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.

Susan W: I just spent 15 minutes on the shelf above my computer.

Daniel C. Jensen: Sounds like a nice strong shelf.

Natter:

Betsy HP:

As far as I can tell, there's no place online you can buy a hair shirt.

This seems like an obvious gap. Where do holy hermits get their supplies?

DavidS:

I thought they made it with their own hair, ala the Manson Wives.

amych:

meamaximaculpa.com is for sale, if anyone's looking to fill an obvious niche....

Cass: Owen,

Look deeply into momma's very pretty eyes. They look lots like yours, right?

Well Sleep makes them much more sparkley.

And also useful to draw minions under your thrall. Try it.

Sleep and see how powerful you can become.

Also? The books? Gawd the cute. Reading is good.

Love, Auntie Cass

Cashmere: Dear Auntie Cass,

It's so funny to see Mommy get up early. Her hair is sticking up and her eyes are all sleepy.

Plus, she gives me a bottle and turns on the tv.

Besides, I'll catch up with two naps today.

Love, Owen

P.S. BWHAHAHAHAHA

Cass: Dear Owen,

No laughing at the mommy. Even for sticky up hair. (Okay, but try to control it into a grin that might mean teeth, might mean funny)

The bottle contains the Sleepy Nectar of Milk (or milk replacement). It will lull you back to the land of twitchy baby dreams.

Watch the tv. The soothing colors and editing make Baby Owen very sleepy cause he is up early. Very sleepy. Slumping against the mommy and happy to be put down to dream for a couple more hours...

Love, Auntie Cass

(When you sleep, mommy can sleep too... Hee hee.... )

Topic!Cindy: Dear Owen,

You're already too beautiful. You don't need to be evil, too.

Love, Auntie Cindy

Going back a long ways in the Firefly thread:

Kathy Astrom:

How much smarm could a marmot snark if a marmot could snark smarm?

Beej, in Bitches, on the perils of addictive faux-feline arranging:

In other news. You know you've stacked too many cats when your dog does an intervention.

Seriously, I've developed a bit of of a problem with the carefully placing feline facsimilies and Bartleby has become concerned. Last night, it all came to a head after he'd been staring at me...he uses the strategic stare of death to communicate. (Barking would be to common for him.)

I determined that the stare was not an outside? or supper? or play ball? stare...but since I'd never seen the "Dear Dog, my person has become a pathetic, powerless cat stacker and I must save her" stare before, I misunderstood. So. I kept stacking. What else was I supposed to do?

It got pretty uncomfortable as he kept creeping closer and closer to me, staring all the while.

I should point out that he's no lap dog. Like now, for instance. He's obviously watching me closely...periodically checking that he sees no cats stacking on the screen. But he's lying beside me, relatively calm. Every now and then, he lolls his head around to give me the "It's okay, you can do it" stare, but mostly he's calm.

Last night...after increasingly forceful staring, he leapt up onto my lap, with all 43 of his lbs. and literally slapped the keyboard out of my hands and on to the floor. He stretched himself across me, so it was impossible to move and began fervently licking my hands with what was obviously a 'reject the evil cat stacking', admit you are powerless over the stacking, I'll be right here with you, there is life after stacking," intensity.

I'm pretty sure he's having "one day at a time" inscribed on a Milk Bone for me.