The smell is the first thing to give me pause in a while.
Subway threats? Feh. Chatter? Nah.
But the mystery smell moving across the city has me creeped.
These girls have the most beautiful dresses. And so do I -- how about that?
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.
Trudy Booth - Oct 28, 2005 5:47:55 am PDT #9482 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
msbelle - Oct 28, 2005 5:48:05 am PDT #9483 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I'm kinda mad I don't smell it, but it would probably just make me want waffles. mmm waffles.
Lee - Oct 28, 2005 5:49:30 am PDT #9484 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
There's some other way to start a vacation?
Well, I could have gotten bitten by the raccoons, I guess. I thought the fall down go boom would be better though.
ION, the guy sitting across from me keeps scratching/playing with himself.
Dude, get a room.
eta: I just noticed he's reading an Ann Coulter book, and now I'm even more skeeved.
bon bon - Oct 28, 2005 5:50:00 am PDT #9485 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Fucking A, people, last night I smelled the syrup and thought something had spilled near the couch and was doing crazy things like sniffing my pillow all over. And then we smelled it again in the bedroom and I was going nuts that there might be syrup in my hair or something (though I managed not to smell it until the evening).
So yeah, there was definitely a slight syrup smell-- slight enough so that you thought it was on you. Bob smelled it too. It's incredibly odd that the whole island can smell it and no one knows what it is.
Allyson - Oct 28, 2005 5:50:54 am PDT #9486 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
My theory is an antifreeze leak on a huge scale. Antifreeze leaking in a car smells sweet and syrupy. You don't usually notice the leak until you turn on the heat for the first time in the Fall.
bon bon - Oct 28, 2005 5:51:51 am PDT #9487 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Addendum: officemate and I were discussing anthrax that smelled like baking bread. It's a pretty good way to kill people.
tommyrot - Oct 28, 2005 5:53:04 am PDT #9488 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.
and no one knows what it is.
Pancakes from the fifth dimension?
Amy - Oct 28, 2005 5:54:29 am PDT #9489 of 10002
Because books.
You don't usually notice the leak until you turn on the heat for the first time in the Fall.
In the house where I grew up, when we turned the heat on for the first time, it always smelled like licorice.
The NYC smell thing is very creepy, and I'm not even in NYC.
Thinking about the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man is making me giggle, though.
TomW - Oct 28, 2005 5:54:48 am PDT #9490 of 10002
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Making the people of New York crave waffles is a very *subtle* form of attack. Not particularly effective, unless you somehow simultaneously interfere with the city's waffle supply.
Man, Al Qaeda must have hired some new interns or something.
msbelle - Oct 28, 2005 5:55:48 am PDT #9491 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Tom, they're WILEY these terrorists.