Kat on the power outage:
I did not walk. I walked up from Greenwich Village to Port Authority where I attempted to go in and catch a NJ bus thinking it would be easiest. Silly me. Port Authority was spewing out people like a deranged popcorn popper. You couldn't even move on the sidewalk in front of it. So I walked around the corner to take the cheapie shuttle bus and found people crowding around and desperately pushing to get on anything that moved. I reached down, found my inner pushy bitch, and got myself on a bus. I then proceeded to spend hours inching along in a bus without air conditioning (the driver turned it off because he was afraid of running out of gas) while people periodically hurled themselves at the vehicle beating frantically on the doors and windows and begging to be let on despite the fact that we were packed in so tightly that we couldn't even move. And then, we finally made it to the Lincoln Tunnel. I have never been so happy to see a hard, straight object going into a dark, round opening in my entire life.
Trudy on the power outage:
Beverly: I guess we'll probably see a wave of births in the Northeast, come next May. It's what happened in the brownouts.
Trudy: HELLLL no. I'd have only slept with vampires last night and only until the friction warmed him up.
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Tom Scola
- Aug 14, 2003 4:16:12 pm PDT #1701 of 1840
There's about 15 IT guys still here. All the female cow-orkers left quickly, for some reason, it seems like they didn't want to get trapped here.
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erikaj:
The sign I was born under? Apparently "Next".
I was the unknown straight man setting up the joke for Trudy.
ita sets, Hecubus scores:
Is a package store just, like, a 7-11 selling beer?
No. They sell packages. They're all in identical boxes, wrapped in plain brown paper. If you're lucky the package you bought has beer. If you're unlucky you just bought a package of used diapers. It's kind of like the lottery.
t snerk
From LotR, on
The Silmarillion:
Sean K:
I've been told if you have a hard time getting through it you should read it backwards. That is, you should read the last section (is that the part that's "Of the Noldori and the Fall of Men" or something?) first and work your way back from there. It's the sections at the end that are the most readable, I guess.
DXMachina:
Yeah, it gets easier as you go, but that could also be because the nearer you get to the end, the fewer elves with names that start with "F" are still alive to confuse the reader.
On Fox programming "mistakes," over in the
Firefly
topic:
DavidS :
Fox is just so fucking stupid. Futurama will run in syndication forever. It could've been as big a moneymaker for them as The Simpsons - which basically carried the whole damn network once it went into syndication. So short sighted.
Sean K:
Yeah, but this is the same company that believes Ultra-hardcore Right Wing = Fair and Balanced.
Burrell:
No Sean, they just believe 1) Ultra-hardcore Right Wing News = Bigtime Ratings, and 2) Ultra-hardcore rightwingers like to perceive themselves as Fair and Balanced, so best to market it to them in that way. They tried the "Fox News, Undermining the Fantasy of the Liberal Media Since 1985" advertising campaign, but it didn't go over nearly so well.
