RIP Teddy. Thank you for all your service to this country.
Indeed. The fact that he held on as long as he did, and continued to push for health care reform, was pretty amazing.
Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.
'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Calli - Aug 26, 2009 2:13:13 am PDT #20783 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Shir - Aug 26, 2009 2:20:31 am PDT #20784 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I can't remember - if I give a reference as a footnote, but haven't read it and don't use it or analyse it in my paper ("for further research on x, see y, z and q") - does it still have to be mentioned in the bibliography?
Barb - Aug 26, 2009 2:27:52 am PDT #20785 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
I read this in the NYT article on Teddy and it seemed a perfect summation:
He was a Rabelaisian figure in the Senate and in life, instantly recognizable by his shock of white hair, his florid, oversize face, his booming Boston brogue, his powerful but pained stride. He was a celebrity, sometimes a self-parody, a hearty friend, an implacable foe, a man of large faith and large flaws, a melancholy character who persevered, drank deeply and sang loudly. He was a Kennedy.
Hil R. - Aug 26, 2009 3:20:24 am PDT #20786 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
So, I finally got to sleep. Then I was woken up by a phone call at 8:10.
Jessica - Aug 26, 2009 3:44:13 am PDT #20787 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think it's good form to make a visible attempt to try to quiet a child in that case, though it often doesn't work anyway. But you can't look nonchalant while making everybody else suffer.
So VERY much this. Even if you know it's futile and that your kid isn't a good traveller, you have to at least look like you're trying to help, as a goodwill gesture towards your fellow passengers. Or break out the Benedryl.
Miracleman - Aug 26, 2009 4:26:30 am PDT #20788 of 30000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Aims,
I graciously accept your above proposal. I shall languish here in my silk jammies, awaiting your return and the lavishment to commence immediately after.
Hee hee hee.
Mwah. Ha. Hah.
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!
billytea - Aug 26, 2009 4:51:39 am PDT #20789 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 shall languish here in my silk jammies, awaiting your return and the lavishment to commence immediately after.
Good plan, wear something loose with high tensile strength with which to throttle you.
Aims - Aug 26, 2009 5:27:41 am PDT #20790 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I graciously accept your above proposal. I shall languish here in my silk jammies, awaiting your return and the lavishment to commence immediately after.
Why don't you hold your breath while you wait? It will make it that much more delicious when I get home.
Next week.
Miracleman - Aug 26, 2009 5:51:43 am PDT #20791 of 30000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Aw, are you upset, baby?
Aims - Aug 26, 2009 5:53:03 am PDT #20792 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Not in the least. It makes sense for me to remain logged in considering it's *MY* computer. You are very cute.