Hey! What a surprise! Hostile 17! Can I get you a drink, Hostile 17?

Xander ,'Dirty Girls'


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.


Amy - Oct 23, 2007 6:16:25 am PDT #8142 of 10001
Because books.

Or their teeth. It's the Jack Bauer school of manliness!


Trudy Booth - Oct 23, 2007 6:18:34 am PDT #8143 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Or, of course, a round house kick to the head.


Daisy Jane - Oct 23, 2007 6:20:05 am PDT #8144 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

1. Patch a radiator hose- have done

2. Protect your computer- from?

3. Rescue a boater who has capsized-haven't done, but I was a lifegaurd

4. Frame a wall-have done

5. Retouch digital photos-have done

6. Back up a trailer-have done (boat trailer)

7. Build a campfire-have done

8. Fix a dead outlet- have not done

9. Navigate with a map and compass-have done

10. Use a torque wrench-have done

11. Sharpen a knife-have done

12. Perform CPR- have done (again, lifegaurd!)

13. Fillet a fish- oh yeah

14. Maneuver a car out of a skid-just yesterday

15. Get a car unstuck- with help

16. Back up data-yes

17. Paint a room-yes

18. Mix concrete- yes

19. Clean a bolt-action rifle-no

20. Change oil and filter-yes

21. Hook up an HDTV-I wish!

22. Bleed brakes-yes, but it was really really simple.

23. Paddle a canoe-yes

24. Fix a bike flat-I've fixed a car flat, does that count?

25. Extend your wireless network-I haven't done, but I'm pretty sure I could.

How manly am I?


Gudanov - Oct 23, 2007 6:23:43 am PDT #8145 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

How manly am I?

Pretty damn


Daisy Jane - Oct 23, 2007 6:26:09 am PDT #8146 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I notice it didn't ask if I knew how to run a Wing T defense...


§ ita § - Oct 23, 2007 6:31:31 am PDT #8147 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I just fell again. This is very tedious. At least it was a quasi-directed fall, so I only hit my neck and not my head (I fell in the foot between my shower's glass door and the counter of my sink, so odds were not on my side).

I think that's a sign I should go into the office before any other mishaps hap.


tommyrot - Oct 23, 2007 6:32:45 am PDT #8148 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.

Damn. Try not to break that noggin of yours, OK?


Kat - Oct 23, 2007 6:39:32 am PDT #8149 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Good Lord, ita! yikes. Is the air quality affecting you?

Not so manly. But not filled with caring about it either.


tommyrot - Oct 23, 2007 6:45:11 am PDT #8150 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.

Headline of the day?

Elephants electrocuted in drunken rampage

GAUHATI, India - Six Asiatic wild elephants were electrocuted as they went berserk after drinking rice beer in India's remote northeast, a wildlife official said Tuesday.

Nearly 40 elephants came to a village on Friday looking for food. Some found beer, which farmers ferment and keep in plastic and tin drums in their huts, said Sunil Kumar, a state wildlife official.

They got drunk, uprooted a utility pole carrying power lines and were electrocuted in Chandan Nukat, a village nearly 150 miles west of Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya state, Kumar said.

"There would have been more casualties had the villagers not chased them away," said Dipu Mark, a local conservationist.

The elephants are known to have a taste for rice beer brewed by tribal communities in India's northeast. Four wild elephants died in similar circumstances in the region three years ago.


Gudanov - Oct 23, 2007 6:45:24 am PDT #8151 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Geez, be careful ita.