I just called my cell voicemail and got one half of a phone conversation. And not one half of a recorded phone conversation--I never got my voicemail prompts at all. Just listening to this woman talk about a job she didn't want while kids wail in the background. I'm kinda scared to try again.
We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
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.
§ ita § - Feb 23, 2007 8:52:07 am PST #3192 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jessica - Feb 23, 2007 8:57:40 am PST #3193 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Do they still have the ancient wooden escalators in Boston?
Macy's in NYC has those! Most of the upper floors have been upgraded, but there are still one or two ancient creaky ones leading to the Cellar and the food court.
Jesse - Feb 23, 2007 9:04:50 am PST #3194 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ugh, I feel so bad for a coworker right now -- earlier this week, her cousin's 18 year old son died in a snowboarding accident, and now her grandmother died last night! So sad for that family. Granted, the grandmother must have been pretty old, because my coworker's around 50, but still. A bad week.
sumi - Feb 23, 2007 9:07:36 am PST #3195 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
That poor woman -- too much all at once.
Jesse - Feb 23, 2007 9:12:08 am PST #3196 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah -- and especially for her cousin's family -- it's the cousin's grandmother, too.
Liese S. - Feb 23, 2007 9:13:29 am PST #3197 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
escalator death
This is because, and I feel certain I've mentioned this before, escalators are evil. They have teeth, they have terrifying recorded voices, they have mysterious substances on their oddly rubbery handholds, and they are lit from below with green.
Miracleman - Feb 23, 2007 9:28:58 am PST #3198 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
This is because, and I feel certain I've mentioned this before, escalators are evil. They have teeth, they have terrifying recorded voices, they have mysterious substances on their oddly rubbery handholds, and they are lit from below with green.
That green is just the radiation leaking from the reactors into which they stuff their unwitting victims as fuel for their unholy machinations.
Nothing to be worried about.
DavidS - Feb 23, 2007 9:35:25 am PST #3199 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A bad week.
I worked for a woman who lost her long-time ex, and her sister (in separate accidents) within the same week. She was reeling.
Of course, she wasn't much help during my divorce. "Hey, nobody's dead."
shrift - Feb 23, 2007 9:44:16 am PST #3200 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Phone calls made, ultra-super-helpful and faux-apologetic e-mails sent. Now I wait for more stupidity to hit my inbox.
Theodosia - Feb 23, 2007 9:51:16 am PST #3201 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I know somebody whose mother died of cancer -- and then whose father (long divorced from her mother, and living on the far side of the country) died in a car crash a week later.
::decides to call her Mommy tonight::