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.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
Liese S. - Dec 18, 2008 10:38:53 am PST #6834 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
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.
tommyrot - Dec 18, 2008 11:01:11 am PST #6843 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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?
Well, the Lear Jet popularized corporate jets, and that came out in the early '60s, I think.
Wealthy people back then were often put off by the fact you couldn't stand up in a Lear Jet. The salespeople would say, "You can't stand up in a Cadillac either."