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.
Early: So is it still her room when it's empty? Does the room, the thing, have purpose? Or do we -- what's the word? Simon: I really can't help you. Early: The plan is to take your sister. Get the reward, which is substantial. 'Imbue.' That's the word.
'Objects In Space'
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.
Nilly - Aug 13, 2008 7:18:45 am PDT #3066 of 10003
Swouncing
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.
Jesse - Aug 13, 2008 7:35:59 am PDT #3071 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Random pharmeceutical question: Is it bad that I take one aleve and/or 2-4 advil pretty much every day?
JZ - Aug 13, 2008 7:37:40 am PDT #3072 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
You'd have to use these little shims, which is where you get the phrase "Shimmy me baby, with a back boogie nine."
That whole paragraph made me wibbly, but I may have to take an extra-long lunch to run home and reward you for that single line, o my dearest.
Steph L. - Aug 13, 2008 7:40:34 am PDT #3073 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
That was back when "20" was replaced with "dickety"?
Random pharmeceutical question: Is it bad that I take one aleve and/or 2-4 advil pretty much every day?
...that's all? (And that's a serious question.) Only 1 aleve per day? And/or only 2-4 advil PER DAY?
If so, you're fine.
t edit I should add: *if* your stomach gets weird, those *might* be the cause. HOWEVER, I'm *not* saying that daily aleve/advil *will* cause stomach weirdness; I'm saying that *if* you have stomach weirdness, the drugs *might* be the cause.
DavidS - Aug 13, 2008 7:41:55 am PDT #3074 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That was back when "20" was replaced with "dickety"?
Yeah, back in nineteen-dickety-nine.
DavidS - Aug 13, 2008 7:43:14 am PDT #3075 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
ION, I'm thinking of opening my Tom Waits Bus Tour with the introduction Mike Douglas used when Tom was on the show in 1976: "He's a combination poet, jazz singer and vagrant with a surprising amount of personal charm."
Or maybe that's just how I'll start introducing MM at parties.