They should film that story and show it every Christmas.

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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.


Liese S. - May 21, 2011 7:15:55 am PDT #9091 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Liese, sounds like he's not going to get hired.

That's the thing. I will bet you one billions dollars he does get hired. Because 1. he's buddies with the pastors, and that's how those things work with this particular group of guys, and 2. they have no other candidates, despite knowing that they needed to hire since Februrary. If they'd started looking then, we could have had a nice working together period with the old leader. But as far as I can tell, they didn't start looking until the old leader was actually gone.


Kate P. - May 21, 2011 7:21:39 am PDT #9092 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Ah, yeah, that's super frustrating! I'm sorry he's turning out to be such a flake.


billytea - May 21, 2011 7:33:38 am PDT #9093 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Personally, I really like Wonderella's take on it:

I am quite smitten by the mouseover text.


Matt the Bruins fan - May 21, 2011 7:46:47 am PDT #9094 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

It would be funny to see the televangelists' reaction to that announcement.

"What did you think I meant by 'love thy fellow man,' anyway?"


amyth - May 21, 2011 7:48:47 am PDT #9095 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

I'm totally emailing a link to that Wonderella comic to the kinderqueers. Who would love it more than gay seminarians?

Also, my iPhone autocompletes for kinderqueers now. Heh.


aurelia - May 21, 2011 7:53:53 am PDT #9096 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

You know what this day needs? A random penguin video. [link]


tommyrot - May 21, 2011 7:58:08 am PDT #9097 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.

Random penguins are awesome!


tommyrot - May 21, 2011 8:00:41 am PDT #9098 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.

Batman money clip

It’s a tiny batarang that folds protectively over your precious money, keeping it from flying away. Die-cast, sheathed in a ninja-like matte black rubberized coating and with a magnetized grip, this is the stealthiest and most effective batarang money clip on the face of the planet.


tommyrot - May 21, 2011 8:04:45 am PDT #9099 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.

Parents keep child's gender secret

While there’s nothing ambiguous about Storm’s genitalia, they aren’t telling anyone whether their third child is a boy or a girl.

The only people who know are Storm’s brothers, Jazz, 5, and Kio, 2, a close family friend and the two midwives who helped deliver the baby in a birthing pool at their Toronto home on New Year’s Day.

“When the baby comes out, even the people who love you the most and know you so intimately, the first question they ask is, ‘Is it a girl or a boy?’” says Witterick, bouncing Storm, dressed in a red-fleece jumper, on her lap at the kitchen table.

“If you really want to get to know someone, you don’t ask what’s between their legs,” says Stocker.

When Storm was born, the couple sent an email to friends and family: “We've decided not to share Storm's sex for now — a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm's lifetime (a more progressive place? ...).”


Jessica - May 21, 2011 8:11:06 am PDT #9100 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

That seems to be a thing now- there was that couple in Sweden who were doing the same thing.

I went to the garden store today and got basil and Swiss chard seedlings to grow in my window box (well, the chard will be in the windowbox, the basil has it's own pot). So if I get Raptured later today, could someone come water my plants?