The phrase "watery tart" makes me think of an unfortunate baking incident.

I still love that scene. "Now you see the violence inherent in the system."

Jeez, I've been reading these all the book-stripping posts and thinking, "Well at least they're recycled." Man, am I naive.

"People say they're recycling. t pause But they're not."

My loveseat is here!!!!

I should go back to work, now. I should. But I want to clean my whole place from top to bottom and invite friends over to sit. I will make yummy snacks and say, "why don't you have a seat?"

Ruby is sleeping on it right now. We had a small argument about claws, and reached a consensus when I put her favorite blanket on a cushion.

This sort of arrangement has worked out well with the bed. She has her own pillow to shed all over.

Allyson, to kind of condition her to NOT scratch it, try putting double sided tape on it. Also, friends of ours have put cat scratchers on the fronts and sides of the arms and then just take them down whenever people come over and the cat hides anyway.

Also? Extremely tacky, but aluminum foil over appealing scratch spots until they get the point works. Unless you have a cat who likes to eat foil....

Hubby and I have held entire conversations about mundane matters entirely in Python quotes. Freaks out the people trying to figure out what we're saying.

Plus there's our personal code built from the fact that we're both punsters and familiar with words in lots of languages. ie: Burros=Thanks, because Danke Scheon (sp?) becomes Donkey Shins becomes Burro Knees becomes Burros.

I have long called this sort of thing the Unconversation. Where the people talking understand each other perfectly, but nobody listening in will have a clue because of all the unspoken assumptions, inside references, etc.

"People say they're recycling. But they're not."

Clearly I've been away from here too long - I know I recognize this, yet can't place it. Please help...*hangs head in shame*

I had trained my cat not to scratch my new couch by putting those cardboard scratchers near the couch. Then everytime I heard scratching I would run (like a loon) from wherever I was and give him praise and a treat everytime he was using the scratch boards. It worked like a charm until I got a second cat and decided to retaliate.

"People say they're recycling. But they're not."

Probably a cross-post, but this is one of Riley's better lines, in the episode where Xander splits in two.

EpicTangent -- it's Riley from "The Replacement" - the one where Xander gets split in two.