Well sometimes it's hard to get drapes to match hardwood floors.
Book: I am a Shepherd. Folks like a man of God. Mal: No, they don't. Men of God make everyone feel guilty and judged.
'Safe'
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.
NoiseDesign - Mar 28, 2007 8:13:07 am PDT #9308 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
shrift - Mar 28, 2007 8:18:35 am PDT #9309 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Glad I can be of service.
I appreciate it. Sometimes I like to try acting as if I'm not a twelve-year-old boy.
Connie Neil - Mar 28, 2007 8:20:15 am PDT #9310 of 10001
brillig
Well sometimes it's hard to get drapes to match hardwood floors.
he said hardwood
snerk
NoiseDesign - Mar 28, 2007 8:20:16 am PDT #9311 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
I gave up on any pretense of not being 12 a long time ago. Thank doG Kristin puts up with me.
Pix - Mar 28, 2007 8:20:57 am PDT #9312 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Sometimes I like to try acting as if I'm not a twelve-year-old boy.
ND has no problem playing this role for you. Or anyone, really.
ETA: Ah, x-posty.
Connie Neil - Mar 28, 2007 8:33:06 am PDT #9313 of 10001
brillig
Disney is thinking about releasing "Song of the South" in the U.S. on video for the first time ever.
When did "tar baby" become something other than an attractive lure that's going to entangle you into something nasty?
shrift - Mar 28, 2007 8:33:42 am PDT #9314 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Well, I do spend a lot of time acting like a precocious twelve-year-old boy. But I was just working on my taxes earlier, and I didn't want to give myself puerile whiplash.
DavidS - Mar 28, 2007 8:33:59 am PDT #9315 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
When did "tar baby" become something other than an attractive lure that's going to entangle you into something nasty?
It's always been a racially loaded epithet.
Connie Neil - Mar 28, 2007 8:41:16 am PDT #9316 of 10001
brillig
It's always been a racially loaded epithet.
I guess the fact that I grew up in a 98% white environment buffered me from that sort of stuff. The tar baby was only ever that thing that was going to wind you up in the briar patch, B'rer Rabbit.
JZ - Mar 28, 2007 8:41:50 am PDT #9317 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I don't know about always -- according to Wikipedia, the first time it was used in the US was in a Harper's Weekly story (Joel Chandler Harris was actually second with it) loosely derived from a Ghanian Anansi story, with exactly the meaning connie describes. The meaning has morphed since then, but it does seem to have been originally just one plot-central but racially neutral element of a longer trickster tale.