Jayne: Captain, can you stop her from bein' cheerful, please? Mal: I don't believe there is a power in the 'verse that can stop Kaylee from being cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.

'Serenity'


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.


DavidS - Feb 08, 2011 6:30:51 pm PST #21885 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

It was a beetle! Green! Upside down in the bottom of my bowl! With its little beetle legs upside down, waving! Okay, not waving, because it was dead. But still. Not reassuring!

There are people in Cambodia who would love to eat that beetle, Liese. Quit being a baby. Eat the beetle. It's the right thing to do. It's the green thing to do. Don't make the beetle have to go up the food chain to be palatable to you as protein.


Liese S. - Feb 08, 2011 6:31:16 pm PST #21886 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

And the other day there was something suspicious in my juice. And this is after the 20 day expired smoothie.

Seriously, the world is trying to kill me! Or make me more of a hippie than I already am. At least if there's bugs on my grown greens, I know where they came from. And I don't cook them!


Liese S. - Feb 08, 2011 6:31:36 pm PST #21887 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I AM NOT EATING THE BEETLE!


DavidS - Feb 08, 2011 6:32:18 pm PST #21888 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I AM NOT EATING THE BEETLE!

This is why we can't have nice planets. It's on you, Liese. Nice try saving the world with music. Pfft.


Liese S. - Feb 08, 2011 6:35:54 pm PST #21889 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Hee. I would totally tag that, except I don't want to look at my tagline every day and think about EATING BEETLES!


Cass - Feb 08, 2011 6:37:01 pm PST #21890 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Puppycat is chirping at the light and I just tried to explain to her that it's not a bug. Except it is a bug. There's a lady bug on the pull chain. I totally am going to save the lady bug.

And, you know, not have it for dinner.


DavidS - Feb 08, 2011 6:38:57 pm PST #21891 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I don't want to look at my tagline every day and think about EATING BEETLES!

Heh. This all comes from me quizzing my ex-coworker on all the bugs he ate across Cambodia and Laos.

"So, what was the most surprisingly tasting thing you had made of bugs?"

Answer: Sugar ants. You just snap off the thorax and pop it into your mouth like a spicy sweet red hot.

"And what was the most irredeemably horrible thing you ate?"

Answer: Pickled tarantula. Really quite gross.


Atropa - Feb 08, 2011 6:46:14 pm PST #21892 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Why did I read the whitefont? Whyyyyyy? Of COURSE that would be the most irredeemably horrible thing to eat. I feel pretty squicked just thinking about it.


Liese S. - Feb 08, 2011 6:47:28 pm PST #21893 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

And see, the thing is I pride myself on being an adventurous eater. But I was not in the appropriate mode when I wilted a little spinach into my wheat egg noodles!


Cass - Feb 08, 2011 6:49:53 pm PST #21894 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Why did I read the whitefont? Whyyyyyy?

Same reason I did?

I regret it too.

I've yet to move the ladybug. It's all cute.