Mal: Okay. She won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon. But she is solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die. Zoe: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.

'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.


Liese S. - May 24, 2011 8:07:26 pm PDT #9554 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Seriously! I cannot believe the end of that game. It was crazy!

Go to sleep, kid!


DavidS - May 24, 2011 8:34:11 pm PDT #9555 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Hockey: Noooooo! My friend Elizabeth will be so sad.

I've been meaning to share two Emmett stories, one baseball, one Krav.

Krav: So they're doing a stress drill, with one person on the ground in a defensive posture (elbows up protecting head, knees up) and eight others are beating that person with punching pads. Then they collapse down on that person who needs to fight their way out. Teacher decides that they should ratchet up the stress levels with verbal abuse.

At first nobody says anything, but my 14 y.o. knows where to start on the guy on the ground.

[Side note: guy on the ground looks pretty much exactly like Gary - aka, 21 - on Venture Brothers.]

Emmett: "You suck!" ::whacks with pad::
LooksLikeGary: "Uhh...."
Emmett: "Your toes are hairy!" ::whack!::
Emmett: "What's with your stupid ponytail?!"
LooksLikeGary: "I like Steven Segal!"
Instructor: "?! Then Steven Segal your way out of this!"
LooksLikeGary: "I don't even know what that means!"
Emmett: ::whack!:: "Make shitty movies until you can crawl away!"

Baseball:

So Emmett's joined a summer team and they have a tournament this weekend. They got their jerseys after last practice.

Emmett: "So...why does it say 'Genesis' on the front of the jerseys?"
Coach: "Uh. Well, we put in the order and told them the team's name wasn't decided yet so just to say 'Albany'.
Emmett: "So...why does it say 'Genesis'?
Coach: "Well, there was a mixup. They asked us what font to use and we told them to use Genesis font for the front. And they said, 'You want us to use Genesis on the front?' And we said, 'Yeah, Genesis on the front.'"
Me: "You're lucky your team's name isn't The Albany Comic Sans."
Matthew (Emmett's teammate): "We could've been the Albany Arial Black."


Cass - May 24, 2011 9:38:58 pm PDT #9556 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

sara, thanks for the links. I hadn't poked around CANDELS before. Neat!


sarameg - May 25, 2011 12:30:22 am PDT #9557 of 30001

Hello, 5:15. Bah.


Calli - May 25, 2011 1:50:14 am PDT #9558 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Heart~ma for your dad, Kat.

Cantor can suck my metaphorical dick. If he doesn't like government for the people, including those hit by natural disasters, maybe he shouldn't be part of that government.


sarameg - May 25, 2011 1:55:27 am PDT #9559 of 30001

I can't go anywhere until 7:30. So Angry Birds it is.


Strix - May 25, 2011 2:31:27 am PDT #9560 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I spilled my glass of water on my phone and lamp on my bedside table. Phone and lamp got wet.

Phone is fine, my 5 minutes later the lamp started strobing. STROBING! At 4 in the morning. I groggily unplugged it and went back to sleep, but my poor husband was up, an hour earlier.

Freakish early early risers.


Jesse - May 25, 2011 3:07:12 am PDT #9561 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

After going to bed early and waking up to sunshine, I am feeling awesome.

But after catching up here, I see there are a lot of people who can go fuck themselves.


Gudanov - May 25, 2011 3:07:15 am PDT #9562 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

"Well, there was a mixup. They asked us what font to use and we told them to use Genesis font for the front. And they said, 'You want us to use Genesis on the front?' And we said, 'Yeah, Genesis on the front.'"

That's hilarious. I hope Emmett has a good time.

It looks like Leif and Em are going to be on the same soccer team next year. Their favorite coach is moving up an age level so Leif is going to be playing in an older age group to stay with him.


Gudanov - May 25, 2011 3:07:49 am PDT #9563 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

But after catching up here, I see there are a lot of people who can go fuck themselves.

Hey!