Today I cut my lip on a defective spork.
You have not had a good week. At all.
Buffy: You tossed that vamp like he was a... little teeny vamp. Riley: You wanna go again? C'mon. I bet this place is just teeming with aerodynamic vampires.
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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.
ChiKat - May 20, 2005 12:51:03 pm PDT #5926 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Anne W. - May 20, 2005 12:52:20 pm PDT #5927 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
The closest thing to genetic exoticism in my kin is a maternal great-grandparent from Nova Scotia.
Heh. I've got one of those, too.
I'm a mix of German (Dad's side), Irish (Mom's side), with a little bit of Lithuanian mixed in with the Irish.
DavidS - May 20, 2005 12:52:24 pm PDT #5928 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You have not had a good week. At all.
I think she's turning into Ralph Wiggum. We'd better alert the EMT's if she tries to pick her nose.
JohnSweden - May 20, 2005 1:00:49 pm PDT #5929 of 10001
I can't even.
Canadians would identify themselves as American?
North American, they could.
Ask one and see what happens. It's like calling a Scot an Englishman. The reaction is kinda visceral.
shrift - May 20, 2005 1:03:13 pm PDT #5930 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
My shrift's breath smells like sporkfood.
It is compulsory to consume one's Chinese take away on this day the twentieth of May by way of the utensil we call spork.
I have no chopstick fu.
Connie Neil - May 20, 2005 1:03:30 pm PDT #5931 of 10001
brillig
Ask one and see what happens.
They object to be called North Americans? As opposed to just Americans? Because I see the argument with the second one.
§ ita § - May 20, 2005 1:05:23 pm PDT #5932 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Most Canadians I know, while they wouldn't call themselves North American, do accept that they are. It would be odd not to, I'd think.
DavidS - May 20, 2005 1:06:12 pm PDT #5933 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have no chopstick fu.
Just as well. Way things are going this week you'd probably poke your eye out.
Topic!Cindy - May 20, 2005 1:06:39 pm PDT #5934 of 10001
What is even happening?
Canadians would identify themselves as American?
North American, they could.
Ask one and see what happens. It's like calling a Scot an Englishman. The reaction is kinda visceral.
Yes, but they're talking about U.S. Americans of (likely English speaking) Canadian ancestry of sufficient generations, that the family no longer claimed to be Scottish, etc. when talking about their ancestry, or ticking off a box about ethnicity on a form.
EpicTangent - May 20, 2005 1:07:56 pm PDT #5935 of 10001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Anglo-Irish-Scottish-German-Swiss-French, but all of those are so long ago that that's only a small portion of my ancestors that I know the heritage on.
is almost me (substitute "Dutch" for "Swiss" and you've got it).
And ChiKat is me if you tack on a little bit of Navajo.
Though, this really cool author just sent me a copy of my Irish-Mafia G.Grandfather's death certificate, and turns out his Dad was born in England and his Mom here, so I have to look even further back to try to figure out who actually "came over" from Ireland.