Mal: Take your people and go. Captain: You would have done the same. Mal: We can already see I haven't.

'Out Of Gas'


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.


sumi - Jan 06, 2006 7:41:59 am PST #8166 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

I wish that they had a family chart with that article. I love "frugal displays of affection" -- although that doesn't really describe my Ivan.

With each migration, evolutionary forces morphed the pantherlike patriarch of all cats into a rainbow of species, from ocelots and lynxes to leopards, lions and the lineage that led to the most successful cat of all, even though it has mostly forsaken its predatory heritage: the cat that has induced people to pay for its board and lodging in return for frugal displays of affection.

(Bold mine)

Is the PR finale during fashion week or after?


§ ita § - Jan 06, 2006 7:43:01 am PST #8167 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

the cat that has induced people to pay for its board and lodging in return for frugal displays of affection

Yes! You are all pawns to the frontline of the feline domination assault forces.


Betsy HP - Jan 06, 2006 7:45:20 am PST #8168 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

People on NPR who say their names beautifully:

Snigdha Prakash
Kojo Nnamdi
and, the world champion,
Silvia Poggioli


Nora Deirdre - Jan 06, 2006 7:49:10 am PST #8169 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Silvia Poggioli

Yes! Totally. So elegant!


Emily - Jan 06, 2006 7:50:32 am PST #8170 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Roommate and Overnight Guest have, between them, been using the bathroom for about an hour and a half now.

Why must this man have a social life?


Scrappy - Jan 06, 2006 7:51:45 am PST #8171 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

The Bf and I have NPR names, due ot the un-yoooo-sual names of all NPR correspondents. I'm Tondelayo Miller and He's Satirious Fogelson. We figure there's some sort of rule that people have to change their names from, say, "Kevin Halligan" to "Cormac LongChamps" when they get hired.


Rick - Jan 06, 2006 7:53:50 am PST #8172 of 10002

Color Test: the old left/right brain struggle

This is a Stroop test, used to measure attention and distractability. As far as I know, it has nothing to do with left-right brain differences. Odd that they would imply that it does.


bon bon - Jan 06, 2006 7:53:53 am PST #8173 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Nancy O'Dell dress: [link] Wendy Pepper BR dress: [link]


Nora Deirdre - Jan 06, 2006 7:55:23 am PST #8174 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Why must this man have a social life?

Eek. It's tough. Basically, he needs to have a social life with people who have their own apartments infinitiely prefereable to the one he shares with you, so that he is Invisible!Roomate, a fine, if dying breed.

Because if he didn't have a social life at ALL then he'd be hanging around bugging you solo.

You need to deep freeze him so he's uncomfortable in public spaces. No, it's not nice, but it can be extremely effective.


Theodosia - Jan 06, 2006 7:55:24 am PST #8175 of 10002
'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"

When I am Empress, I will decree that all households must have a minimum of 1 bathroom per non-intimately-involved roommates.