I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.

Fred ,'A Hole in the World'


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.


Trudy Booth - Sep 18, 2005 6:00:12 pm PDT #8729 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

And now we never EVER have to Love Raymond again.


sj - Sep 18, 2005 6:00:49 pm PDT #8730 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Trudy for the last time though, and yay for that.


quester - Sep 18, 2005 6:03:58 pm PDT #8731 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

I never even liked Raymond, even a little.


Laura - Sep 18, 2005 6:13:10 pm PDT #8732 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.

I didn't watch the show when it ran new, but I have enjoyed it a few times in syndication. Not a big sitcom person though.


Laura - Sep 18, 2005 6:19:52 pm PDT #8733 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.

Well, I topped off the show with the quick hurricane reports. Doesn't look like I'll get anything much from Rita. Good thing because I don't have any way to shutter the new area yet.


Theodosia - Sep 18, 2005 6:35:27 pm PDT #8734 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I was surprised to see that we're up to the Rs. K was only like two weeks ago!


Jesse - Sep 18, 2005 6:37:40 pm PDT #8735 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, this is crazy, right? We don't usually get this many named storms, do we? And what if there are more than 26? Do they start on the next year's names?

Possibly I could google instead of just asking here.


billytea - Sep 18, 2005 6:38:53 pm PDT #8736 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.

Yeah, this is crazy, right? We don't usually get this many named storms, do we? And what if there are more than 26? Do they start on the next year's names?

They should start doubling up letters. If storm 27 is called Aaron Aardvark, I want some sort of royalty.


Jesse - Sep 18, 2005 6:40:16 pm PDT #8737 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ha! But no. Thanks to google and NOAA:

Subject: B6) What happens if they run out of names on the list?

In the Atlantic and East Pacific, if they have run through the list they then used the Greek alphabet : Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta,... etc. . So if they ever have a Hurricane Omega you know it's been a busy year. In the Central and West Pacific they have a perpetual lists of names, so when one list is through they simply start on the next.

Since the name list has been started in the Atlantic in 1950 the furthest they have gone down the list has been Hurricane Tanya in 1995.


§ ita § - Sep 18, 2005 6:57:28 pm PDT #8738 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I just watched House. Oh, the end made me laugh. The rest of it was ... very like most of the last season. I was hoping for more jiggling with the formula, a la Three Stories (which I didn't think was as good as everyone did, but at least it was different t /tangling Voltaire )