Yay Anne!
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
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.
Sue - Nov 24, 2005 3:24:53 am PST #6837 of 10006
hip deep in pie
Anne W. - Nov 24, 2005 3:25:47 am PST #6838 of 10006
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
At the moment, I'm savoring my coffee and doing my morning internet rounds.
Sue - Nov 24, 2005 3:36:43 am PST #6839 of 10006
hip deep in pie
§ ita § - Nov 24, 2005 3:42:25 am PST #6840 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Happy US Thanksgiving-Observant Buffistas. Don't want to wish unearned happiness to those sly Canadians now. I see through your plan.
Sue - Nov 24, 2005 3:52:33 am PST #6841 of 10006
hip deep in pie
HEY!! We deserve all the happiness we can weasel out of you. 'Cause were the nicest country.
§ ita § - Nov 24, 2005 4:00:59 am PST #6842 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was backpacking long ago, travelling from Montreal with a Canadian friend across North Africa. She had a long-standing issue with Americans (mostly) who tagged on a Canadian flag onto their luggage so they'd be treated more nicely.
That was the summer of the Kahnawake (sp?) fiasco where someone was trying to extend a golf course onto sacred land, and there were big guns, and a standoff, and then another friend had just mentioned that South Africans officials had at one point travelled to Canada for apartheid tips, so I just looked at her funny, but, you know, you guys have good PR, and who doesn't have skeletons?
However, if you're that nice, you shouldn't bogart the happiness on this oh-so-special USian day.
Jessica - Nov 24, 2005 4:06:43 am PST #6843 of 10006
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
C'mon, you can tell me, you guys just crammed it in before Christmas for an extra day off, right?
No, we crammed it in before Christmas to have an extra two days off. Why else would it be celebrated on a Thursday?
And Canadians have Thanksgiving, just not today.
Sue - Nov 24, 2005 4:10:00 am PST #6844 of 10006
hip deep in pie
That was the summer of the Kahnawake (sp?) fiasco where someone was trying to extend a golf course onto sacred land, and there were big guns, and a standoff, and then another friend had just mentioned that South Africans officials had at one point travelled to Canada for apartheid tips, so I just looked at her funny, but, you know, you guys have good PR, and who doesn't have skeletons?
My friend's uncle was minister of Indian Affairs during the Oka crisis, and my friend said he's never heard such racist things come from someone's mouth as his uncle.
We're no means perfect.
Hey ita, did you hear reports that they found info on the Montreal Metro system of one of the Madrid bombers? I was watching the news last night, and I kept thinking, "Not Montreal!" [link]
Kat - Nov 24, 2005 4:14:39 am PST #6845 of 10006
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
It feels too early to be awake. 6:15, when it's this dark outside and in, is somehow a huge indignity.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
§ ita § - Nov 24, 2005 4:19:00 am PST #6846 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ack! Leave Montreal alone!!!
Chinese float liquid condom concept.
It's dark inside because not everyone's up yet. I'm sure the rapid clicking of powerbook keys and the ghostly glow on our faces will wake them up soon.
Or maybe I'm too much of a morning person with insomnia to understand the persistence of a holiday sleep-in.