Mal: You know, you ain't quite right. River: It's the popular theory.

'Objects In Space'


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.


Katie M - Jul 31, 2005 3:04:45 pm PDT #4474 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

I have a... great-uncle? No, great-great uncle. Anyway, Uncle Bernie. Uncle Bernie was kind of a ne'er-do-well, and when he died, his sister (maiden Aunt Effie, who was the kind of woman who offered to buy my grandmother a piano, but only if Gramma would promise never to play jazz) said that Uncle Bernie was not going to be buried in the family plot. So they bought him another plot in the same cemetery (which is this great old Victorian cemetery in Troy NY, very nice) and stuck him in there, over at the very edge, right above a ravine.

My family goes up on Memorial Day to plant flowers on the family graves, and every year we finish by going on the Quest For Bernie. It's a hard cemetery to find your way around to begin with, and on top of that he's forever being mowed over or the grape vines grow over him or something. So we track him down and dig him out and plant a geranium for him, and I gotta say, we all think much more highly of Uncle Bernie than we do of mean old Aunt Effie. Because the Quest For Bernie is fun.


Sean K - Jul 31, 2005 3:11:04 pm PDT #4475 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Where is this percentages quiz thing?


SailAweigh - Jul 31, 2005 3:12:04 pm PDT #4476 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Katie, that sounds like my family, sorta. When my brother died, we had him cremated and we disposed of his ashes in his favorite state park. But the folks still wanted a tangible memorial of some sort, so they had an inscribed brick placed in one of the walkways of the local botanical garden, which he was very fond of. No one could ever remember exactly where his brick was, so it was always fun hunting it up. Now, the garden is redoing all the walkways and his brick is kind of in limbo until they're done. We'll have a new quest for the brick when they relay it.


msbelle - Jul 31, 2005 3:18:34 pm PDT #4477 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I think Centruroides vittatus.


dcp - Jul 31, 2005 3:25:28 pm PDT #4478 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Sean, Raq linked to it here: Raq "Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before." Jul 30, 2005 11:36:44 am PDT


DebetEsse - Jul 31, 2005 3:26:58 pm PDT #4479 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Sean: [link]


billytea - Jul 31, 2005 3:28:44 pm PDT #4480 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.

Sean: [link]


DebetEsse - Jul 31, 2005 3:37:12 pm PDT #4481 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Of course, there's special results if you're bt.


billytea - Jul 31, 2005 3:42:31 pm PDT #4482 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.

Of course, there's special results if you're bt.

Hey, there's what he wants, and there's what he needs.


dcp - Jul 31, 2005 3:43:31 pm PDT #4483 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

The only scorpion known to occur in Arkansas is the common striped bark scorpion, Centruroides vittatus. >[link]

msbelle, when my grand-uncle got back from India after WWII (he was an airplane mechanic for the C-47s flying the Hump) he brought back with him a raging case of malaria. He was in bed shivering with fever when a scorpion fell off the ceiling and stung him on the arm. What a way to be welcomed home! He said at that point he just wanted to give up and die.