I drank mostly beer in university, but our drinking age is 19. My forays into hard liquor were never pretty. (Haven't had tequila or gin since.)
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
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.
Sue - Nov 09, 2011 8:24:48 am PST #5591 of 30001
hip deep in pie
DavidS - Nov 09, 2011 8:26:55 am PST #5592 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
We drank beer at college except during rush when the frats had grain alcohol punch which lead to lots of freshmen puking in the hedges.
John Hodgman is interviewed at AV Club and he clears up the end times for us:
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JH: Well Nick Nolte is, obviously, the human avatar of Quetzalcoatl, the ancient Mesoamerican winged serpent. Quetzalcoatl, being of course the ancient Nahuatl word for “feather boa.”
AVC: I think that was made clear in the mug shot.
JH: That’s when people were like, “Oh, wait a minute. That guy looks like he might be an interdimensional being.” And he’s also riding around on a plumed iguana, so that tipped a lot of people off. When he started showing up at red-carpet events with snakes growing out of his beard and riding around on a giant, plumed iguana, that’s when we knew.
Kathy A - Nov 09, 2011 8:39:39 am PST #5593 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I started at Marquette in the fall of 1984, right after the WI legislature upped the drinking age (WI was the last state to change to 21, IIRC). I was grandfathered in, and since half of my class was of age due to that clause, drinking proceeded for us much like it did for the classes before us. However, by my senior year, university-sponsored drinking events were pretty much nonexistent (freshman year, they were many), row-house parties were even more popular than before, and social frats and sororities were starting to make their first appearance on campus (before then, it was the Evans Scholars and the engineering frat house that were the party places).
Frankenbuddha - Nov 09, 2011 8:50:06 am PST #5594 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
a short blooper reel of astronauts tripping and falling on the moon.
Oh, ha! I wish there were audio to go with that.
In space, no one car hear you prat.
Atropa - Nov 09, 2011 9:19:47 am PST #5595 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Personally, I look at my chronic insomnia as a disease that must be treated with meds in order for me to be not INSANE, and to have good quality of life. I use Xan in the evenings, and very occasionally during the day, if I feel a panic attack looming.
Oh hey, Erin is me! Because, yeah, after this past year, I am on the Ambien/Xanax combo for sleep for most nights, and it has made a huge difference.
Scrappy - Nov 09, 2011 9:23:59 am PST #5596 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Whoa--this is some SERIOUS "Criminal Minds" grave-robbing shit going on here. [link]
No photos but the story could be disturbing.
brenda m - Nov 09, 2011 9:25:04 am PST #5597 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
The Moscow thing? Creeeeepy.
Tom Scola - Nov 09, 2011 9:28:09 am PST #5598 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Consuela - Nov 09, 2011 9:30:25 am PST #5599 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Massive plagiarizing in a new thriller, by a guy who resents the way other novelists produce tripe and get published: [link]
He even scammed the Paris Review!
le nubian - Nov 09, 2011 9:38:11 am PST #5600 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Consuela,
the scope of the plagiarism is SHOCKING. I cannot believe it.