Nobody can tell Marmaduke what to do. That's my kind of dog.

Trick ,'First Date'


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.


-t - Apr 21, 2005 11:48:21 am PDT #5005 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

No sex for you, Steph, ever.

Not with a closed anorak, anyway.


Sparky1 - Apr 21, 2005 11:51:26 am PDT #5006 of 10001
Librarian Warlord

We just got this note about a theft in the library:

She was working on her laptop, her backpack was on the floor, between her feet. A short time later she noticed that her backpack was gone as was the man sitting next to her.

That's a bold, sneaky thief with nerves of steel. Or steal.


Hil R. - Apr 21, 2005 11:52:12 am PDT #5007 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I don't think I've ever had it, unless it's been mixed into a food and I didn't know it.

You've probably had it in Mexican food at some point.


-t - Apr 21, 2005 11:53:04 am PDT #5008 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I suspect this link will not work, but Anorankh Pendant

(eta: it doesn't. But if you go to "Discworld Exclusives" on the pull down menu and scroll down to the 17th and 18th pictures in the left frame, there are Anorankhs)


Jessica - Apr 21, 2005 11:53:28 am PDT #5009 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Chris is asking me the Spanish for "Merry-go-round". I disappointed him when I told him I didn't know

Google Translate says carrusel

I've also seen it called "Chinese parsley", I don't know why.

"Chinese [English vegetable]" is a weird naming convention. I've never quite understood it myself. (Since the vegetables so named are rarely either Chinese or whatever English vegetable they're being called.)


Topic!Cindy - Apr 21, 2005 11:54:21 am PDT #5010 of 10001
What is even happening?

You've probably had it in Mexican food at some point.
Possibly. I don't eat a lot of Mexican food, and when I do, my impression is that (other than the authentic place I went to a lot, when I was in college) I eat pretty Americanized stuff.


Topic!Cindy - Apr 21, 2005 11:55:00 am PDT #5011 of 10001
What is even happening?

Google Translate says carrusel

Gracias, Jessica.


Atropa - Apr 21, 2005 11:55:48 am PDT #5012 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

No sex for you, Steph, ever.

If we can ever get her out to Seattle, I have a guy I can set her up with. He's sweet, charming, a wacky pagan, a HUGE comics geek, big fan of Buffy, Angel, and just about any other genre show, and would think she's gorgeous. The only possible drawbacks are 1) he's also a huge gaming geek, and is in (IIRC) three or four rpg campaigns a week, and 2) I don't know if Steph likes big, teddy-bear-ish type guys.


Ginger - Apr 21, 2005 11:56:56 am PDT #5013 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

"Chinese [English vegetable]" is a weird naming convention. I've never quite understood it myself.

There's certainly no good explanation for "Japanese fruitcake," which doesn't remotely resemble anything from Japan.


Jessica - Apr 21, 2005 11:57:53 am PDT #5014 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Or "Jerusalem artichoke," which is neither an artichoke nor from Jerusalem.

Discuss. t /coffee talk