It's not like she blew me off. She just left with another guy, that's all.

Riley ,'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.


juliana - Sep 06, 2007 11:23:11 am PDT #8858 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Is George Clooney really that short, or is Tilda Swinton really that tall?

He's crouching and lifting her up. I think he's a couple inches taller than her, at least.


Burrell - Sep 06, 2007 11:23:33 am PDT #8859 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I love their nick for Clive. Rrrrowr.

Ah, but not so handy for some of us. Then again, I'd put Owen more in F category than the M. Not C, never C.

It looks to me like Swinton is in heels and Clooney is bending his knees. But I bet she's taller than him, at least in those shoes.


tommyrot - Sep 06, 2007 11:24:37 am PDT #8860 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.

He's crouching and lifting her up.

Oh, with his black pants I didn't notice that detail.


shrift - Sep 06, 2007 11:27:37 am PDT #8861 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

He's crouching and lifting her up.

And according to IMDb, Tilda Swinton is 5'10" or 5'11" and it looks like she's wearing some killer heels.


§ ita § - Sep 06, 2007 11:29:13 am PDT #8862 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

This is pretty much looking like expulsion on account of gayness...or, you know, another sex scandal witchhunt.

The former--bad. The latter? Live by the sword of morality, then I damned well want to see people decapitated with it should events require.

Though I'd be simply pleased if he was shamed out--not for being gay, but for being gay and lying about it, or being gay and lying and legislating against it.

What plea, Brenda? I only saw the "I thought if I pled guilty it'd go away" angle.


Daisy Jane - Sep 06, 2007 11:31:26 am PDT #8863 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

being gay and lying and legislating against it.

This.


tommyrot - Sep 06, 2007 11:32:48 am PDT #8864 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.

Live by the sword of morality, then I damned well want to see people decapitated with it should events require.

Yeah. Plus for the Republican party to be consistent with their values, they should either force him out or change their position and say there's nothing wrong with being gay.

Of course, the latter would be better, but I can't see that happening right away. But maybe it will make some social conservatives think....


Fred Pete - Sep 06, 2007 11:41:36 am PDT #8865 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

being gay and lying and legislating against it

As opposed to David Vitter, who paid for his (straight) sex.


bon bon - Sep 06, 2007 11:42:17 am PDT #8866 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

The former--bad. The latter? Live by the sword of morality, then I damned well want to see people decapitated with it should events require.

Sure, it's consistent for the Republicans. I don't care whether the Republicans are consistent. I think it poses a problem for anyone who held that a witchhunt designed to out Clinton's sexual indiscretions was wrong, or that his several instances of sexual misconduct was unrelated to his fitness for office. I personally can't have it both ways.


brenda m - Sep 06, 2007 11:45:33 am PDT #8867 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

Basically what he said was that he didn't do anything wrong, but he couldn't fight the charges because it would cause publicity. Which is more or less correct, really. I can see how someone could rationally think along those lines and plead to something they didn't actually do. (With the caveat that where he claims he didn't *do anything*, I'd say he didn't do anything illegal, and those two positions are miles apart.)

And yeah, this is the world you spent your career defending - welcome to it.