Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


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.


Kathy A - Mar 18, 2011 9:43:47 am PDT #29051 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Dagnabbit, my latest Hidden Gem restaurant was reviewed in the Globe and is the first slide in their current Cheap Eats feature. I'll never be able to go there again!

Heh. I was watching Check, Please! on the local PBS station (it's our local restaurant review tv show in Chicago), and thinking that I'd love to submit my application to get on the show and recommend my favorite Uzbek restaurant after I lose my weight. But, then I realized what a CP rec does to the business at restaurants in town and began to think that would be a bad idea.


Sparky1 - Mar 18, 2011 9:53:59 am PDT #29052 of 30001
Librarian Warlord

This weekend: Suzi arrives! (And we abandon her to go to Richmond for my mother's 77th birthday.)

Update on yesterday's email from the librarian who stole my job: I sent her the advertisement for my job that was posted when I applied in 2006, and the published salary scale for librarians which basically gives her a 40K possible spread for my actual salary, and mentioned that I never expected she would part ways with the old Big Boss.

She wrote back a long email that I didn't really bother to read because it started with a suggestion that we get together sometime for lunch.


Zenkitty - Mar 18, 2011 10:00:45 am PDT #29053 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Who just has a pachinko machine lying around?

My DX Mike. He had one in the basement apartment where we used to live. I didn't know what it was when I moved in. I once threatened to kill him if he played it again while I was there. It was loud!


Cashmere - Mar 18, 2011 10:02:14 am PDT #29054 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Wisconsin Governor used "the lurkers support me in email" argument!


Calli - Mar 18, 2011 10:04:15 am PDT #29055 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

At least the Hoff wasn't singing "Hooked on a Feeling" while being naked with puppies. [link] [warning: loud ooga chalkas]


le nubian - Mar 18, 2011 10:05:00 am PDT #29056 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I feel traumatized just reading that description.

I agree with sumi. I think linking a naked Hasselhoff picture with puppies is against the Geneva convention. Such as that still has meaning.


Burrell - Mar 18, 2011 10:21:16 am PDT #29057 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I agree with sumi. I think linking a naked Hasselhoff picture with puppies is against the Geneva convention. Such as that still has meaning.

It was clearly marked with a warning label!! And way less traumatic than many other links that have been posted here! Hasselhoff may be tragic, but it's no goatse.czx


le nubian - Mar 18, 2011 10:24:24 am PDT #29058 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

LOL.


Burrell - Mar 18, 2011 10:24:47 am PDT #29059 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Sending ~ma for your mom, Laura, plus some extra coping ~ma for you.


Frankenbuddha - Mar 18, 2011 10:31:08 am PDT #29060 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Dagnabbit, my latest Hidden Gem restaurant was reviewed in the Globe and is the first slide in their current Cheap Eats feature. I'll never be able to go there again!

The Ethiopian place, Jesse?