...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


§ ita § - Oct 27, 2010 4:44:29 am PDT #2177 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

the thing that brings in money from the blogs is page hits

Well, they certainly got a lot of those, so mission partially accomplished. Although 2/3 of the comments I read were people cancelling their print subscriptions, so you takes your chances.


Tom Scola - Oct 27, 2010 5:08:36 am PDT #2178 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Damn.

Jones was off-duty and happened to be getting her hair done when 19-year-old Winston Cox attempted to rob the place, and she calmly and cooly confronted him, shot his revolver out of his hands and shot the handle off the front door, sealing it shut.


Daisy Jane - Oct 27, 2010 5:14:31 am PDT #2179 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Worst person on the planet? [link]


Trudy Booth - Oct 27, 2010 5:15:56 am PDT #2180 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

If only that was as bad as it gets.


tommyrot - Oct 27, 2010 5:17:34 am PDT #2181 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.

ION, who thinks that blasting your stereo at 4:30 in the morning so you can sing along (very loudly) to "Rocking in the Free World" is a good idea? Because such a person lives in my building.

Also, gronk.


Daisy Jane - Oct 27, 2010 5:17:56 am PDT #2182 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

God, I don't even want to imagine.


Jessica - Oct 27, 2010 5:20:18 am PDT #2183 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Well, this guy doesn't appear to be actively engaged in genocide...

Still, I vote we feed him to a pack of wild boars.


Daisy Jane - Oct 27, 2010 5:21:49 am PDT #2184 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Seconded! It can be the halftime show at the Arkansas game!


tommyrot - Oct 27, 2010 5:28:10 am PDT #2185 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.

The entirety of Raiders of the Lost Ark as a one-page Popeye comic [Comics]


Tom Scola - Oct 27, 2010 5:29:01 am PDT #2186 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I wanted to like that more, except the cartoonist does a poor job of imitating E. C. Segar.