You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.

Xander ,'Help'


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.


tommyrot - May 14, 2008 4:44:25 am PDT #6677 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.

Odd video: [link]

It's video of a car ferry pulling away from the dock. Except for some strange reason, someone's tied a rope to the back of a pickup truck on the ferry, and tied the other end to the dock....


lisah - May 14, 2008 4:44:59 am PDT #6678 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

Bombs in India and Spain, in addition to the usual places of course.

oy, yeah. This pissed me off more than usual when I heard about it. Come on, HUMANS, Nature is out to get us! Must we turn on one another too?


billytea - May 14, 2008 4:53:40 am PDT #6679 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

The numbers this morning are horrifying. 15,000 dead, another 40-50 thousand missing. Between natural disasters and man made disasters the news is very upsetting stuff. Bombs in India and Spain, in addition to the usual places of course.

Yeah. This is the biggest earthquake in China since the Tangshan earthquake in 1976 (Wallybee remembers feeling that one over 1,000 miles away) - the official death toll for that one was 250,000, and the actual toll may have been up to three times as many. Tangshan at the time had a population of 1.6 million. (It wasn't regarded as earthquake-prone, so the buildings weren't built to withstand one.)


sumi - May 14, 2008 4:55:17 am PDT #6680 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Exactly!

That Chilean volcano, the cyclone (and another is forming - nice), earthquakes, tornados all across the southern part of this country AND we've got to kill each other too.


billytea - May 14, 2008 4:58:01 am PDT #6681 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Oh boy. This is awful: [link]


tommyrot - May 14, 2008 4:58:23 am PDT #6682 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.

Extremely creepy ad for men's pants (from 1970-ish) [link]

text of the ad:

Though she was a tiger lady, our hero didn’t have to fire a shot to floor her. After one look at his Mr. Leggs slacks, she was ready to have him walk all over her. That noble styling sure soothes the savage heart! If you’d like your own doll-to-doll carpeting, hunt up a pair of these he-man Mr. Leggs slacks.

Back in the days when blatant misogyny was OK in advertising....


hippocampus - May 14, 2008 5:01:00 am PDT #6683 of 10001
not your mom's socks.

better living through chemistry: [link]

not that it will work or anything.


Jessica - May 14, 2008 5:02:02 am PDT #6684 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

doll-to-doll carpeting

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.


Dana - May 14, 2008 5:03:02 am PDT #6685 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Back in the days when blatant misogyny was OK in advertising....

I thought it was bad, and then I saw the picture. Gah.


tommyrot - May 14, 2008 5:03:57 am PDT #6686 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.

better living through chemistry: [link]

I was distracted by the "turret's syndrome" side effect....