CaBil, it was the Botany Bay, wasn't it?
x-post! and, re TOS, they STILL didn't get it. Is there a word for those who go along, blithely ignoring anvils being dropped around them?
Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!
River ,'War Stories'
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.
Toddson - Nov 27, 2007 3:50:26 am PST #3974 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Nilly - Nov 27, 2007 4:00:30 am PST #3975 of 10001
Swouncing
Is there a word for those who go along, blithely ignoring anvils being dropped around them?
Um, me?
For example, I must have re-read "The Lion, the witch, and the Wardrobe" seventeen-thousand times, and knew all about Jesus dying and coming back to life and atoning the sins of people, and still had to have the connection pointed out to me, when I was twenty or so.
Toddson - Nov 27, 2007 4:13:02 am PST #3976 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Nilly (waves), I'd take that more of a cultural thing - it's not something you've been taught from childhood, so not seeing it is understandable.
Dana - Nov 27, 2007 4:16:08 am PST #3977 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Home. Winter. Work. Morning. Bah.
Sparky1 - Nov 27, 2007 4:19:45 am PST #3978 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Nilly - Nov 27, 2007 4:21:36 am PST #3979 of 10001
Swouncing
I'd take that more of a cultural thing
No, I totally knew the story and its importance (it was just an interesting story), and even when I was much older, enough to understand who was the little kid at the end of "The Selfish Giant", with "on the palms of the child's hands were the prints of two nails, and the prints of two nails were on the little feet" (which was censored from most of the translations of the story into Hebrew, but that's another matter). I just need things spelled out to me.
(Um, is that the time to re-tell the story of my first ever Buffistas post, which was about what other people complained to be anvils, and me being grateful for them?)
[Edited for context, and to thank you for the vote of confidence.]
lisah - Nov 27, 2007 4:49:49 am PST #3980 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Hasn't HIMYM always had a laugh track? I remember it turned a lot of people off the show when it first premiered.
Yes it has and that's why I watched the pilot and then didn't come back until, like, the last episode of last season. It still bugs the shit out of me but the show is too funny to miss.
sarameg - Nov 27, 2007 5:06:57 am PST #3981 of 10001
My hairdryer attempted to self destruct this morning.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 27, 2007 5:12:58 am PST #3982 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
My hairdryer attempted to self destruct this morning.
Did you choose to accept the assignment?
sarameg - Nov 27, 2007 5:15:58 am PST #3983 of 10001
The way all things in my life electrical are going, I suspect I shouldn't.