Funny, but it still kind of bugs me that they seem to think the 12 days of Christmas is a countdown to Christmas.
That bugs me in general.
Gunn: You ready? Fred: Is no an acceptable answer?
'Lineage'
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.
Jesse - Dec 18, 2008 10:36:35 am PST #6833 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Liese S. - Dec 18, 2008 10:38:53 am PST #6834 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Bwah! Awesome.
And happy anniversary!
People that smell like food are weird to me. But then, I don't smell like anything really. I used to, but, lazy.
megan walker - Dec 18, 2008 10:39:59 am PST #6835 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
That bugs me in general.
Of course, I may only keep things like Epiphany and Candlemas straight because the French have made food holidays out of them.
Dana - Dec 18, 2008 10:42:11 am PST #6836 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Also, the Immaculate Conception doesn't refer to Jesus.
megan walker - Dec 18, 2008 10:43:59 am PST #6837 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
That's my favorite!
Emily - Dec 18, 2008 10:47:32 am PST #6838 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
My favorite part of that is that before they decided it was immaculate, people used to celebrate the conception. I bet they had fun party games.
Barb - Dec 18, 2008 10:47:34 am PST #6839 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”
Okay, this is a question perhaps better suited to Literary or GWW, but I figured in Natter I'll get a pretty good representation. I've got the story I'm working on, set in the sixties, and I've got an enormously wealthy family as a player. (We're talking mid-sixties equivalent of Bill Gates wealthy or The Donald.)
So do we think that in the mid-sixties, any member of this family would have opted to travel First Class or would they have eschewed the unwashed masses altogether and had their own private jet?
Frankenbuddha - Dec 18, 2008 10:47:43 am PST #6840 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Also, the Immaculate Conception doesn't refer to Jesus.
Right. Everyone knows that's the impossible pass that Franco Harris managed to catch.
Barb - Dec 18, 2008 10:53:42 am PST #6841 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”
My favorite part of that is that before they decided it was immaculate, people used to celebrate the conception. I bet they had fun party games.
Pin the tail on...
Calli - Dec 18, 2008 10:58:18 am PST #6842 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
So do we think that in the mid-sixties, any member of this family would have opted to travel First Class or would they have eschewed the unwashed masses altogether and had their own private jet?
I don't think that the unwashed masses were flying much in the mid-60s. According to this site (which I've never heard of before, so I don't know how accurate it is) airlines had less than 3% of the transportation market share in 1965.