Authorities stopping a suspected drunk driver near Hemet earlier this week found an unusual passenger riding shotgun: a goat.
Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'
Buffy ,'Help'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Jan 14, 2011 4:59:39 am PST #16904 of 30001
hwæt
§ ita § - Jan 14, 2011 5:00:12 am PST #16905 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've done that. It's either because I really like talking to the person or I really need to pin them down with the email. Sometimes both. So go with the good interpretations.
eta: Uh, not the goat thing. They're in the trunk, bound and ready for the slaughter.
Fred Pete - Jan 14, 2011 5:07:48 am PST #16906 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Tom, something like that happened to me yesterday. Person wanted to make sure I was the right person to direct the request to, plus needed to e-mail a document as part of the request.
But often, just silly. Like putting a goat in the front seat of the car.
hippocampus - Jan 14, 2011 5:11:09 am PST #16907 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Is it really necessary to call me to announce that you're going to send me a request in an email? An then type the email while you're on the phone with me?
what are you doing that my mom is part of your userbase?
sarameg - Jan 14, 2011 5:15:23 am PST #16908 of 30001
So I was saying to a friend last night that current ops system has no working UPS, but since we have 2 trunk lines coming in, they wired a redundancy in, and what are the odds of us losing power while operating in this config? But that I was taking no bets.
Yeah. Breakers blew. Lost power to half the systems. Including my archive. About an hour ago.
I just....
Well, OK, FINE THEN UNIVERSE? WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF TWO CLEAN RECOVERIES AFTER CATASTROPHIC POWER FAILURE?!!!
Sue - Jan 14, 2011 5:16:48 am PST #16909 of 30001
hip deep in pie
The travelling version of Sue the Tyrannosaurus is at the prov. museum. There was a media preview this AM and employees were invited to go. It was great! She is quite awesome.
tommyrot - Jan 14, 2011 5:23:11 am PST #16910 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.
Sue is awesome! (And so is the Tyrannosaurus.)
Sophia Brooks - Jan 14, 2011 5:28:42 am PST #16911 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
The travelling version of Sue the Tyrannosaurus is at the prov. museum. There was a media preview this AM and employees were invited to go. It was great! She is quite awesome.
I read this as the TIME-traveling version of Sue the Tyrannasaurus.
Also, that goat looks smug. And cute. But smug.
I call people then email because I prefer to talk about some things as they are hard to explain, but then I want to have the record of the conversation.
brenda m - Jan 14, 2011 5:29:52 am PST #16912 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Also, that goat looks smug. And cute. But smug.
Well sure. He gets to ride in the car, not like those other chump goats who have to walk their asses to the store.
sarameg - Jan 14, 2011 5:30:08 am PST #16913 of 30001
Huh. Odds are good, apparently. (Just found out my system did NOT lose power. Just the network switch to it. Apparently, this is takes more than half an hour to discern.)