Two steaming cups of chocolate goodness. Courtesy of whomever I swiped it from out of the cupboard.

Ben ,'The Killer In Me'


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.


Jesse - Aug 29, 2011 2:33:38 pm PDT #22900 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OK, is it weird that I kind of appreciate that I just saw a Domino's ad with a store employee whose gender was ambiguous to me?


Jessica - Aug 29, 2011 2:41:53 pm PDT #22901 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

then there are the people who hate "BigPharma" because they are only about profit and money and then turn around and spend tons of money on fake treatments.

And let's not forget that fake medicine is also a billion-dollar industry. It turns out you can make a lot more money when you don't have to prove that your products actually do anything. (Or, in the case of homeopathy, when the whole point is to guarantee that your products contain nothing at all.)

Allyson, your car! Yay! BEHOLD THE POWER OF THE INTERWEBS!


askye - Aug 29, 2011 2:45:13 pm PDT #22902 of 30001
Thrive to spite them

And it's not just fake supplements it's also fake gadgets. Like Zappers, EMF protectors. Miracle things that make your water "forget" it's water memory.


meara - Aug 29, 2011 2:45:34 pm PDT #22903 of 30001

OK, is it weird that I kind of appreciate that I just saw a Domino's ad with a store employee whose gender was ambiguous to me?

Hah! I've seen that ad, and was quite pleased.


javachik - Aug 29, 2011 2:50:41 pm PDT #22904 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

meara, I thought of you a lot during Lady Gaga's opener last night on the VMAs!


Sophia Brooks - Aug 29, 2011 2:50:56 pm PDT #22905 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Yay Allyson!

Does anyone remember a continuation of "You can't teach an old dog new tricks" saying something like "it will only frustrate you and annoy the dog"? Or something like that?


Steph L. - Aug 29, 2011 2:52:47 pm PDT #22906 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Does anyone remember a continuation of "You can't teach an old dog new tricks" saying something like "it will only frustrate you and annoy the dog"? Or something like that?

I thought the "frustrate you/annoy the [animal]" went with "You can't teach a pig to whistle."


Ginger - Aug 29, 2011 2:53:16 pm PDT #22907 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

There's "Never try to teach a pig to sing; it just frustrates you, and it annoys the pig."

Yay, part!


Jesse - Aug 29, 2011 2:53:49 pm PDT #22908 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Hah! I've seen that ad, and was quite pleased.

I mean, right? It's not just me.


Sophia Brooks - Aug 29, 2011 2:57:53 pm PDT #22909 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Pigs! Much better metaphor for my costume students anyway! (I am talking about teaching then to hand sew)