No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


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.


Nora Deirdre - Apr 08, 2011 12:58:19 pm PDT #2378 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

In Jamaica, Marcia is pronounce mar-see-ya, and if you want to be called mar-sha, you should spell your name Marsha. I'm still not over that assumption.

The first Marcia I ever met (she and her husband were friends of my parents) was Jamaican, and it screwed me up for the Americanized version.


aurelia - Apr 08, 2011 1:06:26 pm PDT #2379 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Words with Friends wouldn't let me play "slut." I'm a bit offended.

Words with Friends has denied other mildly off-color words for me. It's a little prudish.


§ ita § - Apr 08, 2011 1:19:25 pm PDT #2380 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I checked their word list, and it's on there, but they say they don't allow offensive words. I know it was blocking something else for me I was sure was a word, and I guess that was it too.


Strix - Apr 08, 2011 1:41:51 pm PDT #2381 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Hmph. Words with friends does not know their etymology very well, because slut only came to mean a promiscuous woman fiarly recently.

For centuries, it meant a slovenly woman, usually in a housekeeping or an appearance contest. That's why an old term for dust bunnies is "slut's wool."


msbelle - Apr 08, 2011 1:42:42 pm PDT #2382 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

and Cinderella was once Cinderslut!


Calli - Apr 08, 2011 1:47:49 pm PDT #2383 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

and Cinderella was once Cinderslut!

I bet there's porn where she still is.


sarameg - Apr 08, 2011 1:48:39 pm PDT #2384 of 30001

My mother is a Marcia, pronounced Marsha.

Oy, two 8 year olds in the livingroom. One will be going home soon.


Lee - Apr 08, 2011 1:55:38 pm PDT #2385 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

My mother is a Marcia, pronounced Marsha.

Mine too, unless you are my father, and then it's Marsher


Sheryl - Apr 08, 2011 2:08:00 pm PDT #2386 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

It's raining, I still don't know my work status, and I'm tired. At least it's Friday.


Liese S. - Apr 08, 2011 2:12:14 pm PDT #2387 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Okay, if I finish processing these checks, I can go lie down and watch hockey. And, you know, have the money from the checks. C'mon motivation, this is the only thing I've asked of you all day. And I already broke the task up into smaller chunks and rewarded with ice cream halfway through.

Hmm. Now that I look at that, I see perhaps there was a small flaw in my motivational strategy.