Bester: Mal. Whaddya need two mechanics for? Mal: I really don't.

'Out Of Gas'


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 14, 2005 6:28:14 am PDT #9803 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

What would these labels say? "Object is not immune to the laws of physics"? Will someone who doesn't understand gravity actually comprehend a warning label?

Near my parents' home is a big transformer box with a warning label that shows a frowny lightning bolt electrocuting someone: [link]

I can't help but look at it and think "Do not tamper with the Krell machine!"


Frankenbuddha - Jul 14, 2005 6:28:49 am PDT #9804 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

It's apparently legal in this part of the country, 'cause that's how everyone caught the monkey pox last summer.

You sure you just don't live near Gus?


brenda m - Jul 14, 2005 6:30:05 am PDT #9805 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

Just one state over - and they had the monkey pox in Wisconsin, too. Though Gus claims he had nothing to do with it.


Frankenbuddha - Jul 14, 2005 6:30:26 am PDT #9806 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

A llama once vomited on my cousin (in Maine, no less).

Vomit or spit? Because I know llamas are like camels in that regard (spitting when annoyed, and a lot of it).

Also, a moose once bit your sister, right?


Kate P. - Jul 14, 2005 6:30:52 am PDT #9807 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Oh, excellent. Now I have to worry about coming down with monkey pox, although it's quite a bit more likely that I'll die of cat-scratch fever first. (Does anyone get cat-scratch fever anymore?)


Frankenbuddha - Jul 14, 2005 6:31:33 am PDT #9808 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Does anyone get cat-scratch fever anymore?

You mean besides Ted Nugent?


Theodosia - Jul 14, 2005 6:32:31 am PDT #9809 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

IIRC, the bactrian (two hump) camel is nearly extinct in the wild, and not doing all that great in captivity what with the decline in nomadic populations in Mongolia, so that may be behind the unequal regulations... or perhaps the guy who thought them up figured that if dromedaries were good enough for the Bible they were good enough for MA.


Nutty - Jul 14, 2005 6:32:40 am PDT #9810 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I got scratched by a cat recently, seriously enough to draw blood, but I am not yet dead.


-t - Jul 14, 2005 6:33:31 am PDT #9811 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

My problem with the you can go anywhere type if park is the damage to the land from people being stupid as they wander, or there just being too many of them, not the danger.


Scrappy - Jul 14, 2005 6:34:11 am PDT #9812 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Does anyone get cat-scratch fever anymore?

My dad was hospitalizied with a bone infection from getting badly scratched by a cat. The nurses said it was a type of cat scratch fever.