This was odd. I just finished a can of diet Coke, then, without shifting my grip on the can, I squished it in the middle till the sides met so I could throw the can in the recycling bin (thumb on one side, three fingers on the other side). A girl in the break room gasped, "Gosh, you're strong!" I stared at her in disbelief. Are there really normal, healthy grown-ups in the world who can't easily smoosh a modern aluminum can? I've seen writing paper thicker than the metal that goes in to those things.
The Bay City Rollers, now that's music.
Giles ,'Sleeper'
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.
Connie Neil - Oct 11, 2005 6:25:33 am PDT #5130 of 10002
brillig
Jesse - Oct 11, 2005 6:35:34 am PDT #5131 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Have we seen this? Bible in SMS.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 11, 2005 6:36:01 am PDT #5132 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
I recall some brand (7Up, maybe?) that still used fairly thick steel cans that were hard to crush when I was in high school and much, much tinier than I am now. But I don't think full, unopened modern aluminum cans would be all that hard to squish.
§ ita § - Oct 11, 2005 6:36:43 am PDT #5133 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think it's the meeting of old and new that makes it so hot. Or maybe it's because there's a Nano involved.
I had a terrible, terrible dream last night, the sort that made me drag the emotions out into the daylight (all the better for them to evaporate), but ICK. So no fair.
brenda m - Oct 11, 2005 6:36:56 am PDT #5134 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
A girl in the break room gasped, "Gosh, you're strong!"
Bwah! Not like you smashed it against your forehead. (Which you should totally do, next time you see her coming.)
Jesse - Oct 11, 2005 6:40:34 am PDT #5135 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think it's the meeting of old and new that makes it so hot. Or maybe it's because there's a Nano involved.
Ooh. For me, it's because I love wood boxes for anything. Plus the nano.
Lee - Oct 11, 2005 6:42:14 am PDT #5136 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Still not feeling the nano lust.
Weird.
tommyrot - Oct 11, 2005 6:42:55 am PDT #5137 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Still not feeling the nano lust.
Have you held one?
Jessica - Oct 11, 2005 6:43:16 am PDT #5138 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Heh, iWood. t /twelve
Nilly - Oct 11, 2005 6:43:55 am PDT #5139 of 10002
Swouncing
Practically any (physics) lecture I've heard lately tries to have the word "nano" throughout it, just to make it look (sound) cooler and as up-to-date and able-to-get-grant-money as possible.