Dawn: I thought you were adequate. Giles: And the accolades keep pouring in. I'd best take my leave before my head swells any larger. Good night.

'First Date'


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.


Dana - Oct 10, 2007 1:49:34 pm PDT #6003 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Oh, lord. I'm looking on iTunes for this piece I'm doing in one of my choruses. Rossini's Petite Misse Solennelle, which means it's a Mass with Latin text. Including the bit that goes "cum sancto spiritu in gloria dei patris"

Except iTunes thinks that "cum" is a bad word and displays it as "c*m".


§ ita § - Oct 10, 2007 1:51:12 pm PDT #6004 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oh, lord. I'm looking on iTunes for this piece I'm doing in one of my choruses. Rossini's Petite Misse Solennelle, which means it's a Mass with Latin text. Including the bit that goes "cum sancto spiritu in gloria dei patris"

Except iTunes thinks that "cum" is a bad word and displays it as "c*m".

They've taken the trinity and made it a threesome. That's disrespectful.


Kathy A - Oct 10, 2007 1:51:44 pm PDT #6005 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

That's like Discovery Channel insisting on blurring out animal genitalia on Dirty Jobs.


Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 10, 2007 1:53:05 pm PDT #6006 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

The insanely difficult Art History prof I mentioned earlier today graded on a strict bell curve within the single class he was grading. Which had 7 students, so only one person could earn an A and one was guaranteed a D no matter how hard they studied.

I also bear a seething grudge toward him for marking one of my papers down because I didn't use the words chiaroscuro and tenebrism in it—vocabulary that he had not yet taught in class. (I believe I dealt with bold light/dark contrasts being used to dramatic effect in the artworks being discussed, so the concepts were there even if the specific terminology was not.)


Jesse - Oct 10, 2007 1:59:36 pm PDT #6007 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Except iTunes thinks that "cum" is a bad word and displays it as "c*m".

Ha!!

I don't remember college in as much detail as some of you people. When I got my transcript a few years ago, there were classes I would have sworn I'd never taken.


bon bon - Oct 10, 2007 2:05:21 pm PDT #6008 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

If you know in which state they are members of the bar, you can sometimes find them on the webpage for the bar association. The New York State Bar Association has a link to a search for NY attorneys on its website. Search For NY Attorneys.

This looks like what I'm looking for...thanks!


Burrell - Oct 10, 2007 2:08:36 pm PDT #6009 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Or at least, they start college less prepared than they used to.

I find that we have to spoon feed students a lot of stuff that I wasn't given in college, and that failure spoon feed results in students who panic and flail and find themselves unable to perform said task. I wouldn't call that entitlement, not sure what I'd call it. Lack of life skills? But dude, I lacked life skills when I was a freshman, somehow I coped.


bon bon - Oct 10, 2007 2:08:41 pm PDT #6010 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Well maybe if Jesse smoked less pot, she wouldn't have such a hard time remembering her classes.


§ ita § - Oct 10, 2007 2:10:22 pm PDT #6011 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I did fewer drugs than just about all my friends, but they remember more than I do.

Wait, no, there was the one friend I recently called out about lying about when she lost her virginity. I'm not sure what she thought she was going to get away with, in front of me and her new friend. Woman sent out POSTCARDS announcing the happy event, and I'm supposed to forget when it happened?


megan walker - Oct 10, 2007 2:10:53 pm PDT #6012 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Lack of life skills?

More like initiative and independance. I tell you, it all goes back to cell phones.