Banana Republic used to be so pointlessly cool, with the whole safari thing. Now they're like The Gap with fewer jeans. Hell, The Gap is The Gap with fewer jeans.
Hands! Hands in new places!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2005 9:19:52 am PDT #4370 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Aims - Apr 19, 2005 9:21:25 am PDT #4371 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I had the kangaroo.
Maria - Apr 19, 2005 9:25:06 am PDT #4372 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
{{{vw}}}
And Mal is just the cutest little thing in Greece. (I can't say the world, because the other Buffista babies would negate that.) Congratulations, Raquel!
Kate, the newly-elected pope may choose to keep his own name (in this case Joseph) or pick another. Often, he picks a name that gives a hint as to where he's going theologically.
This is definitely going to be a x-post.
Amy - Apr 19, 2005 9:25:26 am PDT #4373 of 10001
Because books.
Timelies. Spreading all-purpose industrial-strength ~ma willy-nilly because I skipped like a mad thing. But I did look at the wonderful Ohio pictures, and at Raquel's Mal, who is the epitome of cute.
Hell, The Gap is The Gap with fewer jeans.
This is so very true.
Lyra Jane - Apr 19, 2005 9:32:06 am PDT #4374 of 10001
Up with the sun
the newly-elected pope may choose to keep his own name (in this case Joseph) or pick another
Have any recent popes kept their own name? "Recent" being relative, of course.
tommyrot - Apr 19, 2005 9:38:22 am PDT #4375 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.
Have any recent popes kept their own name?
Pope Recent IX.
OK, I think the sugar high I'm on is making me silly.
Maria - Apr 19, 2005 9:40:23 am PDT #4376 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Not that I know. Google doesn't think so either. I think the last popes who kept their own names are back in the day when we only had 2 and 3 digits in a year.
Choosing a different name also signifies the concept that "self" takes a back seat to his role as the shepherd of the entire flock. Joseph is a man; Benedict XVI is responsible for guiding over 1 billion persons' souls.
Scrappy - Apr 19, 2005 9:43:05 am PDT #4377 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Just like: Robin is a girl.
Scrappy is a disco inferno.
Nora Deirdre - Apr 19, 2005 9:47:55 am PDT #4378 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
the lady who made my latte today called me sweetheart and was really nice to me. It kind of made me want to cry. People are not so much with the nice, these days, in my work world.
-t - Apr 19, 2005 9:48:22 am PDT #4379 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
According to the Indianapolis Star:
Choosing a new name as pontiff did not become a tradition until 996, when Bruno, the first German pope, became known as Gregory V. Named after a pagan god, the 6th-century priest Mercury changed his name to John II as pope.
Eta: Oh, Nora, people should be nice to you! What is wrong with people that they are not showering Nora with kindness?