Announcing the country names in Italian then English then French is funny because first you get "pronounce every letter and sometimes add a few" then "sounds normal to me" then "chop off the last few letters"
Lydia: Its removal from Burma is a felony and when triggered it has the power to melt human eyeballs.
Giles: In that case I've severely underpriced it.
'Potential'
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 11, 2006 8:11:31 am PST #6506 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
Tom Scola - Feb 11, 2006 9:46:01 am PST #6507 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Strand, the big second-hand bookseller in NY, just sold a Shakespeare second folio for $100K. [link]
sumi - Feb 11, 2006 10:35:25 am PST #6508 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Trudy -- did you tape Injustice ? What a great episode. (I just watched it.) Casting Miles Drentell as David Swain's father ? Perfect.
sarameg - Feb 11, 2006 10:46:13 am PST #6509 of 10002
You'd think this was a repeat of the 2003 storm. Good lord. Grocery and target were zoos. People stock up on the weirdest shit. 8 gallons of ice cream? 2 flats of bottled water. A cart FULL of cereal?
Now, granted, I was there too. Picking up my usual weekly groceries since I'd hate to schlepp them through slush and I wanted to start a crock pot stew tonight. But still! The clerk said that it wasn't so bad now. This was just up a little from normal saturday masses (I usually go late sat or on sunday.) But from 7 am to noon, they had lines to the back of the store.
And for the record, it has barely started sticking.
The Strand has parted me with my money. Mostly on Nevil Shutes, because they had so many!
Trudy Booth - Feb 11, 2006 10:47:09 am PST #6510 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
sumi, it broke my heart to diss sweet kyle, but I taped the opening ceremonies instead.
sighhhhh
Cass - Feb 11, 2006 10:52:26 am PST #6511 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Bro. Hudepohl came running through the office, yelling at the top of his lungs, "Joey won the gold! Joey won the gold!" Apparently spoiler policies don't apply to Franciscan friars whose nephews just won gold.Made me wonder what my uncle's policy would be. Which made me entirely blank on what flavor priest he was. Finally flashed on t his name OSA, so Order of St. Augustine.
Truth be told though? I am just dementedly chanting, "OSA! OSA! OSA!" in the spirit of Olympic fever. Which I didn't have until the religious spoiler policies were brought up.
And, yes, I am going to a myriad of hells.
Jessica - Feb 11, 2006 11:38:35 am PST #6512 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Snow's coming down pretty steadily here, but it's not sticking yet. I understand that the weather people get ratings by predicting TWELVE ZILLION INCHES OF DEATHSNOW, but I'd much rather hear "2-4 inches" and be pleasantly surprised than the other way around.
quester - Feb 11, 2006 11:47:27 am PST #6513 of 10002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Skippy
Watching my tape of the opening ceremony and trying to identify the narrator of the opening montage of NBC's coverage and realized it's Andre Brauer! Cool!
flea - Feb 11, 2006 11:56:39 am PST #6514 of 10002
information libertarian
We are trying to buy a new cordless phone at Amazon and there are approximately 4000 choices, all of which seem to have a wild mix of positive and negative reviews, and whose variability in price seems completely arbitrary.
Why so we like the internet again? Freedom from choice is what I want.
Sean K - Feb 11, 2006 12:02:21 pm PST #6515 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
TWELVE ZILLION INCHES OF DEATHSNOW
KILLER FROST!