If I can't have the reactor, can I borrow shrift?
Like nuclear reactor, shrift leave you unable to produce offspring.
Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second — the second — that happens, you know I'll be there. I'll slip in, have myself a real good day.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
shrift - Dec 19, 2007 9:46:05 am PST #8217 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Scrappy - Dec 19, 2007 9:48:24 am PST #8218 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
What about iTunes certificates? Or Starbucks, which have gone over well with recent post-grads in my family.
bon bon - Dec 19, 2007 9:52:51 am PST #8219 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
bon bon, booze? An engraved flask?
This is an excellent idea...I know because I did it last year. I may still do it again.
§ ita § - Dec 19, 2007 9:58:24 am PST #8220 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
msbelle, I had the opposite problem with someone who retyped the information I gave her, wrongly and repeatedly. I sent her a change order, and she asked me if I wanted it with the spaces (aka "right") this time. I said yes, and that in the future cutting and pasting the text I told her needed to go places is the safest way to work.
She replied that she had no lack of confidence, so she didn't have to cut and paste.
Sure, woman. But you do have a lack of correctness, so you might want to get on that.
Completely different woman didn't tell me the offsite meeting at 11 was cancelled until I called her at 11...because she'd paged me for something else. And now I have to go to a meeting after the staff Christmas party, which I'm not even attending. How exactly can I be grinchier? I need to get to work on that.
Aims - Dec 19, 2007 10:05:50 am PST #8221 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
You could be green.
tommyrot - Dec 19, 2007 10:06:54 am PST #8222 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.
I'm thinking of false rumors to spread over the internet....
How about this one?
If someone shines a laser beam directly into a digital camera and takes a picture, if you look at the picture with your monitor's brightness on maximum you can be blinded.
Trudy Booth - Dec 19, 2007 10:07:49 am PST #8223 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
You could be green.
I hear that's not easy.
hippocampus - Dec 19, 2007 10:10:00 am PST #8224 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
Like nuclear reactor, shrift leave you unable to produce offspring.
good thing I've already checked that one off my list...
oh come on. Please? For me? All-you-can-gore, no questions asked.
Jessica, those badges ROCK.
bon bon - Dec 19, 2007 10:10:52 am PST #8225 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
amych - Dec 19, 2007 10:12:56 am PST #8226 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
If someone shines a laser beam directly into a digital camera and takes a picture, if you look at the picture with your monitor's brightness on maximum you can be blinded.
Lose the maxiumum monitor brightness -- you don't ever want to count on people to change the defaults. Also, it needs the internets-will-eat-your-babies quality and the some-guy-my-cousin-knows hook. Revise to:
A guy named Joe in Ypsilanti shone a laser pointer at his digital camera and took a picture, and then everyone on earth who looked at the recently posted page on Flickr went blind all at once.