The Colbert/astronaut interview was one of the best things I have ever seen. The sheer joy and giddiness on both sides was fantastic.
Murk: But you're a God! The Sacred Glorificus! Glory: I'm a God in exile. Far from the Hellfires of Home and sharing my body with an enemy that stabs my boys in their fleshy little stomachs!
'Dirty Girls'
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.
Pix - May 09, 2008 7:38:27 pm PDT #6068 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Susan W. - May 09, 2008 7:47:40 pm PDT #6069 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Paging megan....
Is there a French exclamation roughly equivalent to "Oh, what the hell," only a little more polite? Like, something a gentleman would say in front of ladies he respects. The context is that he's agreeing to a somewhat reckless plan.
amych - May 09, 2008 7:48:50 pm PDT #6070 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
The sheer joy and giddiness on both sides was fantastic.
OMG! SPACE!
Pix - May 09, 2008 7:55:10 pm PDT #6071 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
OMG! SPACE!YES! The progression (Space->Space!->OMG! SPACE!) was fucking hysterical. Also the moment when he let the "wrist strong" bracelet tumble through the zero gravity and Colbert burst out with, "I could die and go to heaven RIGHT NOW!" Also his taunting of Jon Stewart. Best Colbert segment ever.
Hil R. - May 09, 2008 8:26:20 pm PDT #6072 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Best Colbert segment ever.
Absolutely. The look on his face when he realized, "My voice is going into SPACE!" was awesome. As was the fact that he used the word "awesome" approximately every other sentence.
tommyrot - May 09, 2008 8:46:51 pm PDT #6073 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.
Actual BBC headline: Great tits cope well with warming
Here's a hint at what the article's about:
"Great tits have eight or nine babies in a brood, and each of them will eat about 70 caterpillars a day.
The chicks hatch and are fully grown within two weeks, so they need something that's really abundant - that's why they synchonise their breeding so hatching co-incides with the emergence of the caterpillars."
eta: Photo caption:
Wytham Woods are home to about 400 breeding pairs of great tits
meara - May 09, 2008 8:59:15 pm PDT #6074 of 10001
David, that sounds like my version of hell.
Can any of you hold the pose shown in figure 3?
the tripod one? I could do that much easier than a handstand, I think...but I think it would have to be tilted slightly differently than in the figure, to not fall over.
Hil R. - May 09, 2008 9:05:36 pm PDT #6075 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
the tripod one? I could do that much easier than a handstand, I think...but I think it would have to be tilted slightly differently than in the figure, to not fall over.
Isn't a tripod with your head also on the ground? That seems to keep being my problem -- I can't tilt far enough forward to be balanced right without my head hitting the ground. And if I try to hold my head up so that doesn't happen, it messes up my balance.
brenda m - May 10, 2008 3:28:33 am PDT #6076 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
This week on fun with x-posts:
Is there a French exclamation roughly equivalent to "Oh, what the hell," only a little more polite? Like, something a gentleman would say in front of ladies he respects. The context is that he's agreeing to a somewhat reckless plan.
OMG! SPACE!
Not sure we're quite hitting that 19th century tone there. Though my French is pretty bad, I could be missing some nuance.
brenda m - May 10, 2008 3:29:55 am PDT #6077 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
David, that sounds like my version of hell.
I think I've worked there in my nightmares. I would die.