Hee, flea.
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Polter-Cow - Jun 09, 2011 9:23:44 am PDT #12062 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Vortex - Jun 09, 2011 9:24:01 am PDT #12063 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Now that I'm going back to school for my master's, I have a lot more interaction with early-20-somethings than I have since I was that age, and it's a big shock to say the least. I'll mention a tv show from the 70s or 80s, and they have no idea what I'm talking about.
My friend who is going back to school for his MBA says that he's the culture guy in the class. The prof will say something about Patty Hearst, for example, and everyone will look at R for clarification.
Kathy A - Jun 09, 2011 9:33:20 am PDT #12064 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
We spent an hour in my library management class talking about the different generations that are currently in the workplace. The teacher was a bit of a geek about the subject, and I'm an even bigger one, so I was all over that discussion. We started out with a quiz that had us listening to different songs and identifying them and when they were from, and the corresponding generation that was in their youth at the time the song was recorded. Turns out, I was the only one who knew "A-tisket, A-tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald (thank you, Ken Burns's "Jazz" documentary!), but I had no idea on the N-Sync song that all of the 20-somethings in the class knew right away.
When the teacher was going over all the pivotal events in each generation, I put myself out as a rather typical early Gen-Xer and said that my earliest current events memory was reading in the local paper the transcripts of Patty Hearst's phone calls to her dad, and how horrified I was that some girl would talk like that to her own father.
ChiKat - Jun 09, 2011 9:35:24 am PDT #12065 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
35-year old Greg Fultz used a highway billboard to accuse his teenage girlfriend of having an abortion and thereby killing their child.
What billboard company would allow that?? I mean, he's a total dick, but so is the billboard company.
Jesse - Jun 09, 2011 9:37:51 am PDT #12066 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sadly, that domain is taken
Of course it is.
Lee - Jun 09, 2011 9:58:35 am PDT #12067 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Somebody should convince me that I want to eat the lunch I brought with me instead of walking a few blocks to Chipotle or Panda Express.
Lee - Jun 09, 2011 10:00:50 am PDT #12068 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Please?
Jessica - Jun 09, 2011 10:01:49 am PDT #12069 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Perkins, eat your lunch! It's too hot to go outside.
(At least, it is in NYC. I assume it's the same in LA.)
Jesse - Jun 09, 2011 10:02:07 am PDT #12070 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sorry, now I want Chipotle.
§ ita § - Jun 09, 2011 10:02:48 am PDT #12071 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Panda Express? For shame!