There are cockroaches in Mexico big enough to own property.

Cordelia ,'Lessons'


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.


Gudanov - Dec 07, 2005 6:51:01 am PST #9893 of 10006
Coding and Sleeping

or you could tell him to kiss your ass.

That's a valid solution too.


Trudy Booth - Dec 07, 2005 6:53:20 am PST #9894 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 think Chris Klein is making the most of his fifteen TomKat minutes.

Still a dick.


§ ita § - Dec 07, 2005 6:56:13 am PST #9895 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

This is cool, but doesn't do the hard part -- complementary.


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 07, 2005 6:56:41 am PST #9896 of 10006
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

But then again, I suspect that the nation would be a whole lot better off if GWB had her as one of the two or three people he talks to.

Considering people get cut out of the loop the instant they tell him any unpleasant truths that don't fit his Big Rock Candy Mountain view of reality, I suspect Cordelia would have preceded Colin Powel's ouster by about 4 years.


sarameg - Dec 07, 2005 7:04:27 am PST #9897 of 10006

I'm a big fan of Dana's version. Or, a line about how you'd be happy to bill him for the cost.

So I finally get around to ordering my brother a birthday present (um, it is tomorrow) and I realize...I don't know his new address. Oops. Oh well. I guess he won't get the exciting radiator cap on time!


Jesse - Dec 07, 2005 7:11:18 am PST #9898 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I will do my version of telling him to kiss my ass, which is to ignore his e-mail and badmouth him on the internet.

This is always a good option, and one which I heartily recommend.

I just had two people calling at the same time for help with the Econ homework, which I couldn't possibly care less about, mostly due to the fact that I did way better on the midterm than either of them, so I don't really care about the stupid one point I might lose by getting the problems wrong. @@


Kathy A - Dec 07, 2005 7:16:27 am PST #9899 of 10006
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

It's so cool to see Erin in the news (or cited on Language Log), and go, "I know her!" Of course, then I have to go, "in the sense of 'hanging out at the same internet message board as her,' which isn't actually knowing knowing..."

I had that moment on the drive home last night, when the radio news started talking about the Word of the Year. As soon as they mentioned the Oxford English Dictionary, I started bouncing in my seat, and then when Erin started talking, I said, "Hi, Erinaceous!" Then, of course, I remembered that she couldn't hear me due to (a) the interview being recorded, and (b) it being radio and not in person, so I felt like a dork.


§ ita § - Dec 07, 2005 7:19:25 am PST #9900 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

This project is going to cause me to kill people. I swear. I have to remind them of stuff every single time, and they act surprised. We've had the same approach for six months. Please stop acting like it's news.


Jesse - Dec 07, 2005 7:22:34 am PST #9901 of 10006
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OK, so I did laundry, which is a good thing, since I had no clean pairs of socks left. But now I have to trek out to the post office to get a package that's been there for a week already. I don't want to! It's far, and it's cold!


msbelle - Dec 07, 2005 7:43:01 am PST #9902 of 10006
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I do not understand why you can no longer find the non video iPods. Did Apple have all of them pulled from the shelves and destroyed? They should be a cheaper alternative. bastards.