Anya ,'Sleeper'
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.
Owen and Olivia make up stories like this.
I also made up stories like this. I convinced a preschool teacher that my whole family was moving to Africa. She went on at my mom for a while about how much they would miss us.
Sadly for some, this is not a trait I've outgrown. As recently as three years ago, I told my brother that when they took out my gall bladder, they replaced it with the largest salt water shark tank on the East Coast.
Stories make life more interesting.
Wheelchairs have been called Marvin (after the Paranoid Android), Luna (after the Harry Potter character) and Bob (I do not know why).
Laptops were Mr Crashy I, II and III, before they stopped fitting that description so well.
Cars have been the Enterprise, the Delta Flyer, and my current little TARDIS (which is absolutely bigger on the etc).
iPod has no name. It's too generic.
I rarely name things. At one job, the cranky typesetting developer was named Fred when I got there. Fred tended to roll up the paper inside of himself and to spontaneously spew developing fluid, leading to cries of "Fred just threw up all over my shoes." At one point, there was a human Fred working there who was not at all amused.
You AUGHT To Remember (a blog)
Counting the 100 trends, fashions, memes, personalities and ideas that shaped the first decade of the 21st Century.
Wait, so if 2000 was the beginning of the 21st century, is it also the beginning of the third millennium?
I think Zahara always looks gorgeous. What's wrong with au naturale? She's adorable. Next thing you know, they'll be bitching about how Shiloh is always dressed like a boy. @@
Well, we all know hair is permanent, and if the daughter of a couple worth a hundred million dollars doesn't fix it now, she's fucked.
This might make you angry or depressed: Charts showing how much US residents pay for health care compared to people in other countries
eta: I haven't been hospitalized since '91 - I had no idea it was so expensive.
ETA- How the heck is EVERYONE related except Martin Van Buren of all people! Where did he come from?
He was Dutch. Everyone else had at least some English ancestry, which is where the connections come from, but it looks like Van Buren's ancestry was entirely Dutch -- not so uncommon for upstate New York at the time.
Thanks, Hil!
He was also the only president who did not speak English as a native language -- he grew up speaking Dutch.