Zoe ,'The Train Job'
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Betsy with the setup, and billytea with the punchline, in Natter:
I'm assuming they'll justify it by his lifelong commitment to entertaining the troops. Which is indeed praiseworthy, but... does that mean Hugh Hefner gets flags at half-mast, too?
I'm pretty sure that's the last way Hef would want to be remembered.
Sean K: Erika, when I was eight ot nine, I had another kid get very upset at me and tell to "stop using grown-up words" because I had used the word "gravity" in a sentence. Even at the time I was boggled that she didn't know that word and had gotten so upset.
Plus? Had no idea what word to use besides "gravity."
Jess PMoon: The hold-y down-y force.
Daniel C. Jensen: Okay, so last week I resurrected some old dried out Sharpies and felt-tip pens.
I took them apart with a pliers and then dripped 98% isopropyl alcohol down the felty tube, put them back together and let them sit for a couple of days.
Does that make me cheap or show my initiative?
Or does it just show the depths I will go to entertain myself while unemployed?
Or does it just show the depths I will go to avoid writing cover letters while unemployed?
Catchin up in Bitches...
Pete, Husband Of Reason: Hi. I'm melting. Yup indeedy. Melting.
Seattle just hit 93 degrees, therefore my studio is somewhere around 98. I am so not liking this.
Jilli is out and about with Plei and Smonster. They just had ice cream.
I go cry now. And melt, of course.
Sean K: Please, everybody be very careful.
Don't step in Pete.
Bitches, Deb G. lets us in on more interesting bits of her life.:
...Aimee, I've been positive, for at least forty years, that somewhere in the Hall of the Lord of Arachnids, there are voices raised in lamentation and a deep chanting, thusly:
"SLAY DEBORAH! STING AND BITE HER! SHE KILLED THE SON OF THE KING SPIDER!"
Who knew there was a contract out on her?
In Bitches, musing on superheroes, and why they might rip a mirror off a car....
Theodosia: Last year, some unknown person ripped off the driver side mirror on my car -- the whole assemblage was gone. We couldn't figure out if it had been done like by a passing truck or what -- we couldn't find any debris on the street nearby or underneath the car or anything -- totally gone, as though Superman had ripped it off with super-strength and flew off with it.
beth b: superman would not steal your mirror. Batman might- but he has a darker side.
Sean K: Batman would do it because he needed the mirror and the wiring. It would probably be an emergency.
Bruce Wayne would find some way to get you repaid surreptitiously - making sure you get a grant for your sculpture/cello playing/whatever, making sure you get a scholarship, making sure your neighborhood gets a new, safe playground for the kids... Something like that.
Anne W: Do you put milk and sugar in your coffee, Deena? In that case, I could understand how Kara might develop a taste for it. If, on the other hand, she's drinking it black, I would be seriously impressed and a little bit frightened.
Noumenon: But here I am now, slinging triple posts like I never took a month off to conquer Germany.
Steph: Dubya keeps talking about his trip to Africa -- do you think he went there to try to get a soul?
in Bitches:
EpicTangent:This just in from a Three Musketeers wrapper:
Whipped Up. Fluffy Chocolate-on-Chocolate Taste.
Is that the porniest thing ever, or am I just spending too much time around you people?
Theodosia: There's a black Musketeer in the Three Musketeers ads now, which pleases me no end.
EpicTangent: So you're seeing more validity to the Chocolate-on-Chocolate claims then?