why does the boiling noise get softer before the pot comes to a complete boil?
Because its nefarious plan is almost complete.
Mal: And I never back down from a fight. Inara: Yes, you do! You do all the time!
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Spike's Bitches 34: They're All Slime and Antlers
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
billytea - Feb 05, 2007 6:34:13 pm PST #4224 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
-t - Feb 05, 2007 6:34:33 pm PST #4225 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
why does the boiling noise get softer before the pot comes to a complete boil?
Because the noise is the sound of bubbles collapsing under the pressure of the water. At first, bubbles form at the bottom of the water but collapse before they make it to the surface, but as full boil approaches, more and more bubbles make it to the surface and do not noisily collapse.
Whitefonted for those who would like to preserve the mystery. Or don't care. My dad explained that to us so many times growing up, at this point any time any of us boil water we can just say "That sound" and crack each other up.
Aims - Feb 05, 2007 6:37:11 pm PST #4226 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Parents of toddlers and former toddlers. I need guidance.
Em has been going to bed at 7:30 since she was about 8 months old. There is a whole bedtime routine - bath, books, kisses, lights off. There has been very little problems with this. As of late, she is getting out of bed a number of times - wanting more stories, water, etc. She is also getting up at 2am - almost on the dot - and getting into bed with us.
Are we putting her down too early? Should we adjust bedtime to 8:00 so that she goes to sleep and sleeps through the night? Should we just keep her bedtime as it is and just keep reinforcing it and not let her into bed with us? Do we get her some Ambien? Should I look in the closet for the spaceship this new creature came in when she traded places with my sleeping girl??
Cass - Feb 05, 2007 6:44:15 pm PST #4227 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Ambien and a shot of Jack. But she's little, so only half a pill?
Aims - Feb 05, 2007 6:45:02 pm PST #4228 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Got it.
adds Jack and Ambien to grocery list
What about for Em?
Vortex - Feb 05, 2007 6:49:03 pm PST #4229 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
adds Jack and Ambien to grocery list
don't try to tell me that you don't have Jack in the house, I won't believe you. unless you just drank it all
Cass - Feb 05, 2007 6:49:38 pm PST #4230 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Who cares? You'll be sleeping just fine.
Aims - Feb 05, 2007 6:51:01 pm PST #4231 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
don't try to tell me that you don't have Jack in the house, I won't believe you.
No Jack. Fifth of Crown Royal, though.
Vortex - Feb 05, 2007 6:52:33 pm PST #4232 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
No Jack. Fifth of Crown Royal, though.
ah, that's my girl.
P.M. Marc - Feb 05, 2007 6:55:34 pm PST #4233 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I have no Jack. And no Crown Royal.
I think I have Maker's. Maybe some Knob Creek.
And the Scotch Lee gave me a while ago.