Question: Will hiding in a cavern with stockpiled chocolate goods be any part of this plan?

Xander ,'Get It Done'


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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 - Mar 18, 2008 8:59:34 am PDT #5713 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

John HOTcock

It's terribly unfair of you to put that in my brain. I'm going to slip and say that at a VERY inopportune moment, I can already tell.


Nutty - Mar 18, 2008 9:00:14 am PDT #5714 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Ironically, the Puritan theocracy had... really high rates of out-of-wedlock childbirth, flogging, and people constantly moving away in a snit to found Providence, RI. Also, for most of the time that it was straight-up theocratic, those people were po'. Like, cornmeal for supper kind of po'. I don't think anybody who's actually thought it through really wants the Puritan theocracy back, unless they have a kooky fetish for short pants and cornmeal.


Allyson - Mar 18, 2008 9:01:52 am PDT #5715 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I had a friend who frequently wished that things would go back to "the way it was 100 years ago."

And I'd say, "you know you'd probably be dead, right?"


Jessica - Mar 18, 2008 9:02:29 am PDT #5716 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

unless they have a kooky fetish for short pants and cornmeal.

Have we checked the fetish map for this?


Frankenbuddha - Mar 18, 2008 9:02:44 am PDT #5717 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

In Massachusetts, most of them would be in the stocks.

How much am I loving watching the JOHN ADAMS series just for all the mentions of Massachusetts in a founding of the UDS context. A whole lot.

I'm waiting for accusations of Democratic propaganda from the wingnuts and ditto-heads. Of course, if Mitt had gotten the nom I suspect we'd hear a different tune (and he wouldn't be slagging off the state quite so prominently as he had been).


msbelle - Mar 18, 2008 9:03:17 am PDT #5718 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

really high rates of ... people constantly moving away in a snit to found Providence, RI.

really more than once this happened?

a kooky fetish for short pants and cornmeal.

and now the countdown until someone here finds that website. THANKS.


Kathy A - Mar 18, 2008 9:03:35 am PDT #5719 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I wish I had HBO, just so I could watch the John Adams miniseries. Rufus Sewell is going to be playing Alexander Hamilton, too, damnit!

For some fun things to look at during lunchtime, I give you Peep Dioramas! I've only gotten up to #125, but my faves so far are #10 (Buffy the Peepire Slayer), #18 (Nighthawks tribute), and #61 (an Edward Gorey-inspired one).

(Edited to fix the link.)


Frankenbuddha - Mar 18, 2008 9:03:53 am PDT #5720 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Dear Colleagues,

I am sick of you all.

This? Is brilliant.


Frankenbuddha - Mar 18, 2008 9:04:52 am PDT #5721 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

a kooky fetish for short pants and cornmeal.

It makes it's own cornbread!


Vortex - Mar 18, 2008 9:04:57 am PDT #5722 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

and in many cases, totally accurate.