Everyone's getting spanked but me.

Willow ,'The Killer In Me'


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.


Sue - Mar 23, 2011 1:54:36 pm PDT #29943 of 30001
hip deep in pie

I already started trying to feed Oz pumpkin this weekend, as a low fat replacement for some of his food. It's not going that well, but if he's hungry enough, he'll eat it.

I am confident that these talks will prevent our cats from ever getting sick or dying.

My Brother's dog died two weeks ago, so I am already having stressful thoughts about things coming in threes.


Dana - Mar 23, 2011 2:00:10 pm PDT #29944 of 30001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I am confused by "seneschal."


Allyson - Mar 23, 2011 2:05:20 pm PDT #29945 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I spent a small fortune having one of Ruby's teeth pulled a couple of months ago. I didn't realize how bad an abscess had become, and had GREAT TERRIBLE GUILT that I let her be in pain. And then Kristen had to help me wrestle her down to get her antibiotics and pain meds inside her.

RUBY! I AM TRYING TO HELP YOU. STOP FREAKING OUT.

Also, please tell me when you do not feel good. Somehow.


sarameg - Mar 23, 2011 2:09:44 pm PDT #29946 of 30001

Your poor mom, Sue. I've got a 19+ year old diabetic cat. I'm past the borrowed time part and have been moved onto a prepayment plan...

My dad has taken to delivering bad/sad news in email. Which, well, it is so dad. Means he doesn't have to talk about it. Usually the subject line is the name of the person/pet, and a terse single line inside.

Less than ideal (how I got the news my aunt had died, in the middle of the day at work) but...the phone call would contain just about as much actual words.

This means that when I got an email at work just before Xmas with just Josh in the subject line, I about had a heart attack.

He was asking for gift ideas.


Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 2:12:50 pm PDT #29947 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OMG, your dad!

I am confused by "seneschal."

Who with the what now?


Connie Neil - Mar 23, 2011 2:18:57 pm PDT #29948 of 30001
brillig

Seneschals are often confusing. Fortunately, one can also often bap them on the head.

(this may make no sense to anyone not in the SCA.)


§ ita § - Mar 23, 2011 2:20:31 pm PDT #29949 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

There's a wild cat that seneschal makes me think of.

BT, the French thing was mainly a second language familiarity. Why would you tack 'way' on the end of it anyway? Also, she was irritating.


Steph L. - Mar 23, 2011 2:25:43 pm PDT #29950 of 30001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Usually the subject line is the name of the person/pet, and a terse single line inside.

Oh god, he and my mom should start a club! Only she just goes one step further and just puts in the subject line "Uncle Woody died."

Like I want to click that e-mail.


billytea - Mar 23, 2011 2:35:47 pm PDT #29951 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.

BT, the French thing was mainly a second language familiarity. Why would you tack 'way' on the end of it anyway? Also, she was irritating.

Heh. In hindsight, I should have been more curious why people always seemed to say "segue-way" and never just "segue". It's a bit of a giveaway. In my defence, this is the same "people" that replaces "tenets" with "tenants" and thinks "alot" is a perfectly cromulent word.

In conclusion, It's not "mare", Jude-a-Murph, it's "may-or".


sarameg - Mar 23, 2011 2:50:25 pm PDT #29952 of 30001

It would be better if he put it all in the subject line...

Scrubbed out the indoor recycling bin. Considering everything I put in there has been washed and/or is dry to begin with, it gets remarkably gross.