Yeah... That went well.

Mal ,'Trash'


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.


§ ita § - Aug 03, 2007 7:32:28 am PDT #2211 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Abe could very well be an Emmett in training. Very cute.

So red velvet cake isn't read for any good reason. Interesting.

The icing is similar to the one that went on CI's test spice cake, but less rich. I must make a note to make this icing next time I do the spice cake instead.

Thanks, Kat!


Kathy A - Aug 03, 2007 7:37:47 am PDT #2212 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Abe sounds like he'll be a great big brother! Geneva is a lucky little girl..

And, for a good giggle and renewed hope for the next generation, there is this:

"Oh, George Bush, don't go by the bridge! You'll just make things worse!" --Katie Fecke (age 4), responding to a news report that President Bush would visit the 35W Mississippi River Bridge site on Saturday.


Steph L. - Aug 03, 2007 7:43:05 am PDT #2213 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I really, really loathe people who express helplessness in the face of clear instructions.

You must work in my office.


shrift - Aug 03, 2007 7:49:19 am PDT #2214 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

The learned helplessness is bad, but it's the melodramatic "I don't know what to doooooo!!!1!" breast-beating that really chaps my ass. Listen, dude, all you have to do is click a link. I'm not asking you to file taxes in three states or properly use "Tazdingo!" in a sentence. It is a link. You click on it. No, you can't click on it "wrong". Good god, man, did you have some kind of traumatic Goatse.cx experience and swear you'd never click on a link again so long as you live?

You know, I somehow COMPLETELY missed the "Dear Work," part of this post and thought these were the clear instructions you gave a person.

To be fair, I have given those instructions to more than one person.


brenda m - Aug 03, 2007 8:12:37 am PDT #2215 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

Jeez, shrift. No offense, but I'm kind of glad I was late enough to work today that you were off the road before I got to my bus stop.


flea - Aug 03, 2007 8:27:06 am PDT #2216 of 10001
information libertarian

A faculty member said, out loud, to my colleague recently, "I am a Looniversity faculty member and I am too highly paid to waste my time with X." X being putting links to articles in her course website.

It's lucky I wasn't on the receiving end of that remark, because I might have replied, "Do you wipe your own ass?"

Seriously, have people never heard of MANNERS?


bon bon - Aug 03, 2007 8:28:08 am PDT #2217 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

High pay as an excuse not to do something is a new one. Generally I think "yes, they pay me enough to put up with this shit."

Relatedly, what gap is this photo referring to? [link]


Frankenbuddha - Aug 03, 2007 8:37:09 am PDT #2218 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

To be fair, I have given those instructions to more than one person.

But hopefully not at work, right?


shrift - Aug 03, 2007 8:38:44 am PDT #2219 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

No offense, but I'm kind of glad I was late enough to work today that you were off the road before I got to my bus stop.

Tremble before my powers of destruction!


shrift - Aug 03, 2007 8:39:10 am PDT #2220 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

But hopefully not at work, right?

...do coworkers count?