And Kaylee, what the hell's goin' on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?

Mal ,'The Train Job'


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.


JZ - Sep 05, 2007 10:23:21 am PDT #8541 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Oh, my, what gorgeous photos!

And...am I completely insane, or does that first bride, Priya, despite being Indian and thus likely in no possible way connected to the Gellars, totally look like SMG when she busts out her big giddy smile?


Sophia Brooks - Sep 05, 2007 10:25:57 am PDT #8542 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

You are not insane JZ- I think there is quite a resemblance!


beekaytee - Sep 05, 2007 10:26:59 am PDT #8543 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

What gorgeous work. He obviously loves doing it too.


Vortex - Sep 05, 2007 10:37:03 am PDT #8544 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Balancing human life against animal is a personal task. But she needs to use a lot more words to make this not also condone, say, lynching in the South. I mean, after all--wasn't there a time when it wasn't questioned? I wonder (though not enough to watch The View) what the rest of her words actually were.

yeah, it's a version of "he's not a bad person, he just did a bad thing. And he didn't realize it was a bad thing" Of course, how can you not realize something's bad when it's illegal


Daisy Jane - Sep 05, 2007 10:45:45 am PDT #8545 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Lovely photographs.

They're making me want to leave early to hang out with Mr. Jane though.

On Saturday we helped a girl who is just getting to be a good friend of mine and her boyfriend move in together. Mr. J was just so cool about the whole thing (even though I volunteered him) and helpful, and well, quite frankly, manly with the whole carrying really heavy shit. Then we went to grab dinner and a drink, and then tried to go see the Video DJ at The Cavern, but there was a crap DJ there instead. So, we spent the rest of the evening thinking up songs we would rather hear than what the DJ was playing. Not good songs, just songs that made us want to claw our ears off slightly less.

We had such a good time and enjoyed each others' company so much, but now it's making me miss him more during the day (we haven't really seen much of each other since then).


Jesse - Sep 05, 2007 11:28:28 am PDT #8546 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

How much popcorn does one person need?

Sometimes you need a LOT, OK??

I just got home from our work outing, which was quite lovely (especially for the leaving-early part!), but then I checked my email just now to find a million messages from my work nemesis. Argh! Also, whatever -- I'm still not going to call her back until tomorrow.


shrift - Sep 05, 2007 11:45:54 am PDT #8547 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Man, I need to pace myself better when I get a ton of tasks thrown at me all at once, or else my bosses will realize exactly how much work they could be getting out of me.


Susan W. - Sep 05, 2007 11:48:58 am PDT #8548 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Random hivemind question of the day, inspired by learning on another loop that not everyone uses the terms in question the way I do:

What's the difference between a calico and a tortoiseshell cat?


Daisy Jane - Sep 05, 2007 11:51:22 am PDT #8549 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Calico is splotchy colors, tortise shell has kind of a color with veiny color throughout

ETA: I'm wrong. Here's what I found

A "tortoiseshell" or "tortie" is randomly patched all over with red, black, and cream. The patches may be very mingled, or they may be more distinct.

A "blue-cream" (also called "blue tortie" or or "dilute tortie") is randomly patched all over with blue and cream. This is a soft, pastel color.

A "calico" has more white. As a rule, the more white there is on the cat, the larger and more distinct the red and black patches will be. You'll notice that the large black patches are solid black, and the large red patches are actually red tabby.

A "dilute calico" has the same amount of white as a calico, but instead of red and black patches, it has blue and cream patches. The blue patches are solid blue, and the cream patches are cream tabby.


beekaytee - Sep 05, 2007 11:51:41 am PDT #8550 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

Wild guess...distinct tri-color patches (calico), vs. tweedy mix of two colors.