It looks like the house and senate have reached a compromise on the budget. Apparently the combination of $35 billion of cuts in Social programs ($10 billion from Medicaid), combined with $70 - $100 billion in tax cuts will help reduce the deficit.
Some people juggle geese!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
Gudanov - Apr 28, 2005 9:57:00 am PDT #9786 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Betsy HP - Apr 28, 2005 9:58:46 am PDT #9787 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
More tax cuts? Fucking hell.
bon bon - Apr 28, 2005 9:58:51 am PDT #9788 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Hil's tag variation sounds a bit like what "circle of friends" is supposed to be, if I understand the game right. But I can't remember what other variations of tag there are. Freeze tag, right? What was TV tag?
I want PE at work. Just to run around and tackle people in the middle of the day.
msbelle - Apr 28, 2005 9:59:05 am PDT #9789 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
new color faceplates for my cellphone are ordered. YAY.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 28, 2005 9:59:30 am PDT #9790 of 10001
What is even happening?
Seriously, which is why I prefaced that it was a un-PC name.
Oh, I did see that, Frank. I didn't mean anything against anyone talking about it. I just--seeing it today--I've flinched every time I've read it. Ben and friends were playing a game called Suicide (you throw a tennis ball at someone, or against the wall, but at someone--I don't know, I got a convoluted explanation of it from him). I nearly freaked the first time he told me he and his friends were playing suicide. Gah.
Depending on the context (whether it was an adjective or a noun), back in those days queer=stupid, or queer=a stupid jerk, etc.
Yep. And literal child that I was, I knew it meant weird and didn't know the other meaning 'til much later, either.
Hil R. - Apr 28, 2005 10:01:53 am PDT #9791 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
What was TV tag?
If you're about to be tagged, you can sit down and shout out the name of a TV show, and you're safe. We generally said that it was only fair to sit if the tagger was pretty close by (pretty much, if one more step would put you within arm's reach), and that if you said a show that someone had already used during that game, you were it.
Kathy A - Apr 28, 2005 10:04:08 am PDT #9792 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Can someone explain to me how tax cuts are going to reduce the deficit?
Laura - Apr 28, 2005 10:04:19 am PDT #9793 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Smear the queer is the worst name, ever. I don't think I've ever heard that before today. I'm still cringing every time I read it.
Same here. I'm also planning on forgetting it.
Yesterday would have been our 23rd anniversary, so it got me in a googling mood. Glad he's doing well. Even more glad we're not together anymore.
Today would have been my 32nd anniversary with DH#1. I feel exactly the same way.
shrift - Apr 28, 2005 10:09:01 am PDT #9794 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Upon closer examination of an e-mail I received this morning, I realized that he wants me "writhe" some stuff to CD. I'm not sure I'm comfortable doing that for a coworker...
Calli - Apr 28, 2005 10:09:56 am PDT #9795 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
he wants me "writhe" some stuff to CD.
Could be a whole new line on your resume.