ita makes me giggle.

From Movies:

Gandalfe: Do you know they released a Showgirls Special Edition? Boggles the mind . . . .

Lilty: I think it comes with pasties, too.

ita: Mmm. Good eating.

shrift in Natter:

I'm too busy arguing with clients to argue with the blinvisible people on the Interbunny.

Them: "You sent the wrong thing!"

Me: "No, I didn't."

Them: "Yes! Yes, you did!"

Me: "You actually didn't specify. What I sent fits the description of what you requested."

Them: "But you should have known what I meant!"

Me: "You'll have to take it up with my employers, then, since 'psychic' wasn't listed as a job requirement."

Them: "Fine! Just send me the right thing!"

Me: "Certainly. As soon as you tell me what it was you actually wanted."

Them: "..." (sends same description as before)

Me: "I wish I could think that you're fucking with me. I really do."

Them: "So when can I expect the files?"

(edited for reading clarity)

ita slays me in Natter:

I just took part in a deliciously actionable discussion. We were discussing krav, and a co-worker assured another that instructors weren't allowed to kick beginning students in the balls.

"Don't say balls."
"Nut sac?"
"Stop it!"
"How about testicles?" I offer helpfully.
"NO. Just call it below the belt. No 'balls.' No 'nut sac.'" We all collapse in giggles as someone walks by, but he struggles on valiantly. "And no 'testicles.""
"Scrotum?" I try again.
"NO!"
"Hmm. Those two round objects behind my dick?" suggests the other co-worker.

I haven't been that twelve on company time in FOREVER. It was kinda fun.

Jesse in Natter, on the Red Sox:

They almost never get this far without choking! It's an honor just to be here!

Heather, bringing it home in Natter:

I love where I'm from. I love my culture. I love my accent. I love having a down to earth, beer in the back of the truck, above ground pool by the trailer with self-installed add-ons, watching football on Saturday while shelling peas family and upbringing.

You know what I don't love? The thought of my grandmother not being able to afford her medication for her hip or not being able to get to the hospital in Shreveport should something bad happen. I don't love the thought of my cousin not having a choice because she made a mistake when she was in a bad place. I don't love my dad's school having temporary buildings and not enough desks for students, and I don't love my step-dad having to lay off bus drivers because public transportation isn't as much as a priority as attracting businesses with tax breaks. I don't love that people may not be able to get to the jobs those businesses bring in, or if they do, they have to decide between that and decent housing.

Most of all, and I can't stress this enough, I don't love, in fact I can't stand, one might even say I hate being told how I or anyone else feels based on where I live.

ita, in Natter:

My mother is crying right now, and she doesn't know why. But it's because her first-born daughter can't dress up as a girl for Halloween without hitting the malls.

Gudanov: E doesn't seem to be bothered much by her cast, but is looking foward to having taken off in a week. L is still adorable, cute, and always getting in trouble. L's new favorite hobby is annoying his big sister.

brenda m: Pretty brave, when she's got a cast right there to bop him with. Or possibly E's big-sistering style is different than mine was.

Calli: When my nephew was around four, my sister handed him an apple. He yelled, "Nooooooo!" and ran from the room. They'd covered The Fall in his Sunday school class that morning. Apparently it took a while to explain the difference between A fruit and The fruit to him.

brenda m.

Thought of you when I saw this headline, MM:

U.N.: Robot use to surge sevenfold by 2007

I think they're on to you.

Miracleman

U.N.: Robot use to surge sevenfold by 2007

I saw that, too. But it turns out their talking about automation in manufacturing and whatnot.

You have to go to a different website to see the headline: "Evil Genius Mastermind Increases Undead, Robot Armies Tenfold by 2005. Global Domination Imminent. Neener."

JohnSweden

You have to go to a different website to see the headline: "Evil Genius Mastermind Increases Undead, Robot Armies Tenfold by 2005. Global Domination Imminent. Neener."

Ah. CNN.

connie beat me to the CNN part.

Ah, well. C'est la Wolf Blitzer.