In Natter

tommyrot: So, I was just sitting in my chair, leaning back, when the chair just continued to lean further and further back. Sorta' like I was falling backwards, but a little slower than falling. It leaned all the way back (more than 90 degrees) until the headrest hit the floor.

Diagnosis: Metal fatigue led to the metal that holds the chair up to tear away, allowing the remaining metal to fold over....

Nilly: tom, so you didn't fall down or anything, right?

tommyrot: Nope. It was slow enough that I could reach over and try to stop it. Which didn't work anyway. So I ended up on the floor on my back, on top of a broken chair....

Nilly, is your computer treating you any better?

Nilly: Better than your chair, thanks for asking.

Sophia Brooks: OK- I seem to have hit some gayboy highschool jackpot on facebook and now I have 7 more friends! I am beginning to realize my lack of any sort of dating in high school/college was due to the fact that I didn't actually know any straight male people.

Omnis

I kept asking folks where the nearest bell tower is, since it seems historically speaking, Texans do that kinda thing, but nobody would tell me where one is.

Billytea

I have to say, I'm impressed that you're making the effort to fit in.

In Natter:

Alibelle

Still...who was the first dude to figure that out, that it's possible to even do?

Ginger

"Geheald mīn bēor. Wearda!"

("Hold my beer. Watch this!")

In Natter 60:

Perkins: FCM: Radar O'Riley, Barney Fife, Gomer Pyle

P. M Marcontell: C self off cliff.

In Bitches:

omnis_audis: ::links to poll:: "should we remove 'in god we trust' from our currency?"

billytea: Maybe they'll replace it with "Now watch this drive".

calli: Given the way the US dollar has held up lately, I'd go with, "Now watch this dive."

WindSparrow: I remember having a conversation with my dad about the fact that the currency was no longer based on the gold standard, what was it based on. He got out a bill of some denomination, pointed and said, "Why do you think they put, 'In God we trust' on it?"

Miracleman: No wonder our economy's in the shitter. You can't walk into a church and demand a dollar's worth of God.

You wouldn't get good value for the money anyway.

Metaphysical musings in Natter:

Tommyrot: I'm wondering - if our pets go to heaven, how about all the animals I ate? Maybe in heaven I'll run into a cow who'll say, "Dude. You ate me." And I'll be all, "Sorry. But I was hungry. And if it makes you feel any better, you were very tasty."

Not funny but I wanted to put this somewhere it will be remembered; Connie Neil in Natter:

The Western mountains are rugged and majestic and gorgeous and dumb. They don't know what's coming to them. Sure, you can get lost in the wilderness, but they have no subtlety.

The Eastern mountains are old and canny and keep their secrets. You can hide in the shadows of the winding hollows and ridges and listen to the millenia of living things that have hidden there too. They look easy, but they're just waiting for someone to get stupid.

connie neil in Bitches:

The day has that "Must throttle the next fool I meet" feel to it.

hey, I'm on a roll.

t looks down

kaiser, by the look of it.