Oh, and also, I've been remiss, so:
Happy Birthday+3(I think) to ChiKat!
Happy Birthday+1 to sumi!
Happy Birthday to any and all people I have missed lately!
(I got Jilli in Bitches)
Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.
Willow ,'End of Days'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
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.
JenP - Nov 17, 2007 8:39:23 am PST #2837 of 10001
brenda m - Nov 17, 2007 8:43:03 am PST #2838 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
Happy birthdays, all!
I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around that. Are all those people with made-up names? And no spouses or children?
Jesse - Nov 17, 2007 8:58:53 am PST #2839 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Kids with hypenated names, maybe. And widows with no kids or married daughters who changed their names? And there's made up, and made up -- I know someone whose last name is only shared by her family, because her great-grandfather or whoever shortened their Italian last name when he came over.
brenda m - Nov 17, 2007 9:00:58 am PST #2840 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
Yeah, I'm sure those are all a part of it. It seems like such a huge number, but I guess it's really not.
Jesse - Nov 17, 2007 9:03:33 am PST #2841 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There's what, 300 million in the US? So it's more than one percent, but still a small percentage.
Thinking about the "kids with hypenated names" category, I went to high school with at least one of those who was an only child, so most probably the only person with that last name. I should google her and see what happens.
Jesse - Nov 17, 2007 9:04:50 am PST #2842 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Huh! She apparently owns a club in Seattle. Fascinating!
bon bon - Nov 17, 2007 9:17:54 am PST #2843 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Could be some single aliens? Like ita, whose last name is so uncommon.
Dana - Nov 17, 2007 10:18:25 am PST #2844 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Dana, I should thank you for initially raving about QI on this thread. That totally encouraged me to check it out and I LOVE IT.
New episodes! Series 5!
I wish I could check it out; it sounds highly entertaining. And enlightening.
There are many episodes on YouTube, including the new ones.
Kathy A - Nov 17, 2007 10:53:07 am PST #2845 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
According to Stephen Fry, the first Native American that the Pilgrims met when they landed in 1620-whatever spoke fluent English, having crossed the Atlantic six times. He asked them for beer.
Isn't that Squanto? I read his story in Bill Bryson's Made in America--he had a fascinating, if tragic, life.
IIRC (from the same source), some other explorers arrived somewhere on the New World (I want to say the Pacific NW) and were greeted by cries of "Son of a pitch!" from the natives, who had picked up the phrase from British navvies and assumed it was a common greeting.
Oh, and I'm writing this from Mom's computer--I drove out here to NJ yesterday and today. If anyone else is planning on taking the PA Turnpike, word of warning--there's a lot of cops on that road today.
Dana - Nov 17, 2007 11:01:36 am PST #2846 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Isn't that Squanto? I read his story in Bill Bryson's Made in America--he had a fascinating, if tragic, life.
I think so, assuming he's the guy who went back and forth to England several times, including almost being sold as a slave in Spain.