Absolutely. Let's swing by and collect shrift then go Elsewhere.
I call shotgun!
Inara: Who's winning? Simon: I can't tell. They don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
'Bushwhacked'
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.
Dana - Oct 19, 2005 10:10:35 am PDT #7292 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Theodosia - Oct 19, 2005 10:10:40 am PDT #7293 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"
(They want this thing done by November 7th! November 7th! The system doesn't even work yet! How can I document it if it doesn't work?!?)
Easy-peasey. Just get in your time machine, jaunt ahead to, oh, December 7th or so, document the working system, then come back with the files.
Tho', be careful not to hand them in before the 7th, or else they'll be tempted to make more changes. Causality is a tricky thing, I've found.
Nilly - Oct 19, 2005 10:12:45 am PDT #7294 of 10002
Swouncing
Let's swing by and collect shrift then go Elsewhere.
Oh, come here! It's the holidays, so vacation, and my plans for the evening just got canceled (my friend's baby is sick and I can't possibly visit). I've also got chocolate to share.
[Edit: just to make sure: I have no idea what we're talking about. I just skipped around a hundred posts and therefore apologize if I completely stepped on my feet while falling into the ongoing conversation.]
Calli - Oct 19, 2005 10:14:51 am PDT #7295 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I wonder if I can change my plane reservation from Flint, MI to Israel? Nilly's travel plan sounds more fun than mine.
Allyson - Oct 19, 2005 10:15:19 am PDT #7296 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
I got an invite to go to an Iftar dinner (breaking the fast after Ramadan) with Turkish cuisine.
What is Turkish cuisine?
Steph L. - Oct 19, 2005 10:20:02 am PDT #7297 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Nilly, how is Sukkot celebrated? I realized I know virtually nothing about it, other than the huts. (Which I know aren't actual huts.)
JZ - Oct 19, 2005 10:22:20 am PDT #7298 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
What is Turkish cuisine?
Mostly very, very close to Greek, though both Greeks and Turks will loudly and furiously deny any resemblance.
amych - Oct 19, 2005 10:24:14 am PDT #7299 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
And, like Greek, very very tasty. If they want to have thousands of years of wars over that fact, they're just being silly.
Nilly - Oct 19, 2005 10:24:40 am PDT #7300 of 10002
Swouncing
Calli, it's your birthday, you can do whatever you want! Or should, anyway.
Allyson, the only food I know that has the word Turkish in front of it is "turkish delight" from "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe", so even if that will be what's for dessert, I'm afraid I can't help you with anything else.
an Iftar dinner (breaking the fast after Ramadan)
When I was returning home after staying with my uncle for Rosh Hashana a couple of weeks ago, I sat in the bus beside a group of very nice Muslim teenagers. They were breaking the fast with cookies and Coca-Cola (and insisted I share them with them, no matter how much I explained that I just finished two days with lots of very large meals). We exchanged fast stories and rules, I explained about the fast on the day after Rosh-Hashana, we compared the beginning-and-ending schedules, stuff like that.
bon bon - Oct 19, 2005 10:29:26 am PDT #7301 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Mostly very, very close to Greek, though both Greeks and Turks will loudly and furiously deny any resemblance.
This is true.
JZ, I've been thinking of you lately because in the class action pro bono case I've been working on, we're calling one of the plaintiffs "J.Z."