Mom! Dead people are talking to you. Do the math!

Buffy ,'Showtime'


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.


Hil R. - Jun 17, 2007 6:50:46 am PDT #3445 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

How colour-fast are sharpies? I have white towels I'd like to label somehow--I don't mind if the writing fades over time, but it's only a viable idea as long as the colour doesn't come off on skin or noticably onto other stuff in the wash.

They sell special laundry markers -- called Rub-A-Dub or something silly like that -- for exactly that purpose. You ought to be able to find them everywhere this time of year, since kids going to camp need everything labelled.


Lee - Jun 17, 2007 6:51:01 am PDT #3446 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Happy Birthday Cass!

Birthday Happies for Sue!!!

Is it Sue's birthday as well as Cass' ?

Kat, I am sorry the doctors' are all being House like. That must be frustrating as hell.

Last night, Perkins the cat had access to my bedroom for the first time in almost a year. He felt the need to play I'm king of the sleeping human every half hour or so to celebrate.


Sophia Brooks - Jun 17, 2007 7:00:18 am PDT #3447 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I second the rub-a-dub. If you can't find them in a regular store (I can't in upstate ny) you can order them from Staples.


Frankenbuddha - Jun 17, 2007 7:25:34 am PDT #3448 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Re the communion discussion: do Protestants have communion?

I ask because I was discussing about how Catholics need to not eat an hour before church (if they are going to take communion), and was wondering if Protestants were the same. I was, however, working under the assumption that they didn't actually have communion, hence the lack of the brief fasting.


Zenkitty - Jun 17, 2007 7:28:41 am PDT #3449 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Speaking as a former Protestant, they don't do Communion.

I never even heard of it until I met a Catholic girl when I was fifteen, but I lived in a very, uhm, what's the word for a place full of ignorant closed-minded hypocrites?


amych - Jun 17, 2007 7:32:00 am PDT #3450 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Frank, yes, but no idea about the fasting thing -- given how much different denominations vary on just about everything, I'd guess some fast, some don't.


Hil R. - Jun 17, 2007 7:32:10 am PDT #3451 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Some Protestant denominations have communion. I know that Episcopals and Mormons and at least some Lutherans do.


Hil R. - Jun 17, 2007 7:32:57 am PDT #3452 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Everything you ever wanted to know about Communion: [link]


P.M. Marc - Jun 17, 2007 7:33:53 am PDT #3453 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

IIRC, ELCA, UMC, the Episcopal Church, and some others all have an open communion procession, similar to the Catholic closed communion, except you don't have to be a formal member of the church to participate.


askye - Jun 17, 2007 7:39:10 am PDT #3454 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

Baptist's call it the Lord's Supper and it's usually done once a month. There's no fasting involved and no wine either -- it's grape juice and some kind of wafery thing that you eat. The bread and wine are passed to the congregation at their seats and then you either eat it as you take it or wait and eat as a group, it just depends on how the church does it. There's no common chalice, the grape juice is served in what looks like shot glasses. Also Baptists don't believe in transubstantiation and it's all symbolic.

The Presbyterian church I've gone to off and on does this once a month but they vary how they do it. Sometimes it follows the more Baptist way of doing things but other times they've had processions up to the altar or to other parts of the church with leavened bread dipped into a common cup.

edited -and when I went to Episcopal school we had Communion every Wednesday and that included going up to the altar, kneeling, and then taking the wafer and wine from the priest.