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...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
Drusilla ,'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.
Gudanov - Feb 07, 2006 12:21:23 pm PST #5563 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2006 12:35:29 pm PST #5564 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am in the driest training ever. Well, not right now--it's the five minute break. But I don't know if I can last until Thursday.
Kat - Feb 07, 2006 12:53:58 pm PST #5565 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
ita, skip training! sneak out.
So, google books? Often kind of cool because I can look at a primary source and search it word by word, or by phrase. I can't necessarily print it out (though I did print the pages of William of Rubruck I needed) but I can get a sense of where to look in a more specific way than the index allows.
Research in the 21st century is a whole new thing.
tommyrot - Feb 07, 2006 12:54:44 pm PST #5566 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.
Crap, I just laughed at others' pain....
The words "jackhammers," "war zones" and "hell" rarely accompany the word "magnificent" in conversation, but they did repeatedly Monday as residents of the Magnificent Mile described what it's like to live among street performers on a daily basis.
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"I'm talking about not being able to have a conversation in my own home, listen to music, anything, without that bang, bang, bang, bang, bang," said Phyllis Mellow, who lives on the 33rd floor at Michigan Avenue and Chestnut Street. "If you go shopping on Michigan, you can walk by it. But it is all day for us."
Those living downtown also complained of saxophonists who play only one or two songs over and over again. The music from two TV series in particular, "The Flintstones" and "The Simpsons," are perpetually rattling in the heads of everyone living on the Magnificent Mile, they said.
Yeah, that would suck. But my first reaction was to laugh....
Sheryl - Feb 07, 2006 12:55:56 pm PST #5567 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Yay Jilli!
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2006 1:25:21 pm PST #5568 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My training teams might notice the drop in their numbers by 25%.
I wish people would stop asking questions.
Laura - Feb 07, 2006 1:33:25 pm PST #5569 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.
What's the last thing that made you smile unexpectedly?
Email reminding me that I'm picking Perkins up at the airport Thursday!
msbelle - Feb 07, 2006 1:35:59 pm PST #5570 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
earlier report on demise of fever appears to have been premature.
JZ - Feb 07, 2006 1:40:08 pm PST #5571 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I just got to use, with complete and utter justification, a slightly politer paraphrase of the statement "Google is your friend" to a doctor. Can I go home now? In fact, can I retire? Surely my professional life can hold no greater achievement than this.
tommyrot - Feb 07, 2006 2:22:29 pm PST #5572 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.
Some people are seeing the conflict over primate ownership as something larger than monkey business -- a question of government power. Taking a libertarian view, Joseph Kirkland doesn't think he should be punished for the perceived mistakes of other monkey owners. An National Rifle Association member, he channels that group's resentment toward people who want to legislate his life. "Just like my gun," he says, "They're going to have to pry my monkey from my cold, dead hand."