I don't really have a security blanket... unless you count Mr. Pointy.

Buffy ,'Lessons'


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.


Jesse - Apr 21, 2010 11:28:06 am PDT #24249 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

No, he would be underdressed.

I would also be overdressed for the setting. I may still wear a dress, but not that one.


tommyrot - Apr 21, 2010 11:28:33 am PDT #24250 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.

New $100 Bill Looks Like Something Straight Out of Hogwarts

The familiar pictures of Founding Father Ben Franklin is still there, but there are a lot of new high-tech features being put in the new $100 bill, including a moving microprint that "looks like something straight out of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry":

The blue 3-D Security Ribbon on the front of the new $100 note contains images of bells and 100s that move and change from one to the other as you tilt the note. The Bell in the Inkwell on the front of the note is another new security feature. The bell changes color from copper to green when the note is tilted, an effect that makes it seem to appear and disappear within the copper inkwell.


§ ita § - Apr 21, 2010 11:28:47 am PDT #24251 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I would also be overdressed for the setting.

Eff the setting, IJS.


Liese S. - Apr 21, 2010 11:29:39 am PDT #24252 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I love team overdressing! I went to rock shows in full formal-wear not once but twice! Love. I never pull stuff like that now. I have become old and stodgy.


Aims - Apr 21, 2010 11:31:43 am PDT #24253 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Hee! I should not have made such a blanket statement - I know better!!

I have a very rounded-out behind. The Trixie dress is very unflattering to my behind because the waist hits at just the wrong place on my lower back/ass-shelf. Which pulls the back of the dress up and creates an odd, reversed asymmetrical hemline on me that a-line skirts don't do for some reason. I worry the Peterman dress will do the same now cause it looks like the waist would hit in the same way.


quester - Apr 21, 2010 11:32:17 am PDT #24254 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

Yeah, it sounds like maintaining that insurance may need to be high on your priority list, possibly above school.

I'm thinking I need to send in the check for next month. I have a roof and clothes and I think my sister would feed me if I really couldn't afford to pay. I'm worried about the credit card bills and car insurance more. I can cover for a month but after June I won't have the COBRA anymore. I could just kick myself for not finding temp or part-time work while I had it!


Barb - Apr 21, 2010 11:35:23 am PDT #24255 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”

I want this dress for my May NYC trip.

I do not want my current ass. So I'm trying to make a deal with myself that if I lose weight in the next five weeks, I'll treat myself.


Toddson - Apr 21, 2010 11:35:56 am PDT #24256 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

When I was in college several of us would, on occasion, dress for dinner. Long dresses for the girls, some of the boys had gone to a local thrift shop and gotten tuxedo jackets ... which did lose something worn with jeans. One had bought a tail coat which, with jeans and boots, left him looking rather like a ringmaster. We'd get together, have sherry before dinner, then go to the dining hall for dinner.

Certainly made food service dinners more palatable.


Lee - Apr 21, 2010 11:37:03 am PDT #24257 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I want this dress for my May NYC trip.

Oh, I love that. I may need to get it for my birthday trip in September.


bon bon - Apr 21, 2010 11:39:12 am PDT #24258 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I'm still trying to work LA casual. I have a million black dresses I wore all the time in NYC that seem overdressed here. I just broke out some high boots with a skirt and had to explain myself. And the worst part is, people here won't admit it! They think you can "wear what you want" here, which is not even true.