No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.

Early ,'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.


Alibelle - Feb 09, 2009 9:04:58 pm PST #5890 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

Do you remember when that law passed saying you couldn't sell things while wearing a thong if you weren't on the beach?


DavidS - Feb 09, 2009 9:09:44 pm PST #5891 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Do you remember when that law passed saying you couldn't sell things while wearing a thong if you weren't on the beach?

After my time, but that sounds very So. Florida.

My San Francisco son flipped out when exposed to the bug-life in Georgia. It was Not On.

Or rather, we Stayed Indoors.

However, I miss the warm, caressing air of nights in Miami.

The night air in San Francisco is caressing like the cold hand of death.


Alibelle - Feb 09, 2009 9:23:12 pm PST #5892 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

The thong girls were becoming a traffic hazard. It would've been the late '80s.

I don't want to live there again, but I do miss Miami sometimes. And often that is at night, because yeah, nights in CA are COLD.


Laga - Feb 09, 2009 9:33:15 pm PST #5893 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I would happily put up with the mosquitos again for the love of the lightning bugs.

why didn't we ever wear shoes?

So we didn't have to. I know it was a concious decision on my part, when it started to get warm out in the spring, to take off my shoes and socks when I reached the last continuous sidewalk on the route home from school. By the time it got hot I had sufficient callouses on my feet for walking on the blacktop without unbearable pain.


Lee - Feb 09, 2009 10:05:19 pm PST #5894 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I don't want to live there again, but I do miss Miami sometimes. And often that is at night, because yeah, nights in CA are COLD.

I even had to turn on my heat for an hour or so when I got home.


Liese S. - Feb 09, 2009 10:19:48 pm PST #5895 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

(Sorry, I feel strongly on this.)

It's just slang. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Re: bites & stings, I am the sort of person who swells up so badly when bitten that it looks like my skin is about to burst and tiny aliens are about to emerge fully formed and demanding equal representation. In fact, when I was camping in Alaska and had slathered myself in DEET, taking years off my and the planet's life (sorry, planet) I failed to slather my forehead, which was under my bandana (remember when I used to wear that bandana like my stor?).

I ended up looking like a Klingon. Seriously, I was mocked for weeks. It was bad. So I was relieved when the yellowjacket sting didn't actually kill me and just hurt like the dickens.

Not fond of horsefly bites, either.

And of course, the SO had his bout with a spider bite that rendered him helpless with part of his foot swollen the size of a softball and so painful he was crawling down the hallway to get to the bathroom so he could keep his foot elevated.

You're thinking to yourselves, boy am I lucky I don't live in the crazy southwest desert like him, but no, he was bitten while doing treehouse camp in Indiana.


billytea - Feb 10, 2009 12:08:53 am PST #5896 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.

You're thinking to yourselves, boy am I lucky I don't live in the crazy southwest desert like him, but no, he was bitten while doing treehouse camp in Indiana.

I'm mainly thinking, I'm glad I live in Australia. Sure we have the world's most venomous snake, spider (by some measures), jellyfish, invertebrate, creature, octopus, fish and mammal, and stinging ants that can send someone into anaphylactic shock, but we don't have killer bees, dammit, and that counts for something.


flea - Feb 10, 2009 2:56:04 am PST #5897 of 30000
information libertarian

Hey, several people have mentioned having some questions about Facebook's levels of privacy and how to set them up - here is a really good overall guide: [link]

I was once stung by a bee on my butt when I was innocently not bothering the bee at all - I was in shorts and pending over to look into a transit level at an archaeological site. This was in Sicily so I blame excessively macho Sicilian bees.


Sue - Feb 10, 2009 3:12:48 am PST #5898 of 30000
hip deep in pie

That is a great guide flea. Thanks.

I am back at work. Gronk. My desk looks like some kind of bomb went off on it, but that's what it looks like everyday. I am terribly disorganized for someone who has a library degree and who's job is all about organizing information.


Fay - Feb 10, 2009 3:20:49 am PST #5899 of 30000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Okay, I'm ignoring all this disturbing animal talk, other than to say that when I was a toddler I was almost literally nibbled to death by ducks. Apparently my toes were too wiggly, and the ducks (or possibly geese) thought they must be a nummy treat.

Anyway, sorry, I apologise for rudely cutting in but I'm having a dementia moment - what's the name of that American woman, the good cookery/housekeeping/interior decor woman who got sent to prison?