Xander: We just saw the zebras mating! Thank you, very exciting... Willow: It was like the Heimlich, with stripes!

'Him'


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.


Dana - May 16, 2008 10:13:44 am PDT #7350 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

You go to Wikipedia's home page, choose a random article and, using only links within the articles, get to Adolf Hitler.

It sounds like an idea for a YouTube game I had, where everyone started with the same video, and you'd see who could end up farthest afield from the original video by clicking on the Related links.


Frankenbuddha - May 16, 2008 10:14:47 am PDT #7351 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

ita, Butter. I think it's like garlic butter.

Yes, exactly.

Actually, I think Elvis was peanut butter, banana AND bacon.


Jesse - May 16, 2008 10:14:55 am PDT #7352 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

you should treat yourself to PB once you do laundry.

Ha ha.


Kat - May 16, 2008 10:20:19 am PDT #7353 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Whoa. Am reading an article about a Buddhist partnership (man and woman) who have vowed not to be further than 15 feet apart. And yet they are celibate: [link]

If they cannot be seated near each other on a plane, they do not get on. When she uses an airport restroom, he stands outside the door. And when they are here at home in their yurt in the Arizona desert, which has neither running water nor electricity, and he is inspired by an idea in the middle of the night, she rises from their bed and follows him to their office 100 yards down the road, so he can work.

Their partnership, they say, is celibate. It is, as they describe it, a high level of Buddhist practice that involves confronting their own imperfections and thereby learning to better serve the world.

I cannot imagine that much togetherness!

Uma Thurman's dad, conincidentally, is quoted.


Gudanov - May 16, 2008 10:20:23 am PDT #7354 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

I just found the weirdest...well, probably not the *weirdest*...but a weird Internet game.

It's called Six Degress of Wiki Hitler.

Getting to Hitler and the Internet seems pretty easy, don't 75% of Internet arguments eventually bring up Nazis or Hitler. Now six degrees of Zachary Taylor would be a challenge.


shrift - May 16, 2008 10:23:31 am PDT #7355 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I cannot imagine that much togetherness!

Somehow I don't think this Buddhist partnership involves repeatedly punching a monk in the face, and thus I don't think it would be a good fit for my personality. Oh, well!


Kat - May 16, 2008 10:25:14 am PDT #7356 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

This was later in the article.

But if they have renounced sex, they have replaced it with a level of communion that few other people could understand, much less tolerate.

They eat the same foods from the same plate and often read the same book, waiting until one or the other finishes the page before continuing. Both, they say, are practices of learning to submit one’s will to that of another.

Reading from the same book would be irritating!


Scrappy - May 16, 2008 10:25:46 am PDT #7357 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Whoa, Kat. I admit when I am home I am usually within 15 feet of J plus two dogs and two cats, but I am away at work all day. Not to mention that in MY practice, a little sup'n-sump'n with the DH IS the path to serenity.


Jesse - May 16, 2008 10:26:29 am PDT #7358 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Reading from the same book would be irritating!

That whole thing sounds irritating!


Jessica - May 16, 2008 10:28:34 am PDT #7359 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The PB&J restaurant in NYC's "Elvis" is:

A grilled peanut Butter sandwich, stuffed with bananas and honey. Try it with bacon for that extra indulgence. Long live the King!