On the blood donor questionnaire for Canada, there's this question:
Have you, in your past or present job, taken care of or handled monkeys or their body fluids?
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
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.
Sue - Oct 26, 2007 6:09:14 am PDT #8723 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 26, 2007 6:09:32 am PDT #8724 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
I went there for a little recapping snark and discovered the recapper was Jacob, the guy who sucked all the snark out of Doctor Who. He's following me like some horrible angel of pretension sucking all the snark out of my TV.
Welcome to my world, Gud. Jacob's a great guy when it comes to moderating the forums—very polite and even-tempered and respectful of the assorted readers/posters. But then the actual recaps read like one of St. Thomas Aquinas' treatises on religion and I wake up hunched over my desk eight hours later. And we seem to have the same taste in shows, so he recaps everything I like that Strega hasn't staked a prior claim on.
tommyrot - Oct 26, 2007 6:10:33 am PDT #8725 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.
Have you, in your past or present job, taken care of or handled monkeys or their body fluids?
What if you did this as a hobby?
Toddson - Oct 26, 2007 6:12:28 am PDT #8726 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
A former neighbor had a Pekinese that had an extensive wardrobe. Among the items, a sweater with "spoiled but not rotten" knitted into it and oilskins for rainy weather. On rainy days - like this - he'd be wrapped up in the bright yellow coat and the peering up from underneath the sou'wester's upturned brim. Cute - silly, but cute.
Trudy Booth - Oct 26, 2007 6:30:04 am PDT #8727 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
We have to put Ozymandias in a sweater when it gets chilly
Man, first the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare and now a little sweater. Your ancient Egyptian God-Kings just cannot catch a break these days.
Steph L. - Oct 26, 2007 6:32:01 am PDT #8728 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Look upon my sweater and despair!
Toddson - Oct 26, 2007 6:32:39 am PDT #8729 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Look upon my sweater, o ye chilly ....
lisah - Oct 26, 2007 6:32:44 am PDT #8730 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
But then the actual recaps read like one of St. Thomas Aquinas' treatises on religion and I wake up hunched over my desk eight hours later
For some reason (because I have a very low tolerance for pretentiouswriting...my theory classes in writer school were like torture for me) I really loved Jacob's Dr. Who recaps even while I saw how they might bug others. He was just so enthusiastic about the show.
Stephanie - Oct 26, 2007 6:38:24 am PDT #8731 of 10001
Trust my rage
Totally random question for the hivemind:
Someone told me just know that in NY, if your parents aren't married when you are born, you are illegitimate. I find this hard to believe, but I have no knowledge or experience to base that on.
§ ita § - Oct 26, 2007 6:39:06 am PDT #8732 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is there a legal weight to being illegitimate? Inheritance-wise or something? Non-legally, I'd agree with that PoV, but it would vary state to state.