I already know what I'm gonna call her. Got a name all picked out...

Mal ,'Out Of Gas'


Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?  

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 - Jun 08, 2007 3:26:44 pm PDT #2112 of 10001

So in reaching for my satchel in the car, I dinged my elbow somehow and now it feels like it's got a bubble in the joint. This happens occasionally. Sometimes to knees of knuckles, sometimes, inexplicably, under my shoulder blades.

I really wonder what it is. A twanged ligament/tendon? Something racked out of place and slowly moving back? Just nerve weirdness?

It's more curiosity than anything.


§ ita § - Jun 08, 2007 3:42:19 pm PDT #2113 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You may have a swollen bursa, sara. Or perhaps I mean bursus. Whatever's Latin for sack, anyway.

I admit that Jack Carter's probably a saner and better father than most of the ones I drool over, but there's a reason I think SpyDaddy is all that, and psych clearance isn't it.

And although HRG isn't traditionally hot, he has appeal in the SpyDaddy vein of things.


Allyson - Jun 08, 2007 3:53:51 pm PDT #2114 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 have an ISBN and UPC code.

I must make icons!


Hil R. - Jun 08, 2007 3:57:11 pm PDT #2115 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

We didn't have DARE in my school, but we did have Here's Looking At You 2000, a different program. In kindergarten through third grade or so, it was talks about how to say "no" and why addiction is bad. (Pretty much led all of us to believe that there were people out there handing out sheets of paper with little stars printed on them infused with drugs, and if we even touched it, we'd get addicted.) Also, the usual sort of stuff that induced any kid whose parents smoked cigarettes to go home and flush all the cigarettes down the toilet, and led all of us to insist that our parents couldn't drive after having one beer or one glass of wine with dinner.

There was also a parrot puppet named Miranda.


sarameg - Jun 08, 2007 3:59:40 pm PDT #2116 of 10001

You may have a swollen bursa, sara.

Does that go away in a couplefew hours? Cause these do. They're always caused by a weird twist or stretch.


-t - Jun 08, 2007 4:00:01 pm PDT #2117 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I have an ISBN and UPC code.

Oooh! You're in the system. This is becoming very real.

There was also a parrot puppet named Miranda.

For the Rights or just coincidentally?


-t - Jun 08, 2007 4:01:18 pm PDT #2118 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Sounds cartilagey to me, sarameg. But that's an almost totally uninformed guess on my part.


Hil R. - Jun 08, 2007 4:01:41 pm PDT #2119 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

For the Rights or just coincidentally?

I'm assuming coincidentally. Miranda was in the second grade program. I think in third grade we had a fox puppet, but we'd loved Miranda so much in second grade that none of us would pay any attention to the usurping fox, so he didn't get used too often.


sarameg - Jun 08, 2007 4:02:48 pm PDT #2120 of 10001

I have an ISBN and UPC code.

I'm planning on going to a former coworker's grand opening of her bookstore tomorrow. I'm gonna mention it to her. Not sure what kind of bookstore it is, so may or may not be up her alley. Though she's a big scifi geek, so perhaps...

eta: I'd kind of like to not out my timewasting at work, but still! Anyway, for those locals, it's in old Reisterstown.


Hil R. - Jun 08, 2007 4:07:22 pm PDT #2121 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Hee. Googling for info on Here's Looking at You 2000 and Miranda, I found a bunch of sites of parents complaining that the program teaches kids to treat their parents as the enemy and turn them in for "deviant" behavior like having a beer.