Simon: You are my beautiful sister. River: I threw up on your bed. Simon: Yep. Definitely my sister.

'War Stories'


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.


Trudy Booth - Feb 01, 2006 5:36:00 pm PST #4395 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

Hey, I wasn't the one giving their all to love you long time.

No, just the one writing mental fic about it.


Trudy Booth - Feb 01, 2006 5:38:55 pm PST #4396 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

Well, I did get paid for it.

That's why you can afford the Lush.

You wouldn't have done it had you known.


billytea - Feb 01, 2006 5:39:09 pm PST #4397 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

No, just the one writing mental fic about it.

So now it's fic, is it? Just because none of it ever actually happened, is that any reason to dismiss it out of hand? You people.

Or, in other words, you're the one with the hookers all up in your tagline. I'm not going looking for the hoors you know. I'm just like the Wombles: making good use of the things that I find. If that happens to be a hoor, then is that any reason for me to abandon my principles?


Trudy Booth - Feb 01, 2006 5:42:17 pm PST #4398 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

Ah my young Padawan, I left those hookers on the riverbank long ago. You are still carrying them.


billytea - Feb 01, 2006 6:03:15 pm PST #4399 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Ah my young Padawan, I left those hookers on the riverbank long ago. You are still carrying them.

Pfft. I greet you with "Trudy! Why you still on the hoors, lady?", and you try to make them my burden. As you will note, I'm too busy dragging a horse to add any hookers.


Trudy Booth - Feb 01, 2006 6:18:04 pm PST #4400 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

Put the hookers ON the horse.

Of course, at the next town they'll criticize you for abusing the horse.


billytea - Feb 01, 2006 6:19:01 pm PST #4401 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Of course, at the next town they'll criticize you for abusing the horse.

S'ok, I'll have hookers to offer them.


Trudy Booth - Feb 01, 2006 6:21:26 pm PST #4402 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

S'ok, I'll have hookers to offer them.

The guy in the fable should have pimped his son!


Burrell - Feb 01, 2006 7:23:53 pm PST #4403 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

But I'm the MOMMY. OTOH, glad it's Joe getting puked on.

This is from a way back, but I just wanted to affirm that it is far better to NOT be the puked upon parent. Franny unfailingly wants to be in my arms when she is about to barf, so I always get it.


Rick - Feb 01, 2006 7:53:09 pm PST #4404 of 10002

Don't we have a lizard-brain-thingy in the guts somewhere?

Flea mentioned this way back today, but I think that it is interesting enough to go back to. It was recently discovered that we do have a kind of proto-brain in our guts. It goes back to a time in our evolutionary history there was a neural net associated with the part of the body that ate and another neural net associated with the part of the body that digested food. At some point the net that was closer to the sensory organs, including the mouth, started developing into what we call a brain. The gut-net has stayed pretty much the same for millions of years. But it does process information, and it is of great interest to brain scientists because it's always easier to understand one thing (the brain) if you have an alternative to that thing to compare it to.

The funny thing, though, is watching as the nice, practical minded gastroenterologists try to deal with the ambitious, high powered neuroscientists who want to find out about the new gut-brain. It's a real clash of cultures.