Steph L: This just in: blue eyeshadow makes me look like a clown. Or a whore. Or a clown that was so unfunny that she had to become a whore.

Raq: Breaking news: Mallory is crawling. Just started. And he's heading towards the power cord for the modem, so we could lose Intern

Robin in Natter: Watched the Colbert Report (or as I like to think of it, "My Secret Boyfriend's New Show Where He Sends Me Secret Love Messages Through His Eyes") last night. Thought is was awfully funny, but agree that it might not hold up over the long run.

Emily: I'd like to offer up a question to the hivemind. If you were submitting your resume to support your application for, oh, anything at all, would you include the freaking end dates of your previous positions, or just the starting years, as though perhaps you were still teaching in Prague despite having worked in Kansas for the last 17 years?!?!

It needed a double interrobang. I mean, it's personally annoying for me, because I need to ferret out end dates or make them up out of whole cloth, but what really gets to me is -- how can anyone think this is appropriate? Why would you just put the start years?

Calli: I'd only do this if my job history had some holes:

1997: Started at Big Important Company 2001: Started at Small, yet Boutique and Impressive Company (unsaid: January 1998: booted from BIC and spent the next three years living in parents' basement, eating junk food, and writing porny fanfic. Which I'd worry about being my fate in a few months if it wasn't for the fact that my parents don't have a basement. So you can imagine my relief.)

I'm just the setup, in Natter:

Kate P.: I have a question: if it's the 21st named storm, how come it starts with the 23rd letter of the alphabet? Shouldn't it be Hurricane Uma?

Dana: They skip some letters.

Calli: I believe they skip U, X, Y, and Z. And possibly Q. Pity. If we had to have this many hurricanes in a season, the least they could do would be to name one "Xena". Or "Zod". I'm not picky.

amych: They skip q, u, x, y, and z in the naming scheme.

(Hugely x-posty, natch. Or should that be alpha-posty, since the alphabet ends after W.)

(Leading me to wonder, does the world?)

Prognosticatey in Firefly:

Kevin:
The week of Serenity mudslinging begins tomorrow! From the theatre counts it looks like Serenity is going to almost completely disappear in the US on Friday.

Allyson:
I'm not sure why that triggers mudslinging.

brenda m:
Oh! I know! Cause we can all blamey on each other, and this time, we can back it up with data! Rock on.

Unrelatedly, does Google have a site yet where I can get specific by-theatre attendance numbers for theatres near people I don't like anyway, so I can start throwing some rocks? Just asking.

Allyson in GWW:

I mean, I could have come up with the name Lance Steelcock somewhere, but I have no recollection of it and don't want to take credit for anyone else's phallus.

Two in a row...Context? What context?

Allyson in Firefly:

Minearverse is soaps, crafts, feminism, and pictures of dogs.

In Bitches on the dangers of crockpotting:

beth b

The worst thing about dinner in a crockpot -- it starts smelling so good....

and I have to wait ....

ita

Never crock when you're at home! It's slow torture.

beth b

now she tells me ...

The fact that this quote came from Bureaucraxy makes it even better.

Ginger: I'm kind of in the mood for a fresh bout of torture.