But if the world doesn't end, I'm gonna need a note.

Cordelia ,'Potential'


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 - Jun 15, 2009 8:50:20 am PDT #24357 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Bah, ita.

One night I was walking around Ann Arbor and saw a GIGANTIC FUCKING RAT. That I then realized was a possum.

My experience exactly. Except not in Ann Arbor.


tommyrot - Jun 15, 2009 8:50:37 am PDT #24358 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.

ita, that sucks. Good luck with the other job....


JZ - Jun 15, 2009 8:54:37 am PDT #24359 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.

Oh, shit, ita. Redoubling vibage for the other job. And, feh on the first job for not trusting your skill base and ability to learn on the fly. Feh and bah.


Ginger - Jun 15, 2009 9:02:33 am PDT #24360 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Possums are hissing balls of evil.


megan walker - Jun 15, 2009 9:04:12 am PDT #24361 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Since I was dark most of the weekend, attending to various Buffista needs and celebrations, Happy Belated Birthday to Dylan!!


billytea - Jun 15, 2009 9:10:53 am PDT #24362 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

BT, even you cannot make possums charming to me. (Yes, that was a dare)

Ah, Sean, allow me to introduce you to our possums: [link]

As to the Virginia opossum, bear in mind:

it has more teeth than any other land mammal.
It is resistant to rattlesnake venom.
They have bifurcated genitalia.
'Playing possum' (which includes secreting a foul-smelling fluid from the anal glands) is an involuntary reaction. That's just what happens when it freaks out.
The New World possum family includes the yapok, the world's only aquatic marsupial. Which, think a moment about the logistics.
They ratchet up the odds of Trudy Moments of Awesomeness by several degrees.


JZ - Jun 15, 2009 9:11:01 am PDT #24363 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.

attending to various Buffista needs and celebrations

For which, BLESS YOU. (megan invaded Chez Zmayhem on a Clean Sweep mission of mercy on Saturday, which improved it so vastly I can't say.)

Right now the entire apartment looks like a fabric/dust bomb just went off, but in that looks-worse-before-it-gets-a-whole-lot-better sort of way. I'm slightly anxious but have reasonably high hopes of getting it all presentable by the time Hec and Emmett return Wednesday night.


Sean K - Jun 15, 2009 9:16:56 am PDT #24364 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

it has more teeth than any other land mammal. It is resistant to rattlesnake venom. They have bifurcated genitalia. 'Playing possum' (which includes secreting a foul-smelling fluid from the anal glands) is an involuntary reaction. That's just what happens when it freaks out. The New World possum family includes the yapok, the world's only aquatic marsupial.

NONE of that is charming. Interesting, but not charming. No comment about the freaking Trudy out thing.


billytea - Jun 15, 2009 9:17:56 am PDT #24365 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

NONE of that is charming. Interesting, but not charming. No comment about the freaking Trudy out thing.

I never said charming, I said awesome.


Sean K - Jun 15, 2009 9:20:01 am PDT #24366 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I never said charming, I said awesome.

Awesome.... of DEATH!

Wait, that doesn't make any sense.