Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


Topic!Cindy - Jul 11, 2005 6:33:36 am PDT #8648 of 10001
What is even happening?

Nilly, I will come as soon as is feasible, and, unless my children are the subjects of dangerous psychological experiments in the meantime (other than the ones I perform routinely, that is), I can nearly guarantee they'll drink chocolate milk from most containers, possibly even shoes.

In Malaysia, the coffee came in baggies like that also, but as it was a little warm, there would be a plastic clamp with a loop around the top of the bag, so you could hold that. Or hang it on something nearby. Like a chain-link fence, while you waited for the bus. I only got it once, as they put butter in the coffee, which I really didn't ...

What is up with the butter in coffee? My evil exboyfriend's grandmother put Margarine (oleo, maybe, to some here) in her coffee. I never got that. She was not Malaysian, by the by. She was some mix of British Isles ancestry--white American Protestant. I almost lost my lunch when I saw her do it.


Gudanov - Jul 11, 2005 6:34:44 am PDT #8649 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Much job-ma Alibelle


Alibelle - Jul 11, 2005 6:38:52 am PDT #8650 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan

Thanks, Gud! How are you? I haven't chatted with you in a while.


Jesse - Jul 11, 2005 6:39:00 am PDT #8651 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I can't decide why butter in coffee sounds so nast, because whipped cream in coffee is excellent, and if you just keep beating, it would turn into butter eventually.


tommyrot - Jul 11, 2005 6:40:18 am PDT #8652 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.

I can't decide why butter in coffee sounds so nast

Because butter usually has salt in it?


Alibelle - Jul 11, 2005 6:41:25 am PDT #8653 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan

Whipped cream is sweet, though, and butter is not so much.

Also, I now desperately want some chocolate milk. Thanks a lot, Nilly.


sarameg - Jul 11, 2005 6:41:34 am PDT #8654 of 10001

On occasion, the half and half I put in my coffee has separated (I dunno, there is no apparent reason. Maybe someone shook it before I bought it) and so I'll end up with lumps in my coffee. Won't drink it then.

I'm against lumpy liquids.


Jesse - Jul 11, 2005 6:42:25 am PDT #8655 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Because butter usually has salt in it?

Yeah, but not inherently. I think I need to get my hands on some of this butter/corn syrup/evaporated milk coffee, just for testing purposes.


Topic!Cindy - Jul 11, 2005 6:42:33 am PDT #8656 of 10001
What is even happening?

The solidification of the fat, I think, is what gags me. I never could figure out the magarine thing. I think she was lactose intolerant, but dude, just have non-dairy creamer, or be a (wo)man and drink it black.


Jessica - Jul 11, 2005 6:43:57 am PDT #8657 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

non-dairy creamer

A world of EWWWWWWW. Of course, so's margarine.