Meara:
I want Erlenmayer flasks! And other cool chemistry lab stuff! Can I just peruse the catalogue and sigh and reminisce?
DX Machina:
Don't you just love watching mad scientist sequences on TV where they clamp up all sorts of impressive condensers and soxhlet extractors on a rack, and then they ruin the effect by filling the cooling jackets with colored water.
Meara:
Uh, I'm sure it's...uh...colored glycerin, really cold! yeah!!
They're so cute when they geek out and get all chemist bondy.
SeanK:
...found at your local chain book stor.
Emily:
Is it animated?
SeanK:
Hah! Pick on *my* typing, will you? I'll just go back and edit my post. Make you look like a crazy person. HAH!
Emily:
Oh, come on, pick something with a challenge, would you? I am a crazy person.
In Natter.
Jenny G: Incidentally, I've always thought of long pig (human flesh) as the other, other white meat.
Do you think there's a market for vegetarian faux long pig? Soylent soy anyone?
Trudy Booth: Soylent soy is soy beans!
Soy Beaaaaaaaaaaaans!
Wise words from Scrappy's friend, quoted in
Bitches:
As a friend once put it, "I don't want a man who loves the smart, funny, charming parts of me, because EVERYONE loves that part of me. I got that covered. I want a man who loves the cranky, tired, dull part of me. "
I'm catching up on the discussions we had at WX. and this is Nutty talking about small versus large communities:
you can live a really long life in a smallish, isolated part of the world, and die by degrees as your organs fail one by one, or you can live in a busy city, meeting lots of new people, and catching all of their germs, and you die young and possibly with blood coming out of every orifice