Hee! Actually, the letter openers are that kind where the blade's relatively enclosed, so you'd have to be trying really hard to commit a grisly murder with it. Perhaps they were thinking along the same lines I was!
I tell you I have this theory. It goes where, you're the one who's not my sister. Cuz mom adopted you from a shoe box full of baby howler monkeys, and never told you cuz it could hurt your delicate baby feelings.
Dawn ,'Selfless'
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.
Emily - Apr 20, 2006 8:00:33 am PDT #2495 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Strega - Apr 20, 2006 8:04:07 am PDT #2496 of 10002
That Rolling Stone article was kind of a mess, which is a shame. I know nobody's gonna replace Hunter, but I wanted to read something rabble-rousing, and instead I get
From time to time, after hours, I kick back with my colleagues at Princeton to argue idly about which president really was the worst of them all.
The food sign article was entertaining, though. Not too impressed with his theories, since according to the foods I like, I should be tidy and adventurous and extroverted and... my own evil twin, basically.
TomW - Apr 20, 2006 8:06:50 am PDT #2497 of 10002
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Are you suggesting its function may be improved as a storage unit for a severed head?
All I'm saying is that a tote bag that doesn't drip fluids everywhere has a multitude of uses. The fluid could be tomato juice. It's not, but it could be.
Actually, the letter openers are that kind where the blade's relatively enclosed, so you'd have to be trying really hard to commit a grisly murder with it.
Dang, I hate those things.
tommyrot - Apr 20, 2006 8:09:10 am PDT #2498 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.
From time to time, after hours, I kick back with my colleagues at Princeton to argue idly about which president really was the worst of them all.
Yeah. I wonder if they wear smoking jackets and drink out of brandy snifters while they do that....
Calli - Apr 20, 2006 8:18:31 am PDT #2499 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Not too impressed with his theories, since according to the foods I like, I should be tidy and adventurous and extroverted and... my own evil twin, basically.
Yeah, I'm basically Dramatic!Calli, according to those theories. Which is really, really not the case. At all. Although my lipstick choices today are on the intense side.
beth b - Apr 20, 2006 8:32:25 am PDT #2500 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
the food theory - didn't really work for me . I've loved mint choclate chip ice cream since childhood. I am not a cynic about most things.
TomW - Apr 20, 2006 8:33:36 am PDT #2501 of 10002
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Yeah. I wonder if they wear smoking jackets and drink out of brandy snifters while they do that....
Words like "poppycock" and "balderdash" flow almost as freely as the brandy, I suspect.
Emily - Apr 20, 2006 8:36:33 am PDT #2502 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Okay, back to working on my portfolio. Really. Any time now. None of those places will hire me if I don't graduate, and I have to do this to graduate. Let's go. Okay. Now we're really cooking. Work ahoy! Yup.
JZ - Apr 20, 2006 8:46:45 am PDT #2503 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.
According to my ice cream and produce choices, I am cynical and very extroverted. Also, possibly I lack integrity due to my disdain for cheese curls (though that came very recently, with my discovery of Barbara's Cheese Bakes, which kick cheese curls' ass like a mofo -- like a delicious, tangy mofo; possibly I had plenty of integrity and wholesomeness, aside from the mint chip cynicism, until Barbara's lured me to the dark side).
Anyhow, one thing that is clear is that beth and I are perfectly suited to share a pint of ice cream.
§ ita § - Apr 20, 2006 8:48:30 am PDT #2504 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Co worker is sitting there, eyes closed, and humming.
This can't be good. Time for a water break.