Mal: He calls back, you keep them occupied. Wash: What do I do, shadow puppets?

'The Message'


Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.  

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.


Jesse - Jul 21, 2005 3:55:05 am PDT #1751 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ugh, Nilly. Sometimes people are annoying.

So nice to read what's new with Rio!

And now the stupid news is all full of possible bombs in London again and subway lines shut down. Poor London.


Fred Pete - Jul 21, 2005 3:57:33 am PDT #1752 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.

subway lines shut down

I'd heard 3 stations. Has it spread?


billytea - Jul 21, 2005 3:58:15 am PDT #1753 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

beth! Raquel! billytea!

Nilly! Are you enjoying an exam-fuelled lull right now?


Nilly - Jul 21, 2005 3:58:29 am PDT #1754 of 10002
Swouncing

Jesse, the Israeli online news site that I checked said that there weren't bombs - there were probably firecrackers (I hope that's the right English word) and that nobody got hurt.


Fred Pete - Jul 21, 2005 4:00:20 am PDT #1755 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.

Yep. Three lines.

Nilly, according to the article, it probably was the equivalent of firecrackers (and yes, that's the word).

Still, after two weeks ago....


Volans - Jul 21, 2005 4:00:51 am PDT #1756 of 10002
move out and draw fire

AP says:

McCracken said he smelled smoke at the Warren Street station, and people were panicking and coming into his carriage. He said he spoke to an Italian man who was comforting a woman after the evacuation.

"He said that a man was carrying a rucksack and the rucksack suddenly exploded. It was a minor explosion but enough to blow open the rucksack," McCracken said.

"The man then made an exclamation as if something had gone wrong. At that point everyone rushed from the carriage."

Bollocks! My lunch exploded!


Tom Scola - Jul 21, 2005 4:01:09 am PDT #1757 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

It seems that the entire tube has been shut down now: [link]


Jesse - Jul 21, 2005 4:01:19 am PDT #1758 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Just the three stations and one bus, apparently. No casualties, etc. Honestly, I don't know why this is worth breaking in to programming here. They don't know anything, and it seems not so bad.


Volans - Jul 21, 2005 4:03:28 am PDT #1759 of 10002
move out and draw fire

Honestly, I don't know why this is worth breaking in to programming here.

Just trying to gin up more emotional interest in the War on Terror.

And I'm outtie - taking Mal to the vet doctor for his shots. With any luck I'll be able to spring my husband and give him a ride home, since it's 103 ° out there, but as he's been working until 7:30 every night this week...


Nilly - Jul 21, 2005 4:15:40 am PDT #1760 of 10002
Swouncing

Thanks, Fred.

Are you enjoying an exam-fuelled lull right now?

billy, I'm finishing up with that class, and hopefully all the loose ends will be tied today, so that I won't have to think about it until the students' second exam (how do you call that in English, where there is a second exam after the first, for those who failed or couldn't take it on the first time? The Hebrew name is something like "second timing", and I have no idea what is the English equivalent, or even if there is one).