Fairly spoilery FNL 2.1 promo pics.
Shall I link to individual non-spoilery ones?
And almost sixty-five percent of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal best?
Xander ,'End of Days'
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.
sumi - Sep 14, 2007 7:32:18 am PDT #512 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Sparky1 - Sep 14, 2007 7:39:36 am PDT #513 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Luftballons!
I can sing it in German! I can also sing the song on the album that sort of partnered this one, Leuchtturm.
At 1:30 p.m. our Tech Services Dept has invited all the staff for an ice cream social, for which I made hot fudge and butterscotch sauces last night. My kitchen smelled like a candy factory, and it was good.
Susan W. - Sep 14, 2007 7:45:12 am PDT #514 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Since Talk Like a Pirate Day is coming up next Wed., I thought I'd share the following from a writer friend of mine on the Historical Novel Society discussion list. His name is Broos Campbell, and if you like Age of Sail you should give his books a try:
Apparently the reason pirates (English ones, anyway) talk like that, or rather that we imagine they did, is because so many sailors came from Bristol and Cornwall that their dialect became stereotyped as the way seamen talk. And I'm sure Defoe and R.L. Stevenson added to the mythos.
Recently I was working on a scene where Matty, the narrator of my sea adventure series, is pretending to be a French pirate. So I asked a correspondent of mine in Paris how French pirates talked. He didn't know what I was on about. I said, "You know, like 'Shiver me timbers'?" He duly translated that into French and then asked me why anyone would shake the splintered wood.
As far as I can make out, French pirates just talked like anybody else, except that naturally much of their conversations had to do with seafaring things.
He did give me this, though, which I couldn't use: "Oh ho ho et un boitelle de reum."
brenda m - Sep 14, 2007 7:49:21 am PDT #515 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
Daisy Jane - Sep 14, 2007 7:51:46 am PDT #516 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Since Talk Like a Pirate Day is coming up next Wed.,
Oooh! That means Elephant Appreciation Day is coming! Sept 22nd!
DavidS - Sep 14, 2007 7:55:34 am PDT #517 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oooh! That means Elephant Appreciation Day is coming! Sept 22nd!
Elephant Appreciation Day?! That means it's almost Emmett's birthday. Sept 23rd.
Which means that it's almost Matilda's birthday (26th).
So. What have you done in the last year while Matilda went from born to one?
Aims - Sep 14, 2007 7:56:48 am PDT #518 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
What have you done in the last year while Matilda went from born to one?
Uprooted my family and moved cross country to a whole new life.
And got a haircut.
Pix - Sep 14, 2007 7:57:29 am PDT #519 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
So. What have you done in the last year while Matilda went from born to one?
- Started a web site and an online column which has not been as regularly updated as I would like.
- Settled in at my new school.
- For the first time in three years, DIDN'T move.
megan walker - Sep 14, 2007 7:59:05 am PDT #520 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
What have you done in the last year while Matilda went from born to one?
Not much. Let's see...
Completely overhauled my wardrobe.
Changed my career.
Moved from the East Coast to the West Coast.
Emily - Sep 14, 2007 7:59:10 am PDT #521 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I'll tell you in late November. I have jinx-fear.