On the other hand I prefer banana chips to plantain.
Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
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.
§ ita § - May 20, 2009 10:12:49 am PDT #20423 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Stephanie - May 20, 2009 10:14:07 am PDT #20424 of 30000
Trust my rage
amy-chuh
I mean, she's amy, right? amy-chuh is clearly correct.
DavidS - May 20, 2009 10:15:41 am PDT #20425 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
As with Teppy and connie, I hear it as "Amy-chuh!"
mean, she's amy, right? amy-chuh is clearly correct.
Exactly.
erikaj - May 20, 2009 10:16:13 am PDT #20426 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
wrod.
Toddson - May 20, 2009 10:17:55 am PDT #20427 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
msbelle, you can't get all that close to the White House by car. If you want to see it from a car or bus, the best bet would be to drive down H Street, NW - you'll be able to see it on the other side of Lafayette Square. If you're on foot, you can go up to the fence on the north side.
Lee - May 20, 2009 10:36:31 am PDT #20428 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
My mom's going to be fine-
YAY
msbelle - May 20, 2009 10:51:45 am PDT #20429 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am trying to determine where the fences are along the eaast/west/south sides. We will be walking, probably all the way around it.
Toddson - May 20, 2009 10:55:08 am PDT #20430 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
To be honest, I only go near the north side. I believe you can also get up to the fence on the south side BUT it's pretty well blocked on the east by the Treasury Department and on the west by the Old Executive Office Building. The north side is where Pennsylvania Avenue used to run past (closed in 1995). One of the nice things is Lafayette Square - some statues, nice trees and plantings, and - so important - benches you can sit on.
Fred Pete - May 20, 2009 11:01:26 am PDT #20431 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
The view from the south is beautiful. It's near Independence Avenue, and you can turn around and see the Washington Monument.
tommyrot - May 20, 2009 11:10:27 am PDT #20432 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Medgadget unboxed a beautiful and horrifying 1800s surgical kit, owned by "Dr. Geo L. Shearer (an ancient relative of one of your editors), who practiced medicine in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1878."
The set contains the basic surgical tools which would have been needed to perform emergency surgery by way of amputation and this is not an uncommon configuration. The essential tools for this would usually comprise of a Liston knife or knives which had long straight razor sharp blades polished steel blades for cutting through the muscle. A capital saw (the large one) was for sawing through weight bearing bones. The forceps and smaller knives would have been used for trimming the muscle and skin in such a way as to produce flap. The needles were used to sew the flap of skin and muscle in place over the bone stump. There would also have been a tourniquet for applying pressure around the limb to temporarily cutting off the blood supply.
Whitefont for gross medical stuff....