And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


Kat - Jul 28, 2007 5:06:30 pm PDT #770 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Chapeau is a turn-taking game that we are convinced that Colin made up.


JenP - Jul 28, 2007 5:06:32 pm PDT #771 of 10001

Zen, it is, from what I have discerned, a race to not be the last person to post a ^ or, in real life, tent your hands over your head (like a little hat, see...) once someone starts it. Any deeper meaning, I don't know.

ETA: So I don't always discern exactly right. Kinda close!


Zenkitty - Jul 28, 2007 5:08:17 pm PDT #772 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Fascinating. Thank you.

^


Hil R. - Jul 28, 2007 5:11:55 pm PDT #773 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Huh. At a summer job a few years ago, we had something like that called "The Nose Knows." Last person to touch his or her nose lost. (Generally used when we were doing something like going out to dinner, and we were all doing the "You decide," "No, you decide," "Well, I don't have any ideas, do you?" "I don't know" thing, and whoever lost was appointed to make all the decisions until we got to wherever we were going.)


brenda m - Jul 28, 2007 5:19:03 pm PDT #774 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

Yeah, the 'touch your nose' thing is a kind of silent "not it!" IME. I know not of the chapeau.


Consuela - Jul 28, 2007 7:21:21 pm PDT #775 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

So I finally read Allyson's book today. And it was great fun! Yay Allyson! I got all verklempt over Nilly's story, and "Safe Harbor from Ann Arbor".

I was a bit annoyed that the Oakland B&N didn't have it out on the tables in front, only in the humor section--but it was easy enough to find there.


Laga - Jul 28, 2007 7:44:12 pm PDT #776 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Holy cow am I actually at the end of Natter? Yessiree this does appear to be a posting box. How bizarre.

Oh and ^


§ ita § - Jul 28, 2007 7:55:48 pm PDT #777 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You chapeauers are all weird.

I went to a party!

Yes, I'm back before 10, but for me that is still huge. I drove myself and everything.

I totally dressed the midlife crisis part and everything.


Consuela - Jul 28, 2007 8:08:58 pm PDT #778 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Party!

Oh, I saw Ratatouille, which was very fun.

It's been a quiet day.


§ ita § - Jul 28, 2007 8:15:57 pm PDT #779 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

And now I've gone and wikifreaked myself out.

Sloth the size of a bull elephant. Armadillo the size of a VW Bug.

Yikes.

Maybe tomorrow I'll see a movie. I'm a wild and crazy gal. But there are about to be a million I want to see, and I can't wait on my companion forever.