Tracy: Well-- That call -- That call means you just murdered me. Mal: No, son. You murdered yourself. I just carried the bullet a while.

'The Message'


Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?  

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.


§ ita § - Apr 19, 2006 11:47:50 am PDT #2314 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I love the theme music for The Unit.

Unnf. That's all I got.


Typo Boy - Apr 19, 2006 11:48:55 am PDT #2315 of 10002
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.

"How To [do what we have a brand new product offering to do that we charge people a lot of money for and that he personally is charged with selling] For Free."

Just for fun I can imagine a basis on which this is not asshatery. There is an old story where a guy with a broken printer calls the repair shop, asks to speak to the tech. He asks the woman who repairs the printers if there is anything he might do to fix it himself before bringing it in. To his surprise, she gives him a whole long list of things to try. He thanks her, tells her how nice it is of her to help him try to avoid using the shop.

She replies "Oh no, it is nothing to do with being nice. Our boss encourages us to provide free phone support in cases like this. He says we make much bigger profit on repairs where people mess around with the printer themselves before bringing them in."


tommyrot - Apr 19, 2006 11:52:55 am PDT #2316 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.

I like this relationship. It is working out for me.

We could fight crime!

(If crime can be fought by napping.)


Liese S. - Apr 19, 2006 11:54:35 am PDT #2317 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Right! We could fight crime, later, after our naps. If it were crime that was easily cowed and could be dissuaded from its evil ways by snarkitude and convinced that its life could be better if only it took more naps.


Typo Boy - Apr 19, 2006 11:57:07 am PDT #2318 of 10002
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.

More non-news: sexual equality leads to better sex: [link]

On second thought, there are people who still don't know that.

On third thought are there a lot of people who don't know this who listen to science that contradicts their prejudice?


tommyrot - Apr 19, 2006 11:58:48 am PDT #2319 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.

My computer just told me:

The maximum aggregate operation cannot take a bit data type as an argument.

So I was all, "Fine. I'll just cast my bits as integers."

I hope my computer didn't take that the wrong way....


§ ita § - Apr 19, 2006 12:01:44 pm PDT #2320 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'd like to see the sexual satisfaction numbers by gender.


Nutty - Apr 19, 2006 12:15:33 pm PDT #2321 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

If the ring finger is longest, it indicates a high testosterone level.

I think if this were so, then men's hands (and women's, to a lesser extent) would change shape all the time! Your testosterone levels go up and down over the course of your life (possibly your day, or week, or month), but your fingers do not get longer or shorter after a certain point in life.

Or else there would be much more fashion influence in men's gloves, since they would have to buy new ones alla time.


§ ita § - Apr 19, 2006 12:17:10 pm PDT #2322 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I wonder if that's supposed to work for women too. My ring finger is the longer one.


Kathy A - Apr 19, 2006 12:17:38 pm PDT #2323 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Or else there would be much more fashion influence in men's gloves, since they would have to buy new ones alla time.

With extra padding for the ring finger. Sort of like the late-medieval fashion of wearing codpieces.