Ooh, cheaptickets. I should look at them for Montreal. I'm down $100 from when I started looking, but still. Too much.
She didn't even touch her pumpkin. It's a freak with no face.
Willow ,'Help'
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 21, 2005 2:10:27 pm PDT #3530 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
bon bon - Jun 21, 2005 2:12:17 pm PDT #3531 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Hotwire; travelaxe is a program that compares a bunch of sites at once.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 21, 2005 2:14:33 pm PDT #3532 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
William Peter Blatty had Father Merrin expound on demonic possession, and I assume he did beaucoup research on the official Catholic position. According to said fictional priest, the demon wasn't actually supposed to be able to touch the soul or will of its innocent host, just do awful things to/with the body. The possession was actually a spiritual attack on those around the possessed (including the exorcist), intended to drive them into despair and sin.
I think it's demon 1, Father Daniel 0 in this case.
Jessica - Jun 21, 2005 2:33:36 pm PDT #3533 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Screw Disney World, I'm going to Dubailand!
[eta that people with broadband MUST watch the corporate video. It is a thing of beauty.]
JZ - Jun 21, 2005 2:42:02 pm PDT #3534 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.
Thank you so much! That gives me plenty of options, except for the part where they're all still rather unwise options, financially speaking. But anyhow, some of them are now a hundred dollars less unwise than others.
§ ita § - Jun 21, 2005 2:45:39 pm PDT #3535 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We use the term SWAG around here all the time.
However, we're not really, per HR, allowed to expand the acronym (what with it containing the word ass). Now I've been asked, in e-mail, by a business user I barely know, what it stands for.
I think I'm going to have to sidestep and just tell him what it means instead.
DXMachina - Jun 21, 2005 2:47:06 pm PDT #3536 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Now I've been asked, in e-mail, by a business user I barely know, what it stands for.
How about telling me, and then I can tell him for you.
Topic!Cindy - Jun 21, 2005 2:49:15 pm PDT #3537 of 10001
What is even happening?
William Peter Blatty had Father Merrin expound on demonic possession, and I assume he did beaucoup research on the official Catholic position. According to said fictional priest, the demon wasn't actually supposed to be able to touch the soul or will of its innocent host, just do awful things to/with the body. The possession was actually a spiritual attack on those around the possessed (including the exorcist), intended to drive them into despair and sin.
There's a fair number of theologians who don't believe a Christian (not nominal) can be possessed, because a Christian has the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. There's no specific doctrine in the Bible to support this, but there are passages people interpret as support for it. They do believe they can be oppressed (so, from the outside) but not possessed.
Topic!Cindy - Jun 21, 2005 2:49:50 pm PDT #3538 of 10001
What is even happening?
Yeah, what does SWAG stand for, anyhow?
§ ita § - Jun 21, 2005 2:52:32 pm PDT #3539 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Scientific Wild Assed Guess.
At least around these here parts.