I think she's got to be trying to get the kids taken away from her, without actually having to give them up.
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
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.
Birthday happies ita! I hope you get a pain-free 2008 for your birthday (at least of the involuntary kind).
Birthday Happies ita!! May this year bring far less pain than last....
Is today ita's birthday??
Yes, it is. (I confirmed it by looking in Natter 48).
Happy Birthday ita!!
Happy Birthday, ita!
Also, I never knew ita shared her birthday with this:
Edison electrocuted an elephant 105 years ago today
Today's the anniversary of Thomas Edison's vicious electrocution of a live elephant in order to prove the dangers of Nikola Tesla's alternating current and the safety of his competing direct current.
When the day came, Topsy was restrained using a ship's hawser fastened on one end to a donkey engine and on the other to a post. Wooden sandals with copper electrodes were attached to her feet and a copper wire run to Edison's electric light plant, where his technicians awaited the go-ahead.
In order to make sure that Topsy emerged from this spectacle more than just singed and angry, she was fed cyanide-laced carrots moments before a 6,600-volt AC charge slammed through her body. Officials needn't have worried. Topsy was killed instantly and Edison, in his mind anyway, had proved his point.
A crowd put at 1,500 witnessed Topsy's execution, which was filmed by Edison and released later that year as Electrocuting an Elephant.
Poor Topsy - just a pawn in the titanic struggle between Edison and Tesla....
Happy Birthday ita! Kick this year's ass.
Has a series of slots for feet, elbows, etc.
Kinda' cool, but must be a bitch to keep clean....
Happy Birthday ita!
Happy Birthday ita!