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'War Stories'


Natter 64: Yes, we still need you  

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.


Polter-Cow - Sep 30, 2009 9:54:19 am PDT #11604 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Patient with no pulse:

MADAM Salina Mohamed So'ot has no pulse. But she is very much alive.

The 30-year-old administrative assistant is the first recipient here to get a new artificial heart that pumps blood continuously, the reason why there are no beats on her wrist.

An Artificial Heart That Doesn't Beat:

Artificial hearts work by pumping deoxygenated blood from the body to the lungs. The device then pumps oxygenated blood through the body. The newly approved device, called AbioCor, made by Massachusetts-based Abiomed, uses an implanted hydraulic pumping system to simulate a natural heart beat. But an alternative design, conceived by O.H. "Bud" Frazier, a prominent heart surgeon and pioneer in the development of cardiac devices at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, pumps blood through the body continuously, rather than with the periodic beat of the normal heart.

Continuous circulation? That is FUCKED UP.


tommyrot - Sep 30, 2009 9:54:38 am PDT #11605 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Because their idea of "a fair interview" differs from hers.

Yeah. Their idea of a "fair interview" is "I get to recite my talking points and you don't get to ask critical questions."


Jessica - Sep 30, 2009 9:55:34 am PDT #11606 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Because their idea of "a fair interview" differs from hers.

Most of them can't handle "fair" without "and balanced."


Calli - Sep 30, 2009 9:58:27 am PDT #11607 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Because their idea of "a fair interview" differs from hers.

She asks them to provide supporting evidence for their wild-ass comments. How are they supposed to handle that? It's so unreasonable.


erikaj - Sep 30, 2009 10:07:01 am PDT #11608 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

And she's read their books/articles.


Daisy Jane - Sep 30, 2009 10:09:58 am PDT #11609 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I think Tino may be working for Gingrich. [link]


Dana - Sep 30, 2009 10:17:08 am PDT #11610 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

There is no point in getting into an argument with someone who I only distantly know, even though she used a non-political mailing list to pimp out a "petition" about how Jesus should lead America, or something.

I should take a nap instead.


Jessica - Sep 30, 2009 10:18:29 am PDT #11611 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

a "petition" about how Jesus should lead America, or something.

That's ridiculous. He wasn't even born here!


Jesse - Sep 30, 2009 10:18:32 am PDT #11612 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

You don't have much time left for napping, Dana! You'd better get them in while you can. (I imagine your new job will preclude most naps, but feel free to correct me. Anything to stop from getting into futile arguments on the internet...)

I think Tino may be working for Gingrich. [link]

That's brilliant.


Kathy A - Sep 30, 2009 10:18:55 am PDT #11613 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

And they obviously think pretty, smiley, woman=chump.

Do they (or their staff) not bother to do a bit of research first?

Until she takes them apart and then at the end takes their balls out of her pockets and says "Bye...don't forget these. You may have heard, I don't need them." I get a little less straight every time.

Hee! I have a serious girl-crush on her, myself. Smart, funny, geeky, pretty but not like CNN's Twinkies are pretty, what's not to love?