I love a mother that buys her daughter a dagger.
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
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.
Aims - Dec 20, 2005 7:17:33 am PST #3534 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
TomW - Dec 20, 2005 7:18:22 am PST #3535 of 10002
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
I'm going to split with my wife and proclaim that I am pro-gift card in a lot of cases. Especially people who aren't close enough to know my callous and arbitrary tastes.
I find them portable, flexible and (if approved by a shadowy secret court) entirely constitutional.
But please, keep it generic, people. Amazon.com - yes. Unicorns.com - no.
Trudy Booth - Dec 20, 2005 7:18:40 am PST #3536 of 10002
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
Getting FISA warrants is almost a rubber stamp, so I gotta wonder what the heck are they doing that they won't even go to FISA.
Yeah, that creeps me out big time.
Jesse - Dec 20, 2005 7:19:06 am PST #3537 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ha HA! I'm not going to have to go in for a final tomorrow night. That is AWESOME. I love the fact that even though the University says they're open, my academic dean says it's "unacceptable" to make us come in for a test.
sarameg - Dec 20, 2005 7:19:11 am PST #3538 of 10002
You know, it is very interesting avoiding the holiday party when your office is 3 doors down from your big boss's and it is a party-in-the-halls.
Kalshane - Dec 20, 2005 7:19:54 am PST #3539 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I try not to give gift cards because of the whole "If everyone gives each other gift cards/cash, why bother?" thing. But I'm also not above asking family members "Hey, give a few ideas of what you want for Christmas." which helps. I had to get my brother a gift card this year because I normally get him a video game of some kind, but he's been off in the Navy and buying video games left and right to give him something to do while at sea, so I have no idea what he does and doesn't have at this point.
As for recieving gift cards, I don't mind, as long as it's somewhere I shop anyway. Best Buy being the the preferred, simply because I'm likely to spend money there anyway, so if the card doesn't cover the whole thing, it's fine.
In the north side where? That's more than enough time for the highway part, but how far you have to go from the highway can make a difference.
Cicero and Altgeld.
§ ita § - Dec 20, 2005 7:20:18 am PST #3540 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Excellent, Jesse!
Sarameg, have you tried under the desk?
I love a mother that buys her daughter a dagger.
Guess what my dad brought me back from China?
Aims - Dec 20, 2005 7:22:15 am PST #3541 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Guess what my dad brought me back from China?
That guy from Lost?
Scrappy - Dec 20, 2005 7:23:02 am PST #3542 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I love gift certificates if they are to a place I enjoy. Money I have to spend on myself--yahoo! I give my nieces and nephews Amazon gift cards. I've done so for the last five years and they seem to LOVE them. I remember being a kid and wanting to pick out my own music and not having enough money to do so and I assume it's the same with them.
sarameg - Dec 20, 2005 7:23:08 am PST #3543 of 10002
Sarameg, have you tried under the desk?
It's always a possibility. Also, I have a cubicle wall so if I sit close enough to the desk, you can't see me from the door.
Though they may be on to that.