connie neil in Bitches rejoices at the non-cloudy view:

YOU CAN SEE THE FUCKING MOUNTAINS!

And don't you know that mountains hate being caught doing stuff like that when the clouds move without warning. It's like, "Oh! Humans! Nothing to see here, look over there. Hey, what's that in the lake!" But granite can't do subtle.

Matt the Bruins Fan in Minearverse:

I think Amélie is the only movie that lived up to its "she'll change your life" promise, and even then the effect was limited to the decor of my bedroom.

the problem with asking the Buffistas for advice (in Natter):

Nonian: Are there any easy ways to get gasoline smell off your hands?

NoiseDesign: Belt sander.

Nonian: Okay, I'll go fire it up. But once I'm done, what do I do with my bleeding fingertips?

Polter-Cow: Tell everyone your new guitar is hell.

NoiseDesign: Hydrogen peroxide.

Nonian: You people are funny but not very helpful.

In Natter:

Allibelle :

I'm not sure what you people are talking about with these painted anorexic critters that do drugs.

aurelia :

Are we still talking about Mischa Barton?

Topic!Cindy, in Bitches:

Oh well, these cats aren't going to stack themselves.

In Bitches

Polter-Cow: I just ate a chocolate-covered cricket.

brenda m: On purpose?

In Bitches

Daniel C. Jensen

According to the British parents' organization Bullywatch, which issued blue wristbands to students to publicize the campaign against school bullying, any kid wearing the wristbands was immediately targeted for attack by bullies

DebetEsse

Well, yeah.

Cashmere

Color me not surprised.

ita

I'm disappointed. The bullies should co opt the blue wristbands as their gang colours.

That would be cool.

DavidS

You're exhibiting a little more simpatico with the bullies than I think is rightly proper. Also, they lack your imagination.

ita

For that, I quash my simpatico.

Louts. Louts with no flair, or sense of irony.

DavidS

So your prefer a more stylish lout? You like your goons with some panache?

ita

You didn't think I was in it for the brutality alone, surely?

DavidS

Oh, no. You clearly need a gang that looks and works sort of like your Krav security detail.

Cashmere

ita has nailed why I like hockey. Hitting guys. Boring. Hitting guys while skating. Speed and grace punctuated by violence.

ita

Except they have these great big knives they so rarely use. It makes me tense.

DavidS

I was just talking about the virtues of Kung Fu ice skating yesterday.

Commercials fun in Lost

arby: OK, random but has anyone seen that commercial (for Staples or something) with the guy handing out posters for his missing rubberband ball? The ones that say "LOST" in big letters? Every time I see that I think, "That should be a commercial for Lost". How cool would that be, like people are trying to get the word out about Lost. OK, maybe it should really be for some less-watched but equally deserving show, like Veronica Mars, but it would be neat to play on the viewers' expectations that the flyer would be for some Lost object and is instead for a TV show.

Or maybe I've put WAY too much thought into this.

Lilty: It does always seem to be on DURING Lost. Which is smart, because we're all so obsessed that when we see the 'Lost' posters, we pay attention.

P-C: arby, I've definitely noticed them, especially when they appear during Lost. We thought it was cute, but then they appeared during Alias too. I don't watch any other ABC shows, so I don't know if there's any pattern.

Dana: The Rubberband Man! I love the Rubberband Man.

arby: Maybe it's subliminal! Glad to know I'm not the only one.

Liese: I, too, Dana. And I feel very sad for him, for lo, he has lost his very identity. And some poor, probably well-meaning, soul has tried to replace it with the mundane, and not the true Rubberbands of the Rubberband Man.

And yeah, I always look at that ad and think, huh, Lost. Shortly after that I think, Gee, I hope he recycles all that paper. And the used ink cartridges.

Dana: There is a new commercial, Liese. And, you know, not to spoil it for you, but things turn out okay in the end.

Liese: Oh. Good.

ita: What do you mean "not to spoil it"??? You've totally ruined the ad!

Dana: Hey, it aired over a week ago!

ita: Some of us are on tape delay, you know.

Dana: Then you should stay out of the NADFA threads.

ita: ::flounces::

Liese: Hey, I thought this thread was Lost specific NAFDA! Go post in RubberbandMan 4: Hair and the Modern Man.

On rhythm and the lack thereof, in Natter:

Nilly: There are researches in synchronizaton which show that if a crowd of people claps (like, at the end of a play or a lecture, not to a tune (and, yes, I know it's not the subject, but I'm one of the people who can't follow a tune at all, so I try to post about something else)), even if very few people clap at a slower rhythm, the whole group will adapt to that, eventually.

tommyrot: There must be a way to use this knowledge to, I don't know... take over the world or something.

ita: Wait -- so the rhythm is gonna get you?

shrift: Dude, even cow looks wrong if I write it enough times.

DXMachina: Cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow...

Huh. I wonder if that's why Gary Larson quit doing the Farside.