Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.

Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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.


tommyrot - Jul 17, 2009 8:15:59 am PDT #29658 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.

It's not an island, but this might just do for Buffista House, West Coast division.

The original list price was $23,750,000. It's a bargain!

anyone got $17 million handy?

Lemme check in my couch cushions.


Vortex - Jul 17, 2009 8:23:08 am PDT #29659 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Hey, it's also for lease, that would be cheaper, right?


Polter-Cow - Jul 17, 2009 8:24:09 am PDT #29660 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

You can lease a house? How is that different from renting?


Vortex - Jul 17, 2009 8:25:17 am PDT #29661 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

When a house costs $17 million, renting isn't classy enough. You lease.


msbelle - Jul 17, 2009 8:25:45 am PDT #29662 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

that house is so ridic and over-the-top.

I think mac is in troublew at his summer program. ugh.


JZ - Jul 17, 2009 8:29:46 am PDT #29663 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 missed the Quiddich player and one other, but still good enough for 82%.


tommyrot - Jul 17, 2009 8:35:47 am PDT #29664 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.

First pictures of Apollo landing sites revealed

Whatever happened to all those priceless artifacts on the moon's surface, left behind by the six Apollo missions back in the late '60s and early '70s? Well, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter just sent back shots of some of the landing sites, showing tiny pieces of evidence that humans indeed walked on the moon, beginning with Apollo 11 almost 40 years ago.

Take a look at the gallery for closer shots of three of the sites, which we wish could reveal even more. Let's hope better pics are on the way. However, on one of them you can see footprints. Take that, you crackpots who don't believe people never walked on the moon.


Polter-Cow - Jul 17, 2009 8:45:53 am PDT #29665 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I don't see footprints. I see arrows pointing to nothing.


tommyrot - Jul 17, 2009 8:47:27 am PDT #29666 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.

Damn.

Man given six months to live discovers tumour is harmless abscess

Phil Collins, 61, quit his job, planned his own funeral and blew £18,000 from a pension pay-out after being told he had inoperable gallbladder and liver cancer.

He fulfilled a lifelong dream of buying a Triumph motorbike, bought wife Isabel a car and made financial arrangements to ensure she was secure after his death.

But when the six month deadline passed he went back to hospital - where further checks revealed the growth on his liver was in fact an abscess.

However, Mr Collins claims that complications from the cocktail of cancer drugs he was prescribed have ruined his health and he is now planning a legal bid for compensation.

"If you have spent two years thinking you are going to die, then you are told you are not, it knocks you backwards."

Mr Collins, who used to work as a lorry driver, first referred to Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester in Dorset in April 2007 after suffering a loss of appetite, weight loss and anaemia.

A CT scan revealed an abnormal gallbladder which doctors diagnosed as advanced cancer which had spread to his liver.

He was advised to give up his job and his wife stopped her part-time cleaning work to become a full-time carer to her husband.

The couple, who have been married for 44 years and have no children, did not take holidays and chose to spend his last days at home in Yetminster, Dorset, together surrounded by friends.

Mrs Collins said: "Six months came and went, and it got to Christmas and we had what we thought was our last Christmas together.

"Then, in April last year it was Phil's 60th birthday; that came and went. The doctors said, 'You should not be here, I cannot understand this'."

The couple insisted on more tests and in April 2009 scans revealed that Phil did not have cancer of the liver or gallbladder.

Hospital chiefs ordered a review and doctors then said they believed the malignant tumour was actually an abscess.


Theodosia - Jul 17, 2009 8:49:36 am PDT #29667 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Steph, I missed something -- your mom got fired!? I'm sorry for that, and for all the family distress now -- much -ma to all.

I had to wait nearly 3 hours, but it was worth it -- got my extended-extended-extended Unemployment benefits approved, which means I don't have to look for work where I ask if you want fries with that... well, for another 13 weeks. The economy's going to turn around before that, right?