He's gotta be dead by now.
And we live to fight another day.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
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.
Burrell - Jan 28, 2009 7:00:32 pm PST #4054 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
§ ita § - Jan 28, 2009 7:01:02 pm PST #4055 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Or he's under your bed.
Or both.
Hil R. - Jan 28, 2009 7:02:48 pm PST #4056 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Now I want to know about the "twin towns all over the place" phenomenon. I have never heard of this before. It certainly DOES make sense that he'd gravitate towards one.
I've heard of a few other twin towns before. I've heard Jumeauville in France referred to as one (which makes sense, since the name means Twin Town), but the internet doesn't seem to back that up.
Trudy Booth - Jan 28, 2009 7:07:57 pm PST #4057 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
OK, Mengele is dead. I KNOW that.
And if there were any elderly Nazis under my bed a) Dallas would bark; b) they'd have to be gay elderly Nazis or the forcefield that blocks any heterosexual men from entering my bedroom would have been activate.
Alibelle - Jan 28, 2009 8:07:30 pm PST #4058 of 30000
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Why is the phrase "elderly Nazis" giving me a serious case of the giggles?
I can't figure it out. Or stop giggling.
ETA: I think it's because I am picturing them as, like, ponies with eye patches, which I understand makes no sense whatsoever, and no, I am not even currently on any cold medication.
DavidS - Jan 28, 2009 8:26:00 pm PST #4059 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I swear today is the first time I've heard the word "yips" and now I've heard it in two contexts.
It's a golfing term, but I think any athletic act that involves a timeout and thinking then acting is prone to it: penalty kick, free throw, place kick. Hitting in baseball too is prone to the yips.
Which is really just being self-conscious and not getting your mind out of the way of what you've trained your body to do.
billytea - Jan 28, 2009 8:29:22 pm PST #4060 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.
Oh for goodness' sake. Some people have way too much time on their hands. [link]
Theodosia - Jan 29, 2009 3:12:19 am PST #4061 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"
Given that twins do run in families (the tendency for embryos to split OR tendency for some women to release multiple fertile eggs) all you need is a couple related families that have lived in a town for a couple generations and you'll see a statistical uptick. And since there may be unexplained environmental triggers for twinning....
No need for Mengele, thank goodness.
I'm not a twin, but my brothers are, so I've paid more than usual attention to this sort of thing. :-)
Jessica - Jan 29, 2009 3:36:04 am PST #4062 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Some people have way too much time on their hands.
Oh, that makes me sad. Lay off David Attenborough, crazies! Send that crap to PZ instead - he can take it AND he has a blog where we can publically mock you for it!
amych - Jan 29, 2009 3:37:29 am PST #4063 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Huh. I have never heard "yips" in fencing, but we need the word. I shall appropriate!