HEY!! We deserve all the happiness we can weasel out of you. 'Cause were the nicest country.
Angel: Connor, this is Spike and Illyria. Guys, this is Connor. Connor: Hi. umm...I like your outfit. Illyria: Your body warms. This one is lusting after me. Connor: Oh...no, I--I--it's just that it's the outfit. I guess I've had a thing for older women. Angel: They were supposed to fix that.
'Origin'
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 3:52:33 am PST #6841 of 10006
hip deep in pie
§ 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.
Kristen - Nov 24, 2005 4:21:07 am PST #6847 of 10006
My sleep schedule has been so wacked lately, this feels almost normal.
Nilly - Nov 24, 2005 4:23:43 am PST #6848 of 10006
Swouncing
Or maybe I'm too much of a morning person with insomnia to understand the persistence of a holiday sleep-in.
Hey, it's perfectly OK to like to be up early!
I can never decide which is more fun: sleeping in and getting up late (including waking up on the regular time, stretcing, smiling to myself for not-needing-to-get-up and going back to sleep), or getting up early and read, make a jigsaw puzzle or the like, long before everybody else wakes up.
Theodosia - Nov 24, 2005 4:27:20 am PST #6849 of 10006
'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"
Timelies! I'm not going to NJ after all, so I have no plans for today. I'm not even sure what friends are at loose ends (not many, I think) so I may just have to go to a movie by myself.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 24, 2005 4:29:10 am PST #6850 of 10006
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Happy Turkey Day, lovely Buffistas.
**gobble gobble**
Kermit waves
Catch y'all on the flip side.
...and with that, off to Maine.