Now I'm all curious about what LAistas call it.
In Pennsylvania, it was called the Minnesota Rolling Stop. Not a lot of Californians driving around Pennsylvania.
Me, I call it efficient.
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
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Connie Neil - Feb 11, 2009 11:58:55 am PST #686 of 30000
brillig
erikaj - Feb 11, 2009 11:59:22 am PST #687 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Amy, tell the truth, your last name is Olbermann, isn't it? Although I have learned that idiots heart "Sir" and "Madam".
brenda m - Feb 11, 2009 12:00:39 pm PST #688 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Now I'm all curious about what LAistas call it.
I call that stopping.
NoiseDesign - Feb 11, 2009 12:03:05 pm PST #689 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
Now I'm all curious about what LAistas call it.
Stopping.
Amy - Feb 11, 2009 12:04:50 pm PST #690 of 30000
Because books.
I think the last time I actually came to a complete, not-moving-at-all stop at a stop sign was ... my driver's test.
§ ita § - Feb 11, 2009 12:07:11 pm PST #691 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You are bad people.
Steph L. - Feb 11, 2009 12:07:27 pm PST #692 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
All I've heard it called it here is a California Roll
Mmmmmm...sushi....
Vortex - Feb 11, 2009 12:24:08 pm PST #693 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Must. Vent. Ugh. There is a rule for the Actor's Equity Association (actor's union) that whenever there's a replacement actor in the show, you have to notify the audience. One of the ways we do that is by putting a "stuffer" in the program. It's a pain in the ass, but it's pretty rare.
This show has been a stuffer nightmare. We had the norovirus go through the theatre, so there was a period of about three weeks when we had to do this every night in various incarnations, then we had two extensions so a lot of people were in and out, etc. Suddenly, this asshole understudy (who once lied to me, I don't forget shit, buddy) decides that he wants to have his bio in the stuffer when he goes on. I understand that your bio isn't in the program, and you want your "recognition" He has gone on FAR more than expected, and certainly earned his understudy money, but this is fucking ridiculous. You are an UNDERSTUDY. You are in the ENSEMBLE. We have to make, cut, and stuff the damn things in the hour (or less) before the house opens. Doing special shit takes time we don't have. Even the stage manager who passed along the request knows it's bullshit, because her comment was "what do you want me to tell him, besides 'act better' ", but the idiots at the theatre are indulging this asshole, costing time and money. ARGH.
Toddson - Feb 11, 2009 12:27:17 pm PST #694 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Vortex - maybe tell him that you've already done the stuffers, but that if he feels it's necessary to have his bio in, he can print, cut, and stuff (heh) them himself.
juliana - Feb 11, 2009 12:53:23 pm PST #695 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
This show has been a stuffer nightmare. We had the norovirus go through the theatre, so there was a period of about three weeks when we had to do this every night in various incarnations, then we had two extensions so a lot of people were in and out, etc.
Seriously, for that production I would have gotten a bulletin board and put it in the lobby. Oh, and I'd smack the actor.
All I've heard it called it here is a California Roll
That's what we called it in AK. Blowing the stop sign was called an Arizona Stop.
Riding my motorcycle on SF hills? I California Roll all the time. Or I come to a stop in the (usually flat) walkway, which makes me an asshole but also lessens my chance of tipping.