Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.

Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'


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.


Allyson - Oct 13, 2005 8:03:57 am PDT #5804 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Does anyone have any sunless tanning product recommendations?

Jergens Natural Glow for fair skin, shrift.

I tried it on my legs to just sort of see how it all went, it was pretty good, but then I got distracted by shiny metal objects and kept forgetting to use it and my legs went back to their usual shade of pizza dough.


§ ita § - Oct 13, 2005 8:04:30 am PDT #5805 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jesse, you've just made me panic. Thanks a lot. Now I'll never sleep.

Man, I wish the 10am meeting hadn't been pushed back to 11. Mess with my nap schedule, yo. And it's on a project I'm supposed to have handed off to the new guy.


msbelle - Oct 13, 2005 8:04:54 am PDT #5806 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

shrift, I used the foam nuetragena(sp?) stuff this summer. It goes on pretty dark (so you can see where it is), but then you wash the surface stuff off.


Jessica - Oct 13, 2005 8:06:46 am PDT #5807 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Harold Pinter won the Nobel prize.

Woo [pause] hoo!


tommyrot - Oct 13, 2005 8:11:46 am PDT #5808 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.

Ok, this is a bunch of rumor and speculation, but....

Dick Cheney and George W. Bush don't like each other anymore.

A few months ago, I heard of a lunch conversation that Cheney had with a political type in Wyoming. I have no idea if it's true or not, but it makes some sense. Here's the tale:

Cheney has been getting tired of being called upon to fix Bush's mistakes. Cheney said Bush is almost incapable of making any decision. He waffles and waffles. Then, once he makes a decision, he refuses to change it. Because of his born-again faith, he says "It's in the hands of G-d now" and washes his hands of it. Then Cheney is called in to repair the damage.

If this story is even remotely true, this may have been the final straw for Cheney, and he decided to let Bush try to wiggle his way out of his Katrina inaction on his own.

...

Apparently, according to two journalist sources of mine, when Rove learned that he might have violated the law, he turned on Cheney and Libby and made it clear that he held them responsible for the problem they had created for the administration. The protracted silence on this topic from the White House masks considerable tension between the Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President.

And that was a year ago. Now, it's starting to remind us of Watergate, and that famous Time cover with all the president's men in the Nixon White House pointing fingers at each other. The latest report is that the Bush administration is becoming more balkanized, with Rove on the outs and chief of staff Andrew Card and communications chief Dan Bartlett -- not one of the sharpest tools in the political shed -- guiding Bush.

And more speculation/rumors:

which has Howard Fineman describing an alleged pre-indictment (political) death struggle pitting Karl Rove against Andy Card.


sarameg - Oct 13, 2005 8:11:49 am PDT #5809 of 10002

There is something in the nearby vicinity that keeps cackling a mechanical little cackle. Given the frantic tapping I hear whenever it starts, it is either someone playing some annoying game on the computer, in which case TURN OFF THE FUCKING SOUND or one of those annoying holiday "decorations" in which case WHERE IS IT SO I CAN SMASH IT.

Also, with the self tanner stuff, does the oddly foody (I can't really define it, sort of ...buttery) smell not drive every one else nuts?


§ ita § - Oct 13, 2005 8:13:16 am PDT #5810 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Dick Cheney and George W. Bush don't like each other anymore.

Dude. It's just like the Paris/bobblehead chick breakup.


Jessica - Oct 13, 2005 8:15:58 am PDT #5811 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Dick Cheney and George W. Bush don't like each other anymore.

I was never under the impression that Cheney liked anyone.


le nubian - Oct 13, 2005 8:17:56 am PDT #5812 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

ha! maybe Cheney's wife.


brenda m - Oct 13, 2005 8:19:01 am PDT #5813 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

But it reminds me -- does anyone have any not-all-there bra recommendations? I've tried one of those adhesive bras (the light ones, the paper) but it was too wrinkly underneath a sheer top.

The Gap has one that my friend highly recommended. They were out when I went to find one, though.