I first read "Bing Crosby" as "Bill Cosby" and wondered that he had a wine cellar back in 1960....
Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.
Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'
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.
Theodosia - Sep 24, 2010 4:20:20 am PDT #25838 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2010 4:22:16 am PDT #25839 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.
I first read "Bing Crosby" as "Bill Cosby" and wondered that he had a wine cellar back in 1960....
Heh.
Now a pudding cellar I could see....
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2010 4:26:51 am PDT #25840 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.
Happy 50th birthday!
Sept. 24, 1960: First Nuclear Carrier, USS Enterprise, Launched
1960: USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched in Newport News, Virginia. CVN-65, nicknamed Big E, was the first carrier of its kind, powered solely by its eight nuclear reactors.
Oddly, the picture in the article is of the WWII carrier Enterprise (CV6), not the nuclear-powered one.
The Enterprise is the eighth ship to bear the name Enterprise — not counting the ones in the fictional Star Trek universe. (Sorry, fanboys. Those are fictional.) The real Enterprise became the oldest active ship in the U.S Navy when USS Kitty Hawk was decommissioned May 12, 2009.
The Enterprise is currently slated to be decommissioned in 2013, according to the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2010. This comes on the heels of a $662 million refurbishing in April 2010 — 46 percent over budget. Only two more 6-month deployments are planned for the Enterprise.
lisah - Sep 24, 2010 4:29:56 am PDT #25841 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
So sorry for your loss, sarameg
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2010 4:45:29 am PDT #25842 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm still on the verge of tears (night time, why must you do me so?), but it's not like I have a choice of going in or not.
Fred Pete - Sep 24, 2010 4:50:45 am PDT #25843 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Many sympathies, sarameg and family.
Jesse - Sep 24, 2010 4:52:47 am PDT #25844 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
This is pretty funny: Testing a $50K mattress
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2010 5:15:18 am PDT #25845 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.
A GANG of thieves armed with a powerful vacuum cleaner that sucks cash from supermarket safes has struck for the FIFTEENTH time in France.
The burglars broke into their latest store near Paris and drilled a hole in the "pneumatic tube" that siphons money from the checkout to the strong-room.
They then sucked rolls of cash totalling £60,000 from the safe without even having to break its lock.
Police said the gang — dubbed the Vacuum Burglars — always raid Monoprix supermarkets and have hit 15 of the stores branches around Paris in the past four years.
A spokesman added: "They spotted a weakness in the company's security system and have been exploiting it ever since.
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2010 5:28:28 am PDT #25846 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.
Some very pretty close-up photos of carnivorous plants: [link]
Many pictures of trapped insects, and one of a mouse trapped in a pitcher plant.
Jessica - Sep 24, 2010 5:41:11 am PDT #25847 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
F2F London, anyone?
World's largest women's shoe department opens in Selfridges.
The Shoe Galleries opened at London department store Selfridges Thursday, setting a new record for the biggest surface dedicated to footwear, and for the largest number of shoes found in one place, according to the store.
More than 5,000 different pairs of shoes are displayed across 35,000 square meters, while more than 100,000 others are kept in stock.