Huh. I have never heard "yips" in fencing, but we need the word. I shall appropriate!
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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.
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?
Jessica - Jan 29, 2009 3:40:32 am PST #4064 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'd only heard it from HIMYM and possibly Seinfeld.
Theodosia - Jan 29, 2009 3:46:49 am PST #4065 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"
Heh -- last night Neil DeGrasse Tyson was telling Jon Stewart about receiving hate-mail from 3rd graders about Pluto being demoted from a full-fledged planet. So it starts early....
billytea - Jan 29, 2009 4:02:58 am PST #4066 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.
I'd only heard it from HIMYM and possibly Seinfeld.
It got a mention on House once, after Foreman killed a patient.
tommyrot - Jan 29, 2009 4:15:21 am PST #4067 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.
Send that crap to PZ instead - he can take it AND he has a blog where we can publically mock you for it!
Yeah, IIRC PZ has already mocked them for this.
tommyrot - Jan 29, 2009 4:22:07 am PST #4068 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.
Speaking of PZ - here's a new term I learned:
Saddlebacking: sad•dle•back•ing ˈsa-dəl-ˈba-kiŋ vb [fr. Saddleback Church] (2009): the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities
After attending the Purity Ball, Heather and Bill saddlebacked all night because she’s saving herself for marriage.
From Rick Warren's legacy
Sue - Jan 29, 2009 4:28:24 am PST #4069 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Yeah, that's another Savage Love coining.
tommyrot - Jan 29, 2009 4:33:14 am PST #4070 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.
Yeah, that's another Savage Love coining.
Awesome!
Jesse - Jan 29, 2009 4:49:54 am PST #4071 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's pretty perfect, really.
I just had to several conversations where I came off like an asshole, because I just didn't get that a process was different this year than it's been in the past. Oh well. Bygones.
tommyrot - Jan 29, 2009 4:50:11 am PST #4072 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.
This Dear Prudence (in Slate) has gotten me really curious: Murder Among Friends? My college pal supposedly killed himself, but I suspect foul play.
Dear Prudence,
When I was a freshman in college, I had a tight group of friends. Two of them got together and married last summer. We three were close in college but less so since we graduated. I found out from mutual friends that the groom recently committed suicide. Since people in the group hadn't heard from his wife, I was put in charge of contacting her. She said there was nothing to talk about and asked me not to visit. I then contacted her brother, who had been close to them, and this was the first he'd heard of her husband's death. She apparently had a closed funeral and told no one, because she said that is how he had wanted it, even though he had many friends and was always outgoing and happy. His college friends are distraught and don't know what to believe, especially since there is no record of this in any of the area newspapers. Also fishy is a rumor that he got one of his female friends pregnant. I checked—she is pregnant and says he's the father. His parents live overseas, and his wife never got along with them; as far as we know, no one has contacted them. How can his friends be sure he died, so we can come to terms with everything? I have a crazy idea that maybe she found out about the other girl and killed him in a fit of rage. What is the polite way to make sure our dear friend is resting peacefully and not locked away somewhere?
—Mediating Mourning