If we have to use stairs, then the terrorists have already won.
They hate us for our escalators.
Question: Will hiding in a cavern with stockpiled chocolate goods be any part of this plan?
Xander ,'Get It Done'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Feb 23, 2007 8:10:16 am PST #3172 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jessica - Feb 23, 2007 8:11:03 am PST #3173 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
You mean TERROR STEPS, right?
SO CLOSE to being an x-post. Damn my slow fingers!
Jesse - Feb 23, 2007 8:11:49 am PST #3174 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
SO CLOSE to being an x-post. Damn my slow fingers!
Hee.
Kathy A - Feb 23, 2007 8:12:02 am PST #3175 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
This is why I don't watch local tv news anymore. They led with Obama's Hollywood fundraiser the one time I did try and watch in the past week, and all the breathless reporting over who was there disgusted me in all its starfuckingmania, so I turned the tv off.
§ ita § - Feb 23, 2007 8:14:27 am PST #3176 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I remember the escalators going out at one London station and it being entirely newsworthy. The Hampstead escalators run almost 200 feet up, so when they're out, it's best you don't get off at that station.
The annoying Google images javascript seems to have disappeared!
tommyrot - Feb 23, 2007 8:16:22 am PST #3177 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
From Wonkette:
After a long successful run of endorsing winners like George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Al Gore and John Kerry, the magazine Rolling Stone implied back in November that Tom Vilsack might survive with a little buzz help from Wonkette.
As an experiment, we gave Vilsack an absurd amount of coverage, including endless critiques of his impressive neo-totalitarian campaign style and disturbing “furry” costumes. Well, actually, that was all we covered — the 1984/V For Vendetta/ crap and the adult Winnie the Pooh costume. And now he’s the first candidate to drop out, nearly two years before the election. There’s a lesson here, possibly involving Piglet or Owl or Bill Richardson.
Scrappy - Feb 23, 2007 8:17:19 am PST #3178 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Do they still have the ancient wooden escalators in Boston--on the Red Line, I think? Those were very cool. They made a great clanka-clanka noise.
sarameg - Feb 23, 2007 8:20:10 am PST #3179 of 10001
I occasionally will deliberately catch the late local news. Mainly for the weather, but sometimes they answer my questions about things like What were all those helicopters doing? Often they have some insipid story that somehow ties in to whatever hit tv show was on that night. Which can result in unintended hilarity.
I just have to be careful to avoid them when we are being terrorized by the killer snakeheads or whatever.
Hayden - Feb 23, 2007 8:20:25 am PST #3180 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
tommyrot - Feb 23, 2007 8:23:01 am PST #3181 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm surprised by how many matches results from googling escalator death.