Xander: Am I right, Giles? Giles: I'm almost certain you're not. Though, to be fair, I haven't been listening.

'Sleeper'


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.


Daisy Jane - Sep 06, 2007 8:48:32 am PDT #8809 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Ruh-roh, Daisy! We're going to start off our mutual love of football season countering each other!

It'll be cool. Manning's playing his hometown. Imagine how he feels.


Liese S. - Sep 06, 2007 8:52:02 am PDT #8810 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I know! We're really looking forward to the game!


Kathy A - Sep 06, 2007 8:59:34 am PDT #8811 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Things to do with your coffee table:

1) Fall through it.

2) Find a python on it!


§ ita § - Sep 06, 2007 9:00:47 am PDT #8812 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Steph, here's stretch that can help open that up. Check the stretches on this page--you don't want to focus on just one set of muscles.


Frankenbuddha - Sep 06, 2007 9:05:02 am PDT #8813 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

NFL starts tonight! Whoo!

Guess I'll be rooting for the Saints. I would be rooting for them anyway against anyone but the Pats, but definitely if they are playing the Colts.

Sorry Liese


Daisy Jane - Sep 06, 2007 9:06:39 am PDT #8814 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Hooray Frank! Someone find me a way to send gumbo through the interpipes!


Liese S. - Sep 06, 2007 9:09:09 am PDT #8815 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

sulks


Dana - Sep 06, 2007 9:10:29 am PDT #8816 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

DJ, my husband was telling me about an Alton Brown show where he made a roux in the oven. Does that seem right to you? It doesn't seem right to me. Roux should involve being stuck at the stove for twenty minutes with a wooden spoon.


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 06, 2007 9:11:21 am PDT #8817 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Tommy--what is Jar Jar?

That sound you just heard was the starter pistol firing at the Who Can Traumatize Whom the Most with Hyperlinks Olympics!


Daisy Jane - Sep 06, 2007 9:12:22 am PDT #8818 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

DJ, my husband was telling me about an Alton Brown show where he made a roux in the oven. Does that seem right to you?

No. I mean, I suppose you could, but no because this:

It doesn't seem right to me. Roux should involve being stuck at the stove for twenty minutes with a wooden spoon.

is the right of it. 20 minutes at least.