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Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds  

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 - Aug 10, 2008 4:45:07 pm PDT #2398 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Well, you are short, I can see it at a glance -- like when I had a man's winter coat, and wore jeans, people often called me "sir" before looking all the way up. I presented a man's silhouette, if you weren't looking closely. But it's not that hard to look more closely!


DebetEsse - Aug 10, 2008 4:46:45 pm PDT #2399 of 10003
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Any theories on why socks would be sold in a re-sealable plastic bag?


Hil R. - Aug 10, 2008 4:46:52 pm PDT #2400 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Yeah, at the movie theater, the guy could really only see me from the neck up. At the beach, though, I was wearing a bathing suit.


Connie Neil - Aug 10, 2008 4:48:28 pm PDT #2401 of 10003
brillig

The emu line has been COMM'd. Thanks, Hec.


sarameg - Aug 10, 2008 4:55:49 pm PDT #2402 of 10003

I got asked about "my son" by a grocery clerk when I was 21 out with a clear 11 year old I nannied (and a 8 and 7 year old.) I started laughing so hard, the kids had to pick me up off the floor.

I've been carded as recently as this year.

What I take from it? People have a helluva time judging ages. Hell, I can't. Some new employees look like babies to me, so I assume mid-20s and don't say a damned thing. Right now, I don't know what a 33 year old is supposed to look like. And I am one.


Barb - Aug 10, 2008 4:56:23 pm PDT #2403 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”

She looked like an emu sucking on a lemon.


sarameg - Aug 10, 2008 4:57:21 pm PDT #2404 of 10003

And that's one of her more pleasant expressions!


hippocampus - Aug 10, 2008 5:01:48 pm PDT #2405 of 10003
not your mom's socks.

sneaking into Natter to see if anyone else went WTF with the US announcer's comment "it's like finding a tear in your wedding dress just before you get married" about Samantha Peszek's sprained ankle just before the competition.

oooo. Swimming.

eta:

emu sucking on a lemon.

that really is a most amazing image. way out of the park, Billytea


Hil R. - Aug 10, 2008 5:06:52 pm PDT #2406 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

sneaking into Natter to see if anyone else went WTF with the US announcer's comment "it's like finding a tear in your wedding dress just before you get married" about Samantha Peszek's sprained ankle just before the competition.

Yes. Very much yes.


Monique - Aug 10, 2008 5:08:55 pm PDT #2407 of 10003

My favorite Olympic announcer WTF was this about what I think was a Chinese night market -- I had surgery last week and am still on meds, so I wasn't sure if I heard this right but the husband said he heard the same thing:

"So if you're in the mood for shellfish, this is the place to go and order Schezuan Beef."