I'm just, uh, just feeling kinda... truthsome right now. And, uh... life's just too damn short for ifs and maybes.

Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'


Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46  

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.


Kathy A - Aug 02, 2006 12:19:03 pm PDT #112 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Now that I've moved, I have to register to vote up here before the end of September. Only problem with that is they use voter registration rolls for jury members, so I'm sure I'll be getting my jury duty notice sometime this winter.


ChiKat - Aug 02, 2006 12:21:32 pm PDT #113 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

Any Chicagoistas need very little money and a good workout?? [link]


§ ita § - Aug 02, 2006 12:24:27 pm PDT #114 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If those had handles, I know a bunch of kravvers who'd love to go over and help him out for that little money. But the refreshments had better be alcoholic.


tommyrot - Aug 02, 2006 12:24:45 pm PDT #115 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Any Chicagoistas need very little money and a good workout?? [link]

That whole thing almost sounds like a joke....


tommyrot - Aug 02, 2006 12:26:53 pm PDT #116 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

You know, that's about 12.3 tons. I doubt the average appartment could take that much weight (unless he distributed them evenly thoughout, but....)


DavidS - Aug 02, 2006 12:27:19 pm PDT #117 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Besides, even God needs a Secret Pain, don't you think?

Dangit, Nutty, why don't you read the books I tell you to read and watch the movies I tell you to watch?

The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop. addresses God's Secret Pain. In a book about baseball. Where the metaphor is subtle and transparent and subsumed into the narrative.

While I'm at it, Band of Outsiders.

I think it's equally misguided to think he's not meant to be an asshole, though. You weren't supposed to worship God because he was the nicest. You worship him because he's God. The idea that God should be benevolent is a NT retcon. When God finally speaks to Job directly, he basically says, "'Cause I'm the Almighty, that's why; you can't judge my actions." That's the only argument that makes Job stop bitching. Ezekiel makes the same point rather emphatically.

That's also how I read it. And I think the contemporary response of getting all up in God's grill and defiant is wrong-headed. If you accept the posit of the OT, or Job, that God is the Creator, then yo - a little deference. But humility is not an American virtue.

I think I watched some show about the Book of Job a while back where there were scholars saying that the last chapter or two, when Job regrets his impertinence, are believed to be by a different author.

That's what I was taught. I was just thinking about that yesterday in relation to (a) the Code enforced ending of Gilda and (b) Wordsworth's incessant revisions of late poetry, each of which got progressively worse.

These all fall under the heading: Why it's okay for me to edit things in my head despite the "official" release. The sanctioned version isn't always the right one.


bon bon - Aug 02, 2006 12:29:35 pm PDT #118 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I didn't get that out of Universal Baseball Association. Hmmm.

That whole thing almost sounds like a joke....

Coated in vaseline? Ya think?


tommyrot - Aug 02, 2006 12:32:16 pm PDT #119 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Coated in vaseline? Ya think?

Well, that part could be true... or at least I'm not expert enough in the care and storage of Civil War cannonballs to know that doesn't make sense....

I mean, I'm sure it's all damp in the fallout shelter if it's 4 flights of stars below ground level....


§ ita § - Aug 02, 2006 12:32:29 pm PDT #120 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

A Chicagoista totally needs to go over and check that guy out.


tommyrot - Aug 02, 2006 12:33:53 pm PDT #121 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

A Chicagoista totally needs to go over and check that guy out.

Yeah, I could carry one cannonball a few feet and then be all, "Sorry - hurt my back. Gotta go. Wait, let me grab a few beers first."