I didn't create the troll. I didn't date the troll. In fact I hate the troll. I helped deflate the troll-- All done.

Willow ,'Potential'


Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!  

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.


Jessica - Jun 01, 2008 4:23:02 pm PDT #209 of 10003
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Cincinnati chili -- as described; runny-ish sauce-like meat-based stuff that's served over spaghetti with cheese on top, often but not always with beans and/or onions -- is actually Cincinnati chili. We don't do "tourist" chili and then eat Texas chili at home, sneering at the people who think that Skyline is really "Cincinnati" chili.

It is in fact quite easy to grow up eating only Cincinnati-style chili and not realize until college that most people's chili is a whole different thing. (So word to people from Cincinnati with kids - tell them their chili is weird before college so they won't offer to make chili for all their friends and be greeted with confused looks when they serve it over spaghetti!)


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 01, 2008 4:23:24 pm PDT #210 of 10003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Also, is Spiderman really a hyphenated word?

Yes. Years ago I had to correct writers about that on a project for a major publishing company. I should have claimed my comic book purchases as a business expense that year.


Steph L. - Jun 01, 2008 4:25:50 pm PDT #211 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

It is in fact quite easy to grow up eating only Cincinnati-style chili and not realize until college that most people's chili is a whole different thing.

You must be reading my mail. That totally happened to me, only in high school, when I went on a trip to DC with students from high schools all around the country. We were at t memfault Union Station(? the train station/mall thingy) in the food court, and I had been homesick and saw, lo and behold, a Skyline in the food court. So I made a beeline, got a 4-way bean, and when I sat down to eat it, everyone was all like, WTF are you eating?!? And when I identified it as chili, the 2 girls from Texas laughed so hard they were crying.

Good times, man. Good times.


DavidS - Jun 01, 2008 4:28:16 pm PDT #212 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Yves Saint Laurent died.

His early seventies show inspired by paintings is widely considered to be the greatest collection of the twentieth century. (Though not as influential as Dior's New Look or Chanel's innovations.)


Jessica - Jun 01, 2008 4:28:17 pm PDT #213 of 10003
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I was so upset when that Skyline closed! I mean, sure I can make it at home, but it's not the same.


Jesse - Jun 01, 2008 4:29:54 pm PDT #214 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Union Station

Yes.


§ ita § - Jun 01, 2008 4:42:14 pm PDT #215 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yves Saint Laurent died.

It would be so much simpler if we could see icons created as clearly as we see them snuffed.


Jesse - Jun 01, 2008 4:48:17 pm PDT #216 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Funny moment from the National Spelling Bee: [link]


Laga - Jun 01, 2008 4:51:07 pm PDT #217 of 10003
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

OK I will order Giordano's stuffed spinach and garlic when I get that craving. I just want to disabuse people of the notion that the only pizza available in Chicago is deep dish.


NoiseDesign - Jun 01, 2008 4:59:18 pm PDT #218 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

Damn you. Damn you all to hell! Now I'm craving a five way and a cheese coney.

I don't like any of you any more.