It's the locker kids argument.
Snacky's Law!!!
Willow: Something evil-crashed to earth in this. Then it broke out and slithered away to do badness.
Giles: Well, in all fairness, we don't really know about the "slithered" part. Anya: No, no, I'm sure it frisked about like a fluffy lamb.
'Never Leave Me'
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.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 03, 2008 10:36:33 am PST #8164 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
tommyrot - Nov 03, 2008 10:38:37 am PST #8165 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.
Special link for tommyrot: Neil Young converted his 1959 Lincoln Continental to run on electricity and natural gas.
Heh. I've heard about that a long time ago. Been waiting for him to finish it, so I could see pictures.
Young found himself behind the wheel of a 1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV convertible. At 2 1/2 tons and 19 1/2 feet long, it was the longest car built in its era.
Bah. It's about 5400 lbs, so more than 2 1/2 tons. 18' 11' long (I know because I had a damn hard time finding a garage big enough. My current garage has about 1 1/2" to spare, when I park it with the tail fins touching the back wall.)
His car is in way-nice shape, but the non-original hubcaps bug me.
sumi - Nov 03, 2008 10:41:17 am PST #8166 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
ita, Code-9 thread at TWOP. Apparently, it's more AU/scifi than regular spy stuff.
sumi - Nov 03, 2008 10:41:23 am PST #8167 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Not so important that I need to say it twice.
(I'm only update through season 4 of Spooks.)
Cashmere - Nov 03, 2008 10:44:57 am PST #8168 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Starbucks is handing out free coffee on November 4th to voters.
Jessica - Nov 03, 2008 10:45:59 am PST #8169 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Starbucks is handing out free coffee on November 4th to voters.
If my precinct doesn't give out stickers, how will they know??
[edit: Apparently they're going on the honor system:
the coffee chain says customers just need to come in and say that they voted in order to redeem their brew on Nov. 4 at any of its U.S. locations.]
§ ita § - Nov 03, 2008 10:50:20 am PST #8170 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Apparently, it's more AU/scifi than regular spy stuff.
Yeah, I just noticed it's set in 2013, post-drama. Cool. I'm grabbing the entire season. Should get me through a sleepless night or two.
Just remembered I have a shitload of EOBs to print out for reimbursement, but my insurance website refuses to let me log in, and I've tried 4 ways so far. Bites. I want my money back.
Ginger - Nov 03, 2008 11:04:18 am PST #8171 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Re 10 most expensive accidents:
I wonder how high Bhopal would rate if Union Carbide had actually paid the damages it should have.
The Chernobyl account says, "The accident was officially attributed to power plant operators who violated plant procedures and were ignorant of the safety requirements needed." Uh, no. Mechanical engineers who knew nothing about nuclear physics were testing to see if residual turbine spin could supply enough power to fill what they knew was an unacceptable gap between loss of power and when the backup diesels kicked in. The plant management lied about the existence of this safety problem so they could declare the plant finished. The operators objected, but they were faced with a culture in which orders were not questioned. Most died, some after heroically trying to reduce the consequences or fight the fire in areas they knew were lethal.
(Sorry. Knee-jerk reaction to blaming the operators.)
Trudy Booth - Nov 03, 2008 11:08:37 am PST #8172 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
Re: Typo Boy's post in Press
The Election Protection coalition has put together a free hotline and a web site dedicated to tracking voting irregularities.
1-866-OUR-VOTE
I'm volunteering for them on election day. So psyched.
tommyrot - Nov 03, 2008 11:10:19 am PST #8173 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 wonder how high Bhopal would rate if Union Carbide had actually paid the damages it should have.
Yeah, that's a good question/point. I think the only reason the recent LA commuter train crash made the list is it occurred in a wealthy, litigious country.
That's interesting about Chernobly - I had only heard that the operators conducted a dangerous safety test.
eta: I'm not saying it's bad for people to sue over the LA train crash....