Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.

'War Stories'


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.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 06, 2005 10:43:19 am PDT #7465 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

occasionally us hets get the hot guys too.

heh. My initial assumption was that he was het, it's just that model-pretty preppy guys in their mid-20s do not fit my mental image of Baptist Church convention attendees.


Vortex - Jul 06, 2005 10:44:19 am PDT #7466 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

My initial assumption was that he was het, it's just that model-pretty preppy guys in their mid-20s do not fit my mental image of Baptist Church convention attendees.

you could have turned him. if he was trying that hard, there had to be a reason. unless he was mormon, 'cause mormons are hot.


Noumenon - Jul 06, 2005 10:44:23 am PDT #7467 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti

Dude, Salon did not make up "kleptocrat." [link]

Jesse, you read Marginal Revolution? That's hot...</Paris>


Jesse - Jul 06, 2005 10:45:27 am PDT #7468 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I, uh, actually just googled kleptocrat.


msbelle - Jul 06, 2005 10:47:15 am PDT #7469 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

and I am re-earwormed from my commute this morning...

The glamour boys.....

I ain't no Glamour Boy, I'm Fierce!


Noumenon - Jul 06, 2005 10:47:48 am PDT #7470 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti

Oh. It wasn't in the first page for "kleptocrat," so I thought... but it is at the top for "kleptocrats." Anyway, MR rocks!


§ ita § - Jul 06, 2005 11:09:08 am PDT #7471 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You know, I looked fabulous when I left the house today. And before I even made it out of the car, I broke a strap on my high-heeled T-strap shoes.

So now it's attached with staples.


DavidS - Jul 06, 2005 11:12:12 am PDT #7472 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

So now it's attached with staples.

Fabulous staples.


Jesse - Jul 06, 2005 11:12:58 am PDT #7473 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

but it is at the top for "kleptocrats."

Oh yeah, that is what I googled.

Can it be time to go home yet?


libkitty - Jul 06, 2005 11:16:27 am PDT #7474 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs

Yoshio Hayasaki and his colleagues have discovered that data can be written into a human fingernail by irradiating it with femtosecond laser pulses.

With all the religious talk, my first thought was, "must be the sign of the beast." But I see no 666, so we must be safe. Right?