Perkins, [link] is the best. It uses all of the sites mentioned, and more!
Hours later, Thanks Javachik!
Work ated too much of my brains today.
Uh, are we gonna fight, or is there just gonna be a monster sarcasm rally?
Stoner Vamp ,'Lessons'
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.
Lee - Jul 07, 2008 4:18:17 pm PDT #6934 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Kathy A - Jul 07, 2008 4:22:28 pm PDT #6935 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Yes, Uptalk! God, I hate it. I don't know why women (and it's always women who use it) get into the habit, because it just makes them sound indecisive and weak.
Grrrrr.
So, Perkins, is this you today? I think it was me. The only productive thing I managed to do was call my mom and type a few things into the computer at work.
sarameg - Jul 07, 2008 4:27:18 pm PDT #6936 of 10003
msbelle, I'm guessing you don't want me to introduce mac to the Walter the Farting Dog series?
Damn.
Calli - Jul 07, 2008 4:29:40 pm PDT #6937 of 10003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I don't know why women (and it's always women who use it) get into the habit,
I think it's supposed to encourage the listener to agree or otherwise interact with the speaker. As it makes me feel disagreeable I tend to avoid further interaction with whoever uses it.
I'm all for layering (the office goes from 65F to 80F on any given day), but forced layering sounds way too fashion police-y for my tastes.
Lee - Jul 07, 2008 4:31:21 pm PDT #6938 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
So, Perkins, is this you today? I think it was me. The only productive thing I managed to do was call my mom and type a few things into the computer at work.
Pretty much.
I'm pretty sure I didn't actually accomplish anything today, but I was hella busy doing it.
billytea - Jul 07, 2008 4:33:37 pm PDT #6939 of 10003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Btw, has Boxed Set already discussed Telegraph's Top 10 Dr. Who Episodes Ever?
Ooh, nice. Can't really argue with their choices, though I think there should've been room for the Second Doctor's Tomb of the Cybermen. I'd probably sub it in for Inferno. Talons of Weng-Chiang, not sure I'd put it at number 1, but I reckon it'd be in there. The guy's right about the atmosphere, the original series never did it better. (Horror of Fang Rock, Image of the Fendahl and The Deadly Assassin are the close runners-up there, all from the same era too. Bloody Mary Whitehouse made 'em stop it.) Even the sock-puppet monster (giant rat) was better realised than most (albeit still, pretty obviously, a sock puppet).
§ ita § - Jul 07, 2008 4:35:40 pm PDT #6940 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't know why women (and it's always women who use it) get into the habit,
Women and Canadians.
billytea - Jul 07, 2008 4:35:59 pm PDT #6941 of 10003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Yes, Uptalk! God, I hate it.
The Aussie soap Neighbours was once blamed for introducing it to the UK. I tend to think it was simply concurrent rather than causative.
tommyrot - Jul 07, 2008 4:36:40 pm PDT #6942 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Hey bt - I figure you've already heard the latest in prehistoric giant wombat news, but just in case....
And as it turns out, only one species of giant wombat roamed the planet between 2 million and 10,000 years ago, despite evidence that they varied significantly in size.
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Scientists previously studying giant prehistoric wombats had assumed that there existed anywhere from two even up to eighteen or more different species of wombat. This assumption was made because of the varying sizes of the adult fossils found. Specimens ranged from just a few feet long to up to nine feet long and almost six feet tall!
When Giant Wombats Ruled the Earth...
billytea - Jul 07, 2008 4:50:25 pm PDT #6943 of 10003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
And as it turns out, only one species of giant wombat roamed the planet between 2 million and 10,000 years ago, despite evidence that they varied significantly in size.
It's good to know people aer working on this, though I think it needs more work to become conclusive.