Machines should suffer because I do.
I wouldn't treat a coffee machine the way your body treats you, ita.
You remember that scene where Homer was trying to stab his brain with a cue-tip? "Stupid brain!"
Well, we may not have parted on the best of terms. I realize certain words were exchanged. Also, certain... bullets. But that's air through the engine. It's past. We're business people.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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.
DavidS - Jan 18, 2007 11:02:46 am PST #4098 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Lee - Jan 18, 2007 11:03:19 am PST #4099 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
My phone just half died-- it will ring, but I can't hear anyone who calls.
Annoying, and yet, not.
juliana - Jan 18, 2007 11:03:24 am PST #4100 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I don't want start any blasphemous rumours
But I think that God has a sick sense of humour
DavidS - Jan 18, 2007 11:03:36 am PST #4101 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Aww... and to think of all those nights alone in my apartment when I intentionally slipped on a banana peel to increase my chances of getting into heaven....
If this is the standard then Ginger and Hil and Erin are saintly.
DavidS - Jan 18, 2007 11:04:37 am PST #4102 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But I think that God has a sick sense of humour
Also the key line in Mailer's The Naked and the Dead: "If there is a God, he's a sonofabitch."
Also, one of the premises of the Gnostic Heresy.
Ginger - Jan 18, 2007 11:06:00 am PST #4103 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I've been keeping God happy all by myself so that y'all can go safely about your lives.
Jessica - Jan 18, 2007 11:06:28 am PST #4104 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
A cheery "Here's your coffee!" or imperative "Enjoy your cup!" - sure. But thanking me just cuts it loose completely free from its meaning. There's that underlying "Customer's Always Right" marketing culture, but really it should say "You're welcome for the free coffee!"
Share and Enjoy!
(...I don't care that the joke's already been made, I was in a meeting, damnit!)
§ ita § - Jan 18, 2007 11:08:25 am PST #4105 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I wouldn't treat a coffee machine the way your body treats you, ita.
Because it would stop making coffee. Yet I keep feeding my body.
No, I have no idea how to unravel the metaphor. Leave me alone.
Launch.com is making this paperwork process less tedious. But I keep wanting to go to the iTunes store and go shopping.
Nutty - Jan 18, 2007 11:15:18 am PST #4106 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
people getting BLOWN OVER outside
I had an unpleasant experience of this sort just before Christmas -- one evening it was so windy that I really felt like I might go flying, and that was icky. Of course, I made the mistake of walking next to the Hancock building in Boston, which is a huge wind tunnel unto itself (really!), so the effect was magnified.
Although I do weigh less than pony-sized dogs, I like to think that I am massive enough as an object that a stiff wind cannot blow me away. I don't even want to think what somebody like the Olsen twins would do in a breeze like that. Wear ankle weights, I guess, or maybe they have members of their entourage who could tie them down, like balloons.
Polter-Cow - Jan 18, 2007 11:16:24 am PST #4107 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Can people really remember when they had moving violations? I'm trying to get a new insurance quote, and I'm too forgetful.
ita, they'll do a search anyway when you apply, so I don't think you need to be exact. Hell, I put in the approximate year I thought I got a speeding ticket, but it didn't show up when they searched for it since I'd taken defensive driving to get it off my record.
Hec, we have one of those Starbucks machines. I mix the coffee and cocoa to create a makeshift cafe mocha.