they keep mentioning "the disease," I have no idea what it is.
Tuberculosis, I think.
Jayne: Anybody remember her comin' at me with a butcher's knife? Wash: Wacky fun.
'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.
Ginger - Mar 18, 2009 11:18:26 am PDT #3919 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Hil R. - Mar 18, 2009 11:19:38 am PDT #3920 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I thought tuberculosis would make him weak, but not cause pain and weakness in a specific joint like that. (And they keep mentioning it as his "limb," because apparently you don't say "leg" in mixed company.)
DavidS - Mar 18, 2009 11:19:56 am PDT #3921 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I wonder if Herbert gets a miracle cure.
I'm slightly boggled by how closely the parent/child diction echoes contemporary B&D wording.
amych - Mar 18, 2009 11:20:38 am PDT #3922 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Before that, she'd given him several reasons why she couldn't marry him, all of which were essentially "we're too young" -- she's 15, and he just turned 16.
This is the most sensible thing she's said in the whole book.
amych - Mar 18, 2009 11:21:20 am PDT #3923 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
And they keep mentioning it as his "limb,"
This does not in any way reduce my inner conviction that he has the Syphy.
Toddson - Mar 18, 2009 11:21:22 am PDT #3924 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I think you can get tuberculosis of a bone ... but what do I know?
I DO know that not only did the most prudish Victorians use "limb" instead of "leg", they'd put, basically, pants on piano and table legs (so they wouldn't be out in plain sight and leading people to think of people legs).
Daisy Jane - Mar 18, 2009 11:22:40 am PDT #3925 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
omnis! Thought you might be interested in this [link]
And, yep, that Heather is me, but I really meant what I said, and not just cause I know you.
tommyrot - Mar 18, 2009 11:22:49 am PDT #3926 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.
In the Onion book Our Dumb Century, there's a fake ad for some patent medicine that has a big list of all the old-time-y diseases and conditions that it cures - stuff like TB and consumption, and what-not. But my fave thing it cures is "the screaming shits."
Beverly - Mar 18, 2009 11:23:49 am PDT #3927 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I think I've had those.
Toddson - Mar 18, 2009 11:24:23 am PDT #3928 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
OK, I just spit water on my keyboard over this. The line under the photo.