This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?

Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'


Spike's Bitches 29: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Fay - Apr 17, 2006 11:53:42 am PDT #9698 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

It is the very best Disney movie bar none. OMG. And Lilo, bless her, in her wee (WhateverTheHawaiianWordForGalibeyaIs), and the other bloody wretched little girls in their pink tops and clean sneakers and jeans, with their bloody Barbie dolls, argh! And Lilo is so entirely fabulous, feeding Pudge the fish because he controls the weather, and suspecting her sister's boss of being a vampire with legions of undead, and loving Elvis, and just being The Coolest Wee Person Ever, and I...as it turns out, need to stop typing, because I can't see the bloody screen anymore. Argh. Am snotty mess.

Enough already.

Anyway, on a more cheery note I have a wee Grade 1 in my end-of-the-day class (3 wee boys & 2 wee girls) who is pretty much as adorable as Lilo. But in a much less heart-breaking way. Which is good. Yes. Having her in my lesson always makes the day end on a high note, because she is unspeakably endearing. Although sans monster.


brenda m - Apr 17, 2006 11:53:55 am PDT #9699 of 10001
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

ev(il)+(a)dorable.

Hmm. It's no adorkable, I'll tell you that. I think it doesn't work for me because you don't get to do the fun eeeeeeevil part of e[eeeeeeee]vil.


P.M. Marc - Apr 17, 2006 11:54:58 am PDT #9700 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Hmm. It's no adorkable, I'll tell you that. I think it doesn't work for me because you don't get to do the fun eeeeeeevil part of e[eeeeeeee]vil.

Yeah, but you get to put in a stealth adorable and get a delayed narrow-eyed squinchy face from Pete.


brenda m - Apr 17, 2006 11:55:09 am PDT #9701 of 10001
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

Speaking of evil, CEO just sent my boss an email requesting a three-way with her and one of the senior VPs. Not enough ew in the world, I don't care that he didn't mean it that way.


juliana - Apr 17, 2006 11:55:15 am PDT #9702 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

(WhateverTheHawaiianWordForGalibeyaIs),

(Muumuu)


Emily - Apr 17, 2006 11:55:50 am PDT #9703 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

a delayed narrow-eyed squinchy face from Pete.

Mmm. Squinchy face.


erikaj - Apr 17, 2006 11:56:01 am PDT #9704 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

vibing hard for Fay...


Typo Boy - Apr 17, 2006 11:56:44 am PDT #9705 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

What do you think of compulsory voting? It saddens me that so few Americans vote, but I can often understand their reasons, and I can't understand the rationale behind mandating it.

I think the question is one of benefits. It is certainly no greater infringement than paying taxes, so the question is does it have benefits that outweight that infringement. Or to put it another way are there social costs to not having mandatory elections? I think you could argue that there are; poorer and younger people tend to vote less than richer and older. It skews the process towards the haves.

I doubt mandatory voting is in the near future in the U.S. - so I would agree with a four day voting period - Friday through Monday. Also same day registration. (Same day registration brings higher turnout than vote-by-mail.)


Topic!Cindy - Apr 17, 2006 11:59:27 am PDT #9706 of 10001
What is even happening?

I can't read The Velveteen Rabbit. I can't even describe it or explain the plot to someone else, because I get very very emotional about it.
Well, yeah.

The hardest for me is In Which Christopher Robin and Pooh Come To An Enchanted Place and We Leave Them There. I can't read it without sobbing, and it's only getting worse as these children are getting older.


Pete, Husband of Jilli - Apr 17, 2006 12:01:03 pm PDT #9707 of 10001
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd

Yeah, but you get to put in a stealth adorable and get a delayed narrow-eyed squinchy face from Pete.

More of a 'single raised eyebrow' look really. Still, I'm not comforted by the escalation of squinchy-inducing to a tactical level.