I'm not sure how old he is, but I heard him use the word 'newfangled' one time, so he's gotta be pretty far gone.

Dawn ,'Beneath You'


Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here  

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.


JenP - Apr 20, 2007 4:41:14 pm PDT #3774 of 10001

"You know, I think I'm going to start doing that -- putting a napkin in my lap like that. It looks so ladylike!"

That's oddly adorable. So... was it the way you had your napkin in your lap, or the fact that you had a napkin in your lap that she was talking about? I am now curious about whether I've been doing it right all these years.


Jesse - Apr 20, 2007 4:42:56 pm PDT #3775 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It was just the fact the napkin was in my lap. It was like she knew it was something that fancy people did, but it had never really occured to her that it was something she could do. Until the Jesus. Apparently.


Lee - Apr 20, 2007 4:44:38 pm PDT #3776 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Is it too early to go to bed?


JenP - Apr 20, 2007 4:44:59 pm PDT #3777 of 10001

Jesus and Jesse bringing manners to the masses. Awesome.

eta: Ooh, and kind of pleasantly alliterative, too.


Jesse - Apr 20, 2007 4:45:47 pm PDT #3778 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Is it too early to go to bed?

I've been wondering that myself. For you, maybe. Then again, maybe not!


JenP - Apr 20, 2007 4:46:27 pm PDT #3779 of 10001

Is it too early to go to bed?

That would depend on when I thought I'd wake up...


Lee - Apr 20, 2007 4:49:26 pm PDT #3780 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

For you, maybe. Then again, maybe not!

But by the time I eat dinner and finish a beta and shoot up the cat, maybe it won't be.

I can live with that.

That would depend on when I thought I'd wake up...

That is a fly in the ointment, isn't it?


sarameg - Apr 20, 2007 4:52:59 pm PDT #3781 of 10001

Newspapers, at least the Sun, made a gawdawful mess last time I used them. Required going back over with paper towels. Plus stained hands. Now unprinted newspaper might be fine, but I no longer have free access to that.


§ ita § - Apr 20, 2007 5:05:57 pm PDT #3782 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jesus spoke to her through me and my napkin!

Ya know, if I was going to conjecture what speaks through a napkin on one's lap...well, it wouldn't be church lady polite.


Kat - Apr 20, 2007 5:06:46 pm PDT #3783 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Is it too early to go to bed?

Lee, no. It's not too early. I'm sleepy, but I have a paper to write. Seriously, save me.