You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.

River ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.  

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.


Gudanov - Jul 18, 2006 6:49:16 am PDT #7198 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

It's good to see that we can count on the neocons to call for more war.

From William Kristol: The right response is renewed strength--in supporting the governments of Iraq and Afghanistan, in standing with Israel, and in pursuing regime change in Syria and Iran. For that matter, we might consider countering this act of Iranian aggression with a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. Why wait? Does anyone think a nuclear Iran can be contained? That the current regime will negotiate in good faith? It would be easier to act sooner rather than later. Yes, there would be repercussions--and they would be healthy ones, showing a strong America that has rejected further appeasement.

But such a military strike would take a while to organize. In the meantime, perhaps President Bush can fly from the silly G8 summit in St. Petersburg--a summit that will most likely convey a message of moral confusion and political indecision--to Jerusalem, the capital of a nation that stands with us, and is willing to fight with us, against our common enemies. This is our war, too.

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Peace, schmease.


Trudy Booth - Jul 18, 2006 6:51:23 am PDT #7199 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Well, the "worth" includes real estate and retirement funds and stuff, but yeah -- that seems like upper middle class at the very least.

Even with those things -- a paid off house, a good retirement fund, and no big pile of debt is probably not the norm in the middle class.


Gudanov - Jul 18, 2006 6:58:22 am PDT #7200 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

Median net worth is about $100,000

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10 to 50 times that probably is out of the range of middle class.


Jessica - Jul 18, 2006 6:58:45 am PDT #7201 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I don't know what this means

Bringing up gerunds? With this group???


§ ita § - Jul 18, 2006 6:59:16 am PDT #7202 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Bringing up gerunds? With this group???

Debating whether to post a link? Tommyrot???


tommyrot - Jul 18, 2006 7:01:13 am PDT #7203 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.

Bringing up gerunds? With this group???

No, I just mean in general.

eta: or what ita said....

ION, Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager (video)

Chad Vader rules over the supermarket with an iron fist in Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager


Gudanov - Jul 18, 2006 7:13:02 am PDT #7204 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

Bringing up gerunds? With this group???

Best to cautiously avoid grammer I think. Something many of my sentences do as well.


sarameg - Jul 18, 2006 7:14:19 am PDT #7205 of 10002

I swear my diabetic cat now wakes me up to give him his shot. He is totally an insulin addict!

I have the same phenomenon. He'll even try a dig-in-front-of-litterbox routine that usually shoots me awake. We're still dealing with issues because he's gaining weight still from the mystery illness, which means more med adjustment, but... whatever.

I'm really glad I didn't stand up before I discovered my wrap skirt's inside button had unbuttoned. That could have been bad.

I have a job title now. It's the closest we could find to "knows stuff and answers questions."

Off to read.


Frankenbuddha - Jul 18, 2006 7:16:38 am PDT #7206 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I have a job title now. It's the closest we could find to "knows stuff and answers questions."

"Subject Matter Expert"?


sarameg - Jul 18, 2006 7:21:19 am PDT #7207 of 10002

Newp, research associate professional. It's corpo-speak for knows stuff and answers questions. It blathers on about marketing, vendors and other such crap that I don't do, but it had the highest number of phrases that resemble my work. Which even I'm hard pressed to describe.