I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.

Riley ,'Lessons'


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.


megan walker - Dec 20, 2008 11:10:55 am PST #7280 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Anyone know the French for "Surrender!"? Or of any French poetry that would have been famous in the Napoleonic era?

"Surrender!" would be "Livrez-vous!"

I can't help you with the poetry, not much to speak of I think. Not much literature from that period is read today. Sade, Chateaubriand, and maybe a few others.

If you can wait til Monday, I could look through my anthology of French poetry and probably come up with a few things.


DebetEsse - Dec 20, 2008 11:16:42 am PST #7281 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.

My guess is that it won't be able to wait until tomorrow, even. But that is an assumption, based on BEARS.


DavidS - Dec 20, 2008 11:23:07 am PST #7282 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Aww, poor Matilda. But OMG, she's old enough for tumbling?!?!

She can somersault, jump on the trampoline and hang from a bar and put up her feet. She won't go on the trapeze though that is part of the course.

Her lump has gone down after a nap and doesn't look so bad. She was mollified with chocolate milk and a Christmas cookie (blue star).

Usually I'm there to spot her on anything she's playing on at the Circus Center (and everything is padded except the wall). But another kid had run out underneath the bungie cord boat path and I had scooped her up to return her to her parents. I turned around in time just to see Matilda cry out and grab her head.


shrift - Dec 20, 2008 11:25:02 am PST #7283 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

"Surrender!" would be "Livrez-vous!"

Thanks, megan! Would that work for a military surrender? (Directed at the captain of a ship.)

The deadline is in a few hours, so there's no need to go through your anthologies.

But that is an assumption, based on BEARS.

Since I've completed my assignment for Yuletide, I'm running around for other people, editing and doing research. I've lost track of the number of stories I've looked at in the last day.


DebetEsse - Dec 20, 2008 11:26:47 am PST #7284 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I'm running around for other people, editing and doing research.

You are a very good person, Shrift.


msbelle - Dec 20, 2008 11:34:28 am PST #7285 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

blessed blessed internet access.

I am in such a state over the mess on every surface of my apartment that I think I will just walk through room with bags and make a trip to the thrift store for a drop off this week I swear I do not understand how I accumulate this much just stuff.


§ ita § - Dec 20, 2008 11:53:43 am PST #7286 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Due entirely to the generosity of Buffistas, I've at least doubled the pics at Silver Foxes.

Thanks!


sumi - Dec 20, 2008 12:04:56 pm PST #7287 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

BTW, Linus Roache is looking a bit silvery now - at least on L&O, but I could not find a decent picture showing that.

And ion, the Bidens are going to adopt a second pup - this one from the pound. (Apparently, there was an uproar that he was going to a breeder instead of adopting from rescue.)


Lee - Dec 20, 2008 12:05:52 pm PST #7288 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

You put up the Kenny Rogers! And the Kris Kristofferson!


Jesse - Dec 20, 2008 12:17:41 pm PST #7289 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

She can somersault, jump on the trampoline and hang from a bar and put up her feet.

Wow! Also, poor bunny.

I went into Manhattan, which was total amateur hour. No one knew where they were going, except the 100000000 people with their 4000000000 kids going to something at Madison Square Garden. I did see Cadillac Records, which was just OK.