Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.

Buffy ,'Showtime'


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.


sarameg - Feb 12, 2007 10:46:18 am PST #336 of 10001

Hey Allyson, remember that optics catalog that had you irate? (It was Edumd Optics, yeah?)

It's just hit the AAS Committee on the Status of Women listserv.


Ginger - Feb 12, 2007 10:49:47 am PST #337 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I think it's because I think I'm so lame, and that mostly everyone here is a way better writer than I.

That is so not true.

If I pre-order three, I won't have to pay shipping.


Rick - Feb 12, 2007 10:51:14 am PST #338 of 10001

Presumably that's either a ripoff or homage of "The Philosophy of..." series, right?

I don't know that series, but it wouldn't shock me if this one was a ripoff.


§ ita § - Feb 12, 2007 10:52:03 am PST #339 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I hope y'all are using affiliate links to preorder.


bon bon - Feb 12, 2007 10:56:03 am PST #340 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I don't know that series, but it wouldn't shock me if this one was a ripoff.

The Philosophy of the Simpsons, BtVS, LotR, Matrix and other pop culture subjects. AFAIK (well, what I've been told from the in-house philosopher) none of the authors of the included essays are significant philosophy personages.


Steph L. - Feb 12, 2007 10:56:43 am PST #341 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Hey Allyson, remember that optics catalog that had you irate? (It was Edumd Optics, yeah?)

It's just hit the AAS Committee on the Status of Women listserv.

Because I'm bored, I googled that catalog, and got this blog: [link]


Allyson - Feb 12, 2007 11:03:47 am PST #342 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Oh thank god. I was told I was nuts for being so mad about it.

I feel vindicated.

ION, my hands won't stop shaking. It's really really really real.


tommyrot - Feb 12, 2007 11:08:58 am PST #343 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 think there's a joke somewhere in this picture: [link]


sarameg - Feb 12, 2007 11:11:09 am PST #344 of 10001

They were kind enough to include scans and contact information in the mail. Heh. Oh, and some of EO's industrial/academic affiliates.


Allyson - Feb 12, 2007 11:17:10 am PST #345 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I just threw out the copy the other day because it made me mad everytime I found it under a pile on my desk.