Tara: That was funny if you've studied Taglarin mystic rites and... are a total dork... Riley: Then how come Xander didn't laugh?

'Selfless'


Spike's Bitches 35: We Got a History  

[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.


Sean K - May 20, 2007 2:23:47 pm PDT #9595 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Right, that was for patricides, I think.

This somehow makes it stranger. For most capital crimes, you just get stuck with a sword. But if you kill your dad, you have to get the crap beaten out of you by an ape, mauled and probably bit by a dog, and poisoned repeatedly by snake bites (one suspects they shoved the snake down the condemned's pants, so as to make it "snake bites to the nads), all while drowning.


beth b - May 20, 2007 2:25:31 pm PDT #9596 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

yay - all the laundry is put away - except , DH keeps doing laundry. doesn't he know that that makes more laundry to put away?


sj - May 20, 2007 2:27:51 pm PDT #9597 of 10003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

All of the Kim Possible fans must watch "Cap'n Drakken".


-t - May 20, 2007 2:30:19 pm PDT #9598 of 10003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

For most capital crimes, you just get stuck with a sword. But if you kill your dad, you have to get the crap beaten out of you by an ape, mauled and probably bit by a dog, and poisoned repeatedly by snake bites (one suspects they shoved the snake down the condemned's pants, so as to make it "snake bites to the nads), all while drowning.

Well, yeah, just dying is too easy. Parricide was, like, the worst crime there was in Rome so it had to have a punishment that was literally a fate worse than (just) death. If you killl your father you will seiously suffer, is the idea. You aren't even allowed to kill yourself to escape it.


Steph L. - May 20, 2007 2:33:15 pm PDT #9599 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Wait -- did people who were committing the particide kill their father via the ape/snake/dog/drown method, or was that the method of punishing the person who killed his father?


beth b - May 20, 2007 2:33:28 pm PDT #9600 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

All of the Kim Possible fans must watch "Cap'n Drakken".

yes they must


Volans - May 20, 2007 2:34:48 pm PDT #9601 of 10003
move out and draw fire

don't understand the economic forces that make a mortgage payment significantly higher than rent on a similar property, but it seems to be happening around here

Conventional wisdom is that if your mortgage payment would be 20% of higher than your rental payment, rent. The places I've been looking at are 80% higher than rental.

That's one reason for not buying now, acutally. We would probably have to rent the place out after a couple years, and would still be paying almost a whole normal mortgage ourselves.

Mallory, throwing subtlety to the winds, has realized that if he bangs the crap stereo in the housing unit into the wall enough, it will reset to the first track, which is the one he likes to dance to (Rasputina, fwiw).


brenda m - May 20, 2007 2:37:15 pm PDT #9602 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Conventional wisdom is that if your mortgage payment would be 20% of higher than your rental payment, rent. The places I've been looking at are 80% higher than rental.

I wonder if that really holds, or if it's like a lot of other economic shorthand calculations that haven't really been updated with the times. For sure it doesn't seem a reasonable - or workable anyway - standard for Chicago.


Sean K - May 20, 2007 2:38:17 pm PDT #9603 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Wait -- did people who were committing the particide kill their father via the ape/snake/dog/drown method, or was that the method of punishing the person who killed his father?

The person committing patricide got the pummeling/mauling/poisoning/drowning.


sj - May 20, 2007 2:40:51 pm PDT #9604 of 10003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I must have an icon of Kim as a pirate!