I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.

Buffy ,'End of Days'


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.


Kate P. - Jan 20, 2011 5:51:40 am PST #17735 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

I have discovered that, although I hate most preparations of brussels sprouts, I love them when they're cut in quarters, tossed with olive oil and salt, and roasted until crispy. Yum.

We've been having some version of this probably at least once a week this winter. SO GOOD. I never knew I loved brussels sprouts!

and also I could eat spinach, feta, and olives every day of the week, although I don't.

I am as Jesse and JZ in this. Just about anything is improved with olives.

Man, I wish I'd slept better last night.


Jesse - Jan 20, 2011 5:51:51 am PST #17736 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It looks like I may get my crack at Prince after all

Eee!


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 20, 2011 6:00:13 am PST #17737 of 30001
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!

However, in defence of my homeland, I will point out that this does not actually happen when we're not coping with massive natural disasters.

Do all the poisonous animals normally keep them at bay?


Connie Neil - Jan 20, 2011 6:08:45 am PST #17738 of 30001
brillig

That is not cool, Australia. Not cool.

Australia just wants to remind the world that it is still the butchest place on the planet.


tommyrot - Jan 20, 2011 6:12:01 am PST #17739 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.

Australia just wants to remind the world that it is still the butchest place on the planet.

Totes. If an Australian wants to open a bottle of Fosters and doesn't have an opener, s/he just walks (or swims) out into the street, wrestles a shark, and opens the bottle using the shark's teeth.


brenda m - Jan 20, 2011 6:12:24 am PST #17740 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

We have sharks on the street in NYC, too: [link]

And in Chicago. [link]


Jessica - Jan 20, 2011 6:17:48 am PST #17741 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I am now seriously craving spinach, feta, and olives. Of these, the only one in my fridge at the moment is olives. Woe! Perhaps a trip to the grocery store is in order.


tommyrot - Jan 20, 2011 6:27:25 am PST #17742 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.

Cool headline:

German Police Pick up Drunken Owl

An owl that had evidently drunk too much Schnapps from two discarded bottles was so inebriated that it got picked up by police. The bird will be released once it has sobered up.

German police said on Tuesday they had discovered a paralytic owl that appeared to have drunk too much Schnapps from two discarded bottles.

"A woman walking her dog alerted the police after seeing the bird sitting by the side of the road oblivious to passing traffic," Frank Otruba, spokesman for the police in the southwestern city of Pforzheim, told SPIEGEL ONLINE.

The Brown Owl didn't appear to be injured and officers quickly concluded that it had had one too many. One of its eyelids was drooping, adding to the general impression of inebriation.

"It wasn't staggering around and we didn't breathalyze it but there were two little bottles of Schapps in the immediate vicinity," said Otruba. "We took it to a local bird expert who has treated alcoholized birds before and she has been giving it lots of water."

The bird will be released once it has sobered up, police said.


Consuela - Jan 20, 2011 6:29:33 am PST #17743 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I refuse to believe David Oyelowo is old enough to be playing a judge of any type. (No, I haven't watched The Good Wife yet this week.) He's still Danny from Spooks, who breaks my heart every time I think of him.


SuziQ - Jan 20, 2011 6:48:45 am PST #17744 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Nothing like getting a call to pick up your child who has been suspended.

This school kills me. He gets stabbed with a pencil - no punishment for the other kid. He pushes a kid who trips over his feet and falls back against a wall and he gets suspended. He shouldn't have pushed the kid, no arguement there. But where is the consistency?

Now I have to be mean mom. I hate being mean mom.