Your random trivia for the day: an eyelash infection is called a stye.
Angel: You're lying. Gwen: I'm fibbing. It's lying, only classier.
'Just Rewards (2)'
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.
Polter-Cow - Jan 20, 2010 9:44:31 am PST #2959 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jessica - Jan 20, 2010 9:45:59 am PST #2960 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Wow - I had no idea people were taking Baby On Board signs so personally.
To me it's the equivalent of a Student Driver sign - more or less a shorthand for "there is a reason this car in front of you may be going slightly slower than you think they should be."
Calli - Jan 20, 2010 9:48:35 am PST #2961 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
more or less a shorthand for "there is a reason this car in front of you may be going slightly slower than you think they should be."
I think a "Driver talking on cell phone" would be more useful. We'd know why s/he was driving slowly, failing to use turn signals, wandering in and out of the proper lane, rolling through stop lights . . .
Maybe they could throw in a siren or something, too.
§ ita § - Jan 20, 2010 9:50:48 am PST #2962 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
a shorthand for "there is a reason this car in front of you may be going slightly slower than you think they should be."
I get TB's reasoning, but the car in front of me is often going slower than I think it should be. Cellphone, child, passenger, radio, iPod, just how they drive. I don't see the point to telling me about it.
Are you telling me you're going to be driving badly? Then that's a whole different problem.
javachik - Jan 20, 2010 10:05:08 am PST #2963 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
The sticks with names, as Debetesse pointed out, is SO unsafe!!
I admit that I really love it when I see a stick family with two mommies or two daddies, though.
JZ - Jan 20, 2010 10:09:30 am PST #2964 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I always thought it was exactly for TB's reason; same thing as with the stickers some people put on the front windows of their houses or apartments that say PETS INSIDE -- rescuer people, if there's a fire or earthquake or other disaster, please don't just pluck the large and obvious humans to safety and call it a day.
Stupid people memo
To: Mortuary Employee Who Just Sent My Boss a Certificate Of Death for Completion and Signature
Re: Your Instructions for Completion
They are clear, simple and to the point, and really the only issue I have is with the smiley face at the end. To which I can only say, JESUS WEPT, WOMAN.
NO, REALLY, YOUR SMILEY FACE ON THE DEATH CERTIFICATE MADE HIM CRY.
@@,
JZ
And, lastly because it's the most important thing of all, YAY TOM THAT IS UTTER AWESOMECAKES!
Daisy Jane - Jan 20, 2010 10:10:46 am PST #2965 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
NO, REALLY, YOUR SMILEY FACE ON THE DEATH CERTIFICATE MADE HIM CRY.
Jesus, not your boss, right?
DavidS - Jan 20, 2010 10:11:57 am PST #2966 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jesus, not your boss, right?
Jesus is not her boss, though sometimes her boss gets confused.
-t - Jan 20, 2010 10:12:38 am PST #2967 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Now that I've browsed the site ita linked to and see the gamut of pets (pigs, chickens and goats!) and alternatives to stick figures (you can have your whole family represented by penguins, or turtles, or flip-flops!) I am a little bit seduced by the cute.
JZ - Jan 20, 2010 10:14:32 am PST #2968 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
This is the woman boss, who has a teenage daughter and sits on various high school advisory councils and thus spends much of her free time assaulted by emoticons. I'm sure she will just roll her eyes right out of her head, grit her teeth, and sign the damn thing.
I can't decide whether it makes it worse or better that this is actually not an emoticon but a hand-drawn smiley.