What? She killed 'em with mathematics. What else could it have been?

Jayne ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!  

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.


Kathy A - May 01, 2008 12:58:49 pm PDT #4549 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I very rarely get e-mail from Mom. One of the last times she sent me one, she got cute and wrote it in that oh-so-annoying text-speak "just to be funny." I sent her back an e-mail demanding that she never do that to me again because I think it's just a horrible way to communicate, and she hasn't. She did call to tell me to lighten up, but I told her she helped to pay for my English degree, so she shouldn't send me stuff like that.


amych - May 01, 2008 1:01:51 pm PDT #4550 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

My mom's emails are fairly well-written, but she has a really distressing tendency to bury the lede -- "I've been meaning to ask if you guys know such-and-so from the fencing world. He fences foil and he's a freshman at Yale -- I didn't think you would because of the location, but I figured you probably know people who know him, anyway. His dad is my hand surgeon and I told him I'd ask. Oh, I broke my hand falling off a barstool!"


Matt the Bruins fan - May 01, 2008 1:02:53 pm PDT #4551 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I need to go see my folks this week. Presumably on a day less headache-tastic.

One of the great things about dating guys is that my folks are supportive without ever wanting to know any details or pressuring me to settle down. Of course, I have had to fight the "If you want grandchildren, adopt another kid that likes children" battle since my late teens mercilessly.


Jessica - May 01, 2008 1:07:18 pm PDT #4552 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

My brother insists that basically, you keep the bottle of vermouth on the shelf next to the gin, and that's as close to his martini glass as the vermouth ever needs to get.

Now I'm not saying your brother shouldn't drink neat gin, but neat gin in a triangular glass != martini. Martini = gin + vermouth.

(Though I prefer mine with Ketel One and as many olives as the bartender is willing to give me. So sue me, I just don't like the taste of gin.)


Jessica - May 01, 2008 1:10:00 pm PDT #4553 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

ION, Dylan is next to me basically making out with his reflection in our full-length mirror. It's insanely cute.


brenda m - May 01, 2008 1:40:45 pm PDT #4554 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I'm with Jessica on the martini thing. Have the guts to order your straight up gin if you want to look manly.

Nothing with Bailey's is manly. Tasty, yes. Manly? Also, at last count I think there are about 47 different things that go by the name snakebite, so you never know what you're going to get if you order that. Their's was new to me.


Steph L. - May 01, 2008 1:51:37 pm PDT #4555 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

My brother insists that basically, you keep the bottle of vermouth on the shelf next to the gin, and that's as close to his martini glass as the vermouth ever needs to get.

Now I'm not saying your brother shouldn't drink neat gin, but neat gin in a triangular glass != martini. Martini = gin + vermouth.

Just from the one summer I waitressed, I met a lot of people who share the "Vermouth! EVIL!!!" theory of martini-ing. And I wondered the same thing -- isn't it just a glass of gin, perhaps with an olive or onion?

(Though I prefer mine with Ketel One and as many olives as the bartender is willing to give me. So sue me, I just don't like the taste of gin.)

You and me both. Give me a dirty vodka martini and I'm a happy woman.


Allyson - May 01, 2008 2:11:17 pm PDT #4556 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'm having Roscoe's with Agent Kate tonight. It's going to be a hellacious drive over to Pico, yo.

SO BUSY AT WORK CANNOT ESCAPE THE BUSY.

I miss my friends.


brenda m - May 01, 2008 2:11:38 pm PDT #4557 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Speaking of martinis, actual sentence in the email I just got:

In the best that type of table works week, to highly what we will do (perform or contract and where).


bon bon - May 01, 2008 2:23:36 pm PDT #4558 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I'm having Roscoe's with Agent Kate tonight.

Tell her my mom sent me lolcats today!