Hey! What do you two think you're doing? Fightin' at a time like this. You'll use up all the air!

Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'


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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.


tommyrot - Oct 15, 2008 9:54:53 am PDT #4679 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.

or years the United States should remain in Iraq.

I'm tempted to start a "Pacifists for McCain" website.

"100 more years in Iraq would be awesome! Just try not to kill people, OK?"


Burrell - Oct 15, 2008 10:00:26 am PDT #4680 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

A site about how to talk to your parents about the consequences of voting for McCain:

On NPR they had a piece about young Jewish voters going to Florida for "The Great Schlep" to convince their grandparents to vote for Obama.


lisah - Oct 15, 2008 10:03:38 am PDT #4681 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

On NPR they had a piece about young Jewish voters going to Florida for "The Great Schlep" to convince their grandparents to vote for Obama.

Wasn't that a Sarah Silverman bit?


Jesse - Oct 15, 2008 10:08:14 am PDT #4682 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Thank goodness, my convoluted meeting worked out -- and without a 7:30 am meeting time! Now I can really go on vacation.


Burrell - Oct 15, 2008 10:11:59 am PDT #4683 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Wasn't that a Sarah Silverman bit?

Yeah, but I guess it's a real phenomenon too. They followed some guy visiting his grandparents. I loved the accents and the fussing over him: "Isn't he a smart boy?" Made me miss my grandmother and all the big family occasions.


shrift - Oct 15, 2008 10:14:31 am PDT #4684 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Dude. At this point, I think it's inevitable that someone is going to walk behind me or lead a tour group past my desk when there is porn on my monitor. I feel like I ought to put up a sign or warn people somehow. I guess I just don't want people to think I'm a pervert for the wrong reasons.

There are so many other and much more valid reasons to consider me a pervert!


DavidS - Oct 15, 2008 10:18:54 am PDT #4685 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Remember when you wanted to work for Playboy, shrift?

Awww, xkcd hits at the heart of the matter.


shrift - Oct 15, 2008 10:25:07 am PDT #4686 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Remember when you wanted to work for Playboy, shrift?

Considering how much porn was on the office walls, I really wouldn't have worried about anyone seeing it on my monitor.


lisah - Oct 15, 2008 10:26:02 am PDT #4687 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

Yeah, but I guess it's a real phenomenon too. They followed some guy visiting his grandparents. I loved the accents and the fussing over him: "Isn't he a smart boy?" Made me miss my grandmother and all the big family occasions.

That's awesome! I wonder how my grandparents would be reacting to this election.


tommyrot - Oct 15, 2008 10:26:16 am PDT #4688 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. Hee! Also, hah!

YouTube to McCain: You Made Your DMCA Bed, Lie in It

The McCain campaign on Monday fired off a letter to YouTube complaining that the company had acted too quickly to take down McCain's videos in response to copyright infringement notices. McCain campaign general counsel Trevor Potter argued that several of the removed ads, which had used excerpts of television footage, fall under the four-factor doctrine of fair-use, and shouldn't have been removed.

But citing the DMCA, a controversial copyright law that McCain voted to approve a decade ago, Levine pointed out that YouTube risks being sued itself if it doesn't respond promptly to takedown notices.