Simon: You are my beautiful sister. River: I threw up on your bed. Simon: Yep. Definitely my sister.

'War Stories'


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 - Nov 07, 2006 6:11:53 am PST #8077 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.

I wuz robbed! No stickers at my polling place. Is that even legal?

No. The only solution is an armed revolution of the masses.

Many years ago, I got an "I voted" sticker - I stuck it on my roomate's Cylon action figure. For many years the proud Cylon Centurian stood guard over our living room....


beth b - Nov 07, 2006 6:14:28 am PST #8078 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

there are 10 are 12 ballot measures. or maybe 15. the eminent domain one is one of those that looks good , until you realizes the greater implications. and some are so complex that you can only guess what they mean. and some are stupid. over the years my favorite was the one that said that pet horses couldn't be sold to the meat industry.


brenda m - Nov 07, 2006 6:14:42 am PST #8079 of 10001
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

Oh, I love David and Mary. And I hear that Top Chef interview is really good, but I do wish they had a transcript instead of just audio.

ION, my boss quit. Really happy for her, but no idea what the fuck is going to happen around here now.


Tom Scola - Nov 07, 2006 6:15:31 am PST #8080 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

but no idea what the fuck is going to happen around here now.

Like you did before!?


shrift - Nov 07, 2006 6:17:39 am PST #8081 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

No lines, though, and shrift, they did not ask me for any ID. Which they're really not supposed to do anyway.

Awesomecakes, brenda.

And I just realized that my polling place is, like, around the corner from my apartment. Maybe a five minute walk, tops. Er. Guess I probably could have voted this morning had I actually been capable of thought.


esse - Nov 07, 2006 6:18:02 am PST #8082 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

I'm always out of the country when it comes time to vote. But it's nice to hear ya'll's stories of voting.

I didn't go in to "breakfast" temp today, and instead decided to take the day off. Accomplishments: sleeping until 1:30 in the afternoon; drinking a pot of coffee; making pad thai. Tomorrow I try the breakfast temp thing once more; methinks I'm being put aside for the time being. Frak.

I don't want to get spoiled for the Daily Show, so I'm not going to keep track of who's winning what except for Tennessee.


brenda m - Nov 07, 2006 6:18:20 am PST #8083 of 10001
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

Point. But without our "Crusader for Truth and Logic," things can only get nuttier.

(Actually, that's another good example. Someone's title changed a while back, we used that new title in a document, and got all kinds of shit over it because it was apparently just an "internal title." The fuck? But it did spur us to come up with our own internal titles, like the above.)


beth b - Nov 07, 2006 6:20:14 am PST #8084 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

what is the Breakfast Temp thing- you go in and wait to see if something happens?


shrift - Nov 07, 2006 6:21:14 am PST #8085 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I'm so excited to watch Jon and Stephen tonight. I probably should be more excited by democracy in action, but democracy isn't nearly as cute as fake pundits.


Trudy Booth - Nov 07, 2006 6:22:05 am PST #8086 of 10001
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

Yes, the Pacific octopus is a very clever beastie, but those schools of small, fast-breeding squid that get netted and chopped up for calamari? Not so much.

This makes me so happy. Giving up octopus was easy, I've missed the calamar.