by the paper referenced in the back door entry.
In this view, Unix was designed to be one of the first computer viruses (see virus) -- but a virus spread to computers indirectly by people and market forces, rather than directly through disks and networks. Adherents of this `Unix virus' theory like to cite the fact that the well-known quotation "Unix is snake oil" was uttered by DEC president Kenneth Olsen shortly before DEC began actively promoting its own family of Unix workstations. (Olsen now claims to have been misquoted.)
[If there was ever such a conspiracy, it got thoroughly out of the plotters' control after 1990. AT&T sold its Unix operation to Novell around the same time Linux and other free-Unix distributions were beginning to make noise. --ESR]
Atropa - Feb 18, 2005 11:03:50 am PST #8998 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Teppy, while both of those dresses would, indeed, look lovely on you, I would have to steal the stripey one from you. You understand, don't you? I even have stockings that match it.
Susan W. - Feb 18, 2005 11:04:42 am PST #8999 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I want this: [link]
Not to actually wear, you understand. It'd never fit. But I want to have it where I can gloat over the fabric.
Dana - Feb 18, 2005 11:05:26 am PST #9000 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Steph, that first red dress would look fantastic on you.
Steph L. - Feb 18, 2005 11:06:18 am PST #9001 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Teppy, while both of those dresses would, indeed, look lovely on you, I would have to steal the stripey one from you. You understand, don't you? I even have stockings that match it.
I'll fight you for it. I'm not afraid of your hat pins and poison-holding rings....
Atropa - Feb 18, 2005 11:07:23 am PST #9002 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Ooooh, I must save all the pictures of this so I can have Jay the Wonder Seamstress re-create it in my size.
Steph L. - Feb 18, 2005 11:07:51 am PST #9003 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
And this just makes me giggle.
Atropa - Feb 18, 2005 11:08:21 am PST #9004 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'll fight you for it. I'm not afraid of your hat pins and poison-holding rings....
Fight, nothing. I'll distract you by sending the cutie-pie pet DJ to flirt with you.
P.M. Marc - Feb 18, 2005 11:08:54 am PST #9005 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Ooooh, I must save all the pictures of this so I can have Jay the Wonder Seamstress re-create it in my size.
BWAH! Jilli, my thoughts in order on seeing that: "Oooh, I wonder if Jay could recreate that!" followed by "And I suppose the moment Jilli sees it, I'll find out."