Tara: Do you have any books on robots? Giles: Oh, yes, dozens. There's a lot of research to be done in order to--no, I'm lying. Haven't got squat. I just like watching Xander squirm.

'Get It Done'


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.


aurelia - Feb 20, 2011 4:27:28 pm PST #24144 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

People who have seen Friday's Fringe--where do I know Mrs Mercher (sp?) from?

Not sure, but you could look here. [link] She was kind of delightful on Fringe.


Jesse - Feb 20, 2011 4:29:38 pm PST #24145 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Didn't "slut" use to mean sloppy and lazy about housework, i.e. a slob? I think the sexual aspects of the word are relatively modern.

To Wordnik! [link] In 1913 it was an untidy woman.


sj - Feb 20, 2011 4:32:31 pm PST #24146 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Lee, she was in The Big C.


Scrappy - Feb 20, 2011 4:43:30 pm PST #24147 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I have a hivemind word question. We are going to change my title at work, because I spend a part of my time dealing with clients and customers answering complaints and also writing stuff for out company's facebook and twitter feeds. My new title should have an element of liaision or something like that, while still somehow allowing for my HR functions. My suggestion was Communication Coordinator, but the execs felt it was too dull. The DH suggested Ombudsman, but that might be too technical. Any suggestions?


billytea - Feb 20, 2011 4:44:55 pm PST #24148 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Talky Meat?


brenda m - Feb 20, 2011 4:45:33 pm PST #24149 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

External Communications Liaison?


Nora Deirdre - Feb 20, 2011 4:55:01 pm PST #24150 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Director of Internal and External Communication?

My subway was super delayed, and I can't believe they announced that it was because a person got hit by a train! I believe that happened, but I'm surprised the announcement was that explicit.

Man, I've probably told this story before, but I got so screwed up one afternoon trying to head home from MIT in an oncoming storm, lost my phone, etc., and there were crazy delays. I get home and discover that someone committed suicide at Davis and it was someone that I knew. Ugh.

I think the MBTA are trying to be better about communication because I think that's the only thing they can control?


Jesse - Feb 20, 2011 4:58:40 pm PST #24151 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, that's terrible. Ugh!


DavidS - Feb 20, 2011 5:14:36 pm PST #24152 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

You'd never seen the dead parrot sketch????!!!!!!?

Pssst, Scrappy. She's younger than us. She was still in diapers when that sketch happened.

My new title should have an element of liaision or something like that, while still somehow allowing for my HR functions. My suggestion was Communication Coordinator,

No. See, titles are a part of your ongoing career. So if you left this job and that was on your resume it wouldn't have much pull. This is why it was important for me to move form HR Admin to HR Analyst.

but the execs felt it was too dull. The DH suggested Ombudsman, but that might be too technical. Any suggestions?

Not Ombudsman either. That's a very specific role, which mostly has to do with being the liaison with the general public.

What's your current title? Does it have Manager or Director in it?


Jesse - Feb 20, 2011 5:19:05 pm PST #24153 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Pssst, Scrappy. She's younger than us. She was still in diapers when that sketch happened.

Please -- we have the internet now. My coworker who practically fell on the floor laughing just thinking about it is well younger than me.