The girl's not playing with a full deck, Giles. She has almost no deck. She has a three.

Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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.


Strega - Jan 14, 2011 6:43:11 am PST #16949 of 30001

Besides, when people working with the BCE/AD calendar switched from Julian to Gregorian, didn't they go back 10 days? So that would account for over a third of the alleged zodiac sign slippage right there.

The switch made dates skip forward, not backward. In the UK it was September 2nd, and the next day was September 14th. And then Faction Paradox purchased those missing days from George III and gave him a woolly mammoth, of course.

...I might be learning history from unreliable sources.


erikaj - Jan 14, 2011 6:43:38 am PST #16950 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

Sarameg, if your trunk line goes out, keep an eye out for Hardison. I bet he'd love Charm City anyway.


msbelle - Jan 14, 2011 6:45:01 am PST #16951 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Target fails. no application from me. moving on.


Jesse - Jan 14, 2011 6:48:51 am PST #16952 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Seriously that's just stuff you should know from living in the world.

When I went to Mexico with grad school, I could not believe that I had classmates who didn't know Spanish words like pollo and queso. I mean, seriously??? I couldn't translate anything but menus, but I was ALL OVER the menus!

OMG, I am so starving and now I want Mexican food for lunch. And I still wish I could find the bean-and-cheese roll breakfast thingie I had there. I guess I could recreate it here, of course, especially with increased access to Portuguese sweet rolls.


§ ita § - Jan 14, 2011 6:51:17 am PST #16953 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I knew an adult Montreal native who didn't know the French for bus (protip: it's really not very hard), so I'm less surprised than I might have been. However, gringo's just about an English word at this point. Wife I can see not knowing, and numbers higher than ten. Not gringo.


Amy - Jan 14, 2011 6:52:46 am PST #16954 of 30001
Because books.

I had been thinking about watching it because Matt! Saracen!, but now maybe not. It sounds awful.


Jesse - Jan 14, 2011 6:52:51 am PST #16955 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, gringo is an English word.


msbelle - Jan 14, 2011 7:07:15 am PST #16956 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I got my painting!!! I loves it! No idea where it will go, the color scheme does not really go with any of my rooms. Maybe entry or hall. But I love it!


Cashmere - Jan 14, 2011 7:11:17 am PST #16957 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

On the way to school this morning, Olivia noticed the flags were half staff. She asked me why.

That just sucks.


§ ita § - Jan 14, 2011 7:11:38 am PST #16958 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Sometimes, when my head hurts really badly, the pain refers down to my quads and knees.

Today? Is one of those days. I have a day chock full of meetings, at least one of which I have to present, a trip to pack and prepare for, laundry to do, shit to buy for my sister, and a stranger's request for a picture that's frustrating me since I completely can't compose it, and I really should be able to.