Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.

'War Stories'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

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.


JenP - Apr 13, 2009 12:48:19 pm PDT #15047 of 30000

Yeah, but then when I read the book recently, I had totally forgotten, and was surprised when it happened. Good times.

Glad to know I'm not alone on that boat.


sarameg - Apr 13, 2009 1:15:18 pm PDT #15048 of 30000

It was just comical. I could practically feel the empty space where the password was kept.

Devi's being mean to both the cats. It's gotta be all the boxes and confusion.


Ginger - Apr 13, 2009 1:15:53 pm PDT #15049 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I was 5'6" when I was 10. I just never got any taller. After I towered over everyone in my class for a couple of years, it took me several more years to realize that I was not, in fact, tall. This realization was not aided by the fact that most of my female relatives are about 5 feet tall.

it's an ad for low-calorie, low-sugar orange juice. Which I find deeply bizarre.

It's watered-down orange juice with artificial sweetener. I usually water down juice anyway, because it's too sweet for me. You can get twice as much watered-down juice by doing your own diluting, plus you can skip the dubious benefit of sucralose. The concept just baffles me.


Sophia Brooks - Apr 13, 2009 1:16:39 pm PDT #15050 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I was 5'2" when I was 10. And never got any taller. Of course I "became a woman" when I was nine.


§ ita § - Apr 13, 2009 1:18:37 pm PDT #15051 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can't water down orange juice. Cranberry? Grape? Sure. But then adding sucralose? Ick.

Also weird--this season's The Unit.


Kathy A - Apr 13, 2009 1:24:53 pm PDT #15052 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

When we were kids, we used to drink Welch's grape juice mixed with 50/50 soda, which produced a really refreshing fizzy fruity drink.


Connie Neil - Apr 13, 2009 1:42:25 pm PDT #15053 of 30000
brillig

I'm 5'2", and I'm boggled by how many women I am taller than when I go to the grocery store. And it's not just the little immigrant ladies.


JZ - Apr 13, 2009 1:42:56 pm PDT #15054 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I was 5'6" when I was 10. I just never got any taller. After I towered over everyone in my class for a couple of years, it took me several more years to realize that I was not, in fact, tall.

Huh. Never mind the actual numbers, you definitely carry yourself like a tall person, Ginger, because I'm positive we have met F2F not just once but several times, and I could've sworn you were at least 5'8".

I was always one of the shorter people in my class, right through high school; I may even have put on an extra inch or two in my first year and a half of college. I'm always startled that anyone is shorter than me. I'm the second shortest woman in my family, and definitely take after my dad's side.


Jesse - Apr 13, 2009 1:46:55 pm PDT #15055 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

The other day on the subway, I was sitting down, and there was a woman standing in front of me. I was thinking that she was an enormous woman....until I stood up, and we were about the same size. Maybe she was a leeetle bit bigger than me. But still. Oops.


megan walker - Apr 13, 2009 2:24:05 pm PDT #15056 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Studies show that we are forgetful before a move and for about six weeks or so afterwards, so I was told by a psychologist once. It's the whole discombobulation thing. Just expect it, because there's no way to avoid it and nothing you can do about it.

So I guess I have an excuse for forgetting to switch my office key to my new key ring, thereby not being able to unlock and use my computer at work today.