sarameg, I love how they are saying houses in southwest Hampden (formerly called The Bottoms, I think) are "close to the Mill." The Mill is really classing the joint up!
anyway,
Joyce: You don't think it's too obvious? I think I look like I have a cat on my head. Buffy: But a very well groomed cat. Joyce: Well that's a comfort.
'Bring On The Night'
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.
lisah - Mar 19, 2008 11:25:21 am PDT #6003 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
tommyrot - Mar 19, 2008 11:25:58 am PDT #6004 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.
This one works especially well:
William H. Macy as Ned Flanders
tommyrot - Mar 19, 2008 11:32:27 am PDT #6005 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.
OK, this is freaky. How many soldiers have killed their favorite author in battle?
A German fighter ace has just learned that one of his 28 wartime 'kills' was his favourite author.
Messerschmidt pilot Horst Rippert, 88, said he would have held his fire if he had known the man flying the Lightning fighter was renowned French novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
The fliers clashed in the skies over southern France in July 1944.
"He was below me," said Rippert. "I saw his markings, manoeuvred myself behind him and shot him down.
"If I had known it was Saint-Exupery, I would never have shot him down. I loved his books.
"I knew he was a French pilot, but he was probably my favourite author at the time."
Saint-Exupery published eight books before his death, including The Little Prince, which has been translated into more than 50 languages.
Rippert gunned down 28 Allied planes during the war and found out about Saint-Exupery only from a historian who is writing the author's biography.
"I am shocked and sorry," the ex-Luftwaffe pilot said yesterday. "Who knows what other great books he would have gone on to write?"
What can you say? (Other than "War sucks.")
Polter-Cow - Mar 19, 2008 11:33:53 am PDT #6006 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Wow.
I mean, I guess it's good he didn't know all that time? Saving sixty extra years of guilt?
msbelle - Mar 19, 2008 11:34:19 am PDT #6007 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
lisa makes me smile and laugh.
Trudy Booth - Mar 19, 2008 11:35:50 am PDT #6008 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
I'm don't see how its more appalling to kill someone who wrote wonderful books than a wonderful father or somebody's precious baby boy.
It makes me feel a little queasy, actually, that people make the distinction. I really think we shouldn't.
lisah - Mar 19, 2008 11:37:47 am PDT #6009 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
lisa makes me smile and laugh.
ha! Oh in researching just what that part of the neighborhood was called I found this article
written 10 years ago just about the same time I moved to the neighborhood. fascinating!
megan walker - Mar 19, 2008 11:40:07 am PDT #6010 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I'm don't see how its more appalling to kill someone who wrote wonderful books than a wonderful father or somebody's precious baby boy.
I guess, but the reverse happens all the time. So and so was the father/mother of two small boys/girls... we have no idea what kind of father or mother, of course, but that rarely seems to matter.
Trudy Booth - Mar 19, 2008 11:42:07 am PDT #6011 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
Everyone was someone's precious baby. (Or at least should have been).
shrift - Mar 19, 2008 11:45:02 am PDT #6012 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I want a universal remote. So I can pause the universe while I take a really long nap without missing any deadlines.