What Amy said.
I'm sorry, dad. You know I would never have tried to save River's life if I had known there was a dinner party at risk.
Simon ,'Safe'
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.
lisah - May 10, 2011 10:26:42 am PDT #7712 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
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..."
sumi - May 10, 2011 12:08:29 pm PDT #7719 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
amyth - May 10, 2011 12:09:32 pm PDT #7720 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
I totally want a bat house!
Consuela - May 10, 2011 12:12:07 pm PDT #7721 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Glad to hear the good news, Deena!
My oldest niece fainted in the downstairs hallway when she was about 15; turns out she was dehydrated and had a bladder infection, but it was kind of scary for her parents. After that she went nowhere without a water bottle on her. *g*