Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.

Mal ,'Serenity'


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.


tommyrot - May 22, 2007 11:21:18 am PDT #8730 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.

Tommy, this might interest you.

That is cool... you don't often see customized Jaguar sedans like that....


DavidS - May 22, 2007 11:23:13 am PDT #8731 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Hmmm. I didn't realize until just now that there's a whole YouTube subgenre of rabbits chasing off cats.

I remember JZ talking about how her ginormous rabbit would confuse visiting cats. "Smells like prey, but looks like Godzilla. What to do, what to do..."


Toddson - May 22, 2007 11:25:24 am PDT #8732 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

David, did you see my new hair? it's quite short ....


sarameg - May 22, 2007 11:26:49 am PDT #8733 of 10001

We had a recuperating cottontail ensconced in our livingroom for a while. That was one mean-ass ball of fluff. It attacked the cats, the dog, us... Not just biting, but trying to stab with its front paws. Serious rage issues. Which, considering it was in our livingroom because my brother hit it with a car, not surprising.


Toddson - May 22, 2007 11:28:29 am PDT #8734 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Rabbit road rage? it alliterates nicely.


DavidS - May 22, 2007 11:30:40 am PDT #8735 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

David, did you see my new hair? it's quite short ....

It looks fantastic, Todd. As much as I love your natural hair color, this one suits you well and it's a fun change.


JZ - May 22, 2007 11:31:18 am PDT #8736 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 remember JZ talking about how her ginormous rabbit would confuse visiting cats. "Smells like prey, but looks like Godzilla. What to do, what to do..."

Not visiting cats, but our own cat. She was already bad-tempered and neurotic, but the rabbit just put her over the edge. She'd spend her every waking moment stalking the perimeter of the backyard, glaring at the rabbit and edging closer and closer until she got right up to him and realized (realized anew every single time -- she wasn't terribly bright) that he was (a) bigger than her and (b) placid and unafraid and not acting like a tender frightened morsel at all. The cognitive dissonance would send her fleeing in a panic back to the edge of the yard... where he would once again, from a distance, appear small and prey-like, and the circling and stalking would begin again.

I'd say the whole experience took years off her life, but that cat lived forever, just to spite us all.


DavidS - May 22, 2007 11:34:26 am PDT #8737 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

This kitten messed with the wrong bunny.

I do kind of like the contrast in animal styles. The cat is all predatory and curious. The rabbit is all, "La la la. Whatever. Now I bulldoze you and...FUCKFUCKFUCK!"


tommyrot - May 22, 2007 11:53:04 am PDT #8738 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.

Salon: Why Bush hasn't been impeached

The truth is that Bush's high crimes and misdemeanors, far from being too small, are too great. What has saved Bush is the fact that his lies were, literally, a matter of life and death. They were about war. And they were sanctified by 9/11. Bush tapped into a deep American strain of fearful, reflexive bellicosity, which Congress and the media went along with for a long time and which has remained largely unexamined to this day. Congress, the media and most of the American people have yet to turn decisively against Bush because to do so would be to turn against some part of themselves. This doesn't mean we support Bush, simply that at some dim, half-conscious level we're too confused -- not least by our own complicity -- to work up the cold, final anger we'd need to go through impeachment. We haven't done the necessary work to separate ourselves from our abusive spouse. We need therapy -- not to save this disastrous marriage, but to end it.


Toddson - May 22, 2007 12:06:57 pm PDT #8739 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

We're now getting The Onion (print version) once a week ... last week's issue had an ad for a t-shirt that says "Stewart / Colbert '08" ... a ticket that would have the virtue of being funny on purpose.