My coworker has got to stop saying she taught "in the Bronx,"
Seriously. Everyone knows it is "in da Bronx." Jeez!
Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'
Buffy ,'Help'
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.
Sparky1 - Nov 11, 2011 6:13:37 am PST #6000 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Hil R. - Nov 11, 2011 6:16:18 am PST #6001 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Such a random peeve, but whatever: My coworker has got to stop saying she taught "in the Bronx," when she was at HORACE MANN. (Second-best prep school in the country, $37K/year
My sister went there for kindergarten and first grade. Trying to tell people who don't know NYC about where I lived when I was little is difficult. "In New York. No, not Manhattan, the Bronx. No, that's the South Bronx, we lived in Riverdale. Riverdale is ... well, it's in the Bronx. But ...."
Hil R. - Nov 11, 2011 6:17:34 am PST #6002 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My sister went to public school for second grade, because she hated Horace Mann (other kids teased her for not being rich enough), but the public school down the block from our apartment was the one profiled as the good Bronx school in "Savage Inequalities."
Jesse - Nov 11, 2011 6:21:31 am PST #6003 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Riverdale is ... well, it's in the Bronx. But ...."
Totally.
Amy - Nov 11, 2011 6:29:46 am PST #6004 of 30001
Because books.
My laptop just crashed spectacularly, and then made a crazy ticking clock sound until I turned it off. Yikes.
Thank the gods for Ben's netbook.
Ginger - Nov 11, 2011 6:36:22 am PST #6005 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
ita !, as I recall, the nurses put on clean gloves and cleaned the area around it with Betadine and with alcohol swabs.
le nubian - Nov 11, 2011 6:54:13 am PST #6006 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jessica - Nov 11, 2011 7:00:02 am PST #6007 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Notorious B.I.G. calms a crying, screaming baby.
LOVE.
Jesse - Nov 11, 2011 7:01:07 am PST #6008 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hee.
Amy - Nov 11, 2011 7:02:05 am PST #6009 of 30001
Because books.
She's a true fan. Hee.