Lorne: Back in Pylea they used to call me "sweet potato." Connor: Really. Lorne: Yeah, well, the exact translation was "fragrant tuber" but…

'Conviction (1)'


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 11, 2007 11:57:57 am PDT #9771 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.

which I almost wrote as "blunt force drama"...if I blogged about SVU, I'd have a title now.

It's almost enough to make me insist you start blogging about SVU, but that's a harsh and cruel demand to place on anyone. Still, you really have to find some excuse to use that phrase somewhere.


erikaj - Sep 11, 2007 12:09:49 pm PDT #9772 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Oh, I don't know, if I really hate it, I can cry, draw my lips in a few hundred times and dye my hair and make people start mistaking me for Mariska Hargitay.


Jesse - Sep 11, 2007 12:27:11 pm PDT #9773 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That is a beautiful phrase, erika.

Jesus, Steph -- that's so crazy. Definitely report the income somehow, and eff your shady employer.

So, a coworker of mine got let go today. Of course, I've know it was going to happen for WEEKS, because my boss is just that unprofessional. Another coworker floated the idea of applying for the job, and my boss brought the idea to a higher-up last week, who was all, "And why does [coworker] even know that job might be open??" Yeah.


erikaj - Sep 11, 2007 12:29:15 pm PDT #9774 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Total accident. Nice descriptor of the whole L&O pantheon, though(If I may say so)


Theodosia - Sep 11, 2007 12:37:58 pm PDT #9775 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Steph, yeah, I think pointing out to boss lady that you're going to have to report it legally and it will eventually come back to haunt the company -- you can phrase it as being concerned for the sake of the company. Besides, seriously, I would have expected that having to account for monies spent developing a book would be stuff you can deduct from the taxes owed by the company.

I got my student ID today! Now I can into movies at a reduced rate, woohoo!


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 11, 2007 1:33:00 pm PDT #9776 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

In the absence of Tom's customary relevant links, may I present Francorp founder jailed for tax fraud?


§ ita § - Sep 11, 2007 1:39:30 pm PDT #9777 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can't get over this sentence from yesterday's vaginal reconstruction link:

Some patients say having a sleeker, thinner labia makes a tremendous difference in their lives.

I...I...I just don't get it. But perhaps I spend too much of my life wearing underwear.

If you're being a pedant about kilo- and mega- and powers of two, you're wrong. Hmmph.


Sheryl - Sep 11, 2007 1:40:00 pm PDT #9778 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday Trudy!


Jesse - Sep 11, 2007 1:40:59 pm PDT #9779 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Am I crazy, or does "General Petraeus" sound like a Star Trek character?


erikaj - Sep 11, 2007 1:41:46 pm PDT #9780 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

no, you're not.