Shinola is stuff you shine your shoes with! Or was. I don't know if "shit from Shinola" helped put the product out of business, but I can't think that it was actually invented by soemone trying to sell Shinola!

Agreed with the peanut gallery. Asking "Why are you taking me seriously?" is misunderstanding the general tenor of the Buffistas. If we can have a Great Gerund War, we can argue anything into the ground, in all occasionally goofy seriousness.

Catching up--Theo, thanks for the TiVo advice! I did doublecheck that it wasn't playing on a spanish channel I"d taken off "things I get", but turns out the only one I"ve unchecked is BET Jazz (for some reason, TiVo decided I *really* like jazz....except I don't....). Have Destinos on a wishlist now too.

Public transport is interesting. I grew up in a city that was fairly large, but had CRAP public transport--busses, but they were sporadic and pretty useless. So I love living in a city where I can use the stuff (though DC *really* needs to get into the 24 hour public transport business...this "closes at midnight on weekdays" thing sucks). But here, basically any housing near a metro station? Is way more expensive. Which is cool, shows people take it, but...Of course, talking about building more metro stations is expensive, so it's a hard battle. (More buses, well, I've heard some cool things they're trying with GPS and telling you when the next bus is *reallly* coming, and that would be darn cool)

But me, I work in the 'burbs, and it would take me literally three times as long to commute by public transport (not to mention costing nearly as much as the car upkeep, though not on an environmental scale, obviously).

Zoe, I'm very very rarely in the show threads because I quite like to have some surprises, even though I'm fairly spoiled. I play the catchup game by reading old posts (the ones posted in the post'n'watch frenzy via the links Nilly so kindly provides) after I've seen the shows on Sky One, but I tend not to go into them other than that.

Jim, you sound about as good at posting things as me.

considers

Actually, no. Quite a lot better. I suck, as various Buffistas will tell you. Me and post offices are like, eh, two not-meety things.

...I'm not here, by the way. No sir. I'm working. Really.

Shinola is stuff you shine your shoes with!

Is it? I'd kind of decided it should be, 'cause that's what it sounds like it ought to be, but it's nice to have it confirmed.

runs back to get on with big damn pile of bloody important worky work.

To me it sounded more like one of those old hair pomades.

I never new there was a non-post office-y option, is there a non-post offic-y option?

I can't come in here to cry after reading the Angel thread where can I go?

Post Offices aren't so scary, you just need to remember yourself stand up straight and still, don't slouch, take your hands out your pockets, speak clearly...oh.

Edited for extra comment strath (/) wry humour.

"I'm a Dapper Dan man!"

The Angel thread. This thread is for those in benighted 3rd World countries like the UK and Oz who don't get to see 1st run shows. We really try not to discuss anything newer than has been shown in Oz.

I hate the PO. But the only other option is to weigh stuff yourself.

Oz is pretty much up to date with the US.

Or am I missing the point?

Oz is ahead of the US?

Edited for clarity.