This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.

Mal ,'Ariel'


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.


Hil R. - Jul 01, 2005 5:02:40 am PDT #6255 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Hi Hil! How was your trip?

It was great. Lots of interesting stuff in Israel, lots of really cool historical things, I was with a really great group, and lots of interesting discussions about Israel and America and Jewish identity and politics and lots of other stuff. I've got a whole bunch of stuff I wrote about the trip that I'm going to try to type up and get online sometime today.


Topic!Cindy - Jul 01, 2005 5:04:02 am PDT #6256 of 10001
What is even happening?

Is short-waisted high waisted, or low waisted? I'm so confused.

ION, Brooke Shields wrote an op-ed for the NYT on Tom Cruise's 'ridiculous rant'. She suspects he has never suffered from post-partum despression. What is she, some kind of Jedi? [link]


Jesse - Jul 01, 2005 5:04:39 am PDT #6257 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

You are in the top 0.789% richest people in the world.

That's so crazy. I did that using my pre-grad school salary, which was way lower than my for-profit friends'.


Hil R. - Jul 01, 2005 5:06:33 am PDT #6258 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Is short-waisted high waisted, or low waisted? I'm so confused.

I think high-waisted and low-waisted refers to pants, and short-waisted and long-waisted refers to people.


Jessica - Jul 01, 2005 5:06:38 am PDT #6259 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Huh...I was in the top 5.9%. I think I need a raise.


brenda m - Jul 01, 2005 5:07:17 am PDT #6260 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

Balloons! Humungous hot air balloons!

Oh, god, this coming on top of the three or four preceding posts made me guffaw in a way that had heads poking over the surrounding cubicles. I had to make something up to explain.


Topic!Cindy - Jul 01, 2005 5:07:53 am PDT #6261 of 10001
What is even happening?

I think high-waisted and low-waisted refers to pants, and short-waisted and long-waisted refers to people.

See, I've always heard high and low used for people, so I'm still having trouble figuring out what short and long are. Does short equate to high?


Sue - Jul 01, 2005 5:11:54 am PDT #6262 of 10001
hip deep in pie

I was in the top 6.9%, but I gat paid in CDN $$.

I just poured myself a glass of milk and took a big swig, and it was sour. So disgusting!


Hil R. - Jul 01, 2005 5:12:38 am PDT #6263 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I think I'm revising my opinion, and I think that short and long waisted refers to the distance from hip to sternum, relative to height. Then, if you're using high and low waisted to refer to people, that refers to where in that hip to sternum region the natural waist is.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 01, 2005 5:13:53 am PDT #6264 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

If Brooke Shields wants any more babies, I think I'm going to offer to have them for her: [link]