In Literary:
Calli: In fifth grade I had a teacher who made us read as a punishment. Dude. Might as well give me kaluha brownies and gay porn as a reward for being a smartass.
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Coffee On My Monitor
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Steph L. - Jul 12, 2004 5:09:49 am PDT #6414 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Jon B. - Jul 12, 2004 5:13:37 am PDT #6415 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Nilly, relating her first experience with US bureaucrats in F2F (I really ought to COMM the whole thing, but this bit caused the biggest monitor stain):
The people at the embassy seem to be concerned most with the creation of lines, arranging them nicely, and once they're satisfied, moving them to some other place in the room, to see how they look in there.
Steph L. - Jul 12, 2004 5:15:15 am PDT #6416 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Ah, this is *my* favorite part of Nilly's story of the Embassy Of Lines:
A line to be proud of.
It was a line to tell stories about.
flea - Jul 12, 2004 6:44:13 am PDT #6417 of 10000
information libertarian
Ginger, in Literary:
My other early reading memory was when I went to kindergarten when I was 4. There were alphabet cards on the walls, and the teacher said, "This is Mr. A and this is Mr. B." I could already read, and no one had ever talked to me like that. I naturally came to the conclusion that the teachers were insane, and for some reason my parents had been forced to lock me in a room with crazy people for half a day.
Pix - Jul 12, 2004 8:40:24 am PDT #6418 of 10000
The status is NOT quo.
From the forms Nilly had to fill out at the embassy:
Do you seek to enter the United States to engage in export control violations, subversive or terrorist activities, or any other unlawful purpose? Are you a member or representative of a terrorist organization as currently designated by the U.S. Secretary of State? Have you ever participated in persecutions directed by the Nazi government of Germany; or have you ever participated in genocide?
Ginger: Does anyone ever answer "yes" to these? And if so, why isn't there a "If yes, please explain" box?
billytea: Y'know, I think I'd find a 'please explain' box even more disturbing. "Yeah, I was plotting terrorist activity while in the US, but it's not what you think. I was only going to hit Iowa. You'll hardly notice."
Trudy Booth - Jul 12, 2004 11:30:24 am PDT #6419 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
billytea: You are taller than all known penguins.
Deena: Huh. That seems a shame. I should like to be able to waltz with a penguin without towering over it, should there be a penguin who would like to waltz.
billytea: I think they all would. They have that formal, faintly repressed look about them concealing a smouldering longing within their hearts. It's what the waltz is all about!
Fay - Jul 12, 2004 1:21:06 pm PDT #6420 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
In Bitches, following a discussion of safe sex:
Trudy: I'm voting for the female condom.
billytea: I for one am all agog to discover whether Trudy means Bush, Kerry or Nader.
Steph L. - Jul 12, 2004 4:21:38 pm PDT #6421 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
In Natter, Betsy and Allyson demonstrate First World vs. Third World:
Betsy: The building with the cookies is having a fire evacuation.
No cookie for me.
I went for a walk around the lagoon.
A walk is not a cookie.
I returned to the vending machine. They were out of Peanut M&Ms, so I got Plain. Then I went upstairs.
We don't have any unflavored fizzy water. We only have artificial berry-flavored.
My plans for the remainder of the afternoon: Sulk.
Allyson: So in third world speak, it'd be all:
I went out to get an egg this morning but some sort of beast ate my hen, so I had to suck on the same root I had yesterday.
Then I decided to walk to the watering hole to get a bucket of water to start boiling leaves for that friggin' whooping cough that won't let up, and tripped over my 8th youngest kid, who succumbed to the ebola.
It's just not my day.
Steph L. - Jul 12, 2004 4:29:01 pm PDT #6422 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
....and bon bon's follow-up to the above:
bon bon: Did I tell you all about my rich neighbor who has a chicken and seven kids? She's really got it made. Me, I'm a spinster. I WISH I had some root and a husband. At least I have one leg to take me past my daily stoning.
Betsy HP - Jul 12, 2004 4:31:43 pm PDT #6423 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Go ahead. Mock my pain.