"there are no schools 'like' Harvard!" Kidding, of course....
AHAHAHA. She's not kidding. Heh. It;s true though!
That's the thrill of living in the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of fiends and devils and ghouls to engage ... Pardon me for finding the glass half-full.
Giles ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
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)
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.
Dana - Jul 13, 2009 3:24:37 pm PDT #28949 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I had the speedometer fail on my first Accord, I think. I don't remember how much it cost, though I'm fairly sure it wasn't a fortune. But it's probably also not real cheap.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2009 3:24:53 pm PDT #28950 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
my mother (Harvard degree) cut in with, "there are no schools 'like' Harvard!"
That reminds me of the T-shirts for sale at McGill with the Harvard logos and the slogan "McGill of the south."
Jesse - Jul 13, 2009 3:36:57 pm PDT #28951 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My mother went to Harvard for grad school, and half the reason she went there was because it's local, so she definitely doesn't have the reverence that some do....
brenda m - Jul 13, 2009 3:42:44 pm PDT #28952 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I pled to having a non-working speedometer once, but that was just to avoid the moving violation ding on a speedibng ticket. Never known it to actually happen though.
-t - Jul 13, 2009 3:46:06 pm PDT #28953 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
One of my college roommates had a Volvo with a non-working speedometer, but he never fixed it.
That was a car you could start with a screwdriver, though. Not, possibly, the best reference.