Sara, I'm not going to lie, I'm kind of relieved that NOVA is like the one of our shows I don't feel like I need to be watching, but I'm really glad you are! ("The Suicide Tourist" on last night's Frontline repeat? Really sad.)
Mal: Does she understand that? River: She understands. She doesn't comprehend.
'Objects In Space'
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.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 4:38:29 pm PDT #29983 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sarameg - Mar 23, 2011 4:52:16 pm PDT #29984 of 30001
Hah. I'm a total sucker for PBS science shows. Especially astronomy ones, because, as I remarked on fb, there is a 90% chance I'm going to know some of the people or sites or whatever. I'm in a small business, and I have connections from birth.
(Suicide Tourist is on the .2 pbs channel right now, but I wasn't up for it.)
Lee - Mar 23, 2011 5:03:37 pm PDT #29985 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I am also very over the rain, and even more over the fact that it can be sunny enough for me to wear my sun glasses when I leave the office, but the minute I hit Belmont, it starts pouring, hard enough for my wipers to have trouble keeping up.
meara - Mar 23, 2011 5:21:18 pm PDT #29986 of 30001
Hallo to you all from Mexico. Turns out vacation with nothing to do but lie by the pool or ocean, by yourself? Pretty boring. Sigh. I'm only on the first of six days!
Also the names "Sean" and "Geoff."
I TOTALLY read-and-mispronounced Sean as a kid. My sister was infamous for saying she wanted a "cuh-NOPEY" bed. I think I also may have pronounced it "epi-TOME". There's been others, but I've forgotten.
I'm similar with February and Wednesday. I know how to pronounce them correctly, but I mis-pronounce them in my head for spelling purposes.
Oh, this too! If I ever have to spell those, I have to pronounce them funny in my head, to do it.
Right, on Mad Men? "Sinjin"? Who the fuck is that? Is he a genie?
HAHAHAH! This is totally what I always thought when reading ridiculous romance novels. WTF kind of name is Sinjin? Sounds like he ought to be out with Aladdin.
brenda m - Mar 23, 2011 5:22:24 pm PDT #29987 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
Hallo to you all from Mexico. Turns out vacation with nothing to do but lie by the pool or ocean, by yourself? Pretty boring. Sigh. I'm only on the first of six days!
Heh. I discovered that last year in Cancun. Find some good excursions and you'll be much happier.
brenda m - Mar 23, 2011 5:23:47 pm PDT #29988 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
Right, on Mad Men? "Sinjin"? Who the fuck is that? Is he a genie?
I believe I learned that one from View to a Kill.
Ooh! Scion. SKY-un.
Fortunately neither of those really ever came up outside of novels.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 5:24:38 pm PDT #29989 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, that just reminded me of my Trixie Belden word -- jalopy.
Sue - Mar 23, 2011 5:31:57 pm PDT #29990 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Scion. SKY-un.
Ooh. That one often trips me up.
I just heard on the news a mispronunciation that drives me crazy, that I hear in some locals around here: Fustrating for Frustrating.
Dana - Mar 23, 2011 5:32:45 pm PDT #29991 of 30001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I think I must have picked up seneschal from fantasy novels. I just looked up how to pronounce it earlier, and have already forgotten.
meara - Mar 23, 2011 5:35:43 pm PDT #29992 of 30001
Brenda, shame you can't be with me! Even more annoying--I'm sitting on the steps (which are pebbled, and OW) because the advertised WiFi doesn't reach my room. Hrmph.
...I do rather prefer this weather to Seattle's current weather, though! I just wish I had someone with me to talk to.