If the apocalypse comes, beep me.

Buffy ,'Selfless'


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.


Trudy Booth - Aug 20, 2007 6:23:37 pm PDT #5763 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Very true. (I will always love billytea for coining "Connecticutie." First abbreviation for Connecticut natives I'd ever heard that didn't sound ridiculous.)

As long as you're not a guy...

I continually get into an argument with a friend about how the Brits have bizarre pronunciation. I don't know why he bothers. I stop him dead in his tracks with "Arkansas" every time.

Wasn't that due to French speaking settlers?

Magdalene, St. John and that name pronounce "Fanshaw," on the other hand, just seem like the English are messing with us.

Yes, and yet we say "Thames" with the "th" sound when we talk about our New London river. Sometimes old school and sometimes not, I guess.

Supposedly that's even older school... the story I heard that the British said it with the "th" as well until whatever originally-german-speaking monarch kept butchering it. The Connecticuties never got the memo.

butbutbutbut... the Thames (the one in England) was spelled Temes or Temese for a good 800 years before it ever got a TH

Man, my sister is going to be ticked! That was one of her favorite factoids.

How were people's Mondays?

I've been taking Mixed Martial Arts classes. Today I did a hard round kick without turning out my opposite foot and pulled the shit out of my hip flexor. YEOW.

But I sort of like it. Like "yeah, feel that man"


Cashmere - Aug 20, 2007 6:27:49 pm PDT #5764 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

It's like Valley of the Dolls at ita's house.

I'm eating a Hershey Bar with almonds. It's okish.


tommyrot - Aug 20, 2007 6:38:38 pm PDT #5765 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.

Woman killed by pet camel

eta: In less sad news, a cat wearing a bunny suit: [link]


tommyrot - Aug 20, 2007 6:51:00 pm PDT #5766 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.

Chicken diapers: [link]

Which is cooler, the knitted chicken diapers, or the camouflage chicken diapers?


Ginger - Aug 20, 2007 7:07:44 pm PDT #5767 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

We have Taliaferro County, which is pronounced "tolliver."


§ ita § - Aug 20, 2007 7:12:22 pm PDT #5768 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Great. Hec asked a question in movies, and there was some Facebook updating, so I'm still here and can't leave until I find good pictures of Iman and Eve Salvail for my site.


Cashmere - Aug 20, 2007 7:15:01 pm PDT #5769 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

I need to download the podcast from Fair Game. I missed it tonight and Faith interviewed William Gibson.


billytea - Aug 20, 2007 7:17:21 pm PDT #5770 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I will always love billytea for coining "Connecticutie." First abbreviation for Connecticut natives I'd ever heard that didn't sound ridiculous.

Aww. I rock!

Came back to the hotel to eat lunch, and laid around. Then decided we did want to go back to the zoo, and did so.

This is rarely the wrong decision.


Cass - Aug 20, 2007 7:19:15 pm PDT #5771 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

We have Taliaferro County, which is pronounced "tolliver."
*turns head*

Aroo?

...

Okay, I can kinda see how you get there. If you are a little bit drunk. And only have a fleeting flirtation with the whole "letters have very specific sounds" oppressionarchy. Yeah, I can kinda get there.


Vortex - Aug 20, 2007 7:25:16 pm PDT #5772 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I think of it in the same way that Worcestershire is pronounced "woostershur"