I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.

Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'


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.


Laura - Mar 25, 2005 12:20:38 pm PST #546 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.

Short of memorizing the almanac, it probably is the best way to cope with kids who ask too many questions.

I totally make shit up when answering the kids questions. I must do it too well because it only encourages them. The more outragious the answers the more frequent the questions.


Daisy Jane - Mar 25, 2005 12:20:51 pm PST #547 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Mine fourth. Short of memnorizing the almnac, it probably is the best way to cope with kids who ask too many questions.

Ah, see my dad would point something out to you and then start making shit up about it. He had my cousin convinced that tuna fish was possum in a can. Which is funny because my grandfather had the same cousin convinced that tamales were made from turtles. Poor Krissie has some food issues.

I learned at a very early age not to ask my dad, and just to go look it up myself.


Sean K - Mar 25, 2005 12:21:20 pm PST #548 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

i.e. we know the world is a shitty place, but God thinks it looks really pretty because he's just watching it from a distance.

Snerkity.


Lyra Jane - Mar 25, 2005 12:21:46 pm PST #549 of 10001
Up with the sun

And I wasn't meaning to pick on you, LJ.

I know you weren't, so no apology needed.

I agree it's not a very pro-God song.


Alibelle - Mar 25, 2005 12:22:02 pm PST #550 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan

Don't weep, DX. I'm incredibly musically ignorant, even compared to people who are younger than I am.

No, it's a song about Bart Starr. When the Packers won the first two Super Bowls, his players would hold up their Super Bowl rings to him and say, "Ring-O! Ring-O" and then sing a song. The songs they'd sing became known as Ringo Starr song

I'm also incredibly football ignorant, and yet, I think you guys are all making this stuff up.


Susan W. - Mar 25, 2005 12:22:06 pm PST #551 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Annabel can now reach things on the dining nook table. I think she's growing in both actual height and ability to stretch out every day.

Help.

I may have to go with that plan for shelves at 5' and 6' all around every wall in the house for storage after all.


Dana - Mar 25, 2005 12:22:20 pm PST #552 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

So on the handful of occasions I've heard it used/praised in a Christian context, I've been all, "Huh? Did you listen to the lyrics at all?"

I sang it at a wedding once. The couple were sort of earnest hippies who changed lyrics in other hymns to be non-gender-discriminatory. They weren't fond of "Lord", so the song became "This Day Was Made By Our God."


Atropa - Mar 25, 2005 12:23:54 pm PST #553 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I love how Calvin's dad explains to him that color photography has always existed, and all photos are color. But years ago, reality was all black and white....

Yep! "Jilli, look! It's a movie from before the world developed color!" My dad never let reality get in the way of telling me a good story.


Lyra Jane - Mar 25, 2005 12:24:26 pm PST #554 of 10001
Up with the sun

He had my cousin convinced that tuna fish was possum in a can. Which is funny because my grandfather had the same cousin convinced that tamales were made from turtles. Poor Krissie has some food issues.

I know I shouldn't be, but I am totally giggling at Heather's relatives right about now. (Though looking stuff up yourself is probably the wisest course in that situation.)


Susan W. - Mar 25, 2005 12:24:50 pm PST #555 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

And I've never done karaoke and would be kind of chicken to do so, even though I'm not shy about choir, the singalong at the F2F, or even the occasional solo. Huh.

Oh, and the good news WRT the above post--I discovered her newfound reach in time to get that big pottery bowl that Dylan bought at some kind of craft expo at work off the table. Which doesn't mean I've found a permanent place to store it yet, but oh well.

We need a bigger house. Or else less stuff.