Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.

Mal ,'Safe'


Spike's Bitches 28: For the Safety of Puppies...and Christmas!  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Hil R. - Jan 12, 2006 10:31:10 am PST #4200 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I think underwear can be shown well, and it can be shown badly. First off, it needs to be nice underwear. That's mandatory.

Yes. This.

Of course, whether one wants to go to the trouble of fighting it is a question given that it's guaranteed you'd get a landlord with a bad attitude.

Yeah, this is what I was thinking.


Calli - Jan 12, 2006 10:32:44 am PST #4201 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I'm glad your boss is being so reasonable, vw!

I don't know how legal landlords discriminating against students is, but I know it happens in Chapel Hill. Well, the ones who do so don't officially discriminate against students, they have an age limit. So if you're a student who's over, say, 25, they'll rent to you. I guess if car rental agencies can do it, so can landlords.

Which, if you're a responsible person under 25 who is pursuing an education and wants a non-dorm roof over your head, is pretty unfair.


sj - Jan 12, 2006 10:34:12 am PST #4202 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I think underwear can be shown well, and it can be shown badly. First off, it needs to be nice underwear. That's mandatory.

Yes, absolutely, and it needs to coordinate well with the outfit.


Hil R. - Jan 12, 2006 10:34:49 am PST #4203 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I'm 25. My roommate is 27, I think. Didn't help our case. But I'm thinking we don't want to rent from this woman anyway.


Megan E. - Jan 12, 2006 10:37:29 am PST #4204 of 10001

I'm 25.

When did that happen!? Next think you'll tell us that Holli is in College.


EpicTangent - Jan 12, 2006 10:37:37 am PST #4205 of 10001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Whee! I've finally made it up to this year playing catchup. Gonna go work through some more (I keep thinking I should just skip and skim, but invariably one of the Buffista Sprog will do something adorable and/or hilarious [I'm looking at you, Kara!], and I figure I can't risk missing anything).

See ya all in a bit.

edited for appropriate use of parenthetical phrases


amych - Jan 12, 2006 10:38:41 am PST #4206 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

But I'm thinking we don't want to rent from this woman anyway.

Doesn't sound like it. Even the "no housefuls of frat boys" types usually get the difference between that and late-20s grad students, if they're at all inclined to be reasonable.


brenda m - Jan 12, 2006 10:55:53 am PST #4207 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I'm 25. My roommate is 27, I think. Didn't help our case.

What you do have in common with most other students, though, is that you're not likely to stay too long. Or at least, I think that would be a more reasonable assumption than that two mid-twenties grad students are going to kick holes in the wall and leave beer cans on the lawn. That might be figuring into her resistance.

But I'm thinking we don't want to rent from this woman anyway.

But I don't think you're wrong there.


billytea - Jan 12, 2006 11:03:52 am PST #4208 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

House: You put the Queen on your money. You're British.

Dammit, he's hip to our game!

Signed, billytea, southern Brit


Cass - Jan 12, 2006 11:23:24 am PST #4209 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I used to date a guy with a foot fetish. It really wasn't bad or even all that weird.
Oh yeah, ChiKat, there would be some nice upsides to it. I'm a sucker for a good foot massage. No idea if he does pedicures, but whoa that would be bonus too. But I don't dig him. Oh well.
He used to give great foot rubs and would pay for my pedicures. Again, there are definite up sides.
Sigh...
He told me I'd always have a job there and to stop worrying about that.
The bug that can and DOES! (pardon the asscaps, got all happy for you having a good boss that we don't need to thwap, vw.)
Signed, billytea, southern Brit
I'm earwormed with Southern Cross Brit now. Grrrrrr.

patiently waiting to hear how the interviews went