Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


Burrell - Jul 21, 2006 11:53:08 am PDT #8089 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

So frigging weird to be in LA and be aware of a freak storm on the East Coast.

Anyway, back to Pierre, Franny learned the song because it is on the Really Rosie CD, and I am a child of the 70s so I play Really Rosie to her. But also because when she gets very worked up, Pierre is one of the few things that can reliably calm her down.


Steph L. - Jul 21, 2006 11:53:20 am PDT #8090 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

The octets are fine, you just can't count them.

shouldn't there be eight?

See, that's the problem. There are nine.

THE OCTETS ARE DATA-ING *INSIDE THE BUILDING*!!!


sarameg - Jul 21, 2006 11:54:28 am PDT #8091 of 10002

A windows-gonna-blow-in-a-sec tune.

Lash yourselves to the doorframes.

My coworkers.... OK, so we're outside and there is a squirrel scouring the patio for crumbs.

" Oh man, look at the nuts on that squirrel! They're huge!"

me: ponders for a moment if I really want to be a part of this conversation. Figures it is unavoidable. Looks at squirrel .

"Um, y'all? Those are boobs. It's a girl squirrel. With babies somewhere."


kat perez - Jul 21, 2006 11:54:43 am PDT #8092 of 10002
"We have trust issues." Mylar

I'm loving the thunder. Possibly because I worked from home today and so am assured that I won't have to try to get home in this mess.


JZ - Jul 21, 2006 12:00:03 pm PDT #8093 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.

Phooey. kat perez beat me to the ocelot limerick (by Eve Merriam, not Nash), which is one of my favorites.

(Side note: it's entirely likely that Hec will come barging in and insist that it is in fact not a limerick because it's not dirty, that proper limericity depends equally upon both meter and filthiness. Which I think is quite wrong, but he gets very entertainingly ranty about it once you get him all wound up.)


Jesse - Jul 21, 2006 12:04:51 pm PDT #8094 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I am VERY pleased with myself to have been inside for all of the storms so far today.


beth b - Jul 21, 2006 12:07:19 pm PDT #8095 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

just hot here. no storms here. time to hibernate...


brenda m - Jul 21, 2006 12:09:18 pm PDT #8096 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

I think we had that storm yesterday. Enjoy!


Gus - Jul 21, 2006 12:12:21 pm PDT #8097 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

tommy: backflung


Toddson - Jul 21, 2006 12:13:28 pm PDT #8098 of 10002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Just because.