That is seriously awesome.
flea brings all the lewd chickpea scholarship to the house.
Jayne: That's a good idea. Good idea. Tell us where the stuff's at so I can shoot you. Mal: Point of interest? Offering to shoot us might not work so well as an incentive as you might imagine.
'Out Of Gas'
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 - Apr 25, 2011 2:27:31 pm PDT #5225 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Trudy Booth - Apr 25, 2011 2:28:06 pm PDT #5226 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I'm afraid to ask what hummus is a dirty joke about in ancient Greek comedy.
DavidS - Apr 25, 2011 2:28:17 pm PDT #5227 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
...and classical radishes up your ass.
Truly, flea is a renaissance woman.
Steph L. - Apr 25, 2011 2:28:23 pm PDT #5228 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The Greeks also had a verb (which appears only in comedy, natch) which I first encountered defined as "to shove a radish up the fundament."
Man, English SUCKS.
Consuela - Apr 25, 2011 2:28:30 pm PDT #5229 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The Greeks also had a verb (which appears only in comedy, natch) which I first encountered defined as "to shove a radish up the fundament."
Also awesome to know.
I used to make jokes about aubergines, but a radish would no doubt fit better.
flea - Apr 25, 2011 2:30:30 pm PDT #5230 of 30001
information libertarian
I was totally classics day. In 2 hours at the desk in the library, we had 3 classics questions (considering maybe 500 people at the university of 36,000 take classics at any given time, questions are pretty unusual) and then I got to remind Betsy about the Melian Dialogue.
Mullets - the fish, not the haircut - were also used for the same purpose as radishes (punishment for adultery.)
JZ - Apr 25, 2011 2:31:09 pm PDT #5231 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Awwww. Best workday ever, so far. I went down to meet Hec and Matilda outside the main entrance about two hours ago, so we could walk her over to visit her old school and her beloved Teacher Heidy. Heidy, who is a wee little slip of a teacher who looks hardly any bigger than Matilda, picked her up and snuzzled her and Matilda wrapped her arms around Heidy, playing with the hair at the nape of her neck and resting her forehead on Heidy's cheek and looking both content and astonished.
She enjoyed seeing her old classmates, too, but really it was all about Teacher Heidy.
Then we brought her to my new office, and she and Hec got to meet all my nice co-workers, one of whom gave her a sheet of penguin stickers and another a Hula Stitch. Then she got shy; then she fell asleep on Hec's shoulder and didn't wake up until the elevator doors were closing on them both, at which moment she shot up and wailed, "Mommy!" Which was not so good, but the rest of it was utterly delicious.
Also, I've been reassured multiple times that my co-workers Have My Back. Very Young Officemate just got her visa for New Zealand approved, so next Monday is her last day here and her next-to-last day on this continent, and there are extremely ugly rumors that the PTB may want to put me back downstairs. Which, not going. As Geoffrey Tennant would surely have said if he'd ever had to share an office with Rage Nurse and Vengeance Doc, "I'm not mentally equipped for the third floor at the present time."
If anyone attempts to move me, the docs I now work for will surround me and throw up an impregnable wall of territorial ferocity and tenure.
It's nice, feeling liked and safe in my workplace. Strange and unfamiliar, but nice.
Consuela - Apr 25, 2011 2:33:21 pm PDT #5232 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
If anyone attempts to move me, the docs I now work for will surround me and throw up an impregnable wall of territorial ferocity and tenure.
Oh, that's marvelous, JZ. Good on them. I'm so glad you've found a place where you're appreciated.
DavidS - Apr 25, 2011 2:35:19 pm PDT #5233 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and didn't wake up until the elevator doors were closing on them both, at which moment she shot up and wailed, "Mommy!"
She went back to sleep immediately and is still generating ZZZZZs on the couch.
meara - Apr 25, 2011 2:35:42 pm PDT #5234 of 30001
The Greeks also had a verb (which appears only in comedy, natch) which I first encountered defined as "to shove a radish up the fundament."
That's awesome and hilarious.
Now I want scones. Currant or not. I was about to say other dried fruits are acceptable, but I can see where blueberry or strawberry scones are somehow pushing into muffin territory. I love me some cherry-almond scones though.