Ow! That sounds awful, Kathy. I'm glad you're feeling better, even if it means you don't get to go home early.
Jayne: Here's a little concept I been workin' on. Why don't we shoot her first? Wash: It is her turn.
'Serenity'
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.
libkitty - Feb 15, 2006 11:59:06 am PST #7417 of 10002
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Kathy A - Feb 15, 2006 12:06:26 pm PST #7418 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Well, all that happened to me was a stiff neck and a scraped-up knee, as well as complete embarrassment over the fall (and not one "You okay there, lady?" from the two yard workers who were clipping the hedges). Funniest thing was the cat's new infatuation with the heating pad, and her pissed-off look when I pulled it out from under her.
Sue - Feb 15, 2006 12:10:14 pm PST #7419 of 10002
hip deep in pie
When I was camping this fall, the campsite across from ours got raided by raccoons who managed to unlock a locked cooler and were attempting to drag it out of the campsite. They made a insane racket.
Cashmere - Feb 15, 2006 12:12:14 pm PST #7420 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Question for Allyson--the reality show Get this Party Started--is that the one you were approached about? I saw the first few minutes on tv recently and wondered if that was it.
brenda m - Feb 15, 2006 12:13:57 pm PST #7421 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
We were camping once when I was a kid and some people had left their food and stuff around when they went to the lake for a swim. Came back to find all the food gone and the bears, I shit you not, sittting at the picnic table drinking the wine they left to air.
DXMachina - Feb 15, 2006 12:14:13 pm PST #7422 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
When I was camping thsi fall, the campsite across from ours got raided by raccoons who manage to unlock a locked cooler and were attempting to drag it out of the campsite. They made a insane racket.
This has happened to me, as well. We even weighed down the top of the cooler with a frelling picnic table, one of the big heavy ones that comes with the campsite, and the little bandits still managed to steal our hotdogs.
JZ - Feb 15, 2006 12:17:58 pm PST #7423 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.
Eeps, Kathy, ouch! Though a half-day with a nap and a heating pad does sound decently consolatory.
Department of Random:
This morning after dropping Emmett off at school, I listened to a report on NPR about changing traditions in a number of small Spanish villages that every year around this time hold huge fiestas commemorating the Christian conquest of Spain away from the Moors. Parades, pageants, marching bands, masses of food and alcohol, lots of dressing up, etc., etc. And, until this year, most of them have ended with something on the order of a wicker Moor or a wicker Mohammed being stuffed with gundpowder and blown up (in one town, Mohammed's head was traditionally lit with a cigar). This year, many of them are changing the end ritual, with either effigy-free bonfires or fireworks or whatnot.
The reporter interviewed some Spanish officials, a Muslim immigrant from Morocco, and the requisite Old Man With Lots Of Opinions Just Sitting In The Town Square. It just boggled me how placid and reasonable everyone was. Nobody huffed or snarled about Holy Tradition or tried to handwave it away or sputtered on about thin-skinned immigrants who have to assimilate and learn to love freedom of speech.
Instead, the officials said, "Well, the extremists are always looking for excuses to get violent, so if we can have fiestas without handing them a custom-made excuse, why not?" The immigrant said, "They have to show respect for other faiths. But I understand that they didn't mean any offense." And the OMWLOOJSITTS said, "We didn't mean to offend anyone, but if someone does get offended then of course you stop doing it. It's no big deal."
Where was the outrage? The defensiveness? The outcry against political correctness destroying the very fabric of their lives? What was with all the reasonable and the concilatory and the everyone assuming good intentions on everyone else's part? What kind of a crazy land is Spain, anyway?
Sue - Feb 15, 2006 12:18:23 pm PST #7424 of 10002
hip deep in pie
We totally thought the raccoons were bears, Brenda, they made so much noise.
This has happened to me, as well. We even weighed down the top of the cooler with a frelling picnic table, one of the big heavy ones that comes with the campsite, and the little bandits still managed to steal our hotdogs.
Apparently their little legs are stronger than they look.
Cass - Feb 15, 2006 12:19:09 pm PST #7425 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.
Funniest thing was the cat's new infatuation with the heating pad, and her pissed-off look when I pulled it out from under her.Puppycat's OTP is Puppycat/Heating pad. She sneaks onto it whenever I get up. She will also sleep on it when it is off, just hoping that the magic heat will come back. She's a heat ho.
Allyson - Feb 15, 2006 12:19:30 pm PST #7426 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
is that the one you were approached about?
No idea. There wasn't a name for it when they spoke to me, but thanks for jogging my memory, because that call was hilarious.
"My boss could totally introduce you to JJ Abrams."
Okey dokey.