The accent was just wrong. Wrong word emphasis, wrong phrasing. It took me out of the story.
Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.
Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
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.
Ginger - Jun 13, 2005 5:58:23 pm PDT #1658 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
brenda m - Jun 13, 2005 5:59:51 pm PDT #1659 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Oh hell yeah.
JenP - Jun 13, 2005 6:06:16 pm PDT #1660 of 10001
The accent was just wrong. Wrong word emphasis, wrong phrasing. It took me out of the story.
Ah. I don't know the difference, so it didn't bug me. She didn't sound like my Pensacola/Mobile peeps, but I don't know from southern accents beyond theirs. (Except for my uncle's South Georgia accent, which was nigh incomprehensible to me as a child.)
t /neither here nor there
With respect to the show, I was a little... oh, you know, hard-edged, highly-skilled person comes in, pisses off the regulars, but turns a few of them with his/her mad skilz and being right, yeah, yeah, yeah .
But I thought the case was interesting, and I didn't really call it, so...
bon bon - Jun 13, 2005 6:08:45 pm PDT #1661 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Anyone know of a particularly good episode of TAL? I want to download a couple for listening to at work.
sarameg - Jun 13, 2005 6:20:35 pm PDT #1662 of 10001
I liked the tales of a teenage embed (or something like that.) Somewhat somber, but really interesting. Laugh out loud ones are often ones with Sedaris and Vowel (no idea spelling.) There was a Valentines one that was utterly soppy. Oh, and the squirrel in the couch one.
I really like the political ones, though I tend to want to throw things. Baghdad & athiest ones most recently were good. There was one on civil liberties that had me yelling.
I'm not really helping, am I?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 13, 2005 6:28:14 pm PDT #1663 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
Ah, the crappy day went somewhat into turnaround after I left work tonight. Dad's feeling OK now, though still woozy from the sedatives, and has had his medications changed to up the anti-reflux pills and take him off aspirin and ibuprofin-based painkillers. Some kind of snake-cam fiber optic test is scheduled for next week to check on potential ulcers, but the fact that he responded pretty quickly to medication is encouraging.
Also, hottie Venezuelan guy got back in touch with me tonight to accept my invite to the Serenity screening. I ought to get two toasters for him—not only am I the one who'll introduce him to Firefly, but he came out between our first and second dates.
Betsy HP - Jun 13, 2005 6:30:14 pm PDT #1664 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Wow. That's mighty toaster-ness, Matt; I think you deserve at least a barbecue.
Scrappy - Jun 13, 2005 6:52:27 pm PDT #1665 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
"she's really good at her job but she's messy and has body image problems"
I got no problem with this, as it describes me and lots of my friends. However, I understand they handle it clumsily in the show.
Daisy Jane - Jun 13, 2005 7:01:09 pm PDT #1666 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Anyone know of a particularly good episode of TAL? I want to download a couple for listening to at work.
There was one on seperation of church and state recently. The one on the Gore v. Bush court descision was really good.
Non-political, I love Kid Logic and the phone one.
Consuela - Jun 13, 2005 7:01:33 pm PDT #1667 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Damn, Matt, that's not a toaster, it's a washing machine. Go you!