Hey, NBC tells me Sanda Day O'Connor is retiring.
Boo.
Spike: Or maybe Captain Forehead was feeling a little less special. Didn't like me crashing his exclusive club, another vampire with a soul in the world. Angel: You're not in the world, Casper.
'Just Rewards (2)'
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.
tommyrot - Jul 01, 2005 5:27:35 am PDT #6273 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
§ ita § - Jul 01, 2005 5:27:56 am PDT #6274 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've read in a bunch of places: "See! The country of the Inquisition just legalised gay marriage!" Not wanting to dismiss the barbarity of the inquisition, I wanted to do a little reading to place things like duration and body count (I mean, "The country of the Holocaust just legalised gay marriage!" "The country of slavery just legalised gay marriage!") since my history studies didn't quite get that far.
So I started with wikipedia.org, and don't think I can continue, because the following sentence is making me laugh too hard:
Unexpectedly, at the end of the 15th century, under Ferdinand and Isabella of Castile, the Spanish inquisition became independent of Rome.
brenda m - Jul 01, 2005 5:28:05 am PDT #6275 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
Fuck.
Jessica - Jul 01, 2005 5:28:58 am PDT #6276 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Unexpectedly
Bwah.
Jesse - Jul 01, 2005 5:29:27 am PDT #6277 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, I'd hope any of those people would be interesting, at the very least. Agree with them or not, at least theoretically these are folks with really important jobs that they got primarily on the basis of their ability to judge things and form an opinion. It's not even like elected officials who could be yahoos who can just fool The People.
Fred Pete - Jul 01, 2005 5:30:32 am PDT #6278 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Yes, it isn't like "interesting" is that significant a compliment.
Jessica - Jul 01, 2005 5:31:34 am PDT #6279 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Thai fishermen caught a 293-kilogram (646-pound) catfish that may have been the world's largest freshwater fish, wildlife conservation groups said.
The Mekong giant catfish was netted by villagers in a remote part of northern Thailand, the World Wildlife Fund and the National Geographic Society said in a statement.
When wildlife officials caught wind of the catch they urged the villagers to release the adult male so that it could spawn, but it later died and was eaten, the groups said. They did not say when the massive fish was caught.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 01, 2005 5:36:04 am PDT #6280 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
Crap. Whenever I've taken those match-your-politics-to-the-government-official's quizzes, O'Connor has been the Supreme Court justice whose views tended to correspond most with my own. Can we arrange a trade where Scalia retires in her stead?
tommyrot - Jul 01, 2005 5:37:59 am PDT #6281 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
As promised, Spock the Sith Slayer
All about fanfic. Sadly, the article is shorter than I had hoped. But the woman who rewrote Chicken Run with the chickens replaced by humans is... I don't know... perhaps a bit confused.
sarameg - Jul 01, 2005 5:38:34 am PDT #6282 of 10001
My really crazy crazy person has shown up. She may have a fucking PhD in this fucking field, but she's WRONG. I knew this. But still I verified with 5 other fucking PhDs and educators and I'm really at a loss about what to tell her. If she refuses to use the STANDARD UNITS ACCEPTED BY the governing body and used for the past how many hundred years, well....I really can't help her.