Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Daisy Jane - Jan 15, 2010 7:27:06 am PST #1749 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Can someone please get these guys to stop having this iPhone/Microsoft argument by my cube? It's loud, stupid, involves the self-laugher and they follow everything they say with "right" said like a question, but not meant as one.

Oh lord, now Jay Leno has been entered into the argument.


Gudanov - Jan 15, 2010 7:28:49 am PST #1750 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

Microsoft has a phone? Well, I'm sure they have phones at the Microsoft offices, I mean a product that's a phone.


§ ita § - Jan 15, 2010 7:28:52 am PST #1751 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

In play since 1965, with the addition of "Adjourning" during the 70s.


DavidS - Jan 15, 2010 7:32:13 am PST #1752 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Happy birthday, msbelle!

Treat yourself to...BK. Or something.

Sophia's boss needs the choke-chain of corrective experience.

Self-laugher should get away from Daisy.

Teamwork dynamics makes me think: "Just because it rhymes doesn't mean it's true."


Daisy Jane - Jan 15, 2010 7:32:59 am PST #1753 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

It's basically a version of the Apple/Microsoft argument.

It makes me @@, because I hate "My choice of consumer product is morally and intellectually superior to yours!" conversations.

I use both. If I were still doing layouts, I'd be on my Mac. The billion and five spreadsheets I'm dealing with right now? I would throw my Macbook out the window and run screaming for the ThinkPad.

I think I prefer my iPod to the Zune, but I haven't used the other. And, I like my Cliq better than the current iPhone.

Go ahead and judge me.


smonster - Jan 15, 2010 7:34:27 am PST #1754 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

choke-chain of corrective experience

Nice phrasing.

Speaking of phrasing, Hec, thought you might enjoy another colloquialism I heard recently: The rain was "coming down like piss out of a boot." Speaker is Georgia native (not sure what part) in his 50s.


Vortex - Jan 15, 2010 7:34:44 am PST #1755 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

And, I like my Cliq better than the current iPhone.

I always do a double take when I see the Cliq written down.


P.M. Marc - Jan 15, 2010 7:34:55 am PST #1756 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Phone OS. It's a phone OS.


msbelle - Jan 15, 2010 7:36:24 am PST #1757 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I had BK yesterday and brought my lunch today. I am thinking of my restaurant week meals as my birthday meals.


Fred Pete - Jan 15, 2010 7:41:05 am PST #1758 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Happy Birthday, msbelle!