Josh will be right over.
::SNORT::
Oh lordy, I've become one of those women. If I start drinking in the afternoons I might just become his type.
We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm the hero!
Wash ,'Jaynestown'
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.
Barb - Oct 05, 2009 7:30:00 am PDT #12267 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
JenP - Oct 05, 2009 7:31:03 am PDT #12268 of 30001
If I start drinking in the afternoons I might just become his type.
Ha! God, that was a funny bit.
megan walker - Oct 05, 2009 7:41:09 am PDT #12269 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
McDonald's To Open A Restaurant Inside The Louvre
::cries::
shrift - Oct 05, 2009 7:49:39 am PDT #12270 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
So far today, I've dragged myself into work, answered email, bought train tickets for Thanksgiving and my niece's first birthday, and scheduled a free flu shot.
Amy - Oct 05, 2009 7:52:18 am PDT #12271 of 30001
Because books.
shrift wins.
So far all I've done is decide I want a disapproving rabbit of my very own.
Polter-Cow - Oct 05, 2009 7:53:38 am PDT #12272 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
How'd the crab cakes turn out?
tommyrot - Oct 05, 2009 7:56:58 am PDT #12273 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.
One of my bosses is on vacation. And for some reason, I haven't gotten much work done today.
I did ride my bike to work today. Took me half an hour, including the time I stopped and pumped up a flat tire. (Must have run over a piece of glass or something - the tire now goes flat in 15 minutes.)
shrift - Oct 05, 2009 7:58:23 am PDT #12274 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
How'd the crab cakes turn out?
They were all right, especially for a first try. Didn't fall apart. Now that I know what I'm doing, my next attempt should be tastier.
Barb - Oct 05, 2009 8:00:28 am PDT #12275 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
Ha! God, that was a funny bit.
It was! Seriously, a hot guy is always fun to look at but give me a guy with a healthy sense of humor, especially about himself, and I'm a goner.
::looks at man she married::
Yep. Definitely a goner.
tommyrot - Oct 05, 2009 8:04:50 am PDT #12276 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.
An article that seems to be written for Buffistas (Except for the ASSCAPS headline): IN PRINT / THE MOST BIZARRE BOOK TITLES
For anyone with "a passion for shopping carts and a love of the great outdoors," Julian Montague's The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification is a must-read. To most everyone else, the title itself may seem like the juiciest part of Montague's book - which explains its inclusion in the new book Do-It-Yourself Brain Surgery and Other Implausibly Titled Books, described by editor Joel Rickett as the "seminal collection" of the most peculiar book names ever sent to press.
Rickett has dispensed with the quaint, zeroing in on the "utterly, remarkably, jaw-droppingly bizarre." Nuclear War: What's In It for You?, Old Tractors and the Men Who Love Them and How to Avoid Huge Ships , or I Never Met a Ship I Liked - an ostensibly serious guide from a "Master Mariner" - are but three of the 50 delicious titles he unearthed while poring over thousands of entries to the Diagram Prize. The award was minted in 1978 by visitors suffering ennui at the Frankfurt Book Fair, and the victor has been published in Bookseller magazine (of which Rickett is deputy editor) every year since.
If your coffee table is looking a little bare, try Outhouses of Alaska. Need a little spice in your life? Perhaps The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories is the answer.
Manuals have proven a fertile genre for odd book titles as well - Knitting With Dog Hair, for example, or Bombproof Your Horse. If you're a doctoral student interested in the Second World War, you might be interested in How Green Were the Nazis? Nature , Environment and Nation in the Third Reich.