Off Topic Amys would be an excellent band name.
"We're The Off Topic Amys and our next song is 'Watch Me Tangent!' 1-2-3...Did I tell you about the time the gerbil ate his way through the middle of my Georgette Heyer collection?"
Angel: Connor, this is Spike and Illyria. Guys, this is Connor. Connor: Hi. umm...I like your outfit. Illyria: Your body warms. This one is lusting after me. Connor: Oh...no, I--I--it's just that it's the outfit. I guess I've had a thing for older women. Angel: They were supposed to fix that.
'Origin'
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.
DavidS - Sep 02, 2011 8:52:30 am PDT #23831 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jesse - Sep 02, 2011 8:52:44 am PDT #23832 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So I thought I got an invitation to a casual alumni cocktail party, but I read the email more closely, and it turns out to be a CAUSAL cocktail party. Awesome! Nerds.
DavidS - Sep 02, 2011 8:55:33 am PDT #23833 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Aims! The Giants rookie Brandon Belt is a tall gangly dude such that the local announcer compared him (quite aptly) to a baby giraffe. He got to meet a baby giraffe.
Gudanov - Sep 02, 2011 9:00:02 am PDT #23834 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
and it turns out to be a CAUSAL cocktail party.
Are you sure it's not a correlation cocktail party?
Jesse - Sep 02, 2011 9:00:17 am PDT #23835 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I guess we'll see if I go!
megan walker - Sep 02, 2011 9:01:24 am PDT #23836 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Also completely off topic, but, the male editor in my [former] editorial group, who was the only one who had been promoted (twice), just quit because "it wasn't a good fit" because the job had changed so much recently (true, they basically added a whole other job to it) and he was working ridiculous hours as a result. He had been there for almost ten years.
So, in just over a year, they have lost 3 of 5 editors (and hopefully, as of next week, maybe 4). Even my crazy boss is talking of leaving. They are royally screwed. And it's their own damn fault.
DavidS - Sep 02, 2011 9:05:09 am PDT #23837 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
in my editorial group
They're not your editorial group anymore.
megan walker - Sep 02, 2011 9:08:08 am PDT #23838 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
They're not your editorial group anymore.
Thank god.
Kate P. - Sep 02, 2011 9:20:00 am PDT #23839 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I've not met Me'shell N'degeocello, but I am on the liner notes of one of her albums.
Oooooh, which one?
I sat one table over from Gwyneth Paltrow and a bunch of other famous folks (Chris Martin, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, a few others) at a bluegrass club last year. But my best celeb story is that I once carded Benjamin Bratt for alcohol.
Consuela - Sep 02, 2011 9:20:34 am PDT #23840 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
megan, that sounds a great deal like what happened at my last job. After I left, a staff member a month left for the next year. There was a running joke about doing a calendar of all the refugees. Of that office of about 25, only half a dozen of the folks I worked with are still there.