My interest in lunch has really waned in the last fifteen minutes.
When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
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.
Amy - Jul 22, 2010 9:47:26 am PDT #14017 of 30001
Because books.
Tom Scola - Jul 22, 2010 9:47:32 am PDT #14018 of 30001
They pay me in WOIMS
Hey, how was I to know all the caves in Brooklyn would already be booked in advance??
I wonder if there's an Orbitz for that ...
Amy - Jul 22, 2010 9:48:02 am PDT #14019 of 30001
Because books.
::loves Tom::
Trudy Booth - Jul 22, 2010 9:51:14 am PDT #14020 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
Erin! I promise to never kiss you with placenta breath. I swears.
Now I'm having fun in Wikipedia:
Several cultures believe the placenta to be or have been alive, often a relative of the baby. Nepalese think of the placenta as a friend of the baby's; Malaysian Orang Asli regard it as the baby's older sibling. The Ibo of Nigeria consider the placenta the deceased twin of the baby, and conduct full funeral rites for it.[17] Native Hawaiians believe that the placenta is a part of the baby, and traditionally plant it with a tree which can then grow alongside the child
I like the Nepalese. They have someone to hang out with the baby during those long months of gestating. That's a happy thought.
Dana - Jul 22, 2010 9:51:29 am PDT #14021 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I have closed my eyes and scrolled past the last thirty posts or so.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 22, 2010 9:56:18 am PDT #14022 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My boss came into my office, because I gasped so loudly at the teddy bear placenta that she thought I was hurt!
Hil R. - Jul 22, 2010 9:58:55 am PDT #14023 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I can see planting a tree with the placenta. I would not eat it or make a teddy bear, though.
Dana - Jul 22, 2010 9:59:44 am PDT #14024 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
OH MY GOD STOP TALKING ABOUT PLACENTA
Jars - Jul 22, 2010 10:00:55 am PDT #14025 of 30001
Yeah the one argument I've seen that keeps coming up re the placenta thing is that animals eat it after giving birth. Animals also eat their own shit, people. Faeces smoothie, anyone?
I used to be fairly laid back about the idea, but then the STFU Parents tumblr had lots of photos of people's placenta meals/crafts and all of a sudden I was very, very anti- the whole thing.
Calli - Jul 22, 2010 10:02:11 am PDT #14026 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
My parents planted trees for my sister and me, but I don't think placentas were involved. Just blue spruce. I don't hate the thought of burying a placenta--you can compost just about anything organic. But it seems like one more thing to keep track of for a new parent. What with feeding and diapering and juggling helpful (or "helpful") relatives, who wants to bother tracking down a shovel and a sapling?