...because God knows you need some satisfaction in life besides shagging Captain Cardboard! And I never really liked you anyway. And you have stupid hair!

Spike ,'Selfless'


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.


tommyrot - Oct 26, 2006 12:30:17 pm PDT #5856 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.

Does it smell like toast?


tommyrot - Oct 26, 2006 12:33:17 pm PDT #5857 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.

It's fun telling clueless, young, unmarried, male supervisors who want to know exactly why you're leaving early: "It's cramps." "What kind of cramps?" " Menstrual cramps." Watch the young men flee in terror from the woman old enough to be their mother.

There's a great bit in No Touch Monkey! and Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late:

...and is forced to explain tampons, which she admits, "might have looked like white cotton bullets lined up in their box," to soldiers in Kashmir — "They're for ladies. Bleeding ladies."


shrift - Oct 26, 2006 12:34:42 pm PDT #5858 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Does it smell like toast?

It, uh... smells like salty coffee?


Tom Scola - Oct 26, 2006 12:36:00 pm PDT #5859 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Someone left an empty coffee pot on the burner?


Sean K - Oct 26, 2006 12:36:51 pm PDT #5860 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

It, uh... smells like salty coffee?

Hmm... Probably a massive tumor, then.


Connie Neil - Oct 26, 2006 12:38:56 pm PDT #5861 of 10001
brillig

Probably a massive tumor, then.

And she was so young.


Dana - Oct 26, 2006 12:51:07 pm PDT #5862 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

The police just called my cell phone to say that someone had called 911 from that number, and to ask if I needed any emergency response.

He and I jointly decided, after a few seconds, that someone must have written the number down wrong.


Dana - Oct 26, 2006 1:00:36 pm PDT #5863 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

And in possibly the oddest serial post ever, you learn really weird things from British TV sometimes.

Mike the Headless Chicken


tommyrot - Oct 26, 2006 1:03:39 pm PDT #5864 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.

He and I jointly decided, after a few seconds, that someone must have written the number down wrong.

Maybe one of your multiple personalities made the 911 call?


tommyrot - Oct 26, 2006 1:05:44 pm PDT #5865 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.

Mike the Headless Chicken

I'll see your headless chicken, and raise you a beer-drinking goat