No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.

Early ,'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.


Typo Boy - Mar 26, 2012 10:52:09 am PDT #28152 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Hippo Birdies Allyson.


Typo Boy - Mar 26, 2012 10:52:12 am PDT #28153 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Hippo Birdies Allyson.


Consuela - Mar 26, 2012 11:07:33 am PDT #28154 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

and she said tearfully, "Mommy, when I grow up, will you show me where the court is and take me there?"

OMG she's so adorable. I know it's difficult to deal with, but seriously, I've gone all gooey.

ION, that contractor who submitted too high a bid? It's six times what I had estimated. It's for design work only, and they submitted an estimate that exceeds the cost of construction. I'm astonished.


§ ita § - Mar 26, 2012 11:15:20 am PDT #28155 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What's wrong with kids these days? Back when I was little we just announced what we were supposed to be called. Fuck the law, man. Fuck the law.


Jesse - Mar 26, 2012 11:39:15 am PDT #28156 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

You know what I enjoy? Idly thinking about what's for dinner and what I'm going to get at the supermarket after work, and clicking on Serious Eats to find a recipe labeled "Dinner tonight" that will TOTALLY be my dinner tonight! [link] I should do more poached eggs on things.


DavidS - Mar 26, 2012 11:45:54 am PDT #28157 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I should do more poached eggs on things.

Yes, you should!


Amy - Mar 26, 2012 11:49:44 am PDT #28158 of 30001
Because books.

Random: Is Jim Beam relatively inexpensive, as whiskey goes? (It is whiskey, right?) If not, what would be?

Never mind -- found it.


Atropa - Mar 26, 2012 12:00:35 pm PDT #28159 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Someone will eventually name their child after Clovis. Eventually.


billytea - Mar 26, 2012 12:08:59 pm PDT #28160 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.

I bet you're joking, Kate, but beware that naming a child Serafina now will make some people think you got it from the Garner-Afflecks. IJS.

There's a child at Ryan's childcare called Anakin.


Consuela - Mar 26, 2012 12:24:01 pm PDT #28161 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

There's a child at Ryan's childcare called Anakin.

Who would do that to their child?