Darn your sinister attraction!

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Natter 40: The Nice One  

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 - Nov 03, 2005 6:11:49 am PST #1001 of 10006
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

I found a cookbook of old Maine recipes and it includes a pumpkin pie made with sliced pumpkin. I will be making that this year.


Dana - Nov 03, 2005 6:17:05 am PST #1002 of 10006
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

and thus we get to spend ALL DAY hooking up the studio across the street with firewire drives full of files.

How...exciting. You should pretend you're in a blockbuster movie, or something, and you have to get these files moved because the safety of the country depends on it! I recommend answering your cell phone periodically with the phrase "Hello? Oh, yes, Mr. President. It's quite an honor to speak to you."


Betsy HP - Nov 03, 2005 6:24:44 am PST #1003 of 10006
If I only had a brain...

We have antibiotics, oxygen tanks and glucose drips to today - not available in 1918.

Yes, but we don't have the nursing personnel to use and monitor them. That's one of the big worries: our healthcare system doesn't have the reserves to handle a pandemic.


TomW - Nov 03, 2005 6:29:25 am PST #1004 of 10006
"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."

I, on the other hand, walked into the office this morning to discover some jackhole with a backhoe had severed the network connection between our buildings, and thus we get to spend ALL DAY hooking up the studio across the street with firewire drives full of files.

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You should pretend you're in a blockbuster movie, or something, and you have to get these files moved because the safety of the country depends on it!

That really works best if you've spent years warning everybody about *exactly this* happening, but nobody would listen! Including the sheriff, who's been taking kickbacks from the backhoe drivers for years.

Now they have no choice but to bring you in to fix the mess they made. But watch out! They'll turn on you the first chance they get.


Frankenbuddha - Nov 03, 2005 6:35:38 am PST #1005 of 10006
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I, on the other hand, walked into the office this morning to discover some jackhole with a backhoe had severed the network connection between our buildings, and thus we get to spend ALL DAY hooking up the studio across the street with firewire drives full of files.

You should pretend you're in a blockbuster movie, or something, and you have to get these files moved because the safety of the country depends on it!

Or a Danny Kaye movie:

The Jackhole with the backhoe
Cut the wires for the files...


Jesse - Nov 03, 2005 6:36:32 am PST #1006 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

shrift, Dana, seriously? I'm impressed neither one of you is on a homicidal rage by now. Actually homicidal, I mean.

Vortex, I'm obsessed with things that are pumpkin-y, but not pumpkin pie: pumpkin creme brulee, pumpkin cheesecake, like that.


Sophia Brooks - Nov 03, 2005 6:36:53 am PST #1007 of 10006
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Flu vaccine is my life right now (my office gives shots). I do know that the current vaccine does not protect against "avian flu" as it hasn't passed from human to human yet. (please forgive me if this has already been said). The other thing that is a pain in the ass is that someone or something (perhaps the drug companies) seem to be controlling the vaccine-- that is you could order 30,000 doses for next week, and then just not get them. Or get fewer and late and then have to throw it out because your clinic has passed.


Dana - Nov 03, 2005 6:38:02 am PST #1008 of 10006
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Now they have no choice but to bring you in to fix the mess they made. But watch out! They'll turn on you the first chance they get.

Awesome. You know, she's a techie who doesn't play by the rules. Her partner was three days from retirement when that backhoe driver ran him over. Now she's out for revenge, and god help the people who get in her way.


shrift - Nov 03, 2005 6:39:48 am PST #1009 of 10006
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I recommend answering your cell phone periodically with the phrase "Hello? Oh, yes, Mr. President. It's quite an honor to speak to you."

"Copy that, Mountaineer."


brenda m - Nov 03, 2005 6:40:05 am PST #1010 of 10006
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

I, on the other hand, walked into the office this morning to discover some jackhole with a backhoe had severed the network connection between our buildings, and thus we get to spend ALL DAY hooking up the studio across the street with firewire drives full of files

Hmm. Was Mayor Daley involved? He's been known to settle disputes by way of midnight backhoe.

We have both kinds of cranberry - the fresh and the canned jelly, always left in the shape of the can with the rings.