More Natter:
ericaj: Who wants to be the oldest girl at the Purity Ball?
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
Coffee On My Monitor
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aurelia - Apr 19, 2006 9:09:05 am PDT #8420 of 10000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Jessica - Apr 19, 2006 10:14:57 am PDT #8421 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
In Bitches:
Tep:I got spam yesterday from someone "named" Trouble F. Grumpiness.
Nicole:Now I'm totally dying to know which emotions Trouble chucked and married
Topic!Cindy - Apr 19, 2006 11:35:43 am PDT #8422 of 10000
What is even happening?
JZ: One of the doctors I used to work for just stuck his head in the door and said, "So, I know this is completely insane and improbable because you never take vacation, but last Friday my family and I were stuck in the Las Vegas airport and someone who looked exactly like you walked right past us."
It's a big huge world, except for the part where it's frequently ridiculously tiny.
Kathy A: Reminds me of two similar instances: (1) ex-girlfriend (from his h.s. years) of my brother's calls my mom four years after they graduated from h.s., "Was Kip in Walt Disney World last week?" She saw him standing in a ride line; (2) while in college, a h.s. friend of my sister's was in London with a friend who had won the trip from MTV, and they were lost just outside of the central district, when out of the blue she hears, "Liz? Liz Dillon?!" Turns out a h.s. classmate was in London on a work visa.
ita: A woman walked up to me at work and said "You went to McGill? So did I!" We overlapped by a year--turns out this woman had lived in Ontario (check) and had Jamaican parents. And for some strange reason had moved to California, gotten a job with my company, been seated across the way from me, and had noticed my car's license plate holder. We did a lot of reminiscing that first conversation.
Trudy Booth: A friend of mine was riding an elephant through the jungle to Angor Wat. They passed an elephant coming from Angor Wat and his ex-boyfriend from ten years ago was sitting on it.
Kathy A: I think we have a winner! At least, until interplanetary travel is readily available.
billytea - Apr 19, 2006 6:43:19 pm PDT #8423 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
ita, in Natter:
Being pimped by your father is less ooky than doing him, but I feel I'm splitting hairs.
Cass - Apr 20, 2006 1:57:09 pm PDT #8424 of 10000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Allyson Natters:
Do you ever feel like we're all supporting each other, sometimes dragging each other, through miserable work days? Like a white collar platoon?
We gotta keep moving! Five O'Clock will never get here if WE DON'T KEEP MOVING
There's a Buffista down!
We gotta KEEP MOVIN'!
We can't leave sarameg behind! She just got nailed by freakishly bad code and a deadline!
Go on without me! But AVENGE ME! AVENGE ME
§ ita § - Apr 20, 2006 1:57:49 pm PDT #8425 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Allyson in Natter on why we're really here:
Do you ever feel like we're all supporting each other, sometimes dragging each other, through miserable work days? Like a white collar platoon?
We gotta keep moving! Five O'Clock will never get here if WE DON'T KEEP MOVING
There's a Buffista down!
We gotta KEEP MOVIN'!
We can't leave sarameg behind! She just got nailed by freakishly bad code and a deadline!
Go on without me! But AVENGE ME! AVENGE ME
eta: Well, it was that funny
§ ita § - Apr 20, 2006 2:46:16 pm PDT #8426 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Aimée sharing her hard-earned wisdom in Bitches:
I think grandkids are like tatoos and chips.
You can't have just one.
deborah grabien - Apr 22, 2006 12:41:50 pm PDT #8427 of 10000
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Raq in Great Write, on the subject of writing dialogue:
You have to have the skill to trim the viburnum, but not make it into a meatball.
And I love that so much, I may have to tag it, if she'll let me.
Trudy Booth - Apr 22, 2006 1:00:01 pm PDT #8428 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
MFNlaw: I don't mean to imply that martinis make me easy. I'm like that anyway.
Liese S. - Apr 22, 2006 2:45:50 pm PDT #8429 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
In Movies:
flea: I now want someone to make a film called The Preposition. And have it be a thriller, about grammar.
Gud: It'd probably be a thriller that left you hanging at the end.