You want to stick around long enough for the telomere erosion?
Oooh yeah, that'll be exciting!
::watches dial on Life-Expectancy-O-Meter slowly climb back up::
All right, no one's killing folk today, on account of our very tight schedule.
Mal ,'Trash'
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.
tommyrot - Apr 19, 2005 11:10:52 am PDT #7074 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
askye - Apr 19, 2005 11:13:59 am PDT #7075 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I'm really not surprised to see the Texas GOP Party Platform. I live in Florida, I've seen what Jeb has done with the state.
Jeb said this in his inagural speech in 2003:
"There would be no greater tribute to our maturity as a society than if we can make these buildings around us empty of workers; silent monuments to the time when government played a larger role than it deserved or could adequately fill."
JZ - Apr 19, 2005 11:19:29 am PDT #7076 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
askye, honey, I'm so sorry you have to live there. Move here!
I mean, not that California's current state government is a marked improvement, but the Bay Area has a remarkable talent for sticking its fingers in its ears and chanting LalalalaIcan'thearyou in the general direction of Sacramento. Plus, the city governments of San Francisco and Berkeley? Still completely awful, but at least in a blundering, madcap. mostly harmless sort of way.
Nutty - Apr 19, 2005 11:19:46 am PDT #7077 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
There would be no greater tribute to our maturity as a society than if we can make these buildings around us empty of workers
A sentence I never expected anybody to say -- I mean anybody who wants to be re-elected. (I know he is actually referring only to government workers, but, generally speaking, a politician who talks about losing jobs on purpose is not a politician for long.)
Also, that's a misuse of a semi-colon. Clearly, that's one job the Florida government shouldn't get rid of -- copyeditor.
brenda m - Apr 19, 2005 11:23:54 am PDT #7078 of 10001
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
that no one from Texas will be determining policy for the country anytime soon....
Unless it was Heather. I'd be ok with that.
Fred Pete - Apr 19, 2005 11:24:38 am PDT #7079 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
generally speaking, a politician who talks about losing jobs on purpose is not a politician for long
Unless they talk about government employees losing their jobs.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 19, 2005 11:28:01 am PDT #7080 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Subtitle: Electric Bugaloo, or We've got Tazers Now, Weeeee!
Or to paraphrase Angelus: "The last time we tortured people, we didn't even have chainsaws!"
Nutty - Apr 19, 2005 11:29:09 am PDT #7081 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Government employees vote too. Cops and firefighters and librarians and teachers and soldiers and park rangers are (mostly) government employees.
Conservatives like to pretend that "government" is made up of maladjusted actuaries, freeloading secretaries and people researching the sexual habits of the tree frog. While I have known all of these types, I'm also a fan of, like, the National Cancer Institute, Yellowstone National Park, interstate highways, and the FBI.
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2005 11:30:37 am PDT #7082 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Mmmm. FBI.
Connie Neil - Apr 19, 2005 11:31:25 am PDT #7083 of 10001
brillig
Or to paraphrase Angelus: "The last time we tortured people, we didn't even have chainsaws!"
I so want to see this hanging up in some cubicle in the Vatican.
Conservatives like to pretend that "government" is made up of maladjusted actuaries, freeloading secretaries and people researching the sexual habits of the tree frog.
And not the folks who search your luggage and read your email to make sure you're not a terrorist.