I can handle the Oz Full Monty. I mean, not 'handle' handle.

Xander ,'Help'


Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns  

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.


Polgara - Aug 02, 2007 12:08:10 pm PDT #2038 of 10001
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS

lisah, we ('we' being me and my fellow web coworkers) call it the wrapper.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 02, 2007 12:11:04 pm PDT #2039 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

OK, now Sophia's link has made me wonder just what the urban explorers found protected by booby-traps in the Rochester Crazy Warehouse.


DavidS - Aug 02, 2007 12:11:54 pm PDT #2040 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Problem is, so does the Batman.

Like that's gonna stop the Joker. I think I've also seen him holed up at abandoned novelty factories and closed comedy clubs.

But c'mon! He really needs an abandoned amusement park. Sure he's easy to find, but the backdrops...


Pix - Aug 02, 2007 12:12:10 pm PDT #2041 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Late to the conversation, but wanted to agree wholeheartedly with this:

Dress codes are so expensive for women.

I get caught constantly in the cycle of buying new clothes to replace the ones that no longer fit or are starting to look ratty, realizing I can only afford cheap clothes which don't last very long, and then having to replace them again a year later. I wish I could have the confidence to wear more of a uniform to school, but I don't. I do feel the pressure to dress nicely and to wear a variety of outfits, especially given that all of the students are actually IN uniforms. The teachers' clothes stand out a lot more when all the students are wearing the same thing. Also, working in LA in a rich neighborhood doesn't help.

Why yes, this is a cause of enormous stress for me. Sorry to rant.


brenda m - Aug 02, 2007 12:12:18 pm PDT #2042 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I love that we're suddenly on about creepy places in both Natter and Bitches. Us = strange. But not off-putting.


lisah - Aug 02, 2007 12:13:51 pm PDT #2043 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

lisah, we ('we' being me and my fellow web coworkers) call it the wrapper.

mmm wrapper! (I went to an summer roll place)

That's good to know, polgara. Thanks!


tommyrot - Aug 02, 2007 12:14:05 pm PDT #2044 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.

the Chicago Tribune today has an article on some tunnels under the Green Mill.

That's actually from late June. Cool article. One of these days I hafta' go to the Green Mill - it's only a few blocks from me.


Daisy Jane - Aug 02, 2007 12:19:37 pm PDT #2045 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Gangster tunnels under bars rock!

OK, now Sophia's link has made me wonder just what the urban explorers found protected by booby-traps in the Rochester Crazy Warehouse.

Me too!!!


Kathy A - Aug 02, 2007 12:24:46 pm PDT #2046 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

That's actually from late June.

Ah, I followed the link the wrong way--today's paper had an article on the freight tunnels that link many older buildings in the Loop (and were the cause of the Great Chicago Flood of 1992).


brenda m - Aug 02, 2007 12:30:21 pm PDT #2047 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Heh. My old company lost a lot of files in that flood - and gained a great way of avoiding some of the more cracktastic information requests from our higher-ups who had no concept of what it took to compile twenty-year old data from dusty file boxes. "Sorry, can't do it. Flood."