Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.

'Shells'


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.


Atropa - Aug 15, 2009 11:39:29 am PDT #3987 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Of course this doesn't explain how I still am sort of scared that there can be sharks in swimming pools. I'm not sure why I think that.

Honey, you still occasionally worry that there could be sharks in bathtubs.


Cass - Aug 15, 2009 11:45:44 am PDT #3988 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

They could be!


Trudy Booth - Aug 15, 2009 11:50:21 am PDT #3989 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

everyone knows that bathtub sharks are vegetarian


dcp - Aug 15, 2009 11:53:09 am PDT #3990 of 30001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

But yeah, the lakes around here are mud-bottomed puddles of orange water.

That's pretty much how I remember Lake Norman (North of Charlotte NC). I enjoyed it way back then as a kid, but now this is what comes to mind:

Mud, mud, glorious mud!


Juliebird - Aug 15, 2009 12:12:56 pm PDT #3991 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

My worst swimming experience was in Virginia at a literal watering hole filled with silty squishy clay and crawfish. I could jump into the deep part, but getting out I had to walk through the grossness.

Or maybe the worst experience was being at a crowded beach when I was wee and nobody saw the little boy trying to drown me in the shallows.

Best was being pummelled by waves post-hurricane in NC. The beach had been torn away so it was a steep 45 degree grade down to the water line, and trying to actually get in the ocean was an exciting challenge, because the waves kept smashing against that beach wall. 90% of my attempts wound up with me flying back into the churning sand and rocks like supergirl.


msbelle - Aug 15, 2009 12:39:37 pm PDT #3992 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I am heat treating ziploc bags. I am not sure I can convey how happy this makes me. I may be at the end of the weekly purchases.

I am also going through mac's school supply list. It looks like we have about half the stuff. I am heat treating what I can, bagging the rest (markers, glue).

also, laundry. 2 loads in. 2 more on deck.


msbelle - Aug 15, 2009 12:47:12 pm PDT #3993 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

OMG F'in ASPCA commercial - mac is now hysterically crying. F'in Sarah McClawhatever UGH!. bless his sensitive sweet heart.


brenda m - Aug 15, 2009 12:50:53 pm PDT #3994 of 30001
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

F'in Sarah McClawhatever UGH!. bless his sensitive sweet heart.

Oh god. Those are brutal. We have to turn the tv off at the first strains of her music. Poor mac.


Jesse - Aug 15, 2009 12:52:44 pm PDT #3995 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I am heat treating ziploc bags.

How does that work? They don't melt?


Barb - Aug 15, 2009 12:54:17 pm PDT #3996 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”

F'in Sarah McClawhatever UGH!. bless his sensitive sweet heart.

Oh NO. Poor, poor mac. Those commercials make me insane and break my heart all at the same time.

It's like Jesus H-- I already have enough issues about animal abuse, I don't need shots of them in cages during shows I watch to try to RELAX.

Can't even read or hear any stories about Michael Vick being allowed back in the NFL. Pisses me off so much, I can't stand it.