Did you know that bats pollinate the agave plant and eat the pests that would wipe them out?
Without bats, there'd be no tequilla.
I hate to break it to you, oh impotent one, but you're not the big bad anymore, you're not even the kind of naughty.
Xander ,'Showtime'
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.
Allyson - Aug 12, 2008 8:25:52 pm PDT #2996 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
amych - Aug 12, 2008 8:26:16 pm PDT #2997 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
WTF, Elfie?
Lee - Aug 12, 2008 8:27:28 pm PDT #2998 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
YAY Bats!
Cass - Aug 12, 2008 8:29:15 pm PDT #2999 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I think only a papaya, mango or kiwi has a chance of inflicting collateral damage when used as a weapon. Coconuts need to be opened with chisels and hammers, that's not going to work unless you need to hit just one specific place. And a plantain will just bounce off unless it's so ripe it softly splats. Actually the kiwi is kinda weak too unless there's a kiwi shotgun. I'm going to guess papaya or mango. Really the mango should win. It's got the honking pit in the middle.
I swear I just overthought fruit weaponry.
And am suddenly craving a smoothie.
aurelia - Aug 12, 2008 8:29:16 pm PDT #3000 of 10003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Without bats, there'd be no tequilla.
Three cheers for the bats!
Kiwi has comic potential just for the name.
Trudy Booth - Aug 12, 2008 9:08:10 pm PDT #3001 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
three grand slut
[Edit: phooey]
Trudy Booth - Aug 12, 2008 9:11:17 pm PDT #3002 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I also found this somewhat creepy video of Nadia Comaneci visiting Bela Karolyi's training center. [link] The whole "Just like the old days, Bela can make me do anything he wants me to do" thing is just disturbing.
That and the fact that someone ran out and cut four inches off her hair between when she left Costas and flipped across the room to Bela.
lori - Aug 12, 2008 10:01:34 pm PDT #3003 of 10003
I vote papaya for the funny. All those little bb seeds!
Nilly - Aug 12, 2008 11:21:32 pm PDT #3004 of 10003
Swouncing
Tomorrow we are performing an experiment to see what is funnier when it hits the sidewalk from the patio: A coconut, a papaya, a kiwi, a mango, or a plantain.
Your experiments are so much more fun than ours.
At most, we go to the Superconductivity labs, put soft stuff (erasers, leaves, the like) in the remains of the liquid nitrogen and see how they get all frozen and solid and break instead of bending or moving.
Nilly - Aug 13, 2008 2:27:36 am PDT #3005 of 10003
Swouncing
Serial to myself, because, well, a funny thing just happened: you know how my deadline was Thursday? Well, the PhD offices (due to some sort of summer vacation arrangements and bureaucracies) are closed this Thursday.
I'll be handing in my dissertation only on Sunday (our weekends are Friday and Saturday).
I'm schedule-ly confused. Grateful for the extra day-and-a-half, don't get me wrong! Goodness, I'm grateful. Lucky coincidence, all around. But I can practically head my body groans (remember how, in "Dr. Horrible", at the very end of the first part, he makes these funny groans when Hammer keeps banging his head in the van and talks about the lace-y curtains? Something like that, only with "but you promised me I can sleeeeeep tomorrow").
Good day, dissertation. Good fight-with-the-computer. I'll most likely hand you in in the morning.
[Edit: Either that, or "Whines! Whines in new Schedules!"]