Lorne: My little prince. Oh…what did they do to you? Angel: Nina…tried to…eat me. Lorne: Oh, you're--medic! You're gonna make it Angel. Just don't stop fighting. Doctor! Is there a Gepetto in the house?

'Smile Time'


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.


tommyrot - Dec 22, 2008 3:50:12 pm PST #7553 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.

Oh, uh, today is Strega's birthday!

Birthday Happies for Strega!!


Glamcookie - Dec 22, 2008 4:06:35 pm PST #7554 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

I am javachik. "We're very pretty."


Lee - Dec 22, 2008 4:10:41 pm PST #7555 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Happy Birthday Strega!


beth b - Dec 22, 2008 4:16:11 pm PST #7556 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

happy birthday, Strega.

I'm in the corner with the 'get the state out of marriage and make civil unions - a legal contract- the state business"


§ ita § - Dec 22, 2008 4:21:35 pm PST #7557 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

One of the reasons I can't see civil unions becoming the default any time soon is then one'd have to admit that as much as they may hope for "till death do us part" it's not at all mandated by the procedure.


Barb - Dec 22, 2008 4:40:52 pm PST #7558 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”

Neat article on CNN.com on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission. [link]


Calli - Dec 22, 2008 4:43:52 pm PST #7559 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Happy birthday, Strega.

One of the reasons I can't see civil unions becoming the default any time soon is then one'd have to admit that as much as they may hope for "till death do us part" it's not at all mandated by the procedure.

People might plan a little more sensibly if they admitted this. I'd be cool with an option of civil unions that were renegotiable after a specified amount of time. Maybe a couple wants to plan on 60+ years together. Maybe they want to get together long enough to raise a couple of kids, but want to pursue their own bliss after the kids are grown. Maybe they want to form a union to support one another for 5 or 10 years after college while they're getting their careers started. People seem to want a lot of things out of their unions, and I'm not sure all of them can be wrapped up in "to death do we part."


Liese S. - Dec 22, 2008 4:56:51 pm PST #7560 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I'm with Kat on the love for Obama eating spam musubi! I had to send that article to my mom. Yay, spam!

I love both balsa and paper airplanes. Oh, and we did origami with our kiddoes last year. Mentioning that the paper cup you can make will actually hold liquid? Was a mistake. I mean, it was fine for the teenagers who were all, oh, cool, and drank the pop. But not so much for the little do's who poured the sprite in their paper cups and then held them and held them and held them until the dye in the paper leached into the pop and eventually the pop all mushed out the bottom of the cup. Yeah. We didn't really think that one through.

Oh, and ha about the elementary strings. I have finely developed senses that allow me to ignore instrument cacophony at will. Handy skill.


§ ita § - Dec 22, 2008 5:02:56 pm PST #7561 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

People might plan a little more sensibly if they admitted this.

No shit. I wonder how many "till death do us part" marriages have pre-nups? I mean, they don't belong on the same page. Un-loving and unmarried as I am I don't have any problem with pre-nups, but don't ask me to sign one and tell me you'll love me forever and we'll last for eternity.

Good things don't have to last, do they? Is it a mark against us for not being permanent? Or do we really have to know this before signing up for matrimony, and otherwise just stay outside the institution? Then there shouldn't be government perks.


Jesse - Dec 22, 2008 5:09:33 pm PST #7562 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

A lot of weddings don't have "till death do us part" any more, as far as I know, regardless of the actual intentions of the participants.