OMG, I just saw possibly the stupidest "eat cereal to lose weight" ad ever. They say "studies suggest" that eating Special K instead of cake and ice cream as an evening snack may help you lose weight. Um, really?? Fewer calories may help you lose weight?? STUNNING.
Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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.
Jesse - Jun 07, 2005 1:41:36 pm PDT #187 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
DXMachina - Jun 07, 2005 1:51:01 pm PDT #188 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
R.I.P. Anne Bancroft
msbelle - Jun 07, 2005 1:51:53 pm PDT #189 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
The email FINALLY got to me. must go read it over and make sure that all is ok.
Jessica - Jun 07, 2005 1:59:33 pm PDT #190 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
What if you sprinkle Special K on top of your ice cream? Does it still work?
§ ita § - Jun 07, 2005 2:01:00 pm PDT #191 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, just think of the craxy e-mail feedback we'd get.
Do you think ... maybe you could ... injure your right hand a little? Near the wrist? Please?
an accredited US university that won't enroll you or give you an ID unless you're either a citizen or a resident alien with all your paperwork in order
Wait? No foreign students? What school was that?
Steph L. - Jun 07, 2005 2:03:26 pm PDT #192 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
sprinkle Special K
My god! THIS is what a "kprinkle" is!!!!
Jesse - Jun 07, 2005 2:05:10 pm PDT #193 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
KPRINKLE!!!
My god (which I just somehow typoed as "toe" -- ha!) -- it was a word just waiting for its definition!!
(Edit: and at least I figured out how god became toe -- my left hand was a row up. I was afraid it was Freudian!!)
amych - Jun 07, 2005 2:08:01 pm PDT #194 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Oh, thank doG, we have finally learnt to understand our kprinkle.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 07, 2005 2:09:23 pm PDT #195 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I have just been waiting for years for some kprinkle closure!
JZ - Jun 07, 2005 2:10:29 pm PDT #196 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Wait? No foreign students? What school was that?
Okay, I said it wrong because it's been so long since this was one of my job duties, but, having for a (blessedly) short time worked on setting up student visas for incoming postdocs from all over the world, I do remember working on a full metric assload of paperwork to ensure that their right to legally enter the country, enroll at the school, and visit their home countries and return as needed was written in stone. "Resident alien" is the wrong phrase; just "person on a student visa"? I can't remember.
The point was that even if my friend weren't a US citizen (which he in fact was), there was no way he could've gotten a valid US university student ID without having said metric assload of paperwork behind him; that one tiny little document represents dozens of hours of labor and eleventy-jillion forms.
His ID could have been forged, of course, but the border agents might then have asked why he'd bothered to get a forged college ID when he could've gotten a forged passport or birth certificate or practically anything else with more legal weight. And then the border agents would have had to ask themselves why they'd cheerfully waved through all the white folks with identical IDs.