Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'

'The Message'


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.


JenP - Aug 26, 2007 6:07:41 pm PDT #6923 of 10001

I LIED! I'M A SUGARBOWL!

Ha! That makes me laugh and laugh. Totally going to use it on the next kid I can.


§ ita § - Aug 26, 2007 6:21:01 pm PDT #6924 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I swear, parents doing things like that--they should help pay for therapy.

Googling has just reinforced my suspicion that these magnesium supplements I'm taking are fucking with my stomach. Grr.

I've spent time the past couple days reading the Something Awful forums. Their software does some phrase switching--"fuck" seems to be replaced by "gently caress." What gets confusing is that some verb is being replaced by "loving" and I can't work out which--"screw," maybe? No--I think "screwed" is changed to "hosed." "Ass" becomes "rear end" and I'm also not sure what is changed to "top hat." Oh, and "shit" is "poo poo." So you end up with things like:

Seriously, why the gently caress do girls do that? This sort of vindictive "I WILL KILL YOU BECAUSE YOUR HAVENT TRIED TO KILL ME YET!" attitude really takes a poo poo on ones self esteem.

Ignore the topic--I just got caught up in reading about tons of people I don't know and how their relationships ended.


Atropa - Aug 26, 2007 6:37:35 pm PDT #6925 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I LIED! I'M A SUGARBOWL!

The version of that my dad taught me was "Goddamit. I'm a sugarbowl." Yes, that was the version I sang to my kindergarten class.


Kathy A - Aug 26, 2007 7:00:22 pm PDT #6926 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I LIED! I'M A SUGARBOWL!

That's hilarious! I'll have to remember that one.

Check this out--it's the website for a jeweler whose booth I walked by at the gem and jewelry show on Friday. They have really gorgeous and striking pieces. Too bad I can't afford anything there right now!


§ ita § - Aug 26, 2007 7:05:03 pm PDT #6927 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Speaking of pretty things to buy: these boots are sugar.


Lee - Aug 26, 2007 7:06:47 pm PDT #6928 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Which ones are you looking at, ita?


Kathy A - Aug 26, 2007 7:14:25 pm PDT #6929 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Those Tula boots look cool!


Kathy A - Aug 26, 2007 7:18:42 pm PDT #6930 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

What is it with cats and boxes?


tommyrot - Aug 26, 2007 8:03:50 pm PDT #6931 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.

What is it with cats and boxes?

Now I need to get four kittens and a box.

ION, I am watching Letter From Iwo Jima. Just after I watched Flags of Our Fathers.

War is heck.


Hil R. - Aug 26, 2007 8:07:03 pm PDT #6932 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Another round of "how do you pronounce that?": Do you say "Naomi" as nay-oh-mi or nie-oh-mi? And do you say "Jordana" as Jor-dan-na or Jor-dah-na (middle a like "ran" or like "father")?