Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate sounds like a good band name.
Inara: We thought we lost you. Mal: Well, I've been right here.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
Cashmere - Aug 13, 2008 7:04:22 am PDT #3061 of 10003
Now tagless for your comfort.
tommyrot - Aug 13, 2008 7:04:29 am PDT #3062 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.
The phrase had some countercultural meaning, right? Back when computers were all big mainframes, and represented The Man.
tommyrot - Aug 13, 2008 7:11:57 am PDT #3063 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.
The Colbert Bump good for Dems
Democratic politicians receive a 40% increase in contributions in the 30 days after appearing on the comedy cable show The Colbert Report. In contrast, their Republican counterparts essentially gain nothing. These findings appear to validate anecdotal evidence regarding the political impact of the program, such as the assertions by host Stephen Colbert that appearing on his program provides candidates with a “Colbert bump” or a rise in support for their election campaigns.
Jesse - Aug 13, 2008 7:15:45 am PDT #3064 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Anatoly Perminov, the head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, speculated that the ballistic reentry was connected to a Russian nautical superstition that having more women than men on a craft was unlucky.
It's about being closer to the earth, isn't it.
DavidS - Aug 13, 2008 7:15:53 am PDT #3065 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The phrase had some countercultural meaning, right?
Yes, it was used ironically to say you did not want to be chewed up in The Man's Evil Machine.
Nilly - Aug 13, 2008 7:18:45 am PDT #3066 of 10003
Swouncing
Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate
I just had to look "spindle" up in the dictionary.
Which is extra note-worthy, in a way, considering the topic of conversation.
Steph L. - Aug 13, 2008 7:19:49 am PDT #3067 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
When I signed up for my Freshman college classes in 1979 I was given a punchcard with the Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate advisory. So it was still present through the 70s in certain liberal arts colleges unwilling to invest in newfangled computer technology.
Well, it *was* Ohio....
Jesse - Aug 13, 2008 7:20:10 am PDT #3068 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yes, it was used ironically to say you did not want to be chewed up in The Man's Evil Machine.
Kind of the, "Don't tase me, bro!" of its era.
DavidS - Aug 13, 2008 7:31:48 am PDT #3069 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Well, it *was* Ohio....
When I was in school we had to handset every paper with moveable type! Yeah, we'd be standing around the printing press, with our trays of Gothic 12 pt type, setting our papers on the fly and drinking Dr. Phosphor's TwoFold Prune Tonic. Oh you couldn't believe the tricks we did with kerning back then. You'd have to use these little shims, which is where you get the phrase "Shimmy me baby, with a back boogie nine." Sometimes the onion on your belt (which was the fashion at the time) would get caught in the press and everybody would cry and laugh and oh, it was good times.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 13, 2008 7:33:26 am PDT #3070 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
"I'm just saying that when a majority [of the crew] is female, sometimes certain kinds of unsanctioned behaviour or something else occurs."
If people are engaging in "unsanctioned behavior" during re-entry, I think they're too stupid to be astronauts.