Cool, non-photoshopped photo of a storm trooper riding a chipmunk: [link]
I'm not sure how old he is, but I heard him use the word 'newfangled' one time, so he's gotta be pretty far gone.
Dawn ,'Beneath You'
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.
tommyrot - Oct 17, 2008 8:47:33 am PDT #5114 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.
sarameg - Oct 17, 2008 9:01:27 am PDT #5115 of 10001
I should not be doing anything particularly important right now. My brain is sludge.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 17, 2008 9:01:36 am PDT #5116 of 10001
"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
Question for the group: A friend of mine says she's "terrified" of what would happen if Obama wins as apparently he wants to create a national police force. News to me, if so.
Tell her to hide in her attic or basement starting November 4th just to be on the safe side. He may have his Liberal Gestapo ready to snatch Republican voters up as they exit the polls.
Strega - Oct 17, 2008 9:06:31 am PDT #5117 of 10001
It doesn't seem contemptuous to you to push a vile viewpoint for a mass audience and laugh at it later?
I guess it would, but I don't think that's what's going on. Again, I haven't watched it. But I don't think making a joke about X is the same thing as finding X amusing all by itself. I mean, if they are, I must think that murdering babies is the funniest thing ever.
Kat - Oct 17, 2008 9:17:59 am PDT #5118 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Breaking into the politics stuff with an odd request....
Do any of you have copies of Handmaid's Tale, 1984, Brave New World, or Lord of the Flies that you'd be willing to part with? Starting November 17, we are going to be studying these books and I have just found out that the school has rejected my request to purchase these books. I have some used copies and would love to accumulate as many used books as I can (I need 65 total of Handmaid's Tale, and then 15 of each of the others) before I go out to buy new ones.
Please please please. If you have a copy on your bookshelf and you don't need it, would you consider sending it to me?
tommyrot - Oct 17, 2008 9:22:01 am PDT #5119 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 recently purchases Brave New World with the intention of re-reading it - I'll get right on that so I can send it to you. I'm pretty sure I have Handmaid's Tale around, so if I find it I'll send it as well.
You can send your snail address to my profile addy....
So do you need these by Nov 17? or before that?
Pix - Oct 17, 2008 9:22:27 am PDT #5120 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Kat, let me put the word out at school. Our students buy their own books, and some of them may be willing to part with their old copies. Their copies my have annotations, though--I assume you'd prefer clean copies?
Barb - Oct 17, 2008 9:22:28 am PDT #5121 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
Kat, insent to your profile addy.
DavidS - Oct 17, 2008 9:24:59 am PDT #5122 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and I have just found out that the school has rejected my request to purchase these books
WTF? How are you supposed to teach them?
tommyrot - Oct 17, 2008 9:25:18 am PDT #5123 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 also asked my bosses - one said he thinks he has a few of those books, and if he doesn't he'll give a donation.
So, Paypal or check?