Dawn: I thought you were adequate. Giles: And the accolades keep pouring in. I'd best take my leave before my head swells any larger. Good night.

'First Date'


Natter 34: Freak With No Name  

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.


Kat - Apr 10, 2005 8:53:32 pm PDT #4527 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Yes. Ooky. So ooky.

I'm also amused that the guy from Dead Like Me is on the show as a bike guy. He's still cute.


aurelia - Apr 10, 2005 9:17:16 pm PDT #4528 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Indiana Man Wins 'Village Idiot' Award

STORY, Ind. (AP) - Mark Carmichael's blunders won him the good-natured award that's been handed out for years in the tiny Brown County town of Story. The winner is whoever gets the most votes from regulars at the Story Inn's saloon.

Carmichael, the inn's maintenance man, won in part for an incident in which he cut through a live wire while using a circular saw to replace the inn's galvanized steel roof. But he also damaged his just-purchased 1998 Dodge truck - the day after he got it - by getting it stuck atop a whiskey barrel planter outside the inn.

His foolishness earned the 27-year-old a $100 bar tab at the Story Still.

Rick Hofstetter, who owns the inn about 40 miles south of Indianapolis, said the competition for this year's award was fierce.

For example, two Story Inn regulars were nominated for knocking themselves unconscious while opening their car doors. Another was nominated for burning down his front porch after not fully extinguishing a cigarette in a full ashtray.

But it was Carmichael who came out on top. The bar's patrons had more than enough evidence to give him the honor - not least of which was the pig roast incident.

"I cooked a couple of hogs out there on some bed springs once," he explained to a dismayed visitor.

Carmichael had cut the carcasses in half with a chain saw, then used a pitchfork to turn the meat as it cooked. He ended up serving up the portions with a hatchet.

"People loved it," he said. "We called it Louisiana style."


Nilly - Apr 10, 2005 10:08:37 pm PDT #4529 of 10001
Swouncing

Poking head to post that according to Topic!Cindy "If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me" Apr 12, 2004 2:18:32 am PDT , today is Owen's birthday. Happy day, Owen and Cashmere! With lots of wishes for a great year.


Lee - Apr 10, 2005 10:10:45 pm PDT #4530 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Hi Nilly!

Happy Birthday, Owen!


Nilly - Apr 10, 2005 10:20:50 pm PDT #4531 of 10001
Swouncing

(Perkins, I'm not really here, but even when I'm not, I'm thinking about you a lot, what with all the move and the new upcoming job and the "yay you!" and the "oh, new things!" and the "glad she was in LA in time for me to hang with her" and the like.)


NoiseDesign - Apr 10, 2005 10:24:16 pm PDT #4532 of 10001
Our wings are not tired

Hey Nilly! Long time since I've seen you.


Lee - Apr 10, 2005 10:27:51 pm PDT #4533 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

(Hee. I'm not really here either. I am actually asleep so that I can get up early and finish packing. If either of us were here, I'd ask you how things are going and say I hope they are going well.)

(oh well)


Nilly - Apr 10, 2005 10:28:20 pm PDT #4534 of 10001
Swouncing

(ND, if I were here, which I'm not, but let's pretend for a minute? If I were here, I'd tell you that I put on the Mickey Mouse ears you got me in Disneyland all evening long in Purim, and more than one kid (and more than one adult, for that matters) wanted to take the ears home with them. But I showed them my name of the back, and turned back their greedy plots. But I'm not here, so I can't tell you that)

(And now even my not-real me has to run out from the room to listen to a lecture. If anybody pretends to be me in the next two hours, then, well, it's not even the not-me that is typing now).

(Night!)


NoiseDesign - Apr 10, 2005 10:30:49 pm PDT #4535 of 10001
Our wings are not tired

ND, if I were here, which I'm not, but let's pretend for a minute? If I were here, I'd tell you that I put on the Mickey Mouse ears you got me in Disneyland all evening long in Purim, and more than one kid (and more than one adult, for that matters) wanted to take the ears home with them. But I showed them my name of the back, and turned back their greedy plots. But I'm not here, so I can't tell you that

Now I've got a really big grin on my face.


Cashmere - Apr 11, 2005 2:24:06 am PDT #4536 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

If I were here, I'd tell you that I put on the Mickey Mouse ears you got me in Disneyland all evening long in Purim, and more than one kid (and more than one adult, for that matters) wanted to take the ears home with them. But I showed them my name of the back, and turned back their greedy plots

Adorable!

Thanks, Nilly! We're well prepared for O's birthday--the cake. I'll be sure to post a picture of the birthday boy diving into it. The year's gone by too fast.