Baltimore (the southernmost port in Ireland)
Raided by my many-times grandfather Jan Jansen, dba Murat Reis! Who carried off many people to be slaves in Morocco.
My bloodline apologizes to anyone who may be related to them.
Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
'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.
Connie Neil - Mar 08, 2011 10:09:12 am PST #26968 of 30001
brillig
Frankenbuddha - Mar 08, 2011 10:13:18 am PST #26969 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Some supervillian put a crazy-ray on the moon, aimed at the Earth.
It's hidden next to the giant "CHA".
sarameg - Mar 08, 2011 10:15:00 am PST #26970 of 30001
No car today. No estimate yet either. They got completely hammered with work this weekend. Sigh.....
DavidS - Mar 08, 2011 10:18:00 am PST #26971 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I didn't do Dublin on that trip because I was very broke and could get a lot more for my money staying in little B&Bs and wandering.
I went in and out of Dublin on my way to Cork. I missed the last bus of the day to Cork (at 3:30), and had to stay the night in Dublin all unplanned. It was a delicious feeling being alone in a strange city and nobody in the world knew where I was.
Raided by my many-times grandfather Jan Jansen, dba Murat Reis! Who carried off many people to be slaves in Morocco.
I think I mentioned, but a few months back I had a really fun evening out with my friend Kevin and his musician buddy and we had a blast recounting Ireland's history as told by hungover pub goers: "Feck! Enslaved are we? Is it Vikings? Oh, the Moors, eh? And I was going to fight them too, but I had a blinder last night."
DavidS - Mar 08, 2011 10:18:23 am PST #26972 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's hidden next to the giant "CHA".
Yeah, that's where my mind went too.
§ ita § - Mar 08, 2011 10:18:35 am PST #26973 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
can you just tell them you have some plans tonight without mentioning what they are?
There is never a question about availability on this team. I may have to go to the ER a night early, if the squabbling teams can't get in line with each other. I hate to do that, because I peter out a day earlier. And I peter out early anyway.
Jesse - Mar 08, 2011 10:20:29 am PST #26974 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I would like to go to Ireland.
And I think in general having work things at midnight and then 7am is unreasonable, but I don't know anyone else would care about that?
And I am currently blowing off a meeting that I already had a pre-meeting for, in case someone calls me back about her emergency, not mine. Awesome.
Jesse - Mar 08, 2011 10:21:36 am PST #26975 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Some smokers smell way more strongly of smoke than others.
Also yes, and I don't understand why this is.
§ ita § - Mar 08, 2011 10:23:43 am PST #26976 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm feeling quite hurt on behalf of Scotland and Wales. Sure, they're not their own nations, but they are their own countries (or, you know, the actual correct semantics), and perfectly lovely and deserving of visits.
Also Canterbury. For some reason, my father and I kept ending up in Canterbury.
Connie Neil - Mar 08, 2011 10:24:23 am PST #26977 of 30001
brillig
perfectly lovely and deserving of visits.
... from pirates.