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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.


tommyrot - Mar 13, 2005 6:08:28 am PST #6721 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.

Timelies!

Hmmm, Sunday morning. What better time for a post on international currency issues....

Why the declining dollar matters: [link]

This is the current cover story in Newsweek. Nice to see the mainstream press dealing with it. But one odd thing about the article is that it focuses almost entirely on the US trade deficit, and makes little mention on the role that our skyrocketing budget deficit plays in the decline of the dollar. I was under the impression that they played a roughly equal role. Am I wrong, or does Newsweek not want to blame the Bush administration for its share of the problem?

I don't really expect an answer to that on a Sunday morning, because Sunday morning is traditionally the Time When the Actuaries Sleep....


§ ita § - Mar 13, 2005 6:11:31 am PST #6722 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The serial killer thing has already aired.

I'm 40 minutes into this, and so far he's a love god, with many power-lust shots, but not that much to actually do.

I'm seriously considering going wedding dress shopping

Me too! Except I already designed mine, lo these 20 years ago. There's been no impetus to actually update it, what with the lack of a him.


Jesse - Mar 13, 2005 6:11:53 am PST #6723 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I know, but I was hoping.

Yeah, I meant "...and more's the pity."


tommyrot - Mar 13, 2005 6:19:15 am PST #6724 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.

NYT article on Adult Swim: Destroying Television, Toon by Toon


Betsy HP - Mar 13, 2005 6:20:45 am PST #6725 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Any etiquette book will tell you the three exceptions to white after Labor Day are brides, nurses, and babies.

Did you notice the way that Ann sneaked in "white for bride's first wedding"? Go ahead, slam the barn door all you like; the horse is gone, and was the day that Marla Maples wore white to marry Donald Trump.


Jesse - Mar 13, 2005 6:23:12 am PST #6726 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Except I already designed mine, lo these 20 years ago. There's been no impetus to actually update it, what with the lack of a him.

But you have a whole new body now!


§ ita § - Mar 13, 2005 6:25:55 am PST #6727 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But you have a whole new body now!

It has been pointed out to me by family that I spent my pre-pubescent years designing clothes for my post-pubescent body.

And to think -- we'd despaired of me ever achieving puberty! No, I was just refining the blueprints and solidifying the specifications.


Steph L. - Mar 13, 2005 6:32:34 am PST #6728 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Remember the ear-wax low-level obsession of about a month ago, after Allyson's jelly-belly-sized ear wax glob?

Yeah, my left ear feels completely full, and my hearing in that ear is way less than the right ear. I think I'll go to the drugstore for ear drops and a syringe and attempt home ear-wax removal. Because this is really unnerving.


Kat - Mar 13, 2005 6:32:41 am PST #6729 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

ita, did the movers take more or less than 4 hours?

beautiful dress, Maria.

I'm all itchy nosed and I still need tod o my hair before Lee gets here. I'm feeling schlubby.


tommyrot - Mar 13, 2005 6:34:23 am PST #6730 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.

And to think -- we'd despaired of me ever achieving puberty!

I hit puberty a little on the late side. Nobody cared. But I was a little confused, why all my friends suddenly became obsessed with sex. And obsessed in weird ways.

OK, these are actual conversations I had, back in my prebubescent days.

friend (out of the blue): "Do you ever think about S.I.?"

Me: "S.I.? Sports Illustrated?"

friend: "Sexual intercourse."

Me: "Um. Yeah. I guess so."

Then there was this other conversation:

different friend (out of the blue): "Wouldn't it be great to have sex with a dead woman?"

Me: "No!"