Of course, in 10 more years, The Daily Show is going to be, like, News For Your Mom.
I'm so not ready to be uncool. Although I suspect I already am.
I miss Oz. He'd get it. He wouldn't say anything, but he'd get it.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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.
shrift - Jan 17, 2007 8:27:10 am PST #3525 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Jesse - Jan 17, 2007 8:27:50 am PST #3526 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You're cool!
tommyrot - Jan 17, 2007 8:27:58 am PST #3527 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.
MAD, nuclear winter, banging shoe fights...
Hot kitchens, pop songs about nuclear war....
P.M. Marc - Jan 17, 2007 8:28:12 am PST #3528 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Dammit, our Academic Decathlon topic was the '80s.
::brain explodes::
This is as bad as having to explain WKRP to someone yesterday, when he thought we were talking about a real radio station.
megan walker - Jan 17, 2007 8:30:25 am PST #3529 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I knew I was getting old when I discovered that I could no longer use The Breakfast Club as a shared cultural touchstone.
Sometimes these things slip when I'm teaching and it's always a sad OMG I'm old moment.
Luckily, teaching is also how I'm able defend all my current TV watching "because I have to relate to the young people."
§ ita § - Jan 17, 2007 8:30:47 am PST #3530 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
OMG now I feel really old.
Your adolescence? His history class.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction but lots and lots of sturm und drang? Did anyone have any plans for how they'd win that one? It was mostly not about losing first.
Okay, I need to go look up this guy in India who moved to a small village and taught the villagers how to install and maintain their own solar energy equipment so they could power the village and bring in computers and networking to link themselves electronically to the wider world. And now they are spreading that training, making technologically self-sufficient (okay, they're not making the stuff from scratch, but you get the point) powered communities one at a time.
I just can't remember his name...
tommyrot - Jan 17, 2007 8:31:32 am PST #3531 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 just can't remember his name...
Jesus?
Jesse - Jan 17, 2007 8:34:00 am PST #3532 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Your adolescence? His history class.
Yeah, thanks, gramma.
Hot kitchens, pop songs about nuclear war....
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
DavidS - Jan 17, 2007 8:34:54 am PST #3533 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Silver lining, David. Silver lining.
FWIW, I am totally on the Go Team India team. They've got my vote for next superpower.
Polter-Cow - Jan 17, 2007 8:35:07 am PST #3534 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jesus?
Krishna 2.0.