$10k would be huge for me too. That would wipe out 1/6 of my total debt, mortgage included.
I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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.
Gudanov - Jul 07, 2009 10:47:07 am PDT #27846 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
JZ - Jul 07, 2009 10:47:19 am PDT #27847 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 thought Dalton was John?
Embarrassed to confess that I've never seen it and don't know who he was.
In my head, he is and will always be Mr. Rochester to Zelah Clarke's Jane. Brooding and snarky and deeply damaged and terribly, wretchedly hot. I know he's done other stuff before and since, but he's as thoroughly Rochester as Colin Firth is Darcy--I see his face, I hardly even think of the actor's name, it's just "Oh, Mr. Rochester is in a James Bond movie" or "Huh, Mr. Darcy's in a movie with Emma Thompson."
eta: 10K wouldn't solve all our money woes, but it would help a hell of a lot, and a fake 10K would lead to tears and recriminations at best, but more likely me choking the ever-lovin' shit out of someone in a blind unstoppable rage.
Amy - Jul 07, 2009 10:50:35 am PDT #27848 of 30000
Because books.
God, $10K would make me weep with joy right now. Hell, $5K would.
Kathy A - Jul 07, 2009 10:51:26 am PDT #27849 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Oh, JZ, you must see Lion in Winter!!! It's all so much excellent acting (Dalton as the weasel John, Anthony Hopkins as the scheming and closeted Richard, I forget who but someone really hot as their forgotten brother Geoffrey, O'Toole as the aging horndog Henry II, and Kate Hepburn as the magnificent Eleanor), wrapped up in the most overwrought familial soap opera in history.
No one can ever say that the Plantagenets did anything small.
Jessica - Jul 07, 2009 10:53:17 am PDT #27850 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
10K wouldn't solve all our money woes, but it would help a hell of a lot, and a fake 10K would lead to tears and recriminations at best, but more likely me choking the ever-lovin' shit out of someone in a blind unstoppable rage.
JZ speaks for me.
Lee - Jul 07, 2009 10:53:35 am PDT #27851 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
and me.
lisah - Jul 07, 2009 10:54:18 am PDT #27852 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
and me
sumi - Jul 07, 2009 10:55:12 am PDT #27853 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Doesn't Dalton play King Philip of France?
tommyrot - Jul 07, 2009 10:57:34 am PDT #27854 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.
Some people just have a cruel sense of humor, I guess. I mean, what's the point (what's supposed to be funny) about a prank that causes extreme emotional distress to someone?
StuntHusband - Jul 07, 2009 11:01:03 am PDT #27855 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Dalton is the King of France; it's Nigel Terry (better known as Arthur in "Excalibur", and an antagonist in a NuWho episode) who is the weasel-John. "My God, if I went up in flames there's not a living soul who'd pee on me to put the fire out!"
And Hopkins' Richard responds, "Let's strike a flint and see."
I *worship* that "Lion in Winter". The most effective use of words as weapons in the English language, in my experience.
"I wonder...do you wonder...if I ever slept...with your father," ponders Eleanor to her husband Henry.
"I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy. I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled."
I could go on and on. (Ask Jilli; I have gone on and on...for decades.)