When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.

Buffy ,'Lessons'


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.


Toddson - Aug 21, 2007 11:56:03 am PDT #5968 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Watch out for the kicking feet when she starts wearing shoes. Really.


sarameg - Aug 21, 2007 11:58:49 am PDT #5969 of 10001

Even before then.

I put a toenail in my dad's cornea when I was three.

At a campground. After dark. 2 hours from the nearest clinic. And my mom doesn't drive well at night.

I think I got forgiven sometime in my early 20s.


msbelle - Aug 21, 2007 12:02:02 pm PDT #5970 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

ANNNDDDDDD.....the cat just peed on the new carpet.


Toddson - Aug 21, 2007 12:06:44 pm PDT #5971 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

sarameg, I was wearing my first pair of hard shoes and kickec out my father's front teeth. Never did forgive me for that.


§ ita § - Aug 21, 2007 12:15:59 pm PDT #5972 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I was already wanting to get a refund for today, since I'm in the ER again. With the pissy doctor. With what may be the worse migraine I've ever had. At least...nah, can't remember any upside.

Hell, my boss wanted to talk to me today, but there's no way I can go back into work today. And I left without telling anyone.

However, no puke or lost-important stuff on my list. Total win in the lose sense of the world.

Kid! Shut up! People in pain around here.


brenda m - Aug 21, 2007 12:16:53 pm PDT #5973 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 hope msbelle's cat pees on him.


Jesse - Aug 21, 2007 12:18:02 pm PDT #5974 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Jesus christ, people.

Me, I'm just trying to do the one task I had for today and STILL can't focus on! My boss was just talking to me about bringing work home (I think suggesting I should do that), so maybe I will. Of course, if I don't get it done there, I'm really screwed. Argh!


Theodosia - Aug 21, 2007 12:20:52 pm PDT #5975 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Maybe it's just me, but I can't see holding a grudge against a small child as being very rational, or decent. Or for that matter, disliking a cat or dog for perfectly natural pet behavior.

I had Ethiopian food for lunch -- chicken with red pepper/tomato sauce, chickpeas in yellow (mellow) sauce, and lots of sour injera bread made from t'eff grain. And I have enough left over for lunch tomorrow!


tommyrot - Aug 21, 2007 12:25:25 pm PDT #5976 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.

I was supposed to replace the motherboard of a server. But I can't see well enough to pull all the cables off the old one. (In addition to lack of 3-d vision, I am becoming somewhat farsighted these days.) So I left it for my boss to do tomorrow.

ION, Unicorn Museum

Based on the idea of 'if it's in the Bible, it must be true', The Unicorn Museum promotes belief in the Biblical Truth of unicorns, a creature mentioned nine times in the KJV Bible.

This website has been published as an act of protest by the Brotherhood of Fantasy Creatures (MiddleEarth Div.157) in response to the injurious actions of the Creation Museum. The Creation Museum is a new $27 Million facility designed to teach the ‘truth’ of Creationism and the Christian Bible. We of the BFC feel that this group represents a threat to continued belief in other fantasy creatures/BFC signatory members and have constructed this website as a protest against their monopolistic and anti-competitive practices.


tommyrot - Aug 21, 2007 12:31:59 pm PDT #5977 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.

Um... eww?

Dear god no: Your gut has taste receptors

Researchers in the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified taste receptors in the human intestines. The taste receptor T1R3 and the taste G protein gustducin are critical to sweet taste in the tongue. Research now shows these two sweet-sensing proteins are also expressed in specialized taste cells of the gut where they sense glucose within the intestine.

“We now know that the receptors that sense sugar and artificial sweeteners are not limited to the tongue. Our work is an important advance for the new field of gastrointestinal chemosensation - how the cells of the gut detect and respond to sugars and other nutrients,” said lead author, Robert F. Margolskee, MD, PhD Professor of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. “Cells of the gut taste glucose through the same mechanisms used by taste cells of the tongue. The gut taste cells regulate secretion of insulin and hormones that regulate appetite. Our work sheds new light on how we regulate sugar uptake from our diets and regulate blood sugar levels.”