Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.

Willow ,'End of Days'


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.


§ ita § - Apr 09, 2008 11:56:48 am PDT #721 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My father was engaged to someone when he was 24 and she was 17. 50 or so years later (and after my mom died), he ran into her sister at a reunion and decided to get in touch. They married soon after.

How many ladies are in this story? Miss A, engaged to your father at age 17--is this also your mom? The woman, Miss Z, that he married soon after--whose sister is she?

The head transplant reading has made my right arm tingle distractingly. Today as a workday is entirely too long.


Trudy Booth - Apr 09, 2008 12:10:16 pm PDT #722 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

Thanks, guys!


megan walker - Apr 09, 2008 12:12:10 pm PDT #723 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

How many ladies are in this story? Miss A, engaged to your father at age 17--is this also your mom? The woman, Miss Z, that he married soon after--whose sister is she?

More like, my Dad was engaged to a women (Miss A), broke it off because she wanted to settle down right away, fought in World War II, went to college, met my mom on a blind date when he was 37 and proposed almost immediately, was with my mom for almost 30 years until she died, bored himself to tears for a few years, went back to his hometown for his 50th reunion and ran into Miss A's sister, contacted Miss A (who lived in Reno!), and proposed to Miss A a few months later. It was quite a surprise since I was the only one of my siblings who had even known he had been engaged once before.


sumi - Apr 09, 2008 12:13:51 pm PDT #724 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Dog in Snow


meara - Apr 09, 2008 12:14:02 pm PDT #725 of 10001

Hmmm... in the 9th grade she used to pick on me. Maybe she did have a crush on me....

She TOTALLY did!

And having someone want to set you up with their sister is definitely a vote of "you rock"!

There were several people I was really hoping would be at my high schol reunion. They were not there. Ah well.


Glamcookie - Apr 09, 2008 12:17:25 pm PDT #726 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

high school reunion

t shudder


erikaj - Apr 09, 2008 12:22:16 pm PDT #727 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Scola, you're cute. You should be dating everyone's sister! (Uh, that didn't sound icky in my head. There you go, making me fourteen again.)


§ ita § - Apr 09, 2008 12:45:18 pm PDT #728 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That dog in snow sure looks happy. Gave me some time to think about head transplant surgery, though. Given that it's been done on animals, how come it hasn't been done on people? We're ill enough that I'm positive you could find volunteer test subjects among the sane.

Megan, that is a lovely story. Sometimes "right person, wrong time" works out. What was Miss A doing in the meanwhile? I hope she wasn't single.


Laga - Apr 09, 2008 12:49:39 pm PDT #729 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I'm silly. I just re-organized my cash drawer so that every guest has a chance of getting a new $5 bill.


tommyrot - Apr 09, 2008 12:53:17 pm PDT #730 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.

Given that it's been done on animals, how come it hasn't been done on people? We're ill enough that I'm positive you could find volunteer test subjects among the sane.

The results would be a person who's quadriplegic. But I've read people discussing a theoretical case of a person who's already quadriplegic and who's body is dying having their head transplanted to a healthy but brain dead body. I don't think anyone's seriously considered this, but who knows what the future holds....