Oh, ha ha. No wonder it still felt hot in here. I left a burner on. @@
Mal: Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you're supposed to make me look respectable. Kaylee: Yes, sir, Captain Tightpants.
'Shindig'
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.
Jesse - Jul 22, 2010 2:31:34 pm PDT #14156 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Lee - Jul 22, 2010 2:32:37 pm PDT #14157 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I guess so, originally.
beekaytee - Jul 22, 2010 2:34:00 pm PDT #14158 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Cross-post with Tech, please forgive the interruption, but I need quick help with Skype on a Mac. I can see my client, and I can see me in the video screen, but she cannot see me. Is there something I can tell her to do?
Beverly - Jul 22, 2010 2:34:01 pm PDT #14159 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I have always wanted a pet octopus to sit on the tip of my finger. No, it's true, ask H. Ever since he's known me that's been a true desire, once I heard there were octopi that small. Cyuuute!
H immigrated at age four, and was functually bilingual within weeks--he translated for his parents. He had a "yankee" accent (grew up in Philadelphia) when I met him, but decades in the south softened it. He's still bilingual, speaks Ukrainian when with his mom and brother, or they switch back and forth.
Friends when we were in Germany had a four-year-old who played with kids on the street, and by three weeks he was speaking colloquial German, indetectable that it wasn't his first language. He also slid fluidly from one to the other and had no detectable "other" accent in either one.
So I vote age four.
Jesse - Jul 22, 2010 2:41:01 pm PDT #14160 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
(I realize that was not the point of the story.)
JZ - Jul 22, 2010 2:41:42 pm PDT #14161 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 have always wanted a pet octopus to sit on the tip of my finger. No, it's true, ask H. Ever since he's known me that's been a true desire, once I heard there were octopi that small. Cyuuute!
Now I'm imagining you with the tiny octopus of your dreams playing teeny-tiny handclapping games and doing high fives with Emmett and the finger monkey of his dreams, and I'm dying of the imaginary cute.
Jesse - Jul 22, 2010 2:41:56 pm PDT #14162 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I went to college with a guy who was trilingual, and apparently had a shitty accent in all three. At least, that was the word on the streets. I couldn't judge his accent in Spanish or Hebrew.
tommyrot - Jul 22, 2010 2:44:37 pm PDT #14163 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.
From the death report of a 13-year-old boy who died in 1854:
Killed by being swung around by the heels by a circus clown
bon bon - Jul 22, 2010 2:46:17 pm PDT #14164 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I think it's weird that Eugene Mirman has a slight accent despite immigrating at four.
Kat - Jul 22, 2010 2:46:40 pm PDT #14165 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I don't even want to look at that as clown's are terrifying!