Mal ,'The Train Job'
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Raquel in Natter:
I have also been pondering where Betsy gets these links. My theory is that any powerful and incomprehensible force becomes deified by the culture that it benefits and punishes, and certain members of that culture will feel the call to become an intermediary between the god-thing and the people.
Betsy's an Internet Shaman.
bon bon
I'm so OVER being judged on taste by someone who gets kicked and punched in the head for fun.
ita
And this is just more evidence that you can't be trusted.
I've never been kicked in the head. And even if I had, what I do for fun is kick other people. "Other" is such the important word.
billytea
Indeed. Because without it, you're left with "I kick people, possibly including myself". Which doesn't so much say 'martial arts' as it does 'violent uncontrollable leg spasms'.
And now I'm surely going to hell, because I just had an idea for an event at the Special Olympics.
bwah ha ha ha... (I guess I'll go to the Special Ed Special Hell...)
Allyson in Minearverse:
It's all very McGyver. "Here's 3 dollars, a case of red bull, the set from Alf, and three crackheads we found behind the House of Pies. Make a television show, and make sure it'll appeal to 18-49 males."
Polter-Cow:
I think scholars should gather to espouse the merits of me. It would be very validating.
Susan on Motherhood: Oh, and I saw this documentary on feral children that included a comparison of the brains of normal and neglected toddlers. The neglected kids' language centers are actually stunted or absent. And even though I rationally know Annabel is getting all the language exposure she needs just by being a wanted child in a reasonably loving family, I catch myself just pumping her brain full of English every time I'm holding her. Which includes singing my way through the old Baptist Hymnal I salvaged when my high school church got new ones, and reading the Aubrey/Maturin and Hornblower novels to her.
Kid's gonna have an odd and bloody vocabulary.
fun and games in Bureaucracy
Nutty
But be vigilant, people! We'll only continue to exist as long as enough of us persist in the shared fiction. If your attention lapses, suddenly we might all be stranded in Mongolia or something.
Deena
At least we'd be together.
Nutty
Yeah, in MONGOLIA!!
(No offense to Mongolians. I have a yurt-avoidance issue.)
DXMachina
Check, no yurts for Nutty.
Mongolia seems like it might be fun for a short while. They have horses. Okay, all I actually know about Mongolia is what I saw in PBS special starring Julia Roberts.
Noise Design in the F2F thread:
Does Scarred Baptist taste anything like blackened catfish?
In Minearverse, a newbie proves to be a true Buffista:
The Partyman: Ooh. Might have to try and get to see that!
PaperDragon: You should replace 'might' with 'I', 'have' with 'am', 'to' with 'definitely', 'try' with 'going'. Switch the 'to' with the 'and', finally deleting the 'get'.
Polter-Cow in Bureaucracy:
If nothing we post matters, then all that matters is what we post.