Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


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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.


Kat - Feb 02, 2006 3:22:58 pm PST #4665 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Sure enough, the next time I talked to my mom, she was singing their praises.

your mom and I need to have lunch some day.

can anyone explain why people seem to lose their ability to drive normally in Costco parking lots?

Well it has to do with avoiding the assinine people with big carts walking down the middle of the parking aisle.


Spidra Webster - Feb 02, 2006 3:23:37 pm PST #4666 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

> Nestorians believed that there were times when Jesus was human and times when he was divine. For example, when he was a kid and making mistakes, or you know still in the ancient version of diapers and shitting all over himself... human.

Hmm again. My understanding of Catholicism is that that would still be a heretical viewpoint. Unless I'm really turned around and you were actually saying "YES. That would be a heretical POV."


DavidS - Feb 02, 2006 3:23:40 pm PST #4667 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm willing to marry this week's Dangerous Dressing guy. So far.

Is he the one in the cowboy suit and the Valentino/Sheik outfit? He was totally game.

So was the woman last week. I don't think Americans could do it. We're not cheeky enough. We don't have that innate camp spirit of the Brits.


sarameg - Feb 02, 2006 3:23:51 pm PST #4668 of 10002

Dawn, the same thing happens in Giant parking lots. It's one of the reasons I don't go to the one that is right next door unless I'm walking to it.


Spidra Webster - Feb 02, 2006 3:24:43 pm PST #4669 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

So was the woman last week. I don't think Americans could do it. We're not cheeky enough.

I bloody well could. I haven't seen the show, but I've worn all SORTS of things out.


DawnK - Feb 02, 2006 3:26:18 pm PST #4670 of 10002
giraffe mode

assinine people with big carts walking down the middle of the parking aisle

Ahh I see. I was thinking that the cart pushing people were a carry over from the inability to drive, where really it's something in the magic of the giant carts that makes people be rude and not pay any attention to where they are.

Eta: Sarameg, I'm really glad that we don't have any Giants here in LA. I don't think I could deal with 2 places with that sorta magic! Darn Costco and their cheap gas, darn them to heck


Kat - Feb 02, 2006 3:29:44 pm PST #4671 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

My understanding of Catholicism is that that would still be a heretical viewpoint. Unless I'm really turned around and you were actually saying "YES. That would be a heretical POV."

No. It's heretical. It's just not contoversial or really a huge debatable point.


sarameg - Feb 02, 2006 3:29:52 pm PST #4672 of 10002

I suspect the two of you'd get along quite well. Oh, did I mention that in running the reading program for second graders, she's managing the high school tutors? She's always taught elementary and Head Start with no interest in the upper levels, but she so enjoys the teens. I'm getting almost as many stories about them as I am the little ones. I find this interesting given the terror that my brother was at that age. I figured it permanently put her off that age.


Spidra Webster - Feb 02, 2006 3:31:23 pm PST #4673 of 10002
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

Sorry to be so dense, Kat. My workplace sucks my brains right out of me. Hey! My employer is a zombie!


Kat - Feb 02, 2006 3:31:52 pm PST #4674 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I think that teens are good fun, and different when you aren't their classroom teacher but you are still working with them.

Speaking of adolescents! Two of my students are in an art show, from work they did with my class, at the LA City Hall. Funnily enough, it's a kid from my current school and a kid from my previous school. Wacky, right?