Diamond-encrusted chocolate. $5 million!
Sounds like a really good way to chip a tooth.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sean K - Jan 26, 2006 7:39:19 am PST #2758 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Nutty - Jan 26, 2006 7:45:01 am PST #2759 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I have mentioned on occasion that I saw that live and people would tell me that wasn't possible. But it was on the tv in the school library and I was checking out books.
Some other class at my grade school was watching it -- I want to say first graders. I had no idea it wasn't a normal network broadcast; it was just the school TV rolled out into the foyer hall. (A teacher came rushing into my science class as we were shuffling out, and I remember the science teacher (who was a shmuck) uttering a mild curse of surprise.)
Sean K - Jan 26, 2006 7:47:22 am PST #2760 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I didn't watch the Challenger disaster live myself, but the kids in one of the science classes at my school did. That particular science teacher had been a finalist in the teacher selection, and knew Christa MacAuliffe personally. It hit him pretty hard.
I didn't watch it live, but I do seem to remember that tape of the accident was all anybody watched for the next few days.
brenda m - Jan 26, 2006 7:53:57 am PST #2761 of 10002
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
Turns out the video was of a man getting mauled by a lion. Great use of company resources, bucko.
Feh. People get mauled by lions all the time. Now, someone getting mauled by a llama, that would be a video worth passing around.
Wolfram - Jan 26, 2006 7:55:38 am PST #2762 of 10002
Visilurking
Now, someone getting mauled by a llama, that would be a video worth passing around.
If it isn't out there already, it will be. Like doggy porn.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 26, 2006 7:57:43 am PST #2763 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Now, someone getting mauled by a llama, that would be a video worth passing around.
If it isn't out there already, it will be. Like doggy porn.
Which of course brings on the inevitability of llama porn...
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 26, 2006 7:59:02 am PST #2764 of 10002
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
You say this, but I think about, say, the Rhinoceros whose real-life counterpart has a 2 foot dick. Marvel should just steer clear in general.
On the other hand, keeping up with the parallel biologies would give the Vulture a chance for at least one tactic that would be effective against opponents...
Betsy HP - Jan 26, 2006 7:59:38 am PST #2765 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I was sick at home the day the Challenger died. I was watching the launch on general principle; by then they were routine, and I hadn't watched one in ages.
I still remember the slow sickening realization that something was wrong. It was like the moment after the second airplane hit the WTC, when I knew "Oh, shit, this was deliberate".
bon bon - Jan 26, 2006 8:12:53 am PST #2766 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
With Christa McAuliffe set to be the first teacher in space, NASA had arranged a satellite broadcast of the full mission into television sets in many schools,
OK, so that's how I saw it. I have mentioned on occasion that I saw that live and people would tell me that wasn't possible. But it was on the tv in the school library and I was checking out books.
Wow, people told you that? They rolled a TV into homeroom for me, too.
Betsy HP - Jan 26, 2006 8:14:48 am PST #2767 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I can't remember now if I was watching CNN or a regular network. I remember it caught me by surprise; you'd think if it was a replay, they'd have announced it as "Something just went badly wrong".