I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—

William ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


tommyrot - Mar 17, 2006 7:24:56 am PST #4527 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

why is season two being coughed over?

Because who the villian is is more of a mid-season shocker, rather than obvious fairly early on?


Jesse - Mar 17, 2006 7:26:24 am PST #4528 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

THANK YOU to non-coffee-drinkers who have coffee making capacity at home, for guests. I am still traumatised by my friend's parents who felt that Folger's crystals were sufficient for this purpose.


Fred Pete - Mar 17, 2006 7:30:03 am PST #4529 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

When I moved to DC, the big ATM network was MOST. Which, I'm sure led to the following exchange in some places:

DC resident: Does this machine take MOST cards?

Local: No, just [local network].

Also, bow-TEEK, "fountain" (South Central WI), and "pop" turned to "Coke" (Southernism).


Strix - Mar 17, 2006 7:32:25 am PST #4530 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

BOO-tique.

Grew up with a percolator. Familiar sounds and smells of brewing at 5 am every morning.

Your Linguistic Profile: 60% General American English 15% Dixie 15% Yankee 5% Midwestern 5% Upper Midwestern

AND MISSOURI IS CRAZZZY. WE ARE NOT KANSAS, goddammit.

I'm writing an angry letter this weekend. Possibly a letter to the editor of the Kansas City Star.

GRRRR. Logic, much?


JenP - Mar 17, 2006 7:33:11 am PST #4531 of 10001

There are MAC machines in Delaware, too, but I don't know what it stands for. I call them ATMs. I used to call them cash flow machines, because that's what our college campus one was called, and that's when I first started using them.

So, what region is it that calls all soda coke? I know I did that as a kid, and then later switched to soda, but we were in Germany then, and I think when you asked for a coke, you usually got an actual Coke because that's what was there at the time, so...


sarameg - Mar 17, 2006 7:33:56 am PST #4532 of 10001

I usually have a jar of instant in the freezer. For my dad, who actually drinks gallons and gallons of that stuff and likes instant. I need to go get another before he visits again. He polished it off in January.


Strix - Mar 17, 2006 7:34:08 am PST #4533 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Coke is a Southern thing. Every soda is a coke.

And I was a "pop" sayer till I went to college.


Dana - Mar 17, 2006 7:34:18 am PST #4534 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

So, what region is it that calls all soda coke?

I think it's Deep South. That quiz didn't have an option for what I call soda, which is "soft drink". I also heard "cold drink" a lot in New Orleans.


Fred Pete - Mar 17, 2006 7:36:59 am PST #4535 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

I picked up "Coke" in North Carolina. So it isn't confined entirely to the Deep, Deep South.


JenP - Mar 17, 2006 7:39:17 am PST #4536 of 10001

OK. My mother is from the South, so that's probably where we got it.