I find your second point more convincing than the first (just because they are something doesn't mean that's what's the driver). I just don't get the aversion to being clear in the show.
I'm a vision of hotliness, and how weird is that? Mystical comas. You know, if you can stand the horror of a higher power hijacking your mind and body so that it can give birth to itself, I really recommend 'em.
Cordelia ,'You're Welcome'
What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35
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.
§ ita § - May 17, 2005 10:33:08 am PDT #4949 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Connie Neil - May 17, 2005 10:34:27 am PDT #4950 of 10001
brillig
So which one is higher class: a poor person who like opera or a rich person who likes midget mud wrestling?
Being a poor person currently wearing a Utah Opera t-shirt, I'm voting for the first one. (My god, was it 5 years ago I saw Tosca? Stupid lowest-common-denominator-scheduling fine arts board. I don't want to see the Utah Symphony doing Broadway show tunes!)
Gudanov - May 17, 2005 10:34:28 am PDT #4951 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Well, lots of back-ma to Scott.
Jessica - May 17, 2005 10:35:48 am PDT #4952 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
just because they are something doesn't mean that's what's the driver
Oh, I agree. I was responding to -t's information from TVTome.
sumi - May 17, 2005 10:36:19 am PDT #4953 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I didn't notice that there is an average on the left-hand side. Mine is the 46th percentile - -which is middle, I think.
-t - May 17, 2005 10:37:15 am PDT #4954 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thanks, Jessica. I can't remember what conclusions I drew, much less what was actually stated in the show.
Betsy HP - May 17, 2005 10:38:08 am PDT #4955 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I think in the American class system, money trumps everything else. For instance, Donald Trump is higher up in the tree than a starving English Ph.D, even though DT is totally classless.
beth b - May 17, 2005 10:38:55 am PDT #4956 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
he might want some time alone, Cindy. too many people around when I am in pain makes it worse for me.
the class thing is very straight lined. because the job of a librarian is fairly middle of the road prestige wise. unless you are way up there in the high prestige area - then haveing a wife in a service /education industry - esp. part tiem and the family prestige goes up.
Steph L. - May 17, 2005 10:40:44 am PDT #4957 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
He's having muscle spasms in his lower back.
Is he using a heating pad, or one of those ThermaCare wrap thingies? Might really help.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 17, 2005 10:41:34 am PDT #4958 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yeah. I also included my retirement fund.
I left mine out, since that's money I don't have ready access to. I was really surprised to see my income ranked as upper middle class, though it compares favorably with flyover state per capitas. But the job prestige and net assets rankings handily dispelled any pride that category would have engendered.