Lee, I'm busy tomorrow but I was thinking of seeing the Bats on Sunday. Wanna meet in the city?
You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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.
Consuela - Jun 17, 2005 6:02:28 pm PDT #2800 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Trudy Booth - Jun 17, 2005 6:04:22 pm PDT #2801 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
It was probably a mistake to consume a diuretic right before going into a movie.
Ooooh! Serenity preview!
Bladder Control NOWWWWWWWW! t /mr. costanza
Lee - Jun 17, 2005 6:04:28 pm PDT #2802 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Lee, I'm busy tomorrow but I was thinking of seeing the Bats on Sunday. Wanna meet in the city?
I could do that. I could also come to the East Bay, if you want.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 17, 2005 6:13:13 pm PDT #2803 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
Clearly, the present never is changed by mischievous time-travellers: people don't suddenly fade into the ether because a rerun of events has prevented their births - that much is obvious.
Since our memories of the people would also fade what with their entire existence being erased, how do we know they don't?
Amy - Jun 17, 2005 6:24:41 pm PDT #2804 of 10001
Because books.
Since our memories of the people would also fade what with their entire existence being erased, how do we know they don't?
My thoughts exactly.
Although it would be kind of cool to "see" it happen -- you're chatting with the mailman one minute, and boom! He's gone. But...would you remember you were talking to someone who had ceased to exist/never existed at all, or would you assume you stood outside talking to yourself on a regular basis?
Polter-Cow - Jun 17, 2005 6:30:21 pm PDT #2805 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The weird thing about that theory is it doesn't prevent you from going back in time and killing someone you don't know is alive in the present. So it's kind of a...useless theory.
Jessica - Jun 17, 2005 6:47:02 pm PDT #2806 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Since our memories of the people would also fade what with their entire existence being erased, how do we know they don't?
There's a great story about that phenomenon, I wish I could remember who it was by. (Basically, we send a probe back in time to record all of history from the Big Bang to the present, assuming that because it's just recording, nothing will be changed. And as the probe travels through time, this theory is confirmed -- the panel watching the recording is comprised of giant purple octopus thingies communicating by clicking their tentacles together...just as they always had.)
Atropa - Jun 17, 2005 6:50:20 pm PDT #2807 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Good god, I love the two of you as a couple. Can a person have a crush on a couple?
I hope so, because I have a huge, HUGE crush on Hec & JZ, and often sulk that Pete and I can't go hang out with them on the spur of the moment.
I also often sulk about the same thing in relation to most of the Buffistas, actually.
Steph L. - Jun 17, 2005 6:50:40 pm PDT #2808 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
It was probably a mistake to consume a diuretic right before going into a movie.
Ooooh! Serenity preview!
You posted from the theatre?!? You ROCK, Scola.
§ ita § - Jun 17, 2005 6:50:49 pm PDT #2809 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The weird thing about that theory is it doesn't prevent you from going back in time and killing someone you don't know is alive in the present. So it's kind of a...useless theory.
So ... if you have an agency where you're provided with a list of people to go back and kill, some of whom are alive, some of whom aren't, and you aren't told which are which, you should be golden. I mean, you wouldn't know.
Odd theory.
Watched The Closer. Kinda grumpy because I guessed the ending as soon as they said one body, one set of prints, one missing person, so the rest of it was all a waiting game, and a process of watching Kyra screw her face up so she doesn't look pretty.
Hey, at least there was no Botox.