Mal: You are very much lacking in imagination. Zoe: I imagine that's so, sir.

'Out Of Gas'


Natter .38 Special  

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.


Betsy HP - Sep 09, 2005 8:42:16 am PDT #5831 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

I'm surpised only 100 people die annually from anaphylactic shock from peanut allergies (according to Betsy's first link)

Yes, but that doesn't take account of how many people had near-death experiences. When you're trying to control measles, you look at measles cases, not measles deaths.

Most of the anecdotal peanut stories I hear are along the lines of "and if I hadn't had my Epi-Pen I would have died". Making a kid run to the office for his epinephrine is worth avoiding in its own right.


Betsy HP - Sep 09, 2005 8:43:38 am PDT #5832 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Sonofabitch is gone.

[link]

He's being replaced by the head of the Coast Guard, who by all accounts did a great job.


§ ita § - Sep 09, 2005 8:43:58 am PDT #5833 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I was blown away when I found out that "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" is actually about Art Garfunkel.

I'll see your "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" (which is easy, since I've never heard of it) and raise you a "Little Red Corvette."

In my defense -- Trojans weren't a popular condom brand where I grew up.

It's not much of a defense, but it's all I have.


Aims - Sep 09, 2005 8:44:31 am PDT #5834 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Or, upon noticing it has been awfully quiet for a just a smidge too long, wander into the kitchen to find a not-yet-walking babt happily sitting in the cabinet, chortling with quiet glee as he consumes fistfuls of peanut butter straight from the tub.

BWAH!

Funny cause that was me yesterday.


sarameg - Sep 09, 2005 8:45:03 am PDT #5835 of 10002

Better peanut butter from the tub than silver polish, I guess.

Given it was very clear from early on that my nephew was going to be Danger Boy, everything clearly toxic was housed elsewhere. Well, as long as you count all my brother's flipping car parts and sockets and wires as nontoxic. But the child learned early how to work a socket wrench!


Dana - Sep 09, 2005 8:45:27 am PDT #5836 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I'll see your "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" (which is easy, since I've never heard of it)

Architects may come and architects may go
And never change your point of view


Betsy HP - Sep 09, 2005 8:46:05 am PDT #5837 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

all of those nights we harmonized till dawn...


Calli - Sep 09, 2005 8:47:12 am PDT #5838 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Given it was very clear from early on that my nephew was going to be Danger Boy, everything clearly toxic was housed elsewhere.

See, this is reason 1,529 why I should never be a parent. I see a bottle of roach spray under the sink and think, good place for it. Near any potential roaches. Who on earth would try to eat roach spray anyway?

Apparently nearly any toddler on earth, that's who.


P.M. Marc - Sep 09, 2005 8:50:48 am PDT #5839 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

As for the reason they're dangerous, maybe it has to do with the fact that they contain protein? I don't know why I think that, I just do.

IIRC, it's something about the structure of the protein in peanuts.


Gudanov - Sep 09, 2005 8:51:05 am PDT #5840 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

I think self-destruction is one of the primary goals of the toddler, right after not going to sleep and getting to the candy.