The DOW closed up over 900 points. The roller coaster continues.
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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.
Gudanov - Oct 13, 2008 11:01:33 am PDT #4339 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
tommyrot - Oct 13, 2008 11:13:11 am PDT #4340 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.
I think the DOW is up so much because the markets are happy that Levi Johnston talked to the press, and that it won't be a shotgun wedding....
Jesse - Oct 13, 2008 11:13:33 am PDT #4341 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My daughter is a cheese weirdo. She doesn't like melted cheese. She doesn't like cheddar (orange cheese she calls it) and is only so-so on jack. What does she like you ask? Gruyere, gouda, brie with the skin cut off. Oh and yeah, she likes the fancy pants, imported from England, $12 a pound cheddar too.
I don't mind so much that she has fancy pants tastes, except that it means she's always stealing my cheese.
That's awesome. Keep her away from the Epoisses.
That's right -- I like cheese wrapped in plastic AND fancy-pants cheese!
tommyrot - Oct 13, 2008 11:15:41 am PDT #4342 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.
I like cheese wrapped in plastic AND fancy-pants cheese!
Fence-sitter!
Jesse - Oct 13, 2008 11:18:00 am PDT #4343 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I do not discriminate.
Cashmere - Oct 13, 2008 11:19:34 am PDT #4344 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I am not a cheese snob--I'll eat the "processed cheese food" and fancy cheese. The kids are partial to colby and I like sharp cheddar.
I am, however, an apple snob and am pretty particular about which breeds I'll eat.
Burrell - Oct 13, 2008 11:19:50 am PDT #4345 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Jesse's a cheese chameleon! Kat is too, if memory serves.
beth b - Oct 13, 2008 11:22:19 am PDT #4346 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
mmmm....cheese
but I prefer swiss
tommyrot - Oct 13, 2008 11:22:20 am PDT #4347 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.
The 2008 IgNobel Awards are out!
I like this one:
LITERATURE PRIZE. David Sims of Cass Business School. London, UK, for his lovingly written study "You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations."
This one is wrong:
NUTRITION PRIZE. Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy and Charles Spence of Oxford University, UK, for electronically modifying the sound of a potato chip to make the person chewing the chip believe it to be crisper and fresher than it really is.
REFERENCE: "The Role of Auditory Cues in Modulating the Perceived Crispness and Staleness of Potato Chips," Massimiliano Zampini and Charles Spence, Journal of Sensory Studies, vol. 19, October 2004, pp. 347-63.
Theodosia - Oct 13, 2008 11:22:30 am PDT #4348 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
That's good news. Now I have to start worrying that if things get too good there, the tide will swing back to McCain!
ETA: I mean the news about the Dow, but the thought of the Ignobels affecting the election is amusing me no end.