Happy Birthday, ita!!!
Buffy: He ran away, right? Giles: Sort of, more. turned and swept out majestically, I suppose. Said I didn't concern him. Buffy: So a mythic triumph over a completely indifferent foe? Giles: Well, I'm not dead or unconscious, so I say bravo for me.
'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
sj - Jan 04, 2007 8:30:58 am PST #9926 of 10007
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
DavidS - Jan 04, 2007 8:31:16 am PST #9927 of 10007
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
From an article in the NYTimes about the difficulty of teaching Middle School kids:
In New York City, almost every kind of experiment is under way. At Intermediate School 211 in Canarsie, students of all grades are grouped into academies with themes like business and cultural arts based on their interests rather than their age. The principal, Buffie Simmons-Peart, confiscates explicit romance novels with airbrushed covers, saying they have a “dumbifying” influence.
sarameg - Jan 04, 2007 8:32:38 am PST #9928 of 10007
Holy crap. A professional fight is breaking out in my email (I'm just cc'd for admin reasons.) But...holy crap. Veiled insinuations of slightly shifty motives and....yikes.
DavidS - Jan 04, 2007 8:33:46 am PST #9929 of 10007
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A professional fight is breaking out in my email
Email wars! Now with extra bcc!
Nutty - Jan 04, 2007 8:36:59 am PST #9930 of 10007
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
What's the matter with a little dumbification! Also, I think that airbrushed covers are probably goign to turn out to be nicer books than un-airbrushed. Friends don't let friends read ultra-cheapo romances!
Kyle Chandler isn't actually from Chicago. I think he's from Georgia (originally) and then New York - where he really grew up.
Really? I wonder what kind of mushmouth he is when he's at home! Probably you could enter him in a Knowle-Rohr-off with poor Robert Patrick, plus a bunch of contestants chewing on taffy.
Steph L. - Jan 04, 2007 8:37:31 am PST #9931 of 10007
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I have no idea who those people are.
The Office (US).
Ah. No, don't watch it.
Betty/Henry 4EvAH!!!1!
megan walker - Jan 04, 2007 8:38:56 am PST #9932 of 10007
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The principal, Buffie Simmons-Peart, confiscates explicit romance novels with airbrushed covers, saying they have a they have a “dumbifying” influence.
As opposed to so many other things kids read? Bonus points for "dumbifying" though.
Kathy A - Jan 04, 2007 8:38:59 am PST #9933 of 10007
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Stick to porn.
Hee! I do have my rubber chicken here--maybe I should just hang it up by its neck instead of its feet, and see if anyone gets the inference.
That's ridonkulous, Kathy.
I've had the damn thing up for over a month now, and I only get a complaint filed (with HR, for God's sake! Couldn't they have said something to me directly?) now that the printer right next to where I had it hanging is being fixed, and a few IT people and one outside repairman have been the only new people that I can think of that might have read it this week.
Jesse - Jan 04, 2007 8:40:56 am PST #9934 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
As opposed to so many other things kids read?
Seriously.
Bonus points for "dumbifying" though.
I don't know about that.
megan walker - Jan 04, 2007 8:42:49 am PST #9935 of 10007
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I don't know about that.I think anybody named Buffy with an -ie should get serious props for being able to say dumbifying with a straight face.