I still have to remind myself it's not JAL-uppy.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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.
Jesse - May 10, 2009 5:59:04 pm PDT #18943 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
§ ita § - May 10, 2009 6:01:05 pm PDT #18944 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
jalopy:Trixie Belden:Jesse & bon
maim:Nancy Drew:ita
Not that Ned got maimed in The Star Sapphire (now that *was* a racist book), but Nancy sure worried he had.
DavidS - May 10, 2009 6:17:03 pm PDT #18945 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
No lumps, ita, but it was the back of his head. I don't know if that makes a difference.
It's much more dangerous to be whacked in the back of the head. That's where the autonomic functions (breathing etc.) are controlled.
msbelle - May 10, 2009 6:25:02 pm PDT #18946 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
old kid lit and YA lit is so sketchy with the racism. I have old copies of Arabian Knights and then some Kipling. Since I am reading some of the classic stuff to mac, I do on the fly translations so he can understand the story, but also to take out all the bad guy = negro or African stuff. I'm getting rid of the books as I finish them.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 10, 2009 6:28:14 pm PDT #18947 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Isn't milk-soaked bread the secret to good meatloaf and meatballs? Although like Jesse I tend to think a good burger is nothing but meat, salt, and heat.
With my mom's it's chopped onions and Heinz 57. I don't know if she actually uses any bread in it or not.
Dana - May 10, 2009 6:56:42 pm PDT #18948 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I reread a Perry Mason book the other day that had some appalling moments with a Chinese character. I don't think I can keep it.
aurelia - May 10, 2009 7:01:04 pm PDT #18949 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I had to google Trixie Belden. I guess I filled that niche with the Bobbsey Twins
Burrell - May 10, 2009 7:05:27 pm PDT #18950 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
It's much more dangerous to be whacked in the back of the head. That's where the autonomic functions (breathing etc.) are controlled.
Thanks, yeah, I knew that. Hence the worrying all afternoon. But he's just fine.
What I meant about the lumps is I'm not sure if a bonk on the back of the head makes a big lump the way a bonk on the forehead does. All my childhood goose eggs were on my temples.
beth b - May 10, 2009 7:07:09 pm PDT #18951 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
My meatloaf is complex. The beef meatloaf has oatmeal, catsup,eggs, onions, mushroom, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper. The pork meatloaf tastes like Chinese pork dumplings.
Hamburgers are much simpler w. sauce and onions.
I spent about 6 weeks reading newbery books. A lot of them are racist. But they are of their time. and some of it, I didn't see as a kid. One of the more popular honor books , I am sorry I read as an adult. I know why kids love it , but it is sexist. ( mr. Popper's penguins)
DavidS - May 10, 2009 7:39:08 pm PDT #18952 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What I meant about the lumps is I'm not sure if a bonk on the back of the head makes a big lump the way a bonk on the forehead does. All my childhood goose eggs were on my temples.
Sorry, I skipped over. Kids do get goose eggs on top or on the back of their head but they're just less noticeable than a huge, bruised forehead bonk. They seem to go down more quickly though they're still tender.