I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.

Willow ,'First Date'


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.


Burrell - Sep 21, 2005 2:51:18 pm PDT #9756 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Ugh. I so need to go home. But I should finish my coffee first, so I will be less likely to plow into the center divider on my way home.


Burrell - Sep 21, 2005 2:52:24 pm PDT #9757 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Malcolm Gladwell writes on many seemingly unrelated topics. I think he must have a fun job.


flea - Sep 21, 2005 2:52:53 pm PDT #9758 of 10002
information libertarian

He certainly has fun hair.


§ ita § - Sep 21, 2005 2:53:43 pm PDT #9759 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I should finish my coffee first, so I will be less likely to plow into the center divider on my way home.

Way more important than me calling in sick. Make it so.


billytea - Sep 21, 2005 2:54:07 pm PDT #9760 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.

Gorgeous stop-motion animation movie based on a Russian folk tale, and that I'm going to see it opening night? And that I'm never, ever going to have any spending money again, thanks to collecting toys from that AND the never-ending line of Nightmare Before Christmas merchandise?

I find that rather neat, that it's based on a Russian fairy tale. I shall have to add it to my list.


bon bon - Sep 21, 2005 2:55:23 pm PDT #9761 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I wouldn't take health advice from Gladwell, though.


Burrell - Sep 21, 2005 3:02:53 pm PDT #9762 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I wouldn't take health advice from Gladwell, though.

Well, he's a journalist, not a doctor, so yeah. But his isn't the first article I've read examining the idea that 20 some years of regular ovulation may increase the risk of ovarian cancer. I didn't read either article carefully, I must admit.

[eta I just skimmed them both & didn't see Gladwell making the argument that the other guy thought he was making, but agree with other guy's initial assumption that less mucking about with the hormones, the better.]


bon bon - Sep 21, 2005 3:06:37 pm PDT #9763 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I've heard that claim too, but I also thought I'd heard that the evidence was scant. Which is why I went looking for the rebuttal.


quester - Sep 21, 2005 3:09:26 pm PDT #9764 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

Are we discussing Lost here, tonight or in Boxed Set?

ETA: d'oh! Yean, the Lost thread, stupid!


DavidS - Sep 21, 2005 3:10:05 pm PDT #9765 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Are we discussing Lost here, tonight or in Boxed Set?

Probably in the Lost thread.