I wish my profs told me which material I only needed to scan.
Wait. Isn't that all of it, until it comes time to write a paper? Am I doing grad school wrong?!?
Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
Oz ,'Beneath You'
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 - Aug 07, 2005 4:12:42 pm PDT #6414 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
DavidS - Aug 07, 2005 4:13:10 pm PDT #6415 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Am I doing grad school wrong?!?
You'd better start over.
Jesse - Aug 07, 2005 4:13:54 pm PDT #6416 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Crap.
tommyrot - Aug 07, 2005 4:14:52 pm PDT #6417 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
But I held firm, and he's been happily playing with Legos for an hour now. Of course, they're all elaborate killing machines, but still.
Things I built with legos as a child.
- Elaborate killing machines
- Fleets of spaceships that were at war
- Ships or spaceships that had befallen some catastrophe, involving sinking, fire and/or explosions.
- A machine where you put marbles in the top and they came out of a random door at the bottom - made with several "randomizer" ramps to make it impossible to "cheat" and get a non-random door.
- A tower that went from the floor to the ceiling.
DXMachina - Aug 07, 2005 4:24:00 pm PDT #6418 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Things I built with legos as a child.
No Legos when I was a kid, but if you substitute wood blocks for the legos, tommyrot and I are as one.
tommyrot - Aug 07, 2005 4:28:45 pm PDT #6419 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
My brother and I also made phasers out of TinkerToys so we could play Star Trek. My sister's cardboard house served as the brig. I figured out how my TinkerToy phaser could be made to shoot dowels, etc. with a rubber band, but I was dismayed that there was no way to stabilize the dowel in flight, like an arrow.
quester - Aug 07, 2005 4:35:58 pm PDT #6420 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
We had a lot of Lincoln Logs, plastic dinasours and plastic soldiers from serveral historic periods-civil war, roman, WWWII, etc. My older sisters and I would make forts for the soldiers and huge dinasour armies that were set to attack them. We often spent so much time setting them up, that we never had time to actually have the battle.
My older sisters also invented the cannibal factory game, where you drew Rube Goldbergian "factories" for processing body parts for cannibal products that they could buy in their cannibal grocery stores.
Then there was this elaborate performance art game we used to play with kids from another large family. It was "The Haunted House Hotel" and most of us were the staff, who turned into monsters at night. My oldest sister was always the hapless victim who checked in, but never checked out. This all predated "Hotel California" by at least a decade.
DXMachina - Aug 07, 2005 4:36:59 pm PDT #6421 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
We had cap pistols. Do they still make caps?
DebetEsse - Aug 07, 2005 4:40:09 pm PDT #6422 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Last time I was looking for a toy gun, they did. Of course, they have to be bright colors now, to not look like the real thing.
Hil R. - Aug 07, 2005 4:41:38 pm PDT #6423 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
We had cap pistols. Do they still make caps?
I remember them still being around in the late eighties, but I haven't seen them lately.