I have things I should be doing this morning, but I'm too busy hating the world.
Mal: Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you're supposed to make me look respectable. Kaylee: Yes, sir, Captain Tightpants.
'Shindig'
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.
Dana - Sep 08, 2008 7:16:54 am PDT #7697 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Jesse - Sep 08, 2008 7:19:57 am PDT #7698 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just got a mislabeled sandwich at Au Bon Pain. What I got was fine, but it was not what I wanted! I sent them an email -- we'll see what they give me.
Amy - Sep 08, 2008 7:20:50 am PDT #7699 of 10003
Because books.
I have things I should be doing this morning, but I'm too busy hating the world.
I find that can take up most of a Monday.
Connie Neil - Sep 08, 2008 7:23:26 am PDT #7700 of 10003
brillig
This is weird. I'm working with a man--I presume--named Sambo. By the last name, he probably wasn't born in this country. I have no idea how old he is, naturally, so I'm just assuming that the word Sambo has none of the cultural baggage it does here. I'm glad I'm not talking to him on the phone, because I don't know if I could call him Sambo without stumbling over it. How odd to have a name which is probably perfectly normal where he comes from but whic makes some people twitch where he lives now.
lisah - Sep 08, 2008 7:28:34 am PDT #7701 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
What I got was fine, but it was not what I wanted! I sent them an email -- we'll see what they give me.
My guess is coupon for a new sandwich!
I won this karaoke competition at my neighborhood festival last year and I will be a judge and also do a song to start off the competition this year. It's this Saturday and I can't think of what song to do AT ALL! I want a sort of upbeat rocker that the crowd will know but that's also unexpected. Any ideas????
brenda m - Sep 08, 2008 7:28:51 am PDT #7702 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
Yeah, that would be distincly weird.
Glamcookie - Sep 08, 2008 7:32:05 am PDT #7703 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
What made me feel old last night was realizing that it was the 25th anniversary of the VMAs. And that I was watching the day MTV premiered (to the sounds of "Video Killed the Radio Star" and "Hungry Like the Wolf" about seventeen zillion times).
Totally!
On the subject of gifts and registries and parties and such, why do people not open gifts at showers/parties anymore? I've gone to a couple lately at which this happened. WTF? It seems very rude to me. I want to see the reaction and I want to see the cute baby stuff received during baby showers. Also, why do I go to the trouble of wrapping the gift all nice when no one sees it? I may be a little more annoyed by this than I should be.
Ginger - Sep 08, 2008 7:36:46 am PDT #7704 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
very patrician, WASP-y sounding name for a woman who would've been in her 40s/early 50s circa 1965.
Evelyn, Eleanor, Dorothy, Barbara, Alice, Louise, Brooke and other names based on distinguished ancestors
That was also an era of Unfortunate WASP Nicknames: Muffy, Bunny, Birdie, Babs.
ChiKat - Sep 08, 2008 7:37:15 am PDT #7705 of 10003
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I'm working with a man--I presume--named Sambo
I had a great uncle Sambo. Yes, my family is Southern. And, yes, we're white. It was a nickname he was given by the farm hands when he was a baby and called that his whole life.
The most interesting thing about it to me is that we all called him Uncle Sambo with no irony and not even thinking twice about it.
DavidS - Sep 08, 2008 7:39:52 am PDT #7706 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
We didn't have cable, either -- but in the Boston area, we had a local video channel. V-66! Good times.
Loved that channel. They were responsible for breaking "Take On Me" by Aha.
Michael, Prince and Madonna weren't just born in the same year, but roughly in the same part of the rust belt.
Next year Bruce Springsteen (and Tom Waits) will turn 60!