Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.

'Objects In Space'


Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial  

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.


sarameg - Dec 06, 2006 5:41:25 pm PST #4901 of 10007

I learnt it from TV.

I learnt it from... I actually don't know. Not tv ads. The most recent I can come up with is a romance novel. Of the stupid kind. In relation to a villain, not the hero, in any case. But still. Kids all around are learning it from Cialis or whatever.


Trudy Booth - Dec 06, 2006 6:16:54 pm PST #4902 of 10007
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

I just neglected the parts that weren't prurient.

Seems odd that Wikipedia would skip the best parts.


Steph L. - Dec 06, 2006 6:29:13 pm PST #4903 of 10007
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Then again, I could probably stand to watch a lot less TV since I dreamed about Lorelai and Rory Gilmore the other night.

Man, last night I dreamed that I was at a gala or some similar event requiring formal attire, and I was in a very heated argument with Mel Gibson. I even told him, "Look, you're very handsome in your white tie, but you're still a bigoted asshole."

Odd. Accurate, yes, but odd.


DavidS - Dec 06, 2006 6:41:38 pm PST #4904 of 10007
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Seems odd that Wikipedia would skip the best parts.

It's not widely reported. You will note the big gap in the 70s in her history, and that she went from nun to Lesbian drug suicide so you could infer that she went through some changes in the intervening years.

But this is not something I picked up in idle bar chatter, but was a big article in one of the local newsweeklies, though back in the early 90s or late 80s, so perhaps not available through online searching.


Kat - Dec 06, 2006 6:41:50 pm PST #4905 of 10007
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Strega, the shoes are super cute.

Steph, if you ever get to meet Mel Gibson, promise me you'll say that.

Best overheard of a fellow teacher at the training I was at, "Hey, if a kid wants to learn something, that's not my problem."


bon bon - Dec 06, 2006 6:45:30 pm PST #4906 of 10007
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Man, last night I dreamed that I was at a gala or some similar event requiring formal attire, and I was in a very heated argument with Mel Gibson. I even told him, "Look, you're very handsome in your white tie, but you're still a bigoted asshole."

Probably more constructive than when I turned to the BF at four this morning and asked "why did you give me the hammers?" and "did you give me the cto report?"


Allyson - Dec 06, 2006 6:51:22 pm PST #4907 of 10007
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

awww, Strega. We'll have a belated bday party for you in LA.


Kat - Dec 06, 2006 6:52:56 pm PST #4908 of 10007
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Allyson, did you go to paper source?


Allyson - Dec 06, 2006 6:56:27 pm PST #4909 of 10007
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I didnt get to go, Kat. Which bummed me out hardcore.


Kat - Dec 06, 2006 6:56:51 pm PST #4910 of 10007
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I'm sorry. that bites.