jimi like "pat the rat" showing up on Farscape?

Seriously? Jeez, I've been away too long.

OTOH I am comforted by a 24 hour supermarket with milk (and everything else) at supermarket prices

Are there any in Adelaide (as opposed to the larger country towns)? I know Bi-Lo had two or three 24 hour suburban supermarkets but they've changed to midnight closing.

jimi like "pat the rat" showing up on Farscape?

I know I'm going to kick myself when I see the answer but; who's "pat the rat" and from where would I know him/her?

hmm, d'ya think someone is a Buffy fan?

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I don't think people in Australia really think of 7-11 as a dining solution per se

They do in Dogs In Space

7-11 over here has been rebranded Budgens, but they were a lifesaver during my raving days - there's a window between 1am and 3am where the only place you can buy any food at all on the west side of Brighton is 7-11. I spent many an happy hour in there, swaying slightly trying to focus on food packaging...

They do in Dogs In Space

Ha yes I should have added "with the important exception of people on drugs".

I always wondered if that was an accurate portrait of Melbourne life.

In Bern, the latenight weaving-on-queue place is Freschetta's, which is a sort of 24-7 mini-grocery that has actually pastries and a deli-counter where you can have real sandwiches built. I think it is more expensive than 7-11, but I still haven't figured out the currency. A good sandwich, great fresh coffee and a bunch of grapes go for a little over ten francs. Like eight or nine US bux?

Having personally brought the Un-American thread to an untimely demise, it is up to me to raise a new topic.

…having exhausted the subject of convenience stores …

An easily exhausted subject, I'll grant you.

Excuse me. I believe that's

Internal syntax with itself warring

or possibly ... Internal syntax with itself warring

has

It was a battle. I lost.

In the States they are having hurricanes and elections. Surely, there must be some distinction between the two.

OTOH I am comforted by a 24 hour supermarket with milk (and everything else) at supermarket prices

Are there any in Adelaide (as opposed to the larger country towns)?

OK technically it's not a supermarket. When they wrote the legislation lifting the trading hour limitation on stores that were not supermarkets, there was this one Coles Supermarket that came in some 10 sqft floor area below the definition. So it went 24/7. It may not have the full brand range of regular Coles supers, but what it does have is at Coles prices.

Pat the Rat: Blond superbitch on Sons and Daughters 70s/80s primetime soap. Rowena Wllace played the original (the character later went to S America, was involved in a car crash, came back looking like a totally different person).

Sounds like an instance of That Was Some Vacation.