Hubby's least favorite thing was when people would say "Oh, it must be free!" when there's no price tag on something.
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
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.
Connie Neil - Oct 25, 2006 6:56:18 am PDT #5524 of 10001
brillig
Ginger - Oct 25, 2006 7:01:58 am PDT #5525 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
My least favorite was "Keeping busy?", particularly in jobs in which I was working 12 hours a day.
Daisy Jane - Oct 25, 2006 7:04:13 am PDT #5526 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Seriously. Swingline to the temple gets the message across.
Also hate? When I answer the phone "Placeofbusiness, this is Daisy?" and get "Yeah, hi. How are you doing?" I'd be much better if you'd get to the point.
-t - Oct 25, 2006 7:14:48 am PDT #5527 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Happy birthday, brenda!
tommyrot - Oct 25, 2006 7:15:56 am PDT #5528 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.
Also hate? When I answer the phone "Placeofbusiness, this is Daisy?" and get "Yeah, hi. How are you doing?"
You could say, "Still disposing the body...."
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 25, 2006 7:16:46 am PDT #5529 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Happy Birthday Brenda!
I found out this morning that Elvira, Mistress of the Dark will be the grand marshal at a racing event in Memphis this weekend. Yes people, the end is truly nigh, as NASCAR has discovered a promotion that is seriously tempting me to spend $50 to watch auto racing.
ChiKat - Oct 25, 2006 7:32:04 am PDT #5530 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?
Happy Birthday, Brenda!!!!
AirstreamNA - Oct 25, 2006 7:35:11 am PDT #5531 of 10001
When you're racing - it's life. Anything that comes before or after is just waiting.
I found out this morning that Elvira, Mistress of the Dark will be the grand marshal at a racing event in Memphis this weekend. Yes people, the end is truly nigh, as NASCAR has discovered a promotion that is seriously tempting me to spend $50 to watch auto racing.
Be careful, Matt. The NASCAR crowd is an entirely different world.
Oooo. Cass, I just noticed on the entry list for the event that Montoya will be racing. Almost, makes me wanna go too. I'll have to see if I can manage special passes.
tommyrot - Oct 25, 2006 7:42:42 am PDT #5532 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.
The Dog Who Loved to Suck on Toads
A dog may be man's best friend. But one dog, Lady, decided she needed more friends -- and she found plenty in the knot of toads living at the local pond. A suburban family's secret struggle with an uncommon addiction comes to light in this personal essay by NPR's Laura Mirsch.
Lady "was really perky, and happy, and generally excited to see you when you came in the door every day," recalls Andrew Mirsch.
But that was before the Mirsch family moved into a new house.
"We noticed Lady spending an awful lot of time down by the pond in our backyard," Laura Mirsch recalls.
Lady would wander the area, disoriented and withdrawn, soporific and glassy-eyed.
"Then, late one night after I'd put the dogs out, Lady wouldn't come in," Laura Mirsch says. "She finally staggered over to me from the cattails. She looked up at me, leaned her head over and opened her mouth like she was going to throw up, and out plopped this disgusting toad."
It turned out the toads were toxic -- and, if licked, the fluids on their skin provided a hallucinogenic effect.
What followed was the Mirsch family's quest to stop their cocker spaniel from indulging herself. But it wasn't easy. Lady was persistent, and resourceful.
The situation seemed to resolve itself when the toads went into hibernation for the winter.
But when they returned, so did Lady -- and with a vengeance.
"We couldn't keep our dog's addiction a secret any longer," Laura Mirsch says. "The neighbors all knew that Lady was a drug addict, and soon the other dogs weren't allowed to play with her."
In the end, Lady seems to have found a way to manage her problem.
"She seems to have outgrown the wild toad-obsessed years of her youth," Mirsch says, "and now only sucks on weekends."
Gudanov - Oct 25, 2006 7:48:39 am PDT #5533 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
"and now only sucks on weekends."
I've had weeks like that.