This is a time of celebration, so sit still and be quiet.

Snyder ,'Chosen'


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.


msbelle - May 01, 2008 2:28:03 pm PDT #4559 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

tell her hi!

ion - I am sad for my life, I am buying myself pokemon cards.


Allyson - May 01, 2008 2:32:07 pm PDT #4560 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

Will do! She's pretty happy about lolcats.


§ ita § - May 01, 2008 2:40:11 pm PDT #4561 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I am not sad about msbelle's life, unless the pokemon cards have nothing to do with Mac.

I miss pinball. Amongst many things.


JZ - May 01, 2008 2:44:27 pm PDT #4562 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Allyson, I am totally jealous of you with the Roscoe's and the Agent Kate and the new apartment, soon to be all stripey and Tim Burton-y.

I will bow to Steph's brothers expertise in all things beery, but I too adhere firmly to Jess's belief that a martini without vermouth is in fact a glass of gin. I also adhere firmly to Daisy Jane's belief that a drink made out of vodka, vermouth and either an olive or an onion may be a delightful libation but it is not, strictly speaking, a martini.

Huh. It appears that I am a martini prescriptivist.


-t - May 01, 2008 2:46:11 pm PDT #4563 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I miss pinball.

Me, too. I've never been any good at video games or air hockey or skee ball, but I had some high scores on a couple of pinball machines back in the day.


-t - May 01, 2008 2:53:49 pm PDT #4564 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I am far from a martini prescriptivist. Shake it up and pour it in a triangular glass and I'm happy. Not that I've had one in ages, but in theory I am not picky at all.


Lee - May 01, 2008 2:57:11 pm PDT #4565 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Ummmm, triangular glasses.

t /homer


Ginger - May 01, 2008 3:06:27 pm PDT #4566 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

but I too adhere firmly to Jess's belief that a martini without vermouth is in fact a glass of gin.

I've never understood this coyness with drinking straight gin, and a vodka "martini" without vermouth is pointless. It's cold vodka, and a perfectly acceptable thing to order. I don't think anything magical comes from being shaken (or stirred) with ice and put in an awkward glass, except I suppose ordering a vodka martini saves you the trouble of saying "Cold vodka in a martini glass with a tiny bit of water and an olive." The vermouth aversion has gotten so bad that I now say "Vermouth. I want there to be vermouth in it. Tell the bartender to relax. A drop of vermouth will not cause me to drop to the floor and scream." That is except for the time the bartender, who had probably just put gin in a martini for his entire career, used sweet vermouth.


Matt the Bruins fan - May 01, 2008 3:11:11 pm PDT #4567 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 like my martinis heavy on the sour apple mix, so I've never understood the horror of anything not bone dry mixing with the gin.


Sophia Brooks - May 01, 2008 3:12:10 pm PDT #4568 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

This is why I drink gimlets. Even if someone doesn't know whet it is, I can usually explain it well enough to get something I like. Although I think I remember a debate here about whether a gimlet should contain RoseZs lime juice. (YES)