I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.

Anya ,'Dirty Girls'


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.


§ ita § - Jun 16, 2005 2:21:29 pm PDT #2496 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

ita, did you get to use any of those lines on the cheery co-worker?

She hasn't recovered from global warming yet, but I know she'll be back.


juliana - Jun 16, 2005 2:24:36 pm PDT #2497 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

For the Ewan lovers among us, and really, who isn't? I would pay good money to hear him sing "My Time Of Day".


Jesse - Jun 16, 2005 2:28:27 pm PDT #2498 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

And to tie a couple of things together, there was music in Batman that reminded me of a bit of Ewan singing in Moulin Rouge, but I'm not sure why.


Sophia Brooks - Jun 16, 2005 2:31:31 pm PDT #2499 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Harkening back to the misheard lyrics conversation of a few days ago, I just went to a lyrics site looking for Bei Mit Bist du Shen (Andrews Sisters).

The lyricslisted were

F*** all the boys and I've known some.

I am pretty sure that is noy what The Andrews Sisters were Singing in 1945 or whenever


§ ita § - Jun 16, 2005 2:33:59 pm PDT #2500 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm not sure what that brain article ends up meaning, but I do like the conclusion:

Last year, a worried farming couple brought their youngest child to McMaster University Medical Center.

They were no longer certain whether their child was a girl or a boy

Until recently, reconstructive surgery based on a doctor's best guess was the rule in such cases. But in Hamilton, they counseled patience, Witelson recalled.

"We said, 'Let the child's behavior tell us what sex the child is.' "


Connie Neil - Jun 16, 2005 2:34:10 pm PDT #2501 of 10001
brillig

I am pretty sure that is noy what The Andrews Sisters were Singing in 1945 or whenever

I think that's a safe bet.


DavidS - Jun 16, 2005 2:42:53 pm PDT #2502 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

We've got a new car thanks to JZ's dad. Also, JZ doing all the work involved with getting rid of the old car with the state buy-back program and removing the plates, and cleaning it out (I helped with that.)

Unlike the previous car, chunks of the new car are not falling onto the road.


Steph L. - Jun 16, 2005 2:47:01 pm PDT #2503 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Unlike the previous car, chunks of it are not falling into the road.

Oh, now you're going to get all highfalutin on us, with your car all in one piece and suchlike....

I see how it is.


Jessica - Jun 16, 2005 2:54:31 pm PDT #2504 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Or, they could just look at the label:

Physicists at Bordeaux University have developed a method of dating wine by measuring its radioactivity.

Philippe Hubert and his team used the same principle as carbon dating to calculate the age of wine by measuring its caesium-137 levels – the amount of radioactive material it contains.

By measuring the wine's radioactivity due to fallout from events such as the atmospheric nuclear tests conducted from 1950 to 1963 and the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, the vintage can be accurately determined.

The research may one day be able to identify terroir as well.

'Different concentrations of radioactive particles reflect chemistry and the environment. We want to find out if a "nuclear ID card" can be produced for wines. It's difficult, even utopian, but potentially very interesting,' Hubert told decanter.com.

Wines from Bordeaux, Burgundy, Alsace and Corsica dating from 1986 can be differentiated according to caesium-137 levels.


DXMachina - Jun 16, 2005 2:58:11 pm PDT #2505 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

What if some unscrupulous person fakes the label? You might get wine with the wrong radiation level.