I like the ruffles.

Kaylee ,'Shindig'


Natter 39 and Holding  

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 - Oct 05, 2005 9:22:17 am PDT #3549 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Same one, new angle.


§ ita § - Oct 05, 2005 9:22:26 am PDT #3550 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

syphilis can indeed be contracted congenitally

Was it transmitted this way predominantly, though?


DavidS - Oct 05, 2005 9:22:48 am PDT #3551 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Who's the dude?

Jefferson.


brenda m - Oct 05, 2005 9:23:37 am PDT #3552 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

This was my history prof at McGill. [link]

So we heard quite a bit about Indiana.


DavidS - Oct 05, 2005 9:26:28 am PDT #3553 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Around the turn of the twentieth century, scientists studied several extended families for several generations in an attempt to prove that criminality, insanity, and pauperism were genetic traits found in "bad stock." Several of these histories are found in the General Collections. One, McCulloch's "Tribe of Ishmael" was a study of a family in the Indianapolis area. The Clipping file, Indianapolis - Tribe of Ishmael, contains an undated article by Nicole Hahn Rafter, which discusses the significance of these studies.

"Tribe of Ishamel" aka, The Ben Ishmaels was not one family but an interracial nomadic community that traveled throughout the midwest, not unlike Gypsies or Irish Tinkers.

I love how "pauperism" was considered a genetic disease.


§ ita § - Oct 05, 2005 9:27:21 am PDT #3554 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I love how "pauperism" was considered a genetic disease.

Well, you know, with class mobility what it is(n't)...


amych - Oct 05, 2005 9:28:43 am PDT #3555 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

New nickel.

I like it better than the GIANT SCARY PROFILE version on the nouveau buffalo nickel -- but really, why the constant futzing with nickels?


Narrator - Oct 05, 2005 9:30:59 am PDT #3556 of 10002
The evil is this way?

Collectible market. Change the design of the money, collectors buy mint ones.


P.M. Marc - Oct 05, 2005 9:31:50 am PDT #3557 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

Sally Ann? Salvation Army. No idea where I got that from.

Canada?

I've heard it from all my family members, and seen it in Margaret Atwood. Possibly even heard it in Leonard Cohen.

Can't recall hearing or seeing it from a non-Canadian source.


shrift - Oct 05, 2005 9:31:55 am PDT #3558 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

There's nothing like having an exec forward you an urgent e-mail with a question at the top, and upon scrolling down to the bottom of the e-mail forward chain, finding your original e-mail there with the answer to the question he just asked.

Either no one bothers to read the text of my messages, or they think that if they ask me enough times, I'll eventually change my answer.

Clearly they've never tried asking me out on a date.