Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'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.


Typo Boy - Dec 18, 2008 8:13:19 pm PST #6930 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Unsurprisingly, it turns out that heart-healthy festive gatherings are not only not so festive, they kind of blow. No shrimp,

OK, I thought shrimp WAS heart healthy. I thought the idea that it was bad is obsolete. High Cholesterol and low fat and thus overall lowers rather than raises cholesterol. Is that in turn now obsolete?


Allyson - Dec 18, 2008 9:39:50 pm PST #6931 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Just finished wrapping gifts for my family. I got my niece a stuffed pig that's likely almost as big as she is, and completely round and so very soft, plus Madeline and a Madeline doll (which she's too little for, still), a half dozen Boynton board books and a Pookie doll. My nephew got nine books including the new pigeon book and a stuffed pigeon that yells "LET ME DRIVE THE BUS."

One of the books is a pop-up book about poop. There is pop-up poop. It should go smashingly well. I got my parents 5 tickets to an amusement park so they can take the whole family this summer, which they love to do.

Drop off at Fed Ex, and hope 2nd day shipping gets it all there by Tuesday.


Cass - Dec 18, 2008 9:42:58 pm PST #6932 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Those sound like adorable presents, KR!

Mark Felt died.

There has got to be a classy way to say he was Deep Throat but it's nearly midnight and everything sounds skeevy.


javachik - Dec 18, 2008 10:00:12 pm PST #6933 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.

Gorge Profonde est mort?


Cass - Dec 18, 2008 10:21:03 pm PST #6934 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

That's not classy, it's just French. An easy mistake to make though.

I mean, he wasn't an entirely unskeeztastic guy, but he nudged a lot of light into one skeevy corner and I admire that.

What's French for unskeevtastic?


Steph L. - Dec 19, 2008 12:12:18 am PST #6935 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

DH brought me my Hannukah present early - he got me a Soda Club!!! So tonight we had homemade seltzer with our salmon. It was nummy.

Right on! I still love mine unreasonably. And the loud noise it makes when it's carbonating never fails to make the dogs bark. I don't know what they think it is, but they're determined to scare it away.


Frankenbuddha - Dec 19, 2008 3:08:15 am PST #6936 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

HMOG - we've got a snow day, and it hasn't even started snowing! I wish I'd known this BEFORE I came into the office. Oh well, get some Xmas shopping done and head back before the white stuff starts flying.


Jessica - Dec 19, 2008 3:13:52 am PST #6937 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I just got a message saying my co-worker's kids' school district is closed for snow. He hasn't sat at this desk since I was on maternity leave. Oy.


Sue - Dec 19, 2008 3:26:42 am PST #6938 of 10002
hip deep in pie

I want a snow day!!! I am so tired, I can hardly stand it.

But it is my last day before a week off, so I should count my blessings (and the minutes).


Monique - Dec 19, 2008 3:34:57 am PST #6939 of 10002

My across-the-street neighbor who will shovel, then plow, then shovel again, is plowing after last night's big snow/ice/snow storm. At 7:30 a.m. Slowing down at times to holler at someone, I know not whom.

All this when I know he's either retired or works from home and could do this crap at 9 or 10.

Toolish, yes?