Happy Birthdays, Nilly and Flea!
Yay, Matilda!
Dawn: You're not fleeing. You're... moving at a brisk pace. Buffy: Quaintly referred to in some cultures as the Big Scaredy Run Away.
'Touched'
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.
Fred Pete - Sep 06, 2007 4:54:55 am PDT #8699 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Nilly - Sep 06, 2007 4:55:29 am PDT #8700 of 10001
Swouncing
Stomach-stretching exercises? Buying pants with elastic waistbands?
Some people do that, too. Some are just moaning the "how much weight am I going to gain?", "which present will I have to bring to the annoying aunt?", "will we have to eat that disgusting thing that this annoying aunt is preparing?", "why on earth did I volunteer to host anything?" and "what are the current prices for flights abroad in the upcoming week?".
Send me some over.
The food is even nicer on Rosh Hashana, in some families (like, thankfully, mine), because parts of it are puns on the names of the foods, who are written or pronounced similarly to verbs or other words, so we can use the food as a way of asking something good for the upcoming year, using that verb. It's like eating a celery and saying "may we get a raise in salary", stuff like that. So the evening meals (during which this is conducted) are lots of fun.
Jesse - Sep 06, 2007 4:57:28 am PDT #8701 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Happy birthday, flea!!
It's like eating a celery and saying "may we get a raise in salary", stuff like that. So the evening meals (during which this is conducted) are lots of fun.
That's fantastic. I think eating greens in the new year here in the US is supposed to bring money, so that's more of a visual pun.
tommyrot - Sep 06, 2007 4:58:12 am PDT #8702 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.
That's fantastic.
Yeah. Except for the "eating celery" part.
Jesse - Sep 06, 2007 4:58:39 am PDT #8703 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I love eating celery! It is an excellent carrier of dip.
Nilly - Sep 06, 2007 4:59:48 am PDT #8704 of 10001
Swouncing
Well, of course, we eat things that are punned in Hebrew (and ancient Hebrew, because these are ancient customs). The celery was just an "in English" example.
Oh, and apples with honey. Yum.
tommyrot - Sep 06, 2007 5:03:35 am PDT #8705 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.
The celery was just an "in English" example.
Oh, I got that. I just took the opportunity to dis celery....
Dana - Sep 06, 2007 5:04:27 am PDT #8706 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
On her "Wake Up With Whoopi" radio show heard on New York's WKTU-FM on Wednesday, Goldberg said she wanted to make clear she didn't condone Vick's actions. The Atlanta Falcons quarterback admitted he provided money for a dogfighting ring that operated on his property and helped kill six to eight pit bulls.
"I do not think that Michael Vick was smart," she said. "I am thrilled that the cops took care of it.'
Jars - Sep 06, 2007 5:06:57 am PDT #8707 of 10001
A sports guy in Ireland just got done for dog fighting. What is with the world and the assholes who inhabit it?
Ginger - Sep 06, 2007 5:08:08 am PDT #8708 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
A sports guy in Ireland just got done for dog fighting.
Thus helping to undermine Whoopi's "it's a Southern thing."