'Life of the Party'
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.
Who ever sits down and knocks off a bottle of ketchup and a bag of chips? You just don't eat it in the same quantity.
Yeah, it's like those old commercials comparing the fat content of cream cheese v. butter. If you slathered on butter the way you do cc, you'd be sick.
Happy birthday, Kalli!
~ma for your mother, Cash.
The one from the list that hurt my brain:
Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Latvia, Georgia, Lithuania, and Estonia have always been independent nations.
Happy 1st birthday, Kalliope!
Yay accepted offer, msbelle!
heath hma to your mother Cash
yay for good offer
and I have to find some coffee-- again
it is hard to stay focused on work now!
also not to tell everyone!
I may need to chill!
You. Must. Chill!
Or, run around the office making geebily noises and waving your arms like a muppet.
The "have always" sentence construction of the Beloit lists has always irritated me. Like, I get what they're trying to do, but not all college freshman are actually that ignorant and self-centered!
Chill msbelle. For now. But having it burble under the surface is completely understandable.
Jessica - I'm with you. I get what they are trying to present, but I have a child born in 1990, just a year off of their list, and she knows a bunch of that isn't true. Or "hasn't always been".
I'm at work today. Nose is still snotty and throat hurts to talk, though I can whisper. It is gonna be a loooooooooong day.
Okay, what an awesome buffista day!
I am so thrilled to hear that Grace is home and the twins are back under the same roof. I'm sure the change in routine will be a major adjustment for all of you, but still, awesome!
And how cool, msbelle, about the better offer! I have no stomach for that stuff when unless the limit given really is my limit. But I can't fake it. So yay, realtor!
And lastly, Happy Birthday, Kalliope!
Should We Make Somali Pirates Walk the Gangplank?
Remember not too long ago when a Russian naval vessel rescued the crew of a ship that had been taken over by pirates? And then the Russians decided to let the pirates go rather than prosecute them? Here's something I didn't know:
Theoretically, the captain was supposed to hand the detainees and the evidence over to regional police. Not wanting to involve himself in legal wrangling, however, he decided to "release" the pirates instead. And thus they were "set free" in a tiny inflatable raft, with no navigation equipment, 350 miles off the coast of Yemen. The raft has since disappeared. In the 21st century, this is how pirates walk the plank.
Damn.