Good point. Also, the speed of the follow-through is generally better IRL, as no one has to budget for airfare and hotels.
...because God knows you need some satisfaction in life besides shagging Captain Cardboard! And I never really liked you anyway. And you have stupid hair!
Spike ,'Selfless'
Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
WindSparrow - Dec 07, 2005 2:57:49 am PST #8210 of 10003
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
billytea - Dec 07, 2005 3:04:29 am PST #8211 of 10003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Good point. Also, the speed of the follow-through is generally better IRL, as no one has to budget for airfare and hotels.
True. It remains a booty call, rather than a booty extradition.
Fay - Dec 07, 2005 3:06:32 am PST #8212 of 10003
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Also, the speed of the follow-through is generally better IRL, as no one has to budget for airfare and hotels.
Well, damn. And here I was, all ready to put the pass into passport.
sighs.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 07, 2005 3:25:59 am PST #8213 of 10003
What is even happening?
Stop making me 'ship you two, Fay. *shaky fist*
Yesterday, Julia (first grade--six and seven year old children) came home with an assignment for Holidays around the world. She has to find customs, traditions, etc., for the holiday and culture of her choice.
Her choice? Christmas in Egypt.
When I explained that she'd find much more material if she either picked another holiday (that was RIGHT OUT--she wants Christmas) or another country, she cried her heart out. I almost sent you a big "EMERGENCY--CHILD IN TEARS" email, Fay.
If she were older, and reading more proficiently, I'd let her go for it with the Christmas in Egypt. The Coptic Christians may have some interesting customs. But a lot of this project, like most of the projects this year with this teacher, will end up being largetly researched by me.
This morning, thank goodness, she woke up determined to study Christmas in Spain, instead.
(Sail, there may be an "EMERGENCY--PLEASE FOR TO HELP ON PROJECT" email, in your future.)
DCJensen - Dec 07, 2005 3:43:41 am PST #8214 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
G'morning.
Weatherbug gives a very precise -5.2˚F this morning.
ETA: Who set the outdoors to "January" this week?
Fred Pete - Dec 07, 2005 4:03:06 am PST #8215 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Everybody suggest one book they love that was published before 1923.
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie. Jennie Gerhardt, not because it's his best but because it's less well known. I'd also recommend (even more highly) An American Tragedy, but I think that was 1925 or so.
Anthony Trollope, just about anything. Maybe The Warden because it's (1) fairly short, and (2) the first of the Barsetshire novels. Or Can You Forgive Her?, less because it's one of his best than that it's the first of the Palliser novels, which I prefer as a series to the Barsetshire novels. (Mainly because I lean more toward the political than the religious.) Oh, also The Way We Live Now, because the Gilded Age representation echoes so well today.
Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son.
JZ - Dec 07, 2005 4:32:31 am PST #8216 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
It's one of the Barsets rather than the Pallisers, but I've always loved Framley Parsonage; the heroine is such a lovely snarky little wiseass.
Yes yes yes to Dombey and Son, so very good, so underappreciated.
Also, George MacDonald's Phantastes and Lilith.
Jen - Dec 07, 2005 4:36:50 am PST #8217 of 10003
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
G'morning!
Favorite book published before 1923? North of Boston by Robert Frost.
erikaj - Dec 07, 2005 4:41:12 am PST #8218 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!
Of the ones not mentioned(for I'm a big Twain fan so would consider most of his stuff to be essential...anyone here ever read "Letters from The Earth"...it shocked me when I did, but it might not make your cut-off.) But I'd have to say Wuthering Heights is still my favorite 19th century novel.
Trudy Booth - Dec 07, 2005 5:16:17 am PST #8219 of 10003
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
Sparky! Whale tail! SO COOL. How much did you end up seeing the whale, did you go watching or was it just there?
I have been physically unable to complain about cold weather since moving from Fairbanks, where I lived during their coldest month on record (January 1989).
60 below for 5 days straight, and they didn't even cancel school until the last day, when the buses finally gave up the ghost. Bastards.
Duuuuude. Alaska's State motto could be along the lines of: We're Not Nuts, Honest.
I'm just confused by people boycotting stores for not having Christmas stuff. They're arguing for a more commercialized Christmas?
I know, right! Oy.
Oh no, this won't be the last jab of pain. That one's going to come when she tells me she's pregnant. I'm not even going to pretend I'll be ready for that one. That will hurt big time.
Sighhhh.... oh, alRIGHT... knock me up if it'll make you feel better... t eyeroll
Everybody suggest one book they love that was published before 1923.
Tess of the D'ubervilles