Jackhole Uncle Bob? Just found out he's selling my great-grandmother's house. It's been in our family for 106 years! Her father built that house. Damn that generation and their complete lack of sentimental value and family history. My grandfather wouldn't have sold it. Grrr.
Buffy: So how'd she get away with the bad mojo stuff? Anya: Giles sold it to her. Giles: Well, I didn't know it was her. I mean, how could I? If it's any consolation, I may have overcharged her.
'Sleeper'
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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.
Aims - Apr 24, 2006 8:38:05 am PDT #3220 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
DavidS - Apr 24, 2006 8:45:33 am PDT #3221 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Kathy A - Apr 24, 2006 8:51:46 am PDT #3222 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Just found out he's selling my great-grandmother's house. It's been in our family for 106 years!
That's hard, Aimee. I was sad when my uncle sold the family farm a few years back (it had been Moran land since 1862), but no one in my generation is still in the farming business (except for one cousin who couldn't afford to run the farm on his own), and the developers' offer was just too good, especially with farming profits being so reduced for family-run operations. It's really bizarre to drive past the old place and see a subdivision sprouting up overnight and the house, all the barns, and apple trees gone.
Ailleann - Apr 24, 2006 8:54:50 am PDT #3223 of 10002
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So while we're vaguely on the topic of creepy crawlies...
Anybody got any home remedies for flying termites? (Other than, of course, calling the exterminators to come to your home)
signed, Didn't Know That Swarms of Insects Could Bring Me To This Level of Rage
Jessica - Apr 24, 2006 8:55:27 am PDT #3224 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
flying termites
Gah! I'd probably have to move.
tommyrot - Apr 24, 2006 8:55:43 am PDT #3225 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.
It's really bizarre to drive past the old place and see a subdivision sprouting up overnight and the house, all the barns, and apple trees gone.
Uh-huh. Well, my parents have sold about 75% of their land (they still own the house, barn, sheds, etc) and it's weird to see houses being built on our former fields.
40 acres have been sold to developers. Another 20 acres would have gone to developers, but our neighbor didn't want new development next to his house, so he bought the land (at the same price the developers would have paid) just to keep it as farmland.
brenda m - Apr 24, 2006 8:56:52 am PDT #3226 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
He is so freaking adorable.
§ ita § - Apr 24, 2006 8:58:43 am PDT #3227 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He is so freaking adorable.
Probably.
Who?
billytea - Apr 24, 2006 8:59:04 am PDT #3228 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
So while we're vaguely on the topic of creepy crawlies...
I watched the last ep of Life in the Undergrowth today. And caught an ep of Buggin' with Ruud on Madagascar's insects. With added lemurs and chameleons. They've found a species of ant there that feeds on its own young. While carrying the larvae around, the ants will scratch them until they bleed and drink the fluid. (They're called Dracula ants.) It's all very cool.
TomW - Apr 24, 2006 9:00:42 am PDT #3229 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."
Anybody got any home remedies for flying termites?
Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.