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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.


Jesse - May 29, 2008 5:19:08 pm PDT #9679 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Wikipedia backs me up: [link]

Why do I even know that?? I probably learned it from my mother.


amych - May 29, 2008 5:21:05 pm PDT #9680 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Your mother grows more interesting by the day. I stand corrected.


Jesse - May 29, 2008 5:24:04 pm PDT #9681 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Also, I love this footnote from the wikipedia on "chicken":

^ This term is more common in the UK; the more common term in the US is twink..


Steph L. - May 29, 2008 5:24:08 pm PDT #9682 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

I've always heard "chickenhawk" for older men who go after young women, but I never knew it applied to teh creepy old gay as well.

I've heard "Daddy" (which is a whole other type of disturbing to me), but I guess that's a really specific type of older/younger gay relationship.


brenda m - May 29, 2008 5:27:35 pm PDT #9683 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

Chickenhawk, no?

I think that one's being taken over by Persons Who Rah Rah Us Into War But Would Never Go Themselves Under Any Circs. Or at least in my blog circles.


Jesse - May 29, 2008 5:31:45 pm PDT #9684 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I think it goes both ways. So to speak.


§ ita § - May 29, 2008 5:42:46 pm PDT #9685 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

ita, do you have plans for saturday?

No, not a one.

Cougar is an animal with grandeur, and chickenhawk...well, it strikes me as a step down from hawk, at least. But wait--is the etymology that chickenhawks prey on (spring) chickens? What's the cougar etymology?


Kat - May 29, 2008 5:46:26 pm PDT #9686 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Maybe it's about older women pouncing on the young men?

ita, wanna come over for lunch Saturday?


Torque - May 29, 2008 5:48:31 pm PDT #9687 of 10001
Bad Wolf

Cougars can be fun.


Kat - May 29, 2008 5:48:59 pm PDT #9688 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

So my mom bought plush toys at xmas for both Noah and Grace from Kohls. Noah got a Fox in Socks and Grace got Horton. Noah has gotten to a point where he falls asleep easiest while chewing on Fox. I thought Grace might prefer Fox to Horton and I thought it best to get a replacement Fox in case we lose Noah's.

But these were some special issue Kohl's cares thing. This is the second time my mom got us special issue things that the kids love and then when we need a replacement (for Grace, it was a dog blanket we named Spike that got dried in an industrial strength dryer which made it dredlocky) we can't get one.

Sigh. It's off to ebay.