This money, it is too much. You should have some small refund.

Niska ,'War Stories'


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.


Frankenbuddha - Jan 13, 2006 6:28:48 am PST #9624 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I am now earwormed by Interjections!

Conjunction Junction would probably take care of that.


§ ita § - Jan 13, 2006 6:38:40 am PST #9625 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Stephanie, that sounds very cute. And it is apparent that Mother Nature should do everything she can to mollify women who've just given birth. By way of apology.

Yuck. I don't like Ambien. It had been suggested that sometimes just getting to sleep might help a migraine, and it has less of a hangover than Flexeril. True, true. But that period between taking the pill and my head hitting the pillow is gross and horrible. I can just about deal with the visual field distortions and the loss of hand/foot eye coordination, but it's the gaps in my memory that are the worst.

In theory, I can train myself to lie down after I've taken it, so I won't post addled, or watch TV and forget what I saw and then delete it off TiVo, but how am I going to stop myself from answering the phone? Luckily the two people who called me last night called me on my cell which was far from the bed, but I've had one Ambien-laced conversation so far, and I sounded like a moron.


Tom Scola - Jan 13, 2006 6:39:07 am PST #9626 of 10002
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

I have a low tolerance for stupidity today, and an even lower standard for what constitutes stupidity.


Jessica - Jan 13, 2006 6:41:39 am PST #9627 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Pat Robertson withdraws remarks about Sharon after Israeli Tourism Ministry withdraws offer of $50m theme park deal:

Mr Robertson wrote to Mr Sharon's son Omri to say he now realised his remarks were "inappropriate and insensitive".

He asked for forgiveness, but there is no suggestion the Israeli authorities will overturn a decision to block a tourism deal with the preacher.

Israel said on Wednesday it would no longer sign a $50m contract with him.

"My concern for the future safety of your nation led me to make remarks which I can now view in retrospect as inappropriate and insensitive in light of a national grief experienced because of your father's illness," said Mr Robertson's letter.

Tourism Ministry official Ram Levi said Israel remained "outraged" by the remarks.

Earlier this week, the ministry's spokesman Ido Hartuv said Israel would no longer be signing a contract with Mr Robertson to build a biblical theme park by the Sea of Galilee.

The centre was expected to cover nearly 35 acres (14 hectares) north-east of the Mount of Beatitudes, where Jesus is believed to have delivered the Sermon on the Mount.

It would have had a park, an auditorium, a Holy Land exhibition, outdoor amphitheatres, information centre and a media studio.

The Israeli government had tentatively agreed to provide land and infrastructure for the centre in the hope of generating millions of dollars from tourism.

But relations soured when Mr Robertson said God wanted Israel to be whole and undivided and had therefore punished Mr Sharon for Israel's pull-out from the Gaza Strip last year.

"You read the Bible: This is my land, and for any prime minister of Israel who decides he's going to carve it up and give it away, God says no, this is mine," he said last week.

Mr Hartuv insisted Israel had not rejected outright the idea of building the centre.

"The contract is still open - just not with Mr Robertson," he said.


Dana - Jan 13, 2006 6:43:46 am PST #9628 of 10002
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

From the "If Real Life Were Like Cartoons" file:

I wish an anvil would fall on Pat Robertson's head.


tommyrot - Jan 13, 2006 6:45:41 am PST #9629 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I wish an anvil would fall on Pat Robertson's head.

Yeah, but he did lose out on a 50 million dollar deal. Maybe not quite as appropriate as an anvil, but....

And it's nice to finally see someone holding him accountable for the nonsense he spews....


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 13, 2006 6:45:52 am PST #9630 of 10002
"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

I prefer the Lot's wife treatment - less room for misinterpretation.


P.M. Marc - Jan 13, 2006 6:47:12 am PST #9631 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Plei, if you're still here -- did you see the pictures of Smarty Jones' first foal?

I hadn't, but what a cute girl!

Gronk gronk.

Somehow, on the bus while contemplating the smallness of my wardrobe, streams crossed and my brain started writing a Batverse Lord King Bad Fic, an Elseworld requiring that I hit Every. Single. Regency. Cliche. Ever. and now I can't think of anything else, while occasionally fighting off the urge to fact check.

I'm trying to decide just how many characters I can work into this, given that the plot really only requires about four. If I start writing J'onn as a French aristocrat in exile, please shoot me.


amych - Jan 13, 2006 6:48:14 am PST #9632 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

If I start writing J'onn as a French aristocrat in exile, please shoot me.

No. But I might just blackmail you.


Steph L. - Jan 13, 2006 6:49:05 am PST #9633 of 10002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

my brain started writing a Batverse Lord King Bad Fic, an Elseworld requiring that I hit Every. Single. Regency. Cliche. Ever. and now I can't think of anything else, while occasionally fighting off the urge to fact check.

I'm trying to decide just how many characters I can work into this, given that the plot really only requires about four. If I start writing J'onn as a French aristocrat in exile, please shoot me.

Ahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!