Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


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.


brenda m - Aug 12, 2008 3:20:48 pm PDT #2934 of 10003
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

I got: the zipper, butter tarts and the snowmobile.

Basketball? Nah, that won't work. Um, blood transfusion? Hopefully that won't even come up.

Broomball? The Canadarm?

Yeah, I got nothin'.


Jesse - Aug 12, 2008 3:22:42 pm PDT #2935 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'll have to check that out.

Googling didn't come up with anything, so it must have just been a plant. I think it was the Lefebvres.


Sue - Aug 12, 2008 3:23:10 pm PDT #2936 of 10003
hip deep in pie

Wikipedia says:

Instant coffee was invented in 1901 by Satori Kato, a Japanese scientist working in Chicago, United States.

[link]


flea - Aug 12, 2008 3:30:17 pm PDT #2937 of 10003
information libertarian

Curling???

Nilly, what is your dissertation about? The one-sentence version is fine, and it's okay to use technical terms because mr. flea wants to know. And he has a PhD - in SCIENCE! (Which is an American public-radio-based joke that you will not get, but funny, trust me.)


meara - Aug 12, 2008 3:31:13 pm PDT #2938 of 10003

Curling???

That's SCOTTISH, it's not CRAP!


Sue - Aug 12, 2008 3:37:59 pm PDT #2939 of 10003
hip deep in pie

Oh look, the Greatest Canadian inventions:

[link]

Wonderbra [1964, Louise Poirier]

Ladies and Gentleman, we have a winner!


Sue - Aug 12, 2008 3:39:19 pm PDT #2940 of 10003
hip deep in pie

Oooo, I forgot about the Robertson Screw!

Get your minds out of the gutter!


tommyrot - Aug 12, 2008 3:39:37 pm PDT #2941 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.

What about the Robertson Screw?


Jesse - Aug 12, 2008 3:39:56 pm PDT #2942 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Go Canada!

So, mom confirms all is well. I think I'll still make plans to go up there, though.


Sue - Aug 12, 2008 3:41:24 pm PDT #2943 of 10003
hip deep in pie

What about the Robertson Screw?

It's Canadian! (And awesome.)