Mercy is the mark of a great man. Guess I'm just a good man. Well, I'm all right.

Mal ,'Shindig'


The Crying of Natter 49  

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.


Polter-Cow - Jan 17, 2007 7:52:20 am PST #3500 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

The clock, which hangs in the University of Chicago, has been set at seven minutes to midnight since 2002.

Oooooh. This is what someone was saying just recently when she was referring to where Heroes got the "Seven Minutes to Midnight" thing.

Also: what the fuck? I've never heard of this silly clock.


megan walker - Jan 17, 2007 7:54:47 am PST #3501 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Yeah! The 24 Season Premiere is being processed at Netflix as I write. Thanks for the link Sumi--what timing! With any luck, I'll be able to catch up before the next episode.


Jesse - Jan 17, 2007 8:04:11 am PST #3502 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Also: what the fuck? I've never heard of this silly clock.

You're too young. It was a bigger deal in the 80s, when the Russkis were about to blow us all up.


juliana - Jan 17, 2007 8:04:59 am PST #3503 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Also: what the fuck? I've never heard of this silly clock.

OMG I feel old.


Polter-Cow - Jan 17, 2007 8:07:02 am PST #3504 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

It was a bigger deal in the 80s, when the Russkis were about to blow us all up.

Dammit, our Academic Decathlon topic was the '80s. I don't think that was in the curriculum.

OMG I feel old.

I sometimes have that effect on people.


Topic!Cindy - Jan 17, 2007 8:07:37 am PST #3505 of 10001
What is even happening?

The clock came about in the 1950s, though.


Polter-Cow - Jan 17, 2007 8:09:33 am PST #3506 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Yeah, and it was moved after 9/11. But I didn't hear about it. Maybe because I wasn't on b.org at the time, and b.org is where I get all my cool news.


erikaj - Jan 17, 2007 8:10:15 am PST #3507 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Work a campaign...that will kill any phone fear you ever had(except for the scary ones looking for the money I owe them) Sometimes I feel tempted to say "You know, I don't know where that money is either...do you wanna buy a book? I've written two." Or sometimes I want to freak them out and be all friendly "Hey, I thought it was you!" But my luck would be there's a law against messing with debt collectors.


sumi - Jan 17, 2007 8:11:02 am PST #3508 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

P-C, seriously? You've never heard of the Doomsday Clock?

(Crazy, post-Cold War kids.)


Jesse - Jan 17, 2007 8:11:44 am PST #3509 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Dammit, our Academic Decathlon topic was the '80s. I don't think that was in the curriculum.

OMG now I feel really old.

The clock came about in the 1950s, though.

I am not old enough to remember when it came out, but I am definitely old enough to remember when it was like 11:59:45 or some shit during the Reagan era. Not that it's a digital clock.