Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.

Simon ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

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.


Amy - Oct 18, 2011 5:30:04 am PDT #2001 of 30001
Because books.

Maria! It's always so good to see you.

Though W to E is easier for me than E to W.

This. Since I flew all the way west and came back east gradually, I don't think I have jet lag, just general exhaustion from traveling so much. But morning feels like morning, and night like night, so.


hippocampus - Oct 18, 2011 5:33:11 am PDT #2002 of 30001
not your mom's socks.

ita, I'm glad your mom is home.


Maria - Oct 18, 2011 5:40:59 am PDT #2003 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

I'm in Orlando from Sunday through Friday, back to LA for Saturday, then back to Orlando for another Sunday through Friday.

That's just mean. With this kind of trip, it doesn't matter which direction you're going. It sucks all around.


Stephanie - Oct 18, 2011 5:45:48 am PDT #2004 of 30001
Trust my rage

I totally prefer E to W. When I went to Hawaii, I felt great, even though I was awake at 4am and in bed around 9. But I think ND hit it on the head - I like being up in the mornings.


Sue - Oct 18, 2011 6:02:22 am PDT #2005 of 30001
hip deep in pie

I am a night person and I still find E to W easier to adjust to. My night owl tendencies when I got W to E mean I will stay up waaaaay too late and get up late.


-t - Oct 18, 2011 6:06:03 am PDT #2006 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I find E to W easier because that first morning W I can always just sleep until local time is getting up time no matter how early I might have gone to sleep the night before and after that I'm more or less acclimated.


le nubian - Oct 18, 2011 6:30:49 am PDT #2007 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

don't fuck with Scrabble Champions:

[link]

Chollapat Itthi-Aree of Thailand demanded that officials at this past weekend's World Scrabble Championships in Warsaw strip and search his opponent, Ed Martin of England. Itthi-Aree thought Martin had hidden a letter "G" somewhere.

The Scrabble authorities, though, "decided against the strip search, saying there wasn't enough evidence of cheating," CBS News reports.

Martin went on to with their match by one point.


DavidS - Oct 18, 2011 6:33:14 am PDT #2008 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Really, Catholic Church? Institutional baby trafficking?

Up to 300,000 Spanish babies were stolen from their parents and sold for adoption over a period of five decades, a new investigation reveals.

The children were trafficked by a secret network of doctors, nurses, priests and nuns in a widespread practice that began during General Franco’s dictatorship and continued until the early Nineties.

Hundreds of families who had babies taken from Spanish hospitals are now battling for an official government investigation into the scandal.

Several mothers say they were told their first-born children had died during or soon after they gave birth.


tommyrot - Oct 18, 2011 6:33:55 am PDT #2009 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.

Well, the only solution for alleged Scrabble cheating is to have the players play naked.


tommyrot - Oct 18, 2011 6:34:57 am PDT #2010 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.

Really, Catholic Church? Institutional baby trafficking?

Yeah, I'm just not surprised anymore....