( I should note that I drove my last car until the engine blew up ON THE ROAD, so I may not be the best example. Some people's breaking point is much sooner.)
my sister! Big clouds of billowing smoke!
Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.
'Serenity'
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.
Vortex - May 15, 2006 12:53:05 pm PDT #7443 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
billytea - May 15, 2006 12:56:09 pm PDT #7444 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.
From Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis:
My favourite Ken Ham quote, which appeared in large type on a magazine cover, was "I got excited at Mount St Helens!" Maybe he has a thing for erupting boobies.
Cashmere - May 15, 2006 1:04:25 pm PDT #7445 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
You could use me for car shopping. I scare the salesmen cause I am FIERCE.
My mother bought every single vehicle my parents have ever owned. Every time Mom & Dad would walk into the dealership together, the salesman would talk to Dad. At which point he would turn to my mother tell her he was going across the street or to the nearest bar to have a beer and she could call him when she was ready to have him sign the papers. I love going car shopping with my mother.
Aims - May 15, 2006 1:07:08 pm PDT #7446 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The last time Joe and I went car shopping, they did the same thing. Guy tried to sell me a car for more that the sticker when it was brand new. I told him all of the mistakes they made, pointed out that the KBB someone left on the vehicle was $6000 less than what he quoted me, and then told him that he could go inside and drink his coffee and I'd let him know when I needed him. Poor guy. I've never actually seen a tail grow and promptly go between someone's legs.
Kathy A - May 15, 2006 1:29:47 pm PDT #7447 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Finally caught up on Natter--whew!
Happy anniversary to the Zmayhems, and happy birthday to everyone else!
Had a productive weekend, since I have almost all the apartment unpacked. Of course, I have boxes galore to discard, but that's what tonight's for.
Speaking of tonight, did you know that this evening’s address by President Bush is his very first one on domestic policy issues in his entire Presidency? I'm still guessing he'll manage to work in the phrase "9/11" at some point, though.
Theodosia - May 15, 2006 1:30:31 pm PDT #7448 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
This is the first time I've ever owned a "new" car (2005, bought last September) so I should be a long way aways of having to worry whether to keep it or not. Even though that I've managed to put nearly 4.5K on it since I bought it, but that was 2 round trips to NJ and three round trips to PA during that time!
Sheryl - May 15, 2006 1:31:34 pm PDT #7449 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Megan!
Happy Anniversary Hec and JZ!
Went swimming for the first time in a month-and-a-half today. Did fewer laps than the last time, but my shoulder and neck were starting to hurt me.(The shoulder/upper back has been hurting on and off for the last few weeks. Wish I knew why...)
Sean K - May 15, 2006 1:33:03 pm PDT #7450 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
What's worse than Medieval Times' dinner and a "tournament"?
Pirate's Dinner Adventure, dinner and a pirate show.
Okay, actually I'm torn between thinking this is the stupidest idea ever, and wanting to go. Just once. Just to see what it's like.
sarameg - May 15, 2006 1:40:42 pm PDT #7451 of 10002
My mother bought every single vehicle my parents have ever owned.
Mine too. Well, not dad's 'ghia, but I think that preceded her. My mom LOVES car shopping. She's been known to car shop with no intention of buying a car (I call her evil. "But I'm just trying to get an idea of what's out there! I might change my mind!")
I think she is planning on getting a new car soon. I'll get to hear all about it.
A friend of mine used to get the worst stereotypical "chicks don't know cars" attempted snow jobs when she went car shopping. I know it happens ( I tend to forestall it happening by knowing exactly what I want, so it's less shopping, more "gimme that and shut up,") but her stories are nuts. They stopped when she started introducing herself with "...and I used to build these." She was her own mechanic on her first couple of beaters and did, in fact, work on a GM assembly line. For 3 months.
JZ - May 15, 2006 1:50:43 pm PDT #7452 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.
Pirate's Dinner Adventure, dinner and a pirate show.
Somehow, the part of this that irritates me the most is that they serve you your piratical dinner on paper plates. What kind of lame-ass pirate feast doesn't serve its guests their meal on, at the very least, beat-up pewter platters or slabs of flatbread or pieces of wood from an old rum barrel, if not preferably gold-encrusted plates from the last Spanish galleon they swarmed, pillaged, and sank?
Lame, lame, lame.