Awesome story from my parents: A friend of theirs is retiring from the oldest endowed chair at Harvard. Related to the chair being so old, it includes the right to stable (or whatever) a cow in Harvard Yard. For real. So for his retirement party, he's renting a cow and letting it hang out before the party!
Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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Jesse - Jul 13, 2009 2:43:14 pm PDT #28939 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nora Deirdre - Jul 13, 2009 2:55:50 pm PDT #28940 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Related to the chair being so old, it includes the right to stable (or whatever) a cow in Harvard Yard. For real. So for his retirement party, he's renting a cow and letting it hang out before the party!
Ah, those crazy Harvard professors- they never let the opportunity pass to show that they are the oldest kid on the block!
(I'm totally saying that in a winky emoticon fashion, as we down the Charles tend to bluster due to competition)
-t - Jul 13, 2009 2:59:57 pm PDT #28941 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Love the cow at the retirement party! Just like whatshisname on Fringe!
Juliebird - Jul 13, 2009 3:02:39 pm PDT #28942 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
God, everything hurts.
Jesse - Jul 13, 2009 3:05:01 pm PDT #28943 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nora, you will appreciate that my father started to say something about "schools like Harvard," and my mother (Harvard degree) cut in with, "there are no schools 'like' Harvard!" Kidding, of course....
Nora Deirdre - Jul 13, 2009 3:13:03 pm PDT #28944 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
"there are no schools 'like' Harvard!" Kidding, of course....
AHAHAHA. She's not kidding. Heh. It;s true though!
amych - Jul 13, 2009 3:16:35 pm PDT #28945 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yeah, there are a great many reasons that a friend of mine who teaches there calls it "Hogwarts" in places where he wants plausible deniability.
Ginger - Jul 13, 2009 3:19:33 pm PDT #28946 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Tino made my speedometer stop working. He also made me fall down.
Fucking Tino. Also, fucking gravity.
Has anyone ever had their speedometer stop working? (I'm wondering what this might cost.) I just ran an errand and had a "What's wrong with this picture" moment when looking at the dash. What was wrong was that, while I was not driving particularly fast, I was also not driving 0 miles per hour.
Amy - Jul 13, 2009 3:21:45 pm PDT #28947 of 30000
Because books.
Ginger, it probably depends on the model. We had an old Ford Escort where the gas gauge stopped working, and replacing it would have meant ripping out the entire dashboard. But it was an early 90s economy car, so.
Juliebird - Jul 13, 2009 3:23:45 pm PDT #28948 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Mum's station wagons speedometer stops working every now and then and same as Amy, the work involved caused Mum to live with it.