Susan: My brother, who received hand-to-hand combat training as part of his West Point education, once told me that love is like a knife fight--the only way to survive and prevail is to accept that you're going to get cut and fight anyway.
Police procedure has changed since I was little.
Wash ,'The Message'
Coffee On My Monitor
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Betsy HP - Nov 11, 2003 9:40:27 am PST #4826 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Steph L. - Nov 11, 2003 9:46:55 am PST #4827 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
ita's follow-up to Susan's quote above:
Hmm. I've made peace with the knife fight part of it long ago. Still pondering the rest.
scrappy - Nov 11, 2003 12:02:59 pm PST #4828 of 10000
Nobody
The ineffable Cindy:
I cut myself with a plastic knife, once. This was years before I ran myself over with my own car, though.
Beverly - Nov 11, 2003 12:17:00 pm PST #4829 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
And Nutty's followup to Cindy:
Cindy, how are you not dead? Or did all the muggers decide you were too likely to flip them over while you were searching for your wallet to hand over, and pass you by??
DXMachina - Nov 11, 2003 4:13:01 pm PST #4830 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Nutty, with some sound advice in Natter:
Generally speaking, when you pull the pin out of a grenade, that only encourages it to explode. That is aiding and abetting an explosive.
Still of the opinion that defense against explosives is run away! Run away! and then hide someplace until they stop exploding.
Theodosia - Nov 12, 2003 2:22:33 am PST #4831 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Sean K, in reaction to a recipe that included whole fish heads:
That's one of my few hard and fast rules about food. It is not allowed to look back at me. EVER.
Nilly - Nov 12, 2003 4:02:33 am PST #4832 of 10000
Swouncing
Natter:
Theodosia: Is there an echo in here, or is somebody having a birthday?
juliana - Nov 12, 2003 6:03:36 am PST #4833 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
billytea, in Natter (I'm just the setup):
me:
Can she thwump things as well?
billytea:
Not in this thread.
I mean, she can, but then I'd be standing in the corner complaining about these 'damn kids with their loud music and sleeves of sundry colour', and how in my day 'thwumping really meant something'. And you never, ever ponked on the first date.
That's the trouble with kids these days. No respect. It's all thwumping and muppets.
edit: D'OH!
Cindy - Nov 12, 2003 6:04:51 am PST #4834 of 10000
Nobody
(juliana--you so didn't want credit that you credited billytea with your set-up, too)
Betsy HP - Nov 12, 2003 7:13:20 am PST #4835 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
ita: For all we know Allyson kicked him in the head and forced him to tell.
Which is perfectly reasonable behaviour, right?
joe: Would that be "Why won't you go out with me? <kick!>" or "Why <kick!> won't <kick!> you <kick!> go <kick!> out <kick!> with <kick!> me? <kick!>"?
Matt: Joe, I think the second option sort of answers its own question.