In the Minearverse, during a discussion about censoring musicals so that children can perform them:
Betsy:
Waiting for the kid-friendly Chicago.
Aimee:
Instead of jail, it takes place in the time-out corner.
Oh, I'm gonna go to the special hell.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Coffee On My Monitor
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Kate P. - Mar 15, 2004 7:07:39 pm PST #5660 of 10000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
juliana - Mar 16, 2004 4:03:56 am PST #5661 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
In Movies, a small break from discussing the pretty:
Jesse: So, any word on the Dawn of the Dead remake?
Matt the Bruins fan: The dead travel fast.
Kathy Astrom: If it does well, they're going to make "Noon of the Mostly Decomposing."
tommyrot: "Brunch of the Rigor Mortis"?
Beverly - Mar 16, 2004 6:06:50 am PST #5662 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
In the Minearverse:
tommyrot:
We're basking in the afterglow. Tim done tuckered us out.
Deena:
I need a cigarette.
Trudy Booth - Mar 16, 2004 6:30:21 am PST #5663 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Vandalisimo: I've been lurking for years and pretty much only delurked after the last Angel. But, I didn't properly introduce myself. Things like that must be why my mother tells me I'm rude.
Well, here I am now. Hello!
Figured I should go ahead and do that before I jump into any vibrator discussions.
Katie M - Mar 16, 2004 9:17:31 am PST #5664 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
amych as Bridezilla, in Natter:
(I would totally get married during the one-minute break between periods in a fencing bout. I just want to be sure I win the bout, too. BECAUSE IT'S MY DAY, DAMMIT!)
DXMachina - Mar 16, 2004 11:36:07 am PST #5665 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
In Natter:
msbelle: I cancelled all my plans tonight - stoopidhead snow monsters.
tommyrot: The culturally-sensitive term is 'Yeti'.
Ailleann - Mar 16, 2004 4:05:53 pm PST #5666 of 10000
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Catching up in Minearverse, from the F.L.O.:
We need better minions. Zombies leave their tags open half the time. You think with all the brains they're going on about, they could remember to insert a t BR , but nooo...
Pix - Mar 16, 2004 5:55:39 pm PST #5667 of 10000
The status is NOT quo.
In "Natter"
Kathy Astrom
Will someone please tell me to go home and do my laundry? I'm being all procrastinate-y tonight.
Gus
Kathy, laundry is for wimps. Posting makes you strong. Nobody here can smell you, anyway.
ChiKat
I like this philosophy and feel I will need to live by it.
Theodosia - Mar 17, 2004 2:17:47 am PST #5668 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"
Allyson:
So, I had a conversation with The Big Guvmint Safety Bureaucracy about our coffee pot at work.
We'd been written up several times for leaving the coffee pot on.
Solution? The engineers and physicists of the Timing & Frequency Lab, which is my lab, rigged a timer to it. Shuts off in twenty minutes.
BGSB flips out. "That could short circuit and start a fire!"
"What do you suggest?" I ask.
"Assign someone to shut it off," they remark, self assuredly.
"But see, a human being is more likely to forget, or call in sick, than it is likely that the nation's sharpest engineers, whose job it is to time the Deep Space Network, who design the most accurate clocks ever known, to screw up the circuitry on a timer on a coffee pot."
"It's against the rules," the geniuses at BGSB say.
"How about if we make a new rule, that if you design a balls-on atomic timing device that safely guides a spaceship to Mars, you're allowed to design a timing device for a coffee pot?" I ask.
"It's just against the rules," BGSB says.
billytea - Mar 17, 2004 4:30:00 am PST #5669 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
In Natter:
moonlit: Ebay halts auction of girls
Steph: Well, damn. My high bidder was up to $12.83.
And also in Natter, an introduction from Blue:
Allyson, I can relate to the BGSB thing. I'm a physicist myself (well, physics grad student actually, but that sounds less impressive, not that anyone is impressed by physicists, what was I saying? Oh yeah), and I've had the occasional warning from our local safety office.
Now, I actually expect this and would be a bit disappointed in them if they didn't complain, because my lab is, in fact, a death trap. This is somewhat intentional, because people from neighboring labs kept coming in and "borrowing" everything not bolted down, and some things that were. So the place now has plenty of exposed high voltage, powerful infrared lasers aimed at the head, cables at tripwire and garrote level, pit filled with spikes covered in leaves etc.
But what does the safety office send threatening notes about? A cardboard box left in the hallway. Someone could trip on it.