Unclear on the concept: Man bought alligator to attract women
"Is that an alligator in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"
Yeah. He's my hero.
Mal ,'The Train Job'
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.
Frankenbuddha - May 10, 2011 10:08:43 am PDT #7709 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
tommyrot - May 10, 2011 10:17:45 am PDT #7710 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Pepsi: the best drink to force on restrained mental patients
Most striking are the ads advising psychiatric doctors that Pepsi is the forced fluid of choice for restrained mental patients, over the slogan "Pepsi Ad Libitum" (Pepsi for your pleasure).
Amy - May 10, 2011 10:19:12 am PDT #7711 of 30001
Because books.
All kinds of good thoughts for Nora, and for Grace and Aidan.
lisah - May 10, 2011 10:26:42 am PDT #7712 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
What Amy said.
Scrappy - May 10, 2011 10:29:30 am PDT #7713 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Grace and Aidan, I wish you health. Nora, I wish you and your family strength and serenity.
hippocampus - May 10, 2011 11:02:04 am PDT #7714 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Surgery~ma for Grace.
~ma for Aidan & Nora's grandmother.
Ginger - May 10, 2011 11:06:59 am PDT #7715 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It's hard to write about sports and be a geek at the same time.
A recent correction in the NY Times:
An item [link] in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in “The Hobbit”; Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins’s sword was called Sting.)
A further correction to the correction: In the item, Dickey only said Orcrist came from The Hobbit.
§ ita § - May 10, 2011 11:33:54 am PDT #7716 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's also not Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver since Orcrist means The Goblin Cleaver. It's one or the other.
Man, that call I just had was way overdue. I cannot believe how many holes there are in this requirements gathering, and the PM called me out in a mass email on it, when I've been trying to chase her down for a call for days. Hello, what do you think the topic of my call was?
Amy - May 10, 2011 11:38:41 am PDT #7717 of 30001
Because books.
the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats.
Oh god, I just melted. He's a cutiehead, who probably not coincidentally reminds me a lot of S., and he's a geek, too!
DavidS - May 10, 2011 12:00:00 pm PDT #7718 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's also not Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver since Orcrist means The Goblin Cleaver. It's one or the other.
It's really just a case of a missing comma. "Orcrist, the Goblin Cleaver..."