In Natter,

shrift: I live my fannish life only seconds away from a wank apocalypse.

In Bitches:

Topic!Cindy: It's so hard to be a new mother. Please don't beat yourself up because a natural process performed by your body functions better when it receives natural stimulation. That's like getting mad at yourself because a vibrator doesn't take you out to dinner.

In Natter...

ita: I was asked if I wanted to be on a reality show today, and I said yes. No idea if it'll play out, but if you're asking yourself why I'd ever do something that...that...just plain wrong, well the answer is bodyguarding.

Apparently they want two chicks they can spend two days teaching bodyguarding skills including counter surveillance and defensive driving.

Which pretty much guarantees I'll finally get a job, and they'll want me to start before filming is scheduled.

Matt the Bruins Fan: See, now you've learned how to make inconvenience magic work for you!

Okay, this over in Bureaucracy made me laugh and laugh, when the thread-creating process went awry:

jon b.:

Anyone creating a Heroes thread? I can do it if no one else is on the case.

Sophia Brooks:

Um- there appear to be a lot of Heroes threads??

tommyrot:

We can all be Heroes....

sumi:

Each with our own thread?

tommyrot:

Yes. But just for one day.

ita in Natter:

My butter dish just committed suicide.

I was very kind to it, and understanding of its issues. I'm not sure why it has come to this.

Hmm. I am beginning to suspect that the book was complicit in the dish death. Not content to have its pages weighed down by the butter dish, while I was in the other room it took advantage of my absence and threw the dish to an ignominious death.

It's the visual, in Natter:

Jilli: Does this mean I live in juliana's head?

Hec: I don't think so, otherwise there'd be petticoats leaking out of her nose.

Natter:

P.M. Marcontell - Hey, smart people: what are those things called on showers that you use to turn on the water and adjust the temp? I *always* blank on the name, and kind of need to know for fic purposes.

Aimée - Pool boys?

Manservants?

Husbands?

Not where you're going with this, huh?

Daisy Jane in the Veronica Mars thread, context being...the usual state of affairs:

You know, I've thought this before, but now I'm going to say it. I love MM and Aimee, Jilli and Pete, Tom and Nora, JZ and Hec, Kat and Lori, but P-C and Cindy are my favorite buffista couple.

Dana: According to my secret boyfriend, "QI" host Stephen Fry, it is an urban legend, and [the Inuit] only have four words for snow. They do, however, have thirty different kinds of demonstrative pronouns, whereas English only has four (this, that, these, those). They apparently have words that mean "the thing under that other thing" and "the thing near us that we can't actually see" and suchlike.

lisah: Man would that (by which I mean the thing Dana pointed out in the post right above mine while I'm typing this now but which may be further above this when I actually hit Post Message) be useful!

In Minearverse:

Kevin: Oh good god. Somebody edited this into Wikipedia's Drive entry at one point;

The premise for this show reminds many of previous plots, mainly Paramounts [[Rat Race (film)]]. Many bloggers have brought this up (citation needed), stating that this series is another act of "questionable ethics" on the part of the Fox media company.

Matt the Bruins fan: Did they miss that Rat Race was basically It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World with rocket cars and ballooning heifers?

Frankenbuddha: So under that criteria, Paramount has equally "questionable ethics" for lifting RAT RACE pretty much wholesale from IT'S A MAD...MAD WORLD.

Ginger: Which was lifted from Around the World in 80 Days, and so forth back to the Odyssey.