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.
I'll just jump in my time machine, go back to the twelfth century, and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophesy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.
Giles ,'Selfless'
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.
Toddson - Oct 26, 2007 6:12:28 am PDT #8726 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
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.
lisah - Oct 26, 2007 6:40:42 am PDT #8733 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
if your parents aren't married when you are born, you are illegitimate.
Isn't that the definition of illegitimate?
Stephanie - Oct 26, 2007 6:41:07 am PDT #8734 of 10001
Trust my rage
I thought that US law (obviously, not a federal law, but the states in general) had done away with the disctinctions between il/legitimate, although I guess no longer distinguishing doesn't mean the law hasn't been repealed or something like that.
brenda m - Oct 26, 2007 6:41:20 am PDT #8735 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
Isn't that what illegitimate means?