Student ,'Touched'
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DebetEsse in Literary:
Giving Tree strikes me as deeply Midwestern, in that we (at least in my experience) are trained from an early age to be helpful (and later to be bitter about being helpful). As a friends of mine and I have decided, we need 3 good reasons and a half an hour to practice before we can say "no" to requests for help. It's the price we pay for not being in therapy from the age of 13.
In Natter 15:
Madrigal: Woohoo, able to sneak into the ides, apparently just in time to catch the big stab fest - I mean, that is how one has to end an ides. It's traditionical.
Anne W: <hides knife behind back>
Here, Caesar, Caesar, Caesar....
flea: A big truck just dumped what is probably a literal ton of gravel in front of my house. It's so fun living in a sewer replacement zone! (Note: this is said seriously.)
Shawn: They should stop calling that stuff TCBY, while they're at it.
Madrigal Costello: Or at least specify which country the C in TCBY stands for.
high plains grifter:
No bees were intentionally hurt harvesting our honey, but they DID get all hopped up on second-hand smoke, and would often stay up late humming songs around the tiny bee piano, afterwards.
In NATTER 16: RIO'S MAKE-OUT DEN
ita:
I feel today just about like I did two weeks ago. Except -- this morning I felt fine. Coughing like a mofo, but I wasn't tired or achey or congested. Now I have a really bad sore throat, stiff neck and headache.
Someone evidently misrouted something, and I need to send these symptoms back.
Jacqueline Zahas:
TO: Powers That Be
FROM: JZ for ita
RE: Symptoms
The enclosed are being returned due to redundancy. The original shipment was received, in extremely vigorous working condition, two weeks ago. Refills not needed. Any subsequent orders should be cancelled and deleted; any subsequent shipments will be refused. The writer of this memo is not responsible for any damages, amputations, or ragged, infected, and suppurating wounds inflicted upon the PTB for their failure to comply with request of same.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
:jz
Encl (soreness, stiffness, ache)
Natter:
Sue: Right before I woke up this morning, I dreamt that I was trying to invent a potato that could transcend time and space. Then someone told me it had already been invented. "It's call the Time and Space Potato," they told me.
Tag-team Bush contempt:
Wolfram: I don't know what I find more distasteful, the fact that A) he thinks nothing of spending 170 million dollars to campaign against nobody
Gudanov: Hey, let's not dismiss nobody as a viable Republican candidate in 2004. I'd be happy to support nobody in the Republican primary.
Wolfram: Well let's see nobody's credentials: nobody's taken responsibility for the economic mess the Republicans are making, nobody in the Republican party really knows what he's doing, nobody gives a straight answer when questioned about muddled and mishandled foreign and domestic policies.
Yep, I'll vote for nobody in the primaries too.
From Natter
Gloomcookie
I also remember channel surfing a day or so after the attacks, desperate to escape the 9/11 coverage and coming across Sabrina Down Under.
Pinwiz
Game Show Network was my personal lord and savior that week.
Pinwiz:
"That's okay, pumpkin, because today is a good day to die."
"Tell me about it, gumball, because today is a good day to die."
"Yellow Rose of Texas was a bit weird, pot roast, and now today's definitely a good day to die."