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'First Date'


Natter 62: The 62nd Natter  

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.


Tom Scola - Dec 14, 2008 7:37:24 am PST #6063 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Eventually, all the alcohol will evaporate, and the vanilla will go bad.

Today is one of my niece's birthday party, and my sister decided to go and visit the tree at Rockefeller Plaza.

So. Many. People. So very many people.


Lee - Dec 14, 2008 7:40:14 am PST #6064 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Thanks! I don't think this has done that yet, and it was tightly capped, but I think I may get some more anyway, because this is really old.


P.M. Marc - Dec 14, 2008 7:43:28 am PST #6065 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I get mine at Costco, Perkins, and it's never gone bad on me.

Even though it takes me a couple years to go through the whole bottle.


Lee - Dec 14, 2008 7:50:55 am PST #6066 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

This may be slightly older than that. (I don't remember)

I will just get some at the grocery store--I have to go anyway.

Hey, speaking of Costco, has anyone tried the Kirkland sparkling wine? It got good reviews at Wine Spectator, so I bought a bottle.


Scrappy - Dec 14, 2008 7:52:26 am PST #6067 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Speaking of Costco, the hit of our party was the goat cheese with fig we got there. SO good.


Barb - Dec 14, 2008 8:10:05 am PST #6068 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”

Good God, y'all, I've just spent the last four hours combing online archives for flight routes from the mid-sixties, trying to ascertain when airlines began offering non-stop routes between New York and Los Angeles and what levels of flight classes existed, how long the flight might have taken and Jesus God, I've even downloaded menus from different airlines.

Plus the request to the Richter Library at the University of Miami for historical information on Pan American Airlines

All for what might amount to a page... maybe two, in the manuscript. That no one but me and maybe six other people will ever care about.

Explain to me why I do this to myself?


javachik - Dec 14, 2008 8:11:44 am PST #6069 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.

Because it's fun, you learn a lot from it, and readers like me do care.


§ ita § - Dec 14, 2008 8:13:06 am PST #6070 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You don't want to get that cranky letter from a reader who got "totally kicked out of the story" by you getting it wrong.

You know how internet people can be.


msbelle - Dec 14, 2008 8:43:06 am PST #6071 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

4 dz sugar cookies. Now to start rolling and cutting out the bizcochos, I have an hour before my brother is here.

We have watched The year without a Santa Claus, BY REQUEST from mac, so I am getting right in the spirit.


Barb - Dec 14, 2008 8:50:05 am PST #6072 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”

Because it's fun, you learn a lot from it, and readers like me do care.

True. I have seriously gotten my geek on. And I can now tell you that United had a non-stop route from New York to LA (Not sure which airport, though. Have to work on that.) It would have been on a DC-8 and your menu service would have included a full selection of wine and spirits, including United's Special Very Dry Martini (Gin or Vodka)and a dinner that might have consisted of a Deviled Ham Puff, Cream of Mushroom Soup, Broiled Tenderloin Steak with Bordelaise Sauce, buttered lima beans and glazed baby carrots, a Princess Salad with Remoulade and a Black Raspberry Parfait.

Plus, the ever important Dinner Mint.

GEEK! Oy.