Bester: Mal. Whaddya need two mechanics for? Mal: I really don't.

'Out Of Gas'


Natter 61*  

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.


lisah - Oct 09, 2008 11:16:33 am PDT #3673 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

Palin is on the cover, and they didn't retouch her photo to eliminate the little moustache she has going on.

MAN! if you know you are going to be in the national press (and you care about such things) why would you not get your shit waxed???

TCB, people!!

(although if she doesn't care, whatever)


Calli - Oct 09, 2008 11:18:27 am PDT #3674 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Yep, a year ago was the peak and the Dow has lost a third of its value since then.

Huh. My 401K's lost under 20% for the year. Guess I picked better funds than I'd thought.


Kathy A - Oct 09, 2008 11:18:56 am PDT #3675 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

This is a pretty neat anecdote about how people's lifelong opinions on race are being changed this year.


tommyrot - Oct 09, 2008 11:22:06 am PDT #3676 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Heh. My iPod just randomly selected "Money" by the Flying Lizards. But soon I'll have to stop playing it, as the battery is almost dead....


Kathy A - Oct 09, 2008 11:24:40 am PDT #3677 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Speaking of money, Iceland's currency has completely collapsed.


Barb - Oct 09, 2008 11:28:31 am PDT #3678 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”

I just read that GOP supporters are not happy with Newsweek right now. Palin is on the cover, and they didn't retouch her photo to eliminate the little moustache she has going on.

Yeah, it just came in my mail yesterday and it was like "WHOA!" Not just because of the obvious need for waxing, but just how seriously close up it was. Scary, man. Only someone like Isabella Rosellini should ever be photographed that close up.

MAN! if you know you are going to be in the national press (and you care about such things) why would you not get your shit waxed???

Whether SHE cares or not is irrelevant. This is why there are image consultants. THEY are damned well aware she's going to be photographed from every angle and at every possible zoom level.

I mean, no one's caught a shot yet of Barack bumming a ciggie, have they?


msbelle - Oct 09, 2008 11:29:55 am PDT #3679 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

if they do catch him bumming one, I bet it will be from a TERRORIST!!! DOM DOM DOMMMMMMMM!


Trudy Booth - Oct 09, 2008 11:30:12 am PDT #3680 of 10001
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

This is a pretty neat anecdote about how people's lifelong opinions on race are being changed this year.

"Just make sure you vote for that colored boy" may be among the most amazing statements I have ever heard. That's just incredible.


Steph L. - Oct 09, 2008 11:30:12 am PDT #3681 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

This is a pretty neat anecdote about how people's lifelong opinions on race are being changed this year.

My father, who was raised in a very racist family/community, who spent my childhood saying appallingly racist comments that I refuse to repeat, who actually made me ashamed to be related to him from time to time -- he's voting for Obama. And not out of a lesser of 2 evils thing, either; as the years have gone on, he's spent a lot of energy in re-thinking his beliefs, questioning why he did believe them in the first place.

He's voted Republican a LOT in the past, but in the primaries this year he voted for Hillary (a vote that's almost as astonishing as his intent to vote for Obama, because my dad also used to be jaw-droppingly sexist), and he intends to vote for Obama simply because he believes him to be the better candidate, the candidate who will go real good for him (my dad) as well as the country. At this point, race isn't even an issue.

Still, even though I knew he voted for Hillary, I wasn't sure if he could get past his nasty old prejudices and vote for Obama, so when he told me he was going to vote for Obama, I was literally speechless. I told my brother, and he had the same reaction, finally asking, "...D-dad? OUR dad???"

Change. It's a-comin'.


Burrell - Oct 09, 2008 11:30:35 am PDT #3682 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I do loves me some GoFugYourself. This line made me LOL:

and I think they accidentally dug his makeup out of the zombie bin (it IS right next to the vampire one).

thanks, Jesse