I think the theory would be that you would be doing the bookseller a favor by warming up potential buyers via your reading.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
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.
Jesse - Jul 24, 2007 11:50:59 am PDT #9799 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Kathy A - Jul 24, 2007 11:52:45 am PDT #9800 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
So who here has heard of Norman Borlaug? I hadn't.
I saw Season 2 West Wing, so I had, but that's the only reason why (he was referenced in the ep with the African leader who was trying to get AIDS drugs cheap from the drug manufacturers).
§ ita § - Jul 24, 2007 11:52:55 am PDT #9801 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What they said, paperdol. You're doing free advertising for their wares.
My boss seems to be trying to get me in at 6am tomorrow morning. Luckily co-workers are pushing back.
askye - Jul 24, 2007 11:55:46 am PDT #9802 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
So who here has heard of Norman Borlaug? I hadn't.
I just heard of him yesterday because of the paleo future blog, it talked about the book that was referenced in the article about the future.
Daisy Jane - Jul 24, 2007 11:57:02 am PDT #9803 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
OMG. I don't mean to come off like a kid-hating bitch, but I cannot get work done with them shrieking and stomping outside my office door.
Headache advancing fast.
Have shut door and turned up radio.
DavidS - Jul 24, 2007 12:01:46 pm PDT #9804 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
This one's for Nutty!
Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie's The Crystal Cube.
Sort of a Blake's 7/Dr. Who parody.
tommyrot - Jul 24, 2007 12:06:34 pm PDT #9805 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.
Sort of a Blake's 7/Dr. Who parody.
Sort of a Blake's 7/Dr. Who parody.
And Logan's Run.
Zenkitty - Jul 24, 2007 12:11:06 pm PDT #9806 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I just got hung up on by Verizon. grrr. I called - on my cell - to let them know that the repair that was supposed to have been completed Saturday wasn't done and the landline phone is still not working. The CSR was snide from the minute he got on the line. He scheduled another appt for tomorrow and I started to give him directions for the guy to my actual location because my mailing address would get him lost, and he interrupted me to ask for my cell number, which I gave him, and he said the guy would call me if he got lost, and I started to say please just give him these directions (which I know they can do because I did it Saturday) and I heard a click and HE HUNG UP ON ME. I was totally polite to this guy! OMG I did not need this today. I'm already about to succumb to despair.
Jesse - Jul 24, 2007 12:16:18 pm PDT #9807 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG why is it only Tuesday? I have got to get my act together work-wise, because I am seriously just a waste of space right now.
§ ita § - Jul 24, 2007 12:18:44 pm PDT #9808 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I feel I'm taxing my brain to the limits, yet where is the fruit of my labour?
My plans for today involve putting out all the little fires on this project for the day, doing the edits in the template document, going to the gym and installing Ubuntu on my new cheapo PC.
Bets, anyone, as to where exactly I fall short?