You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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 22, 2008 5:12:54 am PDT #8344 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I'll apologize if you F*kin learn to get on the bus in a timely manner.


tommyrot - May 22, 2008 5:14:35 am PDT #8345 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.

This morning I was standing next to the homeless guy on a stalled train.

I hate it when they sit next to you and then pass out on your shoulder.

OK, that only happened once.


Lee - May 22, 2008 5:17:28 am PDT #8346 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Or when they sit next to you and play with themselves.


SuziQ - May 22, 2008 5:19:10 am PDT #8347 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Perkins wins.


shrift - May 22, 2008 5:20:33 am PDT #8348 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I mean, dude. I was exhausted, wearing high heels, uncaffeinated, and carrying a purse, a tote bag, and a giant mug of coffee and I didn't even touch him.


§ ita § - May 22, 2008 5:23:42 am PDT #8349 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Shrift, you smacked him with your personal bubble. Haven't we talked to you about that before?

This morning is so much better than the mornings that preceded it. Amazing what a bit of a lack of pain can do.


Lee - May 22, 2008 5:25:23 am PDT #8350 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

YAY ita!


§ ita § - May 22, 2008 5:29:42 am PDT #8351 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Cool, ain't it? I should probably conquer the world this morning, because it surely cannot last.

I just noticed Jack Davenport is going to be in Swingtown. Hmm. I'm not sure if he's playing a Brit. Ah, well. Now I'm watching for sure.


Ginger - May 22, 2008 5:31:23 am PDT #8352 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I don't know why some people are allowed to leave their homes. Yesterday at the post office, I was behind a woman who spent 10 minutes going through a giant purse for stray stamps and trying to add them all up to figure out how much postage she needed to buy. She was followed by a person who thought one of the boxes for sale was a flat-rate priority box, which she filled and handed open to the clerk, saying, "Isn't this $5?" When told that regular mail would be cheaper, she stuffed her items back into two boxes and had the clerk tape them up. Then she realized she had lost a piece of paper, and asked the clerk to retrieve the packages and open them to see if the paper was in them. It wasn't. The clerk re-taped the boxes.

I was making very loud sighs and occasionally saying things like, "Some of us get our packages ready before we leave home." I told the clerk she was a much more patient person than I was.


tommyrot - May 22, 2008 5:33:01 am PDT #8353 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.

It seems like every few days brings news of a new record high price for oil. After hovering in the upper $120s for a while, oil has now hit $135 a barrel. Damn. It was $60 a year ago.

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Meanwhile, the price of used fuel-efficient cars has been going up a fair amount.