You're a brave woman. (Although I'll admit I find the idea of subsistence farming is actually rather appealing.)
Yes. I imagine it is.
Jayne: We was just about to spring into action, Captain. Complicated escape and rescue op. Wash: I was going to watch. It was very exciting.
'Shindig'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Zoe Ann - Apr 13, 2003 5:23:57 am PDT #3333 of 9843
Mathair & Athair beo.
Noumenon - Apr 13, 2003 5:28:29 am PDT #3334 of 9843
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
I'm so far on the other side of that idea that I automatically read
(Although I'll admit I find the idea of subsistence farming is actually rather appalling.)
before I got dissonance from the context. I'm a city boy.
Zoe Ann - Apr 13, 2003 5:32:09 am PDT #3335 of 9843
Mathair & Athair beo.
I dunno, clean fresh air, exercise...mud.
Julie - Apr 13, 2003 5:36:31 am PDT #3336 of 9843
(Although I'll admit I find the idea of subsistence farming is actually rather appalling.)
Possibly it was the fact that I spelt it "appealling" the first time. I kinda had a foot in each camp.
The idea appeals. The reality? Not so much. Unless it's all about needlework. And books, they're a subsistence item, right?
Zoe Ann - Apr 13, 2003 5:43:49 am PDT #3337 of 9843
Mathair & Athair beo.
And books, they're a subsistence item, right?
Um.
There's ALWAYS mud...books, NSM.
Zoe Ann - Apr 13, 2003 6:59:18 am PDT #3338 of 9843
Mathair & Athair beo.
{taps on screen}
Heck, throw is some Standard Grade German a few sentences of something almost but not entirely unlike French and suddenly everyone goes all shy.
Hil R. - Apr 13, 2003 7:17:50 am PDT #3339 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I read Asterix in French in high school. The bookstore on campus here has a ton of Asterix books in English.
Gerard Depardieu plays Obelix.
I must see this.
evil jimi - Apr 13, 2003 8:54:18 am PDT #3340 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
(Although I'll admit I find the idea of subsistence farming is actually rather appealing.)
colour me unsurprised that I'm now ear-wormed by the theme from The Good Life.
Hey Jimi, I was getting a little worried that we hadn't seen 'much' of you since you were sprung performing your impromptu strip-tease over on WX.
some would say they'd seen more than enough
Nutty - Apr 13, 2003 9:01:44 am PDT #3341 of 9843
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I loved both Tintin and Asterix as a kid, although we had some books only in French, so I didn't know that The Blue Lotus was about the opium trade and World War II for many years. Alas that a lot of the Tintin books are unforgiveably racist. The only parts of Tintin in the Congo I cna bear to read are the parts where he comes across a rhino, can't figure out what to do with it, so he bores a hole in its back and tosses in some dynamite. Okay, that's juts my appreciation of inappropriate explodey humor.
My chief memory of Asterix? The giant Viking dog who talked with Dogmatix, who, to signify his Vikingness, barked like this: Wøøf! Wøøf! (Those are Os with slashes in them.)
Favorite names: English Gauls Selfemploymentax and Valueaddedtax, and most especially the Coriscan Boneywasawarriorwayayix. You know, I was probably 22 before I realized whom "Boney" refers to.
Laura - Apr 13, 2003 10:01:34 am PDT #3342 of 9843
Our wings are not tired.
The UnAmerican thread is my most lurked thread. The handful of other threads I read I generally pop in and say something. I almost always read this thread and alternate between being educated and entertained. Thank you very much. Yet I rarely have anything to add to the discussion, and this is no exception to that rule.