The fact that people might invent and publicize anti-baby-kidnapping technology might perhaps reveal a wave of baby kidnapping hysteria at the time?
That's not that different from today.
Spike: We got a history, him and me. Fred: What? Spike: It was a long time ago. He was a young Watcher, fresh out of the academy when we crossed paths. It was a, what-you-call battle of wills and blood was spilled. Vendettas were sworn. It was a whole-- Fred: My God you're so full of crap. Spike: Yeah. Okay.
'Unleashed'
Natter 57 Varieties
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.
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2008 12:35:46 pm PST #2730 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Burrell - Mar 03, 2008 12:39:41 pm PST #2731 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
It was just a joke! Clearly we're not very bright AND we have no sense of humor! God, can't women do anything right?
shrift nails it.
grrr. Has Broadsheet got a whiff of this story? I haven't check Salon today but it's right up their alley.
hippocampus - Mar 03, 2008 12:48:25 pm PST #2732 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
Yeah, and then baby tries to stand up and is scarred for life by all the alarm bells....
or when sleep-deprived parent reaches for baby after forgetting to turn the alarm off....
grrr. Has Broadsheet got a whiff of this story? I haven't check Salon today but it's right up their alley.
if they haven't, someone really should point them to it...
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2008 12:48:50 pm PST #2733 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The lady in the gift store let me have the $1.25 chocolate for $1.00. Nice lady. Good chocolate too--it'll last me forever at this intensity.
tommyrot - Mar 03, 2008 12:54:06 pm PST #2734 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.
After googling the Lindbergh kidnapping, I ended up here [link] for Time's 25 Crimes of the Century.
So, any good books/movies on the Patty Hearst kidnapping? [link] I was too young at the time to understand it, but I was aware of it being significant in our culture....
Lee - Mar 03, 2008 12:56:27 pm PST #2735 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Hivemind question-- does anyone know of a good source for maps of cities in Central America? Specifically, I need a map of the city of San Vicente, which is in the department of San Vicente, El Salvador.
Cashmere - Mar 03, 2008 12:58:33 pm PST #2736 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Yeah, no. It's not satire when your chosen author is a professional anti-feminist who routinely and sincerely spouts this shit.
Nice to see that Phyllis Schlafly has passed the baton.
I want to beat them both in the head with it, though.
Oh, I want my salad in a BACON BOWL, dammit.
Scrappy - Mar 03, 2008 1:02:19 pm PST #2737 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I thought this was well done, Tommyrot. [link]
Gadget_Girl - Mar 03, 2008 1:02:24 pm PST #2738 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
Could a BLT salad in a bacon bowl be topped with bacon salt, or would that be a bacon overload?
ION, not only is there not a Starbucks in this town, there isn't a Duncan Doughnuts. This town sucks.
tommyrot - Mar 03, 2008 1:02:54 pm PST #2739 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.
Assuming this is correct, I don't think this sort of thing is helping much....
Earth Liberation Front Believed Responsible For Arson At Multimillion-Dollar Seattle Homes
WOODINVILLE, Wash. — Three seven-figure dream homes went up in flames early Monday in a Seattle suburb, apparently set by eco-terrorists who left a sign mocking the builders' claims that the 4,000-plus-square-foot houses were environmentally friendly.
The sign _ a sheet marked with spray paint _ bore the initials ELF, for Earth Liberation Front, a loose collection of radical environmentalists that has claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks since the 1990s.
The sheriff's office estimated that Monday's pre-dawn fires did $7 million in damage to the "Street of Dreams," a row of unoccupied, furnished luxury model homes where tens of thousands of visitors last summer eyed the latest in high-end housing, interior design and landscaping. Three homes were destroyed and two suffered smoke damage.
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The sign left behind said in red scraggly letters, "Built Green? Nope black!" and "McMansions in RCDs r not green," a reference to rural cluster developments.