Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


DavidS - Dec 02, 2005 4:21:00 pm PST #8754 of 10006
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm home at not even 8, listening to a song, the first words of which are "No one will ever love you Heather."

Patently untrue! And that's just speaking for me. I expect Mister Daisy has even stronger feelings on the subject.


brenda m - Dec 02, 2005 4:29:54 pm PST #8755 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

Hee. Well, here's one advantage to starting your own business. Email from my brother:

blah blah blah

Email autosig: Brother's Name, Director, Company.

Email from him two minutes later:

blah blah blah, oh yeah, I just promoted myself

Email autosig: BN, General Director, Company.


Daisy Jane - Dec 02, 2005 4:30:49 pm PST #8756 of 10006
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Not tonight he doesn't. He was incredibly rude, mean and utterly humiliated me in front of people. And, that was after I'd already had the shitty day.


Daisy Jane - Dec 02, 2005 4:31:49 pm PST #8757 of 10006
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

brenda's brother has gone power mad!


brenda m - Dec 02, 2005 4:33:16 pm PST #8758 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 told him he should be proud they're so pleased with his work.

"They" being himself and his girlfriend, of course.


Daisy Jane - Dec 02, 2005 4:36:06 pm PST #8759 of 10006
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Just as long as he doesn't turn into one of those mean bosses and imposes restrictive and arbitrary rules on himself.


Allyson - Dec 02, 2005 4:37:16 pm PST #8760 of 10006
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

I'm looking at apartments in New York on Craigslist, which is hilarious, since I have no idea where anything in New York is.

I'm too lazy to move. But I desperately need an enormous change.


brenda m - Dec 02, 2005 4:37:25 pm PST #8761 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

See, that's how they get you. Give you a fancy sounding title and then suddenly they own you.

I wonder if he's getting a raise.


Kat - Dec 02, 2005 4:37:33 pm PST #8762 of 10006
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

1st, Kat, I suck. I was wrong, Mr. H does not have that song. I thought he had every Beatles and Beatle-member song ever, but that one apparently got away.

Sokay, DJ. I'll look for it this weekend.

So, I have an issue. I am on an editorial advisory board for a Very Large Kid's Publisher Who Shall Not Be Named. I'm supposed to submit a lesson for them using memoirs. They want a photo of me and, if possible, working with a kid. Have you seen my face? Not good. I'm having a bad face life.


JZ - Dec 02, 2005 4:37:54 pm PST #8763 of 10006
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Aw, shit, DJ, I'm sorry. You so don't deserve that.