How far back have various people gotten with their ancestral tracking?
Great-grandparents, and that's it. Grandpa doesn't even know which village he was born in in the old country, so anything earlier is pretty much gone. Hooray for peasants!
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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 25, 2007 9:47:30 am PDT #2892 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Emily - Sep 25, 2007 9:47:54 am PDT #2893 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Maybe middle-class, but I too wouldn't assume servants-and-prep-schools from WASP.
Nutty - Sep 25, 2007 9:49:04 am PDT #2894 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think moist things, by definition, are not crusty. You only get crustiness when you dry things out. Hence the difference between pie dough and pie.
"republican-cloth-coat"
What does this phrase mean? I think I have a general "staid conservative" vibe from it, but the cloth-coat part is a mystery to me.
tommyrot - Sep 25, 2007 9:49:16 am PDT #2895 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.
aurelia, are you/they sure it's not just the engine computer notifying you of scheduled maintenance for the timing chain?
Kat - Sep 25, 2007 9:49:59 am PDT #2896 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
moist crusty cockles?
that sounds so icky.
tommyrot - Sep 25, 2007 9:50:33 am PDT #2897 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.
I think I have a general "staid conservative" vibe from it, but the cloth-coat part is a mystery to me.
Comes from Nixon's famous "Checkers" speech in the late '50s or whenever. Nixon was talking about his wife, trying to convince people he was not a crook.
Scrappy - Sep 25, 2007 9:50:54 am PDT #2898 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
It comes form the Nixon "Checkers" speech, IIRC. He was reacting to allegations of kickbacks by saying his wife, Pat, didn't wear a mink, but a good Republican cloth coat.
Aims - Sep 25, 2007 9:51:05 am PDT #2899 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Hooray for peasants!
Bwah! Cracks me up.
My family heritage is that of supporting the "wrong" side of things. Sided with Bonny Prince Charlie, fought for the British in the Revolution (even though they lived in Massachusetts), that sort of thing.
§ ita § - Sep 25, 2007 9:51:20 am PDT #2900 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think moist things, by definition, are not crusty. You only get crustiness when you dry things out. Hence the difference between pie dough and pie.
Pie is a bit different from dried out pie dough, otherwise we could skip the heating part.
However, I have no problem imagining crusty on the outside and moist on the inside. I like variety in texture. Maybe like an uber-rare steak, bleeding on the inside, but seared on the outside.
Dammit. I need lunch NOW. I've managed to take myself from grossed out to ravenous.
Steph L. - Sep 25, 2007 9:53:02 am PDT #2901 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Warwak, a former fishing guide, said he became a vegan in January.
Oh, so it's like that guy who just quit smoking and is high on the whole thing.
Man, the recently converted are unbelievably annoying when it comes to evangelism.