I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's... depressing.

Tara ,'Get It Done'


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.


DavidS - Sep 09, 2005 2:23:05 pm PDT #6020 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

This news story is sort of how I think Allyson will be at age 93.

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A 93-year-old woman with a "grip like iron" fought back against a robber by grabbing him by the testicles.

The Lithuanian woman, who says her strong grip [comes from] years of milking goats, held on to the man until police arrived.

Soja Popova, from Klaipeda, was shoved to the ground when she opened the door to two young men. But she fought back by grabbing the nearest by the testicles and squeezing "with all my force as hard as I could."

She told police: "He started screaming like an animal and his friend was trying to pull him free, but I have a grip like iron." The man's screams of agony and his friend's shouts for the woman to let go alerted neighbors, who called police.


Topic!Cindy - Sep 09, 2005 2:28:02 pm PDT #6021 of 10002
What is even happening?

God bless her.


erikaj - Sep 09, 2005 2:28:40 pm PDT #6022 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

OK, that is a different kind of disgusting, Cindy. Still very disgusting, but not from the pulpit. But I can hit him in the'nads with greater impunity if he doesn't have a calling.


DavidS - Sep 09, 2005 2:28:50 pm PDT #6023 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

My favorite part is, ""He started screaming like an animal..."


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 09, 2005 2:29:08 pm PDT #6024 of 10002
"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

Note to self: Wear cup when targeting geriatric Lithuanian women for home invasions.

Here's wishing ita a wonderful time in Africa. Preferably free of the Toto earworm that's now plaguing me.


Topic!Cindy - Sep 09, 2005 2:30:19 pm PDT #6025 of 10002
What is even happening?

OK, that is a different kind of disgusting, Cindy. Still very disgusting, but not from the pulpit. But I can hit him in the'nads with greater impunity if he doesn't have a calling.

Still completely disgusting, not to mention he probably represents a few people in housing projects, himself.


erikaj - Sep 09, 2005 2:32:56 pm PDT #6026 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

I wish it was the Lithuanian grandma.


DXMachina - Sep 09, 2005 2:33:08 pm PDT #6027 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

No, this is not a joke:

Dylan mentioned that Annabelle's getting one for Christmas:

dw "Natter .38 Special" Sep 9, 2005 2:25:44 pm PDT


libkitty - Sep 09, 2005 2:34:46 pm PDT #6028 of 10002
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs

Hey, Libkitty, don't suppose you happen to know a 50something couple named Julie and John, or her son, a nearly-30 fisherman named Aaron, do you?

Sorry Plei. I know Julies and Johns and Aarons, and lots of fishermen and fisherwomen, but not in this combination. Do you know where they fish? My cousins might know them.


P.M. Marc - Sep 09, 2005 2:39:03 pm PDT #6029 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

I'm pretty sure Aaron fishes out of Juneau. He's the friend I was telling you about who is the reason I grew up thinking it was the scariest place in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD, what with the killer mosquitos and all. I'd have to ask my mother, who actually keeps track of these things.