Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.

Spike ,'Potential'


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.


amych - Dec 05, 2005 8:59:56 am PST #9424 of 10006
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

(responsible for the conception of my daughter, among other things)

And the loss of my dogwood tree and my car door handle. Yours is much more fun.


Steph L. - Dec 05, 2005 9:00:50 am PST #9425 of 10006
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I don't have to hear about "wintry mix"!! I don't know why I hate that phrase so much.

Because it sounds like it should be a yummy snack food, like Chex mix, instead of annoying precipitation?


tommyrot - Dec 05, 2005 9:02:24 am PST #9426 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

"Wintry mix" is worse than "thorms."


Fred Pete - Dec 05, 2005 9:03:43 am PST #9427 of 10006
Ann, that's a ferret.

I think the heaviest part of the snow isn't even supposed to happen until the overnight hours.

We should be home from work by 6. So as long as it waits until 7 to get bad.


Calli - Dec 05, 2005 9:08:14 am PST #9428 of 10006
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

The wintery part of our mix isn't supposed to show until 10pm. As long as it's not tons of freezing rain I'll be happy. Snow? No problem.


sarameg - Dec 05, 2005 9:08:20 am PST #9429 of 10006

Fred, that's pretty much my attitude as well. Except mine is "get home, take the trash out and get the @!(*&#!! snow shovel out of the trunk." Really, I'll be shocked if we actually get half a foot.

flea wins.


Jessica - Dec 05, 2005 9:15:01 am PST #9430 of 10006
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I always think "wintry mix" should mean frozen margaritas falling from the sky. But it never is...


§ ita § - Dec 05, 2005 9:16:06 am PST #9431 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Wintry mix has gravel all up in it. I never think of it falling from the sky, just the mess it makes when it lands.


Jesse - Dec 05, 2005 9:18:10 am PST #9432 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm just glad you people understand me.


sarameg - Dec 05, 2005 9:51:01 am PST #9433 of 10006

I don't want to go to my meeting. My accomplishments for the year? Not killing every single last one of them for the way I got treated post-layoff shuffle. Not killing backup coworker for at the last minute taking time off, forcing me to train yet another person a week before I was to be gone. Not killing the people in the xxxxx's office for their screwy instructions, or rather lack of, that had people yelling at me from all over the planet for something that was not my fault.

I sense a theme.