No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.

Early ,'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.


§ ita § - Dec 10, 2006 7:46:09 pm PST #5442 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Tommy, yes, but in that case they can't be British.

Lee, that's perfect! The specific guy isn't the issue, so much as my conviction that the combo can be pulled off. I don't think I'm going to convince the guy in question to combine the two, but I still need to illustrate my point.

Did you just have that lying around?


Lee - Dec 10, 2006 7:48:09 pm PST #5443 of 10007
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Cool. Lemme keep looking.


aurelia - Dec 10, 2006 7:52:26 pm PST #5444 of 10007
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

There is an IBM Selectric in my new space at work. I haven't tried it yet.

I do have fond memories of the Selectric II in high school typing class. We'd often loosen the font ball just enough that when the next person turned the typewriter on the ball would fly across the room.

In college I had a Smith-Corona memory typewriter. It was pretty cool until the main logic module died the night before a paper was due.


§ ita § - Dec 10, 2006 7:59:15 pm PST #5445 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

We had a rickety Smith Corona when I was young. I don't think anyone used it but us kids--we recently found a newspaper I'd printed up at about age 9 using ambitiously dry language to describe household goings on.

I've never had a problem with printing envelopes in printers, and during the phase where I had considerably more energy I'd design full graphics for the whole front side. My sister has one I sent to her framed on her bedroom wall.

NSM these days. But I am making sure I keep my handwriting warmed up, since I do agree that a well-done handwritten envelope is the most inviting in the pile.


Maria - Dec 10, 2006 8:12:49 pm PST #5446 of 10007
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

ita:

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Allyson - Dec 10, 2006 8:15:23 pm PST #5447 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

Okay. So if I made 52 chocolate chip macadamia nut cookies, and I gave 30 to Tim, and 12 to my neighbors, how many can I stuff into my face right now?


Consuela - Dec 10, 2006 8:17:49 pm PST #5448 of 10007
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

10, Allyson. Enjoy!


Pix - Dec 10, 2006 8:17:51 pm PST #5449 of 10007
The status is NOT quo.

Wait...wait..I know this one!

42?

No?

I knew there was a reason I decided to teach English.

ETA: Happy Birthday, 'Suela!


Lee - Dec 10, 2006 8:20:13 pm PST #5450 of 10007
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I like Maria's last one.

Most of the rest I found were things like this [link] which isn't right.

Then I got bored, and stopped looking.


Maria - Dec 10, 2006 8:24:40 pm PST #5451 of 10007
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

So do I, Lee, so do I.

I know I've seen lots of men with either scruff or a beard in formal wear. Google makes me think otherwise. I could always link you to a pic of my DH on our wedding day: [link] or [link]